scholarly journals STRATEGIC CHALLENGES FOR SUCCESSFUL PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN THE ERA OF COVID-19 ENDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 31-41
Author(s):  
Farkhanda Naheed ◽  
Lamya AlMulla
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Change Management ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Project Success ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Strategy Implementation ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Implementation Challenges ◽  
Future Technology

In project management, strategic challenges are likely to be issues or contentions that can have a significant impact on project success. Often project success depends upon how timely and effective strategic implementations were undertaken. Nowadays, Project-based organization cultures are observing a seemingly ever-increasing pace of change and evolving with emerging new technologies. Digital technologies are impacting the dynamics of workplaces by rapidly changing competitive thinking amongst employees including their horizontal and vertical collaborations. After the recent unprecedented times during Covid 19 pandemic, the working methodologies to accommodate remote work cultures have been inculcated into the organizations. This has led to change management, accountability, and productivity determination as a more stern challenge for strategic developments. Additionally, keeping the team focussed and strategically aligned with the organizational mission and vision has become a vital project management aspect. The objective of this article is to explain the strategic challenges faced by project management in strategy implementation in project-based organizations and the possible solutions to the challenges. The ways of succeeding with these challenges effectively are to put more consideration on strategy implementation and develop new strategies to meet with future technology advancements. Moreover, Management should articulate their strategy of how to improve employee capabilities and skills in certain job positions coupled with new technology, which can enhance behavioural strategies for employees. The study will contribute further on new knowledge to the existing body of knowledge on strategy implementation challenges faced by Project management. The study also established that employees' resistance to change and lack of skills to some extent affected the implementation of strategies within the organizations. However, practicing proper change management in the organization can minimize the resistance. The knowledge gained through this research will thus be useful in improving the overall performance of Projects.

scholarly journals NEW TRAINING TECHNOLOGIES AND THEIR USE IN TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES: SURVEY EVIDENCE FROM LITHUANIA

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vilmantė Kumpikaitė ◽  
Ramunė Čiarnienė
Keyword(s):  
Human Resource Development ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
Management And Development ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
The Relationship

There is emerging evidence that new technologies are related to improvements in productivity. Nevertheless, in considering the relationship between new technology and productivity, it is vital to consider human resource management and development issues due to their mediating effects on the relationship between new technology and productivity. This paper focuses on training technologies, especially e‐learning. The increasing use of new technologies to deliver training and to store and communicate knowledge means that trainers must be technologically literate. That is, they must understand the strengths and weaknesses of new technologies and implementation issues such as overcoming users’ resistance to change. The paper reports the findings of a study of 724 Lithuanian employees, which revealed relatively weak usage of new technologies and e‐learning in human resource development processes.

Widerstände gegen Agilität: Agiles Change Management als Erfolgsfaktor in Projekten der digitalen Transformation

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-172
Author(s):  
Lukas Heidt ◽  
Felix Gauger ◽  
Benjamin Wagner ◽  
Andreas Pfnür
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Project Success ◽  
Stakeholder Management ◽  
Dynamic Change ◽  
Personal Communication ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Management Change ◽  
Agile Project Management ◽  
Corporate Environments

In times of digital transformation and dynamic change in corporate environments, the importance of agile project management is growing. This further affects the demand on change management and its contribution to project success. We conduct interviews with project participants of an agile project to identify the associated need for adaptation of change management. Change management criteria have to be adjusted, particularly in areas of communication and stakeholder management and integration into agile project management methods. Personal communication, individual stakeholder management, and participation are starting points for adapting and integrating change management into agile project management.

Lessons from a Successful Data Warehousing Project Management

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 30-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nayem Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Data Warehouse ◽  
Enterprise Resource Planning ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Data Extraction ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Implementation Challenges ◽  
Erp System ◽  
Data Pipeline

This article provides an overview of project management aspects of a data warehouse application implementation. More specifically, the article discusses the project's implementation, challenges faced, and lessons learned. The project was initiated with an objective to redesign the procurement data pipeline of a data warehouse. The data flows from enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to enterprise data warehouse (EDW) to reporting environments. This project was challenged to deliver more quickly to the consumers with improved report performance, and reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) in EDW and data latency. Strategies of this project include providing continuous business value, and adopt new technologies in data extraction, transformation and loading. The project's strategy was also to implement it using some of the agile principles. The project team accomplished twice the scope of previous project in the same duration with a relatively smaller team. It also achieved improved quality of the products, and increased customer satisfaction by improving the reports' response time for management.

scholarly journals Interpretive structural modeling for technology-related barriers to energy efficiency improvement in Indonesia steel industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 154 ◽  
pp. 01057
Author(s):  
Apriani Soepardi ◽  
Pratikto ◽  
Purnomo Budi Santoso ◽  
Ishardita Pambudi Tama
Keyword(s):  
Steel Industry ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Efficient Technology ◽  
Interpretive Structural Modeling ◽  
Future Technology ◽  
Energy Efficient Technology

