The Effects of COVID-19 and Disasters on Scheduling Function in Mega-Projects

2022 ◽  
pp. 220-240
Author(s):  
Vannie Naidoo
Keyword(s):  
Project Performance ◽  
Project Team ◽  
Additional Cost ◽  
Infrastructural Development ◽  
The World

Mega-projects are crucial as they strive to provide infrastructural development and support growth and sustainability of a country's economy. Scheduling is an integral part of mega-projects, and special attention needs to be given to the planning of this activity. It is important that an experienced person in the project team be responsible for scheduling activities for the mega-project. In 2020, COVID-19 appeared and had devastating consequences on the world and all sectors of society including business, industry, and the economy. Mega-projects were also affected by COVID-19, a deadly pandemic that has caused a loss of millions of lives worldwide. The scheduling of mega-projects during lock-down proved problematic, causing major delays, backlogs, and additional cost and rescheduling of activities in the project. Disasters are also another factor that can hinder project performance. This chapter will unpack scheduling in mega-projects and how it is affected by COVID-19 and other disasters.

scholarly journals Assessment of the research component used to provide infrastructure facilities for enhancing innovative development in Ukraine

2018 ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Heorhii Khvichiia-Duve
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Research Capacity ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
Building Research ◽  
Infrastructural Development ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic

The study addresses the research component used to provide infrastructure facilities for enhancing innovative development in Ukraine. More specifically, the article considers the main infrastructure facilities, which accelerate innovative development. The paper also evaluates preconditions for building research capacity in the country and its funding by structuring expenditures on research and development by sources of funding. The issues of creating intellectual capital are put forward and examined. The article introduces a number of factors, which hinder providing investment support for the infrastructural development of the economy. Finally, the paper formulates a set of measure to be taken in order to integrate the innovative infrastructure of the national economy into the world economic system.

Strategic Human Capital, Team Composition and Project Team Performance

2016 ◽  
pp. 106-122
Author(s):  
Francesca Vicentini ◽  
Paolo Boccardelli
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Team Performance ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Project Team ◽  
Team Composition ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Strategic Human Capital ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Temporary Teams

This chapter seeks to explore what characteristic of human capital at the individual level links to the performance in project-based organizations (PBOs). In particular, we are interested in the enriching of the individual flexibility construct, which has received minimal investigation from the strategic literature. Moreover, the challenges inherent to this topic are arguably more acute in PBOs, where temporary teams are strategically relevant to the success of the performance and individuals need to be more flexible in order to contribute to high levels of project performance. In particular, we support the idea that the flexibility of members enrolled within teams may influence positively the project performance.

Supply Chain Strategies in Virtually Distributed Supply Chain Project Teams During and Post-COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin L. Goldston ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Project Team ◽  
Project Teams ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Project Team Member ◽  
The World ◽  
Management Approaches

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of employees transitioned into virtually distributed supply chain project team environments for the first time in their careers due to shelter-in-place and social distancing mandates that impacted industries around the world. With project managers implementing processes and procedures remotely to employees fielding calls from home while caring for children, the world entered into an unprecedented time and an unknown unknown. As the pandemic required organizations to implement agile practices, project managers within various industries had to adjust operational processes, while at the same time had to ensure project team needs were addressed. In an effort to mitigate the risk of transitioning back to conventional management approaches, a qualitative survey method was performed in this study to understand supply chain project team member experiences during this transition period. The results of the survey uncovered that the creation of a supply chain uncertainty management plan, demonstrating the benefits of virtual supply chain project teams, and the continuous integration of collaborative technology tools may contribute positive outcomes from the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals Critical Success Factors in Developing Collaborative Design-Build Project Team to Improve Project Performance

2018 ◽  
Vol 159 ◽  
pp. 01025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afrizal Nursin ◽  
Yusuf Latief ◽  
Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Project Team ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Critical Success

To complete a construction project, it takes the cooperation and collaboration of stakeholder involved in construction projects to obtain optimum project performance. Problems that frequently occur in construction projects is the lack of cooperation, lack of trust, ineffective communication, lack of visualization of the planned buildings and different relationships between stakeholders that project performance is not optimal. To overcome these problems need to develop a model of collaboration between stakeholders in a construction project. The purpose of this research is to identify the critical success factors of the collaboration of design and build construction project team so that can understand the influence of collaboration model to collaboration performance with the geographic, professional, stakeholder, and ethnic cultural boundary spanners in design and build construction project in Indonesia. This research uses factor analysis and variable relation with Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) method. The results found that geographical and ethical boundaries are influencing collaborative performance significantly.

