scholarly journals A Project Portfolio Management model adapted to non-profit organizations

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 5120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabrício Martins Lacerda ◽  
Cristina Dai Prá Martens ◽  
Henrique M R De Freitas

As they strive towards greater professionalism in carrying out their activities, non-profit organizations (NPOs) have begun paying attention to project management. The non-profit sector (NPS) has also begun to adopt strategic planning techniques, thus making the acceptance of project portfolio management (PPM) methodology a natural consequence. This article aims to propose a project portfolio management model adapted to the context of NPOs.

Author(s):  
Luca Romano

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is an “old-new” emerging discipline. More and more organizations are discovering PPM as an “alternative” to Strategic Planning. In reality the two disciplines should walk along, obtaining from this coexistence mutual benefits. Strategic Planning is often too far from reality and fails due to this distance. Project Management is too much down-to-earth, being focused on delivering, sometimes without knowing the real rational behind what is produced. PPM is a smart and wise connection between these too distant worlds (it has to be highlighted that also the people involved in the two disciplines are very dissimilar). PPM is a step into the future keeping a tight connection with the near past and with the ongoing activities performed by the organization. PPM supports organizations' need to shape their future. It is a complex process, taking time and resources, but the returns are worth the effort.


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 613-619
Author(s):  
Anna Musioł-Urbańczyk ◽  
Barbara Sorychta-Wojsczyk

Abstract The article presents the project portfolio management system in a selected manufacturing company operating in the advertising industry in the field of new product project management. It discusses individual elements and structure of the system, and the scope of procedures performed within the system.


Author(s):  
Luca Romano

This chapter demonstrates that the connection between strategy and actions is key for a company to gain a conscious strategic advantage from what done in day-to-day activities. This connection is not always clear and often the officially stated strategy is far from the strategic direction showed from an analysis of the portfolio of initiatives undertaken by a company. Project Portfolio Management (PPM) methodology can help in assessing and improve this connection, as to start a PPM this connection must be clarified. This chapter aims to verify 2 hypotheses. The first is that it is possible to implement a Project Portfolio Management system in a company without a strategic planning process in place. The second is that the implementation of a Project Portfolio Management system helps companies to grow their strategic thinking and can be a first step in strategic planning.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1336-1352
Author(s):  
Hosein Daneshpour

In recent years, the idea of integration of sustainability into project management has been put forth, which requires a more comprehensive and holistic approach to project management. Integration of sustainability increases the complexity of project management. Therefore, project management organizations require a framework capable of opening up the traditional organization of the project business and providing competitive advantages. This study argues that the open innovation model presents the requisite capability to approach this issue. This research, through a structured review of the literature and an overview of the open innovation and project management knowledge areas, explains how open innovation can provide a fruitful contribution to the integration of sustainable development into project portfolio management and why it should be favoured. The findings show that open innovation can facilitate the environmental, social and economic sustainability of projects, while rendering the project organization more agile.


Author(s):  
Joni A. Amorim ◽  
Rosana G.S. Miskulin ◽  
Mauro S. Miskulin

Engineering is seen today as a synonym of innovation, especially for providing technological solutions that affect not only daily work and entertainment, but education as well. Project portfolio management of multimedia production and use emerges today as a challenge both for the enrichment of traditional classroom based teaching and for distance education offering. In this way, this chapter intends to answer the following question: Which are the fundamental aspects to be considered in the management of projects on educational multimedia production and use? This research presents a proposal of a project management model for digital content production and use. The model, the methodology and the implementation will be named EduPMO, an abbreviation of Educational Project Management Office. Therefore, the model, the methodology, and the implementation should be understood as related but independent entities. This interdisciplinary investigation involves different topics, going from metadata and interoperability to intellectual property and process improvement.


2013 ◽  
Vol 838-841 ◽  
pp. 3131-3134
Author(s):  
Na Guo ◽  
Shi Rui Xiao

With the fast development of the construction industry, traditional project management cannot deal with some complex construction projects. This paper reviewed the development of the project portfolio management and the current situation of the Chinese construction industry. We suggest that project portfolio management is applicable and should be adopted in Chinese construction companies.


2011 ◽  
Vol 211-212 ◽  
pp. 62-67
Author(s):  
Yun Na Wu ◽  
Jiang Shuai Li ◽  
Jia Li Wang

With the continuous development of energy projects and the actual needs of the project, project portfolio management technique is known by people more and more. However, current databases of energy project management system are too different. This paper studies actual demand of energy project database, taking portfolio management theory as the basic, and use database modeling technology to build database’s conceptual data model, logical data model and physics data model based on the portfolio of energy project management. These models can be very good instruction of energy database design and construction, and will support energy project portfolio management system design to some guidance.


2016 ◽  
pp. 2219-2237
Author(s):  
Luca Romano

This chapter demonstrates that the connection between strategy and actions is key for a company to gain a conscious strategic advantage from what done in day-to-day activities. This connection is not always clear and often the officially stated strategy is far from the strategic direction showed from an analysis of the portfolio of initiatives undertaken by a company. Project Portfolio Management (PPM) methodology can help in assessing and improve this connection, as to start a PPM this connection must be clarified. This chapter aims to verify 2 hypotheses. The first is that it is possible to implement a Project Portfolio Management system in a company without a strategic planning process in place. The second is that the implementation of a Project Portfolio Management system helps companies to grow their strategic thinking and can be a first step in strategic planning.


2011 ◽  
Vol 211-212 ◽  
pp. 72-77
Author(s):  
Yun Na Wu ◽  
Jia Li Wang ◽  
Jiang Shuai Li

As increasingly complex of the energy project management, traditional project management system is not very suitable for energy projects management. Combined with unique characteristics of energy projects, this paper studies the current state of the energy project development and takes advantage of project portfolio management, builds the energy project portfolio management system which includes energy project advices, selection, evaluation, assessment and implementation. The system solves the complex problems of energy project management, and then ensures that energy projects meet the strategic requirements of country and enterprises.


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