This paper investigates the existence of the barriers in Indonesia steel industry, namely: existing technologies were still considered efficient, new technologies not available, new technology not adequate or inappropriate at the site, the energy efficient technology not compatible with other elements of the plant, the uncertainty about future technology standards, lack of technical skills, technology installation period was too long, and poor information quality regarding access to new energy efficient technology. Five practitioners from the national steel industry were retrieved to identify and analyze critical elements and the causal interrelationships among the technology-related barriers. Finally, using the approach of interpretive structural modelling, the barriers were clustered in accordance with their driving power and dependence power. Lack of reliable information access about new technologies is the only barriers at the bottom level of the hierarchy, implying higher driving power. It is also observed that the availability of new technologies, existing technology still efficient, and the uncertainty about future technology standardization have a weak dependent on the other constructs but strongly driver. The four remaining constructs are identified as dependent obstacles. It means that these barriers are the automatic followers of other impediments. The result of this model will assist managers to understand the relative importance and the interdependencies among the barriers. It can guide them to resolve these barriers.

Communication Matrices for Managing Dialogue Change to Teamwork Transformation

2020 ◽  
pp. 98-115
Author(s):  
James Calvin
Keyword(s):  
Change Management ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Generational Diversity ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Future Technology ◽  
Technology Platforms ◽  
Dialogic Approach

New technology platforms continue to be introduced inside organizations in this digital age. Technology and generational diversity will have sustained impact on how business organizations consider and adapt to meet a number of technology and people challenges. The case discusses why it is to promote and sustain crucial conversations dialogue among team members to both enhance and strengthen team and teamwork practices. In the case, the change management process was essential to being able to go deeper through matrixed crucial conversations to achieve a desired organization goal. This case study chapter offers insight and outcomes that were achieved by building a dialogic approach and model, so a vital unit of the organization could begin taking advantage of future technology enhancements.

Fostering engagement and dealing with stress in projects that effect change

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 140-143
Author(s):  
H. Frank Cervone
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Project Success ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Successful Management ◽  
Effect Change ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Significant Change ◽  
Change Efforts

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the factors that can contribute to successful management of these issues by project managers. Frequently, projects involve significant change efforts. To achieve project success, project managers must have the skills and understanding to manage the personnel issues related to change and stress related to change. Design/methodology/approach – By reviewing the definitive literature related to change management, the author provides some criteria for project managers to consider as they foster engagement and manage stress related to change in projects. Findings – There are three primary strategies project managers can use to successfully manage both engagement and stress in projects that involve significant change efforts. Originality/value – While the issues related to change management have been discussed generally, the application of these theories and practices to project management has not been extensively explored in the literature. This article provides a general overview of the major theories in direct relationship to project management.

The Dissemination of Industry 4.0 Across Global Value Chains

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Mark Schofield ◽  
Aniekan Emmanuel Essien
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Global Value Chains ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Although the concept of Industry 4.0 is still in its infancy, the ramifications of this emerging technology are beginning to be felt across various industries. This chapter deals with the application of new technology, such as the internet of things (IoT), big data and analytics, robotic systems, and additive manufacturing, in global value chains (GVCs). Secondary sources about Industry 4.0 are explored in order to compare new technologies and understand how they could impact manufacturers, companies, and consumers. The effects of digital technologies on location and coordination of work, as well as the capture of value in global value chains, are also discussed in this chapter. In particular, the chapter highlights the risks of cyberattacks and their consequences for individuals' privacy, calling for regulation in international and remote work contexts.

A Change Management Framework to Support Software Project Management

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 54-68
Author(s):  
Belinda Masekela ◽  
Rita Nienaber
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Project Management ◽  
Efficient Manner ◽  
Global Marketplace ◽  
Organizational Behaviour ◽  
Implementing Change ◽  
The People

In today’s global marketplace, organizations are continually faced with the need to change their structures and processes to attain a competitive advantage. Implementation of new technology and information management systems results in inevitable changes in organizational procedures impacting on the people involved. Resistance to change may impact on this process and contribute to failure of this system. Managing change in an effective and efficient manner may negate this impact. This paper compiles a set of guidelines to support change which involves the incorporation of technology in an organization. These guidelines were mapped to a model, the GIC (Guidelines Implementing Change) model comprising all identified factors. These guidelines are utilized to guide the implementation of a new system, while simultaneously evaluating the success of these set guidelines. This research is cross disciplinary, affecting the areas of organizational behaviour, software project management, and human factors.

scholarly journals Socio-Psychological Determinants of Organizational Change Projects Success: a Literature Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-58
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Project Success ◽  
Psychological Aspect ◽  
Organizational Changes ◽  
Psychological Determinants ◽  
Change Projects ◽  
Points Of View

This article is devoted to a problem of resistance to organizational changes in projects in general and its socio-psychological aspect in particular. During the literary review the points of view on interrelation of project management and organizational change management are revealed, types and models of organizational changes introduction are allocated. Besides, the review includes the works devoted to socio-psychological aspect of change management, and the conflicts as to a consequence of these changes, and their influence on project success.

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