Promoting and Selecting Strategy-Aligned Projects through Consensus in Universities - An Artifact

Abstract

Project portfolio management has been studied through diverse aspects. Different approaches have been used to improve project portfolio selection, but not all of them have been actually used. This study presents an artifact to improve project portfolio selection process in universities. The artifact considers strategic alignment and focuses on achieving consensus, considering university characteristics about strategic planning and decision making environment. The artifact was developed through an incremental approach using quasi-experiments in simulated situations to check and improve the accuracy of the solutions being developed. Finally, the artifact was implemented in a real situation inside a university, involving 185 projects, 15 criteria, and 12 people from different faculties and knowledge areas. Results show that the artifact is suitable to the university environment. Beyond the artifact itself and some highlights involving its development process, the multicriteria constructivist approach, the balanced scorecard, and the scoring technique, another contribution is an adapted AHP tool created to integrate traditional AHP from Saaty (1980) and a study from Bose (2015) to reduce cognitive conflict in group decision making. Other studies, in more diverse contexts, still need to be done, but the proposal seems to be promised.

Impact beyond impact factor: The Design-science way

“…Especially, public universities have characteristics that make this process complex. The research Promoting and Selecting Strategy-Aligned Projects through Consensus in Universities by Barbosa and Löbler (2020) sought to develop an approach to address this problem. The research by Gaspareto and Henriqson (2020), in turn, proposes a Business Model Analysis from the Activity System Perspective.…”

Modelo de decisão multicritério para avaliação de desempenho de funcionários

“…Calazans, Rocha, Araújo and Ferreira (2016) used the ELECTRE II to evaluate the performance of suppliers of the collective food service sector, while Gómez, Tabares-Urrea and Ramírez-Flórez (2020) used the AHP and TOPSIS to select and evaluate outsourced suppliers in the logistics sector. Barbosa and Löbler (2020) created a device to be able to select projects in a strategic manner in the university environment, using balanced scorecard, the AHP, and scoring techniques.…”