Sustainability, creativity and innovation in project management – Model development for assessing organizational performance through projects

Abstract

Today a number of studies are published on how organizational strategy is developed and how organizations contribute to local and regional development through the realization of these strategies. There are also many articles dealing with the success of a project by identifying the criteria and the factors that influence them. This article introduces the project-oriented strategic planning process that reveals how projects contribute to local and regional development and demonstrates the relationship between this approach and the regional competitiveness model as well as the KRAFT concept. There is a lot of research that focuses on sustainability in business. These studies argue that sustainability is very important to the success of a business in the future. The Project Excellence Model that analyses project success does not contain the sustainability criteria; the GPM P5 standard consists of sustainability components related either to the organizational level. To fill this gap a Project Sustainability Excellence Model (PSEM) was developed. The model was tested by interviews with managers of Hungarian for-profit and non-profit organizations. This paper introduces the PSEM and highlights the most important elements of the empirical analysis.

Comparative Analysis of the Approach of Different Countries to the Standards of the Bridge Structures’ Condition Management System

“…The management system of bridge structures in Germany is based on a clear understanding of the goal and is formed by defining the target function, including decisionmaking rules [10]. This function includes a priority function that is compared to an optimization criterion.…”

“…When forming the urgency of measures in the bridge management system in Germany, a point assessment of various factors is used, which can be automated and easily applied by organizations that operate bridge structures, despite the possibility of errors. Additionally, the German bridge management system recommends using the Kraft model to determine the priority indicator for bridge repair [10]. This model includes four elements of strength assessment: damage zone assessment, damage development tendency, effect on other structural elements, and effect on vehicle load capacity.…”

Creativity in Project Management Teaching: The Evidence From Systematic Literature Review

“…Research data indicate that in service-driven project team interpersonal conflicts negatively affect creativity, but task debates do improve best-fit or high-quality ideas and decisions by bringing diversity of views and helping to generate new ideas, grasping depth of issues, more complete understanding of problems and finding alternative solutions. Szabó (2016) enhance rationale of looking at project life cycle by advocating for particular benefits of creativity in the beginning of the project, namely, in goal setting. Two types of creativity within research projects have been identified: creativity of the technical project led to create and manage the project vision, and creativity of the subject matter experts to generate research results.…”

Sustainability in Project Management: PM2 versus PRiSMTM

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