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Discriminating Contexts and Project Management Best Practices on Innovative and Noninnovative Projects

出版	Project Management Institute, 2008
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XybPjwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Today's global econonmy is driven by innovation. To implement innovative initiatives, companies worldwide are increasingly using project management best practices. This article examines the different project management tools and practices that project managers use--when working in different contexts--to implement innovative and non-innovative projects. In doing so, it reviews the literature analyzing the contextual differences in using project management practices on innovative proects. It describes the authors' methodology for the second phase of a study looking at the contextual and practical differences between high-performing and low-performing organizations, focusing on their practices for managing projects. It reports the study's findings and analyzes this data to determine which project management tools--from a list of 91--are the most used among the 105 surveyed organizations. It then identifies the contents of a basic project management toolbox and discusses the differences between innovative and non-innovative projects in relation to contextual variables and project management practices. It also identifies the tools with the greatest differences in level of use between project teams implementing innovative and non-innovative projects, noting the contextual variables and project management practices affecting high- and low-performing companies working on innovative and non-innovative projects.