Project Management as a Tool of Management Economic Competition

Abstract

Розглянуто сутність понять «економіка», «конкуренція», «економічна конкуренція» та «проектний менеджмент», виокремлено ключові чинники економічної конкуренції як гроші, час, якість та люди, відображено взаємозв'язок між даними чинниками та сферами управління проектного менеджменту, а саме часом, вартістю, якістю, працівниками та комунікаціями, підкреслено, що сфера управління ризиками хоч напряму не пов'язана з окремим чинником економічною конкуренції, однак вона охоплює усі аспекти управління в сфері економічної конкуренції, наведено коротку характеристику окремих інструментів проектного менеджменту за сферами управління та їх вплив на формування чи зміну ключових чинників економічної конкуренції, що сприятиме ефективному управлінню економічною конкуренцією загалом суб'єктами господарювання з метою підвищення рівня їх конкурентоспроможності на ринку.The essence of the concept of "economy", "competition", "economic competition" and "project management" is considered. In particular, it is emphasized that economic competition is a struggle between individual market participants, both producers and consumers, for territory, goods, services, customers, technologies, etc. In an effort to gain a competitive advantage, businesses are forced to purposefully manage this area, as, apparently, economic competition is a dynamic essence that requires changes and adjustmentes. The key factors of economic competition such as money, time, quality and people, which primarily contribute to its development and directly affect the relationship between market participants, their condition. Attention is drawn to the fact that as the decisions that are related to the improvement of business processes in the direction of gaining competitive advantage in terms of economic competition management, are projects, precisely through the use of project management allows to expand existing management tools. Based on such methods of analysis as comparison and generalization, the relationship between the key factors of economic competition and the areas of project management, namely: cost management, time, employees, communications, risks. It is noted that risk management, although not directly related to a particular factor of economic competition, but it covers all aspects of management in this area. A brief description of individual project management tools is given by areas of management and their impact on the formation or change of key factors of economic competition, which will contribute to the effective management of economic competition in general by economic entities to increase their competitiveness in the market. In particular, attention is paid to network graphs (arrow, precedence), Gantt graph, Ishikawa and Paretto diagrams, features of Scrum -command, budgeting, development of uncertainty plans and use of the scenario method. However, it is emphasized that the number of project management tools is much larger, and they can all be used effectively in the process of managing economic competition.