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Track: Organizational Systems and Technology
Minitrack: IT and Project Management

With the evolution of technology and its penetration into almost every sector of organizational activity, projects have become more complex and demanding regarding cost, schedule, and technical performance. Professionals managing these projects must understand the organizational concepts and the methods, tools, and techniques, which support modern project management. The new breed of project managers see themselves differently from traditional, conventional managers manufacturing or R & D counterparts. This includes projects in government and private sector organizations, transportation, communications, finance, advertising, health care, consulting, and education.

They perceive themselves as being in a more demanding role, requiring more sophisticated people, strategic, change management, and organizational skills as well as specific technical job knowledge and IT competency. This applies to service-oriented industries as well as more traditional manufacturing industries. Thus, today, many service-oriented projects are as technology-based, capital-intensive, and complex as their Managers of such projects often feel that conventional methods of managerial planning, staffing, evaluation, delegation, and control are no longer applicable to their dynamic and often temporary work environment. They may have to align technologies with business strategies and practices. In addition they have to deal effectively with conflict, change, risks and uncertainty. They also have to know how to gain relevant information and insights from projects conducted previously or projects conducted elsewhere in the organization. Thus, one particular problem is how information and lessons learnt can be captured and transferred across projects. This is critical in order to prevent unnecessary reinvention or to avoid making the same mistakes over again.

Knowledge of modern project and technology management provides the foundation for effective role performance in a project-driven business and is often crucial to personal advancement in today's demanding organizational environment. Leading and managing stakeholders across organizational boundaries is also an emerging competency for project managers as well as business managers.

Given this increasing emphasis on projects across a variety of areas, the topical themes suggested for this minitrack will attract researchers and practitioners of technology-based project management, and will provide a forum for discussing advanced concepts, tools and techniques for managing project in today’s dynamic and challenging business environment. Papers are invited for the Minitrack on Project Management, providing a forum for exchanging new findings, and to advance empirical and theoretical knowledge, on a wide range of management issues involved in the application of contemporary IT to project management.

The following is a sample of topics that would fit the intended focus of this Minitrack on Project Management:

  • Managing in multidisciplinary technical team environments

  • Using IT-based project management tools and techniques effectively

  • Emerging tools and techniques for managing information system projects

  • Leadership and team management issues in technology-based project organizations

  • Leading and managing internal and external project stakeholders in IT projects

  • Management tools and techniques (including information systems) for capturing and sharing knowledge across projects

  • Internet-based project management

  • Developing state-of-the-art project organizations

  • Knowledge management, mobilization, and skill building for project managers
     

Minitrack Co-chairs:
Joseph W. Weiss (Primary)
Bentley College
175 Forest Street
Adamian Graduate Center
Waltham, MA 02452
Phone: 781-891-2215
Email: jweiss@bentley.edu

Sue Newell
Bentley College
175 Forest Street
Adamian Graduate Center
Waltham, MA 02452
Phone: 781-891-2399
Email: snewell@bentley.edu

Jacky Swan
Warwick University
Warwick Business School
Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
Phone: +44-2476-524271
Email: jacky.swan@wbs.ac.uk