Project Management Implementation as Management Innovation: A Closer Look
- 3h 51m
- Janice Thomas, Stella George, Svetlana Cicmil
- Project Management Institute
- 2013
This study investigates the processes involved in implementing one particular type of management innovation—project management—and how these innovations must evolve and be modified in order to deliver value. We examine lessons learned from the project management implementation journeys undertaken by 48 organizations from around the world. By analyzing and mapping more than 100 project management interventions across a period of up to 30 years, we acquired substantial evidence of what is actually done in practice. For each organization, we identified types of innovation events. Each intervention made by an organization is an innovation event. The series of interventions formed an innovation journey that reflected the dynamics of their managerial innovation, project management. Where needs arose (e.g., from external and internal shake-ups), organizations were capable of radical change; however, all of the organizations we studied ultimately tended toward continuous conservative change.
In this Book
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Introduction
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Making Sense of Management Innovation and Project Management Implementation
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Toward an Operational Framework for the Study of Project Management as Management Innovation
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Empirical Evidence and Methods
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Exploring 48 Innovation Journeys
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Ten Complex Innovation Journeys
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Cross-case Analysis of Complex Journeys
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Conceptual Discussion
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Conclusions and Possibilities
