Many warn that the next stage of globalization--the offshoring of research and development to China and India--threatens the foundations of Western prosperity. But in The Venturesome Economy, ...acclaimed business and economics scholar Amar Bhidé shows how wrong the doomsayers are. Using extensive field studies on venture-capital-backed businesses to examine how technology really advances in modern economies, Bhidé explains why know-how developed abroad enhances--not diminishes--prosperity at home, and why trying to maintain the U.S. lead by subsidizing more research or training more scientists will do more harm than good.
The aim of this article is to advance a conceptualization for governance-as-practice, based on current developing streams of processual and practice studies — strategy-as-practice and ...project-as-practice. Although project governance has gained recognition as an important object of inquiry, what is actually done by different actors having to manage those projects has been studied much less. This article presents a qualitative research based on a multiple-case study of four major public infrastructure projects in Quebec, Canada. Considering the role of material artefacts in this process, along with organizational change, the results show how projects performative practices were enacted against the ostensive ones, uncovering a process of multilevel project governing. The main contributions are: 1) to unfold the knowledge articulation process of an institutional project governance framework, as it is translated into projects, and 2) to understand and document governmental practices in order to reflect on them and gain deeper insights about project governance.
•A conceptualization for governance-as-practice is advanced, based on processual and practice studies.•The research strategy is a multiple-case study of four major public infrastructure projects in Quebec, Canada.•Results uncover a process of multilevel project governing, as performative practices are enacted.•The theoretical contribution is to unfold the knowledge articulation process of a project governance framework.•The practical contribution is to understand governmental practices to gain deeper insights about project governance.
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The PRINCE2 Agile® Practical Implementation Guide -
Step-by-step advice for every project type, Second edition
explains how the structured, management-driven PRINCE2 project
governance framework can ...work cohesively with team-driven,
quality-focused, responsive Agile methods.
This guide provides an overview of PRINCE2® and Agile before
detailing the combined PRINCE2 Agile governance and project
management framework. It also provides expert guidance on how to
implement the PRINCE2 Agile framework in your organization, whether
you have existing PRINCE2, Agile or waterfall structures in place,
or you are implementing PRINCE2 Agile with no pre-existing
frameworks.
The key to successfully implementing PRINCE2 Agile is
understanding how it brings together PRINCE2 and Agile best
practices into a cohesive framework, and how to adapt that
framework to meet your organization's specific needs. This guide is
structured to provide you with the core information that you need
to understand how PRINCE2 Agile works, and implementation
guidelines aligned to the needs of your organization and your
projects.
Ideal for PRINCE2 Agile students, project managers, IT managers,
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help you to successfully deliver high business value outcomes
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Impact Evaluation in Practice Gertler, Paul; Martinez, Sebastian; Premand, Patrick ...
2010, 12-13-2010, 20110101
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This book offers an accessible introduction to the topic of impact evaluation and its practice in development. While the book is geared principally towards development practitioners and policymakers ...designing prospective impact evaluations, we trust that it will be a valuable resource for students and others interested in using impact evaluation. Prospective impact evaluations should be used selectively to assess whether or not a program has achieved its intended results, or to test alternatives for achieving those results. We consider that more and better impact evaluation will help strengthen the evidence base for development policies and programs around the world. If governments and development practitioners can make policy decisions based on evidence - including evidence generated through impact evaluation - our hope is that development resources will be spent more effectively, and ultimately have a greater impact on reducing poverty and improving people?s lives. The three chapters in this handbook provide a non-technical introduction to impact evaluations, including ?Why Evaluate? in Chapter 1, ?How to Evaluate? in Chapter 2 and ?How to Implement Impact Evaluations? in Chapter 3. These elements are the basic ?tools? needed in order to successfully carry out an impact evaluation. From a methodological standpoint our approach to impact evaluation is largely pragmatic: we think that the most appropriate methods should be identified to fit the operational context, and not the other way around. This is best achieved at the outset of the program, through the design of prospective impact evaluation that can be built into the project?s implementation. We argue that gaining consensus between key stakeholders and identifying an evaluation design that fits the political and operational context is as important as the method itself. We also believe
strongly that impact evaluations should be upfront about their limitations and caveats. Finally, we strongly encourage policymakers and program managers to consider impact evaluations in a logical framework that clearly sets out the causal pathways by which the program works to produce outputs and influence final outcomes, and to combine impact evaluations with monitoring and selected complementary evaluation approach to gain a full picture of performance.This book builds on a core set of teaching materials developed for the ?Turning Promises to Evidence? workshops organized by the office of the Chief Economist for Human Development (HDNCE) in partnership with regional units and the Development Economics Research Group (DECRG) at the World Bank.
The Forests Source Book provides practical operations-oriented guidance for forest sector engagement toward the goals of poverty reduction, conservation and economic development. Intended to guide ...World Bank lending activities and projects, the Forests Source Book offers information useful to a broad audience of practitioners, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations. The Source Book was developed in partnership with members of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, including the Food and Agriculture Organization. The Source Book provides background on key issues, lessons learned, and recommendations for practitioners on a number of topics including private sector engagement, forest governance, sustainable plantation and commercial harvesting, and forest information management systems. Giving insight into the complex interplay between different realms of development work that effect or are affected by forests, the Forests Sourcebook is a valuable tool for any stakeholder involved in development or business projects that could have impact on forests.
•Creativity is the ability to produce new and original ideas and things.•Creativity is crucial in project management.•Creative project management is an important research stream.•Creativity ...management is an important research stream.•Management of creative projects is an important research stream.
Creativity is crucial in project management, contributing to the overall effectiveness of endeavors. Our study enables a better understanding of this important subject. We carried out a scoping review of the literature, addressing two questions: “Why is creativity important in project management?” and “What are the main research themes related to creativity in project management?” The findings show a body of knowledge around the main themes of “Creative project management,” “Creativity management,” and “Management of creative projects,” and open several new avenues for research.
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Global projects affect and are affected by multiple stakeholders with differing interests and demands. Recently, there has been increased pressure for global projects to be more environmentally and ...socially responsible. A project creates a dynamic context for stakeholder management and stakeholder behavior because the project moves through different phases during its lifecycle. By adopting a lifecycle perspective on secondary stakeholders’ behavior, we develop a set of propositions that increase our understanding of the potential of secondary stakeholders to influence the project management's decision making during the different phases of the project lifecycle. Ultimately, a better understanding of secondary stakeholders’ influence behavior during the project lifecycle enables the use of more effective project stakeholder management approaches.
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Pricing the planet's future Gollier, Christian; Gollier, Christian
2012., 20121111, 2012, 2013-01-01, 20130101
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Our path of economic development has generated a growing list of environmental problems including the disposal of nuclear waste, exhaustion of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, climate change, ...and polluted land, air, and water. All these environmental problems raise the crucial challenge of determining what we should and should not do for future generations. It is also central to other policy debates, including, for example, the appropriate level of public debt, investment in public infrastructure, investment in education, and the level of funding for pension benefits and for research and development. Today, the judge, the citizen, the politician, and the entrepreneur are concerned with the sustainability of our development. The objective ofPricing the Planet's Futureis to provide a simple framework to organize the debate on what we should do for the future.
A key element of analysis by economists is the discount rate--the minimum rate of return required from an investment project to make it desirable to implement. Christian Gollier outlines the basic theory of the discount rate and the various arguments that favor using a smaller discount rate for more distant cash flows.
With principles that can be applied to many policy areas,Pricing the Planet's Futureoffers an ideal framework for dynamic problems and decision making.
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