In order to response to the demands resulted from environmental changes, hospital launches various information system development projects. Different from most information system development projects in the past, which are leaded by developers, the leaders of those projects are physicians or administrators. Unfortunately, the observed project failure rates are high. Since those projects are highly related to the operational performance of hospital, there is a needed to investigate into this issue in depth. Among those factors contribute to high failure rates, one very important cause is that many project leaders are lacking of adequate capabilities. This study adopted case study approach. After interview the leaders, members, and developers of three projects, critical capabilities that project leader should possess are identified. I concluded that those non-IT background project leaders should possess at least five basic capabilities, including knowledge, project management ability, interpersonal skills, ability to distribute resources, and flexible capacity. I also identified their priority based on project characteristics. The results can serve as reference for project leader selection in hospital and basis for future studies in this area.

This dissertation is a case study dealing with a school development project that took place in an upper secondary school as a result of a merger of two schools with different cultures. The project used a method called “Frirumsmodellen” and was planned to be conducted in three steps. The first was to carry out a cultural analysis in order to map the preconditions to start a school development project. The second was to carry out concrete actions and finally study eventual effects from such activities by doing a second cultural analysis. My role was to be a supervisor in the school development work, but at the same time study how this work was conducted and its impact in the ordinary school day. The dissertation takes its departure in the fact that schools are political governed. The mission of schools is never neutral; it is always an expression of behind laying social forces, ideologies and ideals of the contemporary society. Of this reason, there is a close connection between the macro political level and the micro political level. Another point of departure is the transition from a modern to a post modern society that gives the character to the changes that take place in schools. Steering of schools has partly been treated as a technical implementation problem. Schools contain on going conflicts between different interest groups that, more or less regularly, end up in educational reforms. These reforms generate school development activities in the single school. Undoubtedly, this makes school development to a complex process. At a rather late stage of the study I decided not to fulfil my task to follow the original plan. I instead let the school development project as a model to be in focus. The over all purpose was formulated: How is it possible to understand what happened in the school development project in the Falkgymnasiet and why was it not possible to carry it out as it was said in the project plan? To interpret what took place during the project I did create an interpretation frame of implementation and complexity theory that also made it possible to critically scrutinise the “Frirumsmodellen”. Already in an early stage of the process it was obvious that the “Frirumsmodellen” did not supply any tools to use and it became disconnected from the project. The project in it selves was marginalised and made invisible. The headmaster used the situation to change things she thought were important to develop. As a result, things happened, but most of the involved people did not at first hand connect this to the project. It is, of course, difficult in detail to say what caused what. The complexity theory successively made the hidden patterns revealed, hidden unofficial potentates visible, as well as unpredictable conditions that generated reactions from the personnel in front of a development work. Together this was rather efficient obstacles for not changing this school. I also discuss school development and implementation problems on a general level, for example, the possibility to transform a top-down initiated project to be bottom-up driven and using project as a tool for school development work. It was obvious that headmasters and teachers must be prepared to handle the ideological dimensions of problems schools have to face. Consequently, development work is about making problems visible and to handle these in the intersection point between the intentions of educational policies, pedagogical researchers, school administrators, headmasters, teachers and pupils. The ideological dimension also contains an existential issue. Do I as a teacher share the intentions for the development work? If not, how must I act? / <p>Finns som talbok. Inläst ur Växjö University Press, 2008 av talsyntes. Talboken omfattar 1 CD-ROM (18 tim., 33 min.)</p>

Diss. Linköping : Univ., 2003.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 148-161).

Thesis (M. Eng.)(Industrial)--University of Pretoria, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references.

This diploma thesis deals with the determination of the profit and loss statement and the subsequent creation of the project cash flows and the evaluation of the economic efficiency of the administrative building project using criteria based on the time value of money. The theoretical part deals with problems of development projects and their evaluation as well as general description of brownfields. The practical part is elaborated on two thematic issues, it is a presentation of brownfields on the territory of the city of Brno and the second is the evaluation of a specific brownfield project.

The point of the diploma thesis is to define what a development project is, to identify its different phases. The next point of the thesis is to identify the financial and personal management in development projects. The practical part of this thesis has to cover on one specific development project in Slovakia the variant solutions from the point of profit.

