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Relationship Between Risk Identification, Risk Response, And Project Success, Marsha Marinich
Relationship Between Risk Identification, Risk Response, And Project Success, Marsha Marinich
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
AbstractProjects are used to implement the organization's strategic goals, but high failure rates reduce projects' effectiveness in successfully achieving goals. High failure rates reduce project managers’ effectiveness of projects in successfully achieving goals. Senior leaders and project managers are unable to deliver successful projects due to unmanaged risks. Grounded in expected utility theory, the purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to examine the relationship between risk identification, risk responses, and project success. A survey was created in SurveyMonkey® and distributed on LinkedIn. Survey responses were analyzed from 71 project managers with at least five years of experience in Washington, …
Strategies To Manage Enterprise Information Technology Projects, Mario West
Strategies To Manage Enterprise Information Technology Projects, Mario West
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Since 2005, most midsize company information technology (IT) projects had a 62.4% failure rate because of wrong project team communication skills or cost overruns. IT leaders expect negative IT project outcomes will cost over $2 billion by 2020. Using the actor-network theory, the purpose of this single case study was to explore strategies used by IT leaders from a midsize IT company in Washington, D.C. to plan and execute projects under budget and on time. Using purposeful sampling, 5 IT leaders were selected for this study because of their experience in implementing successful strategies for projects. Data were collected using …
Exploring Strategies For Early Identification Of Risks In Information Technology Projects, Nina Michele Mack-Cain
Exploring Strategies For Early Identification Of Risks In Information Technology Projects, Nina Michele Mack-Cain
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Project managers must ensure risk management and business justification for their projects. Approximately, 53% of IT projects failed due to project managers not identifying risks early in the projects' lifecycle. The purpose of this single case study was to explore strategies IT project managers utilize to identify risks early in the project's lifecycle. The study population consisted of 5 lead IT project managers from a telecom company located in the Midwest region of the United States who had managed IT projects. The conceptual framework that grounded this study was the general systems theory. The data collection process involved semistructured interviews, …
Business Strategies For Asean's Single Window In Southeast Asia, Craig Allen Mcgee Jones
Business Strategies For Asean's Single Window In Southeast Asia, Craig Allen Mcgee Jones
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Since the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 and the Global Financial Crisis of 2007, members of the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN) have sought to strengthen ASEAN's regional economies through a digital trade project known as the ASEAN Single Window (ASW). The purpose of this case study was to explore the business strategies that multinational organizational leaders used to overcome business barriers while implementing ASEAN partnership contracts and ASW region-wide projects. This study may be unique in that, at the time of this research, there was no published study in which researchers had explored a single window for a …