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Managing Value as a Management Style for Projects
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Value management (VM) is presented as a methodological management style for enhancing value in projects as discussed by the authors, which draws together conceptual thinking on the project as a value chain with historical and international developments in value management and value engineering.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Project Management.The article was published on 2007-02-01. It has received 107 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Business value & Program management.read more
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Taking stock of project value creation: A structured literature review with future directions for research and practice
Markus Laursen,Per Svejvig +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take stock of what we know about project value creation and to present future directions for research and practice, including rejuvenating value management through combining value, benefits, and costs; supplementing value creation with value capture; applying a holistic approach to project, portfolio and strategic management; and theorizing by applying independent models and frameworks.
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How knowledge management impacts performance in projects: An empirical study
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a theory and tested the relationship between knowledge management and various aspects of performance in IT-enabled business projects and found that knowledge management is instrumental to Project Performance when mediated by a new concept, Knowledge Alignment.
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Identifying and Acting on Early Warning Signs in Complex Projects
TL;DR: Knowing, experience, and communication skills are increasingly important in complex situations as the project is increasingly dependent on detecting EWS by informal “gut feeling” and the nature of EWS change with the evolving situation.
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Rethinking the implementation of project management: A Value Adding Path Map approach
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors put forward an approach named Value Adding Path Map (VAPM) which can be used to direct an organization to implement project management in the most reasonable, logical, and economical way.
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The awareness and practice of value management by South African consulting engineers: Preliminary research survey findings
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the awareness of value management (VM) and the nature and extent of its practice by professional civil, electrical and mechanical engineers in the South African construction industry using a web-based, online questionnaire survey.
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