Model for Assigning Project Members to Maximize Personality Balance

2014 ◽  
Vol 556-562 ◽  
pp. 6815-6824
Author(s):  
Jeong Yau Yeh ◽  
Chiu Chi Wei
Keyword(s):  
Team Building ◽  
Quantitative Model ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Project Manager ◽  
Project Team ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Building Activities ◽  
Project Objectives ◽  
Project Personnel

Global competition has forced enterprises to constantly innovate business administration and product services, in order to dominate markets and to compete effectively. However, the formulation and execution of strategy and the development of products and services rely largely on a concrete management system that can efficiently produce attractive products within the shortest period of time. Project management is an effective way of achieving these objectives. A temporary task group is formed by borrowing personnel from related divisions, without altering the original organizational structure and adding extra workforce. Various team-building activities are used to quickly transform this group of people into a solid project team and to accomplish the specified project objectives as soon as possible. Traditional assignment of project personnel is based primarily on work experiences and expertise and ignores the role that personalities play in the success of the project. Therefore, this study develops a project assignment quantitative model that maximizes the team’s personality balance by selecting the most suitable personnel from a group of qualified capable candidates, to increase the possibility of success for the project. The results of the example show that the model developed can help a project manager to form a project team in which the members’ personalities are highly balanced, to maximize the project performance.

scholarly journals COOPERATION TO ACHIEVE SUCCESSFUL TOURISM

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-71
Author(s):  
Ágnes Virág
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Development ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Infrastructural Development ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The World ◽  
Domestic Tourism ◽  
Development Concept

Abstract Tourism has become one the most quickly developing economic sectors. The creation of sustainable and competitive tourism can be observed and initiated all over the world, so the formation of Tourism Destination Management (TDM) system has become an important way of development worldwide. All over the world there are lots of successful TDM systems, so we have to work hard to achieve success in our homeland as well. I think that a new tourism development concept has positive effects on the development of domestic tourism. The tourism sector may expand more dynamically with cooperation of the players. The institutional development is useful, but the organizations must be established in harmony with the characteristics of each destination and need to represent the interests of the participants. In my research, I examine the development of the Hungarian Tourism Destination Management system, the use of the funds, and the context between TDM funds and infrastructural development. Finally, I intend to present good practices which can be adapted to other tourist destinations, so that everyone can benefit from the Hungarian tourism sector.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Ecotourism Resources: A Case Study of Nameri National Park of Assam (India)

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Niranjan Das ◽  
Sujata Deori
Keyword(s):  
Hot Spots ◽  
National Park ◽  
Biodiversity Hotspot ◽  
Eastern Himalaya ◽  
Infrastructural Development ◽  
The World ◽  
North Bank ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Different Parts

Tourism is currently the world’s largest industry (US$ 3.4 trillion annually) and ecotourism represents the fastest growing sector of this market. The term ‘Ecotourism’ was first coined by “Hector Ceballos Lascurain” in 1983, and was initially used to describe nature-based travel to relatively undisturbed area with an emphasis on education. Assam, comprising Eastern Himalaya is one of the Mega bio-diversity hot spots of the world (MYERS, 1991). It also forms part of two endemic bird areas, viz Eastern Himalaya and Assam plains (COLLAR et al., 1994). Nameri National Park is a part of NBL (North Bank Landscape) and also is a part of Eastern Himalayan Mega Biodiversity Hotspot has immense potentialities for the ecotourism venture. The present research can provide an assessment of potential sites within the park, which can speed up tourism infrastructural development. Through the paper the author tries to highlight such possibilities on the basis of assessment of potentials Ecotourism resources of the Nameri National Park through field experience gained different parts of the study area.

scholarly journals Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen? The Division of Financing in World Bank Projects and Project Performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew S. Winters
Keyword(s):  
Transaction Costs ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Aid Effectiveness ◽  
The World ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Competing Ideas

The total funding envelope for World Bank projects is often divided among various state and non-state actors, each of which can have competing ideas about or interests in the project. How does the division of financing relate to overall project effectiveness? I argue that too many funding streams in a project can reduce project effectiveness by creating delays, increasing transaction costs, and blurring lines of accountability. I combine original data on the number and concentration of financial collaborators in World Bank projects with the World Bank’s ratings of project performance, looking at within-country variation across projects to explore whether or not there is evidence of reduced aid effectiveness in projects with more participants. The results suggest that projects with significant cofinancing receive somewhat worse project ratings.

Transactive knowledge from communities of practice to firms

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Cristina Longo ◽  
Alessandro Narduzzo
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Project Team ◽  
Organizational Boundaries ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Innovative Capabilities

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze to what extent and under which conditions R&D projects benefit from team members’ participation in spontaneous and work-related communities of practice (CoPs). Design/methodology/approach This is a quantitative empirical study. R&D projects are the unit of analysis. Data are collected through interviews to 121 informants who are members of 60 R&D projects and participants in 195 CoPs. Findings The participation of project team members in work-related CoPs positively affects the R&D project performance. This positive effect applies also to radically innovative projects. The diversity in the institutional affiliation of CoPs members is also highly significant and positively correlated with the project performance. Research limitations/implications The paper considers only work-related CoPs, thus neglecting the knowledge transacted through other types of CoPs. Practical implications Practitioners should support the autonomous participation of project team members to spontaneous and work-related CoPs that cut across the organizational boundaries. Team leaders may enhance team innovative capabilities and performance by ensuring diversity of knowledge and skills from CoPs whose members work for institutions that differ from each other. Originality/value First, this study provides quantitative evidence of the CoPs ability to support innovation. Second, this research is focused on spontaneous and work-related CoPs within business environments. Third, this study does not analyze CoPs performance, but it postulates a connection between innovative organizational units (i.e. R&D projects) and spontaneous CoPs that cut across the firms’ boundaries.

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