Sustainability in IS Projects: A Case Study

Silvius, Gilbert; Nedeski, Snezana

doi:10.58729/1941-6687.1172

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“…However, project success cannot be measured only based on the iron triangle criteria (budget, quality, time). It is necessary to include the assessment of their impacts (positive and negative) on the sustainable development goal (SDGs), including the three triple bottom line vectors (economic, environmental and social) [9][10][11]. It is necessary to evolve project management processes by integrating sustainability, promoting a paradigm shift from a predictive control approach focused on processes and deliverables to a more complex, flexible, and timely approach to current challenges [12].…”

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Project Management in the Biotech Context: Exploring the Interrelation between Maturity and Sustainable Project Management

2021

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Biotechnology is an emerging and increasingly important sector in the current context. As the number of biotech projects grows, so does the need to establish processes to improve project management effectiveness and project success, including assessing their impacts (positive and negative) on the Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs). This broader approach opens the door to developing a new project management (PM) paradigm designated by sustainable project management (SPM). However, there is a need for more empirical studies to understand how sustainability can be integrated into project management. This research is based on the proposition that PM maturity could lead to incorporating sustainability in PM. No research studies are reported in the literature exploring this interrelationship between maturity and sustainable project management; such is this study’s purpose and originality. The study applies Kerzner’s Level 3 PM maturity model on a sample of 96 biotech companies in Portugal through a questionnaire that addressed project managers and team members. The findings suggest that the process of integrating sustainability into PM should follow these steps: (1) perform an early PM maturity diagnosis to identify the company’s most and least dominated areas; (2) identify the strengths and weaknesses that impact the integration of sustainability into project management practices; (3) develop a customized and adjusted action plan to integrate sustainability in PM. The study’s main contribution relies on understanding how sustainability can be integrated into project management, explaining the role of maturity assessment in this process. In addition, it characterizes the biotech industry projects concerning the linkage between PM maturity and sustainability and provides recommendations that may contribute to the companies’ development towards sustainable project management.

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Project Management in the Biotech Context: Exploring the Interrelation between Maturity and Sustainable Project Management

2021

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Investigating Cultural and Structural Influences on Optimizing Engineer-to-Order Project Delivery and Sustainability

Chipulu

Ikeatuegwu

2024

IEEE Trans. Eng. Manage.

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Several culture theories, which explain the formation, embedment, and propagation of organisational culture, suggest that certain organisational culture practices of an executing organisation may enable sustainable outcomes in project manufacturing. However, practices that support sustainability may not support project delivery, and vice versa. We explore the effects of organisational culture practices and structural complexity on the ability of manufacturing projects to optimise both sustainability and project delivery. We use data envelopment analysis (DEA) to calculate a sustainability-delivery quotienta measure of each organisation's ability to optimise both sustainability and project delivery outcomesfor 186 projects conducted in the UK. By conducting generalised linear modelling and censored regression of the sustainability-delivery quotient, we estimate the effects of the GLOBE organisational culture dimensions, principal components of culture dimensions, and project structural complexity indicators. Results indicate a noteworthy gap between the delivery of projects and their sustainability performance, which is worse. Both institutional and in-group collectivism may support the optimisation of each. However, neither the principal components of culture dimensions nor structural complexity indicators are likely to be significant. We discuss the managerial implications.

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Incorporating the dimensions of sustainability into information systems projects

Joseph

Marnewick

2019

SABR

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Although research has been done on sustainability in project management, little or no research has been conducted on sustainability within the domain of information system (IS) projects. This article reports on whether IS projects are executed sustainably and whether they contribute to organisational sustainability. A questionnaire, completed by 650 IS project managers, was used to determine the state of IS project sustainability. The results highlight that sustainability is not integrated into IS projects and IS project managers do not consider organisational sustainability. IS projects tend to focus on the economic dimension, i.e. increasing productivity and profits, with no thought being given to the social and environmental dimensions. This article recommends that sustainability should be incorporated into project management and IS best practices. Accordingly, the way IS projects are executed should be re-evaluated in terms of their sustainability.

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Sustainability in IS Projects: A Case Study

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

Project Management in the Biotech Context: Exploring the Interrelation between Maturity and Sustainable Project Management

Project Management in the Biotech Context: Exploring the Interrelation between Maturity and Sustainable Project Management

Investigating Cultural and Structural Influences on Optimizing Engineer-to-Order Project Delivery and Sustainability

Incorporating the dimensions of sustainability into information systems projects

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