The aim of this research is to identify and analyze the impact of design changes to a system in a concurrent engineering environment and the development project, and to make proposals how to minimize the impact on the development project performance. A further objective is also to determine the effect of design changes as a result of design influencing. In a concurrent engineering environment system components are being developed in parallel. Any change to one component of the system may impact on other system components under development. Design as part of the systems engineering process is an iterative and dynamic process. Although the systems engineering process has been very well structured and refined over the years, it still remains to a certain extent an unpredictable process. A consequence of this is that changes to a design of a subsystem or component comprising the system can occur at any stage of the process. The systems engineering process is a “static” process since there are no time constraints or management of consumption of resources on the different systems engineering processes and steps. As such system engineering cannot function in isolation. To bring a system into being, systems engineering must function within a project management environment to provide the management of schedule and the consumption of resources. The interaction between project management and system engineering processes can have a distinct influence on the systems engineering process and must be taken into account when studying the performance of system development projects. This research investigates the project management/systems engineering interface with specific focus on cost and schedule. Since project management is the encompassing process wherein a system is being developed, its influence on the system engineering process will also be investigated. This research has the following research objectives: <ul><li> Optimization of design influencing by dividing the design teams into two different complementary but opposing mindset groups. </li><li> Evaluate the impact of design changes in terms of cost and schedule overruns in a concurrent engineering development environment.</li></ul> A comprehensive development project was used as a case-study. A Narrative Inquiry comprising the main system development project players investigated the problems experienced on the project and found that management was the major cause for the project cost and schedule overruns. The principal finding of this research showed, that unplanned, unexpected and forced design changes was the primary area of conflict between systems engineering and project management, leading to development project cost and schedule overruns. The Narrative Inquiry findings were actually the symptoms of a deeper underlying problem. Root Cause analysis identified the fundamental mechanisms of design change and the influence of management on the process. This research identifies the fundamental mechanisms that result in design iterations and the influence that management has on this process. An improved “Effect-to-Cause” design influencing model is proposed to reduce the risk of design changes during system integration. A mathematical model has been developed to quantify the impact of a design change on a multi-layer, multi-component system. This model confirms that the system hierarchy design is very important to minimize the impact and consequential development project risk should a design change be required for one of the system components. By means of the mathematical model, a proposed system’s architecture can be modelled. The model quantifies the impact of a system component design change on the rest of the system development project. This model will facilitate the optimization of system architecture to reduce development project cost and schedule risks. The system architecture model will also enable design review boards to make informed decisions when considering options for a system component design change. This research also found that the Systems Engineering process must function harmoniously within the larger Project Management environment for the optimum performance of a development project. The road forward to achieve this goal is for the systems engineering and design processes to become more structured and the removal of the unpredictability in the processes so far as the number of design iterations is concerned. This will enable the systems engineering processes to be more easily accommodated within the structured project management processes to the benefit of the overall development project performance. A structured “Cause-to-Effect” design influencing methodology has been investigated. Indications are that this may be the road forward for systems engineering process development to even further reduce the risk of a design change during system integration and consequential detrimental impact on the development project performance. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Graduate School of Technology Management (GSTM) / unrestricted

Structure of master's thesis includes introduction, three chapters, conclusion, list of used sources and applications. In the first Chapter the analysis of the preconditions of the creation of the campus on the territory of KHMAO. In the first part of the Chapter discusses the historical and macroeconomic context underlying the decision on the establishment of the University Campus. In the second part of the Chapter examines the role of the Campus as a new growth point for the region. The second Chapter considers in detail a part of preliminary works, including the road map project, the development of a methodological approach to the development projects based on the marketing approach 3 R and its application in the project of development of territories, linked with the scientific-educational sphere, as well as Formation of mechanisms of realization of the Campus project on a PPP basis. The third Chapter presents the results of the work performed on the basis of the research and approaches described in the previous chapters. The results include Architectural planning of the Campus project and Technical specifications for the creation of the concept of the Campus. / Структура магистерской диссертации включает в себя введение, три главы, заключение, список использованных источников и приложения. В первой главе проводится анализ предпосылок создания кампуса на территории ХМАО. В первой части главы рассматривается исторический и макроэкономический контекст обуславливающий принятие решения о создании Университетского Кампуса. Во второй части главы анализируется роль Кампуса в качестве новой точки роста для региона. Во второй главе подробно рассматривается состав предпроектных работ, включающий в себя дорожную карту проекта, разработку методологического подхода к проектам развития территорий, основанного на маркетинговом подходе 3 Р и его применение в проекте развития территорий, связанном с научно-образовательной сферой, а также Формирование механизмов реализации проекта Кампуса на основе ГЧП. В третьей главе приведены результаты работ, выполненных на основе исследований и подходов описанных в предыдущих главах. Результаты включают в себя Архитектурно-планировочные решения проекта Кампуса и Техническое задания по созданию концепции Кампуса.

Магистерская диссертация состоит из введения, трех глав, заключения, списка литературы и 2 приложения. В работе рассмотрены теоретические основы, отечественный опыт строительства мини-ТЭЦ. Проанализирован район расположения планируемого научно-образовательного центра, рассмотрены реализованные проекты мини-ТЭЦ и проанализированы существующие аналогичные технологии. Определены источники финансирования, сформирован бюджет проекта, рассчитаны показатели экономической эффективности проекта. В заключении сформулированы основные выводы и обобщены результаты исследования. / The master's thesis consists of an introduction, three chapters, conclusion, list of references and 2 appendices. The paper discusses the theoretical foundations, domestic experience in the construction of mini-CHP. The location area of the planned scientific and educational center is analyzed, implemented projects of mini-CHPs are reviewed, and existing similar technologies are analyzed. Sources of financing have been identified, a project budget has been formed, and indicators of the project's economic efficiency have been calculated. In conclusion, the main conclusions are formulated and the results of the study are summarized.