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Article Complexity, Strategy, Resource Management 1 February 2018

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Steeling for Growth

By Fister Gale, Sarah 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.…

Article Scheduling, Complexity, Resource Management 1 October 2017

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Counting on Precision

By Blumerman, Lisa 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…

Article Innovation, Resource Management, Sustainability, Complexity 1 August 2017

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Cracking Complexity

By Greengard, Samuel 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…

Article Change Management, Risk Management, Complexity, Organizational Culture, Lessons Learned, Leadership, Resource Management 1 August 2017

Project Management Journal

The Role Of Co-Creation In Enhancing Explorative And Exploitative Learning In Project-Based Settings

By Eriksson, Per Erik | Leiringer, Roine | Szentes, Henrik 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…

Article Risk Management, Complexity, Talent Management, Teams, Resource Management, Innovation, Energy & Utilities 1 June 2017

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Chernobyl Recovered

By Parsi, Novid 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…

Article Communications Management, Complexity, Resource Management, Construction 1 November 2016

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The Big Time

By Kaibni, Rami 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…

Article Complexity, Talent Management, Resource Management, Information Technology 1 August 2016

Project Management Journal

Expertise coordination in information systems development projects

By Hsu, Jack S. | Hung, Yu-Wen | Shih, Sheng-Pao | Hsu, Hui-Mei 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.…

Article Scheduling, Complexity, Talent Management, Resource Management 1 August 2016

Project Management Journal

Making sense of rework causation in offshore hydrocarbon projects

By Love, Peter E. D. | Ackermann, Fran | Smith, Jim | Irani, Zahir | Edwards, David J. 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…

Article Innovation, Resource Management, Complexity 1 August 2016

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Positive reaction

By Swanson, Sandra A. 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…

Research Summary Complexity, Requirements Management, Teams, Resource Management, Information Technology April 2016

Expertise Coordination in Information Systems Development Problems

By Hsu, Jack S. | Hung, Yu Wen | Shih, Sheng-Pao | Hsu, Hul-Mei Based on the research of Jack S. Hsu, Yu Wen Hung, Sheng-Pao Shih, and Hul-Mel Hsu, this article tackles the problem of coordination in information systems development (ISD) projects. The increasing…