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PM Network
Steeling for Growth
India's steel producers face a problem. The country's national government wants to create new cities from scratch, develop a new industrial corridor and expand the country's freight rail network.…
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PM Network
Counting on Precision
The United States census is a complex, large-scale, multiyear exercise in program management. The scope of accurately and cost effectively counting more than 330 million people across more than 3.7…
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Project Management Journal
The Role Of Co-Creation In Enhancing Explorative And Exploitative Learning In Project-Based Settings
We study how co-creation practices influence explorative and exploitative learning in five collaborative construction projects with partnering arrangements. Drawing on a longitudinal case study, our…
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PM Network
Cracking Complexity
Call it fracking's lesser-known trickle-down effect. The surge in U.S. natural gas production not only results in low fuel prices, it's also behind an uptick in ethane cracker plant construction…
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PM Network
Chernobyl Recovered
Cleaning up the worst nuclear accident in history has taken more than 30 years -- and a nonstop cluster of high-risk projects. But the final phases of remediation for the Chernobyl nuclear power…
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PM Network
The Big Time
Theoretically, managing large construction projects should be similar to managing small ones. But I've been part of projects worth more than US$500 million and involving more than 50 subcontractors…
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Project Management Journal
Expertise coordination in information systems development projects
Information systems development (ISD) projects are complex, requiring a variety of expertise. Coordinating such expertise helps manage complexity, increasing the likelihood of a project's success.…
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PM Network
Positive reaction
Science was the easy part for the physicists and engineers who built the world's largest experimental nuclear fusion reactor. The é1 billion program spanning 20 years at the Max Planck Institute for…
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Project Management Journal
Making sense of rework causation in offshore hydrocarbon projects
Retrospective sense making is used to determine how and why rework in offshore hydrocarbon projects occurred. Staff from organizations operating at the blunt end (e.g., clients/design engineers…
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