There is a trend of combining agile and traditional project management practices for technology-based product and service development in the search for more agility. Although there are, in the ...literature, hybrid models that propose combinations of traditional and agile approaches, there are no studies that discuss the impact of the adoption of this approach in organizations in practice. Consequently, guidance on the selection of the most appropriate project management approach has remained largely theoretical, rather than based on companies’ experiences. The objective of this research is to analyze how organizations that develop technology-based products and services apply hybrid approaches to project management, their characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages, conducting a literature review and multiple case studies as research methods. Results reveal that hybrid approaches to project management are currently fundamental for companies in order to deal with distinct organizational cultures, specific processes, customer contractual requirements, and project specificities. This study also led to a consolidated list of the characteristics of hybrid approaches to project management.
Partnerships are demanded to implement a more integrated approach to sustainable development problems. The complex character of sustainability requires the participation of many societal spheres to ...resolve them. Sustainable Development Goal #17 “Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development” recognizes multi‐stakeholder partnerships as important vehicles for mobilizing and sharing knowledge, expertise, technologies, and financial resources to support the achievement of the SDGs in all countries. Innovation Ecosystems (IE) are dynamic purposive multi‐stakeholders' networks with complex relationships built on trust, co‐creation of value, and exchange of complementary technologies or competencies. Few studies investigated the IEs relating to sustainability and specially within the SDGs. This study provides a descriptive analysis of the relationship between IE and the SDGs, concerning the question about how the IE framework can orient the SDG #17 partnership implementation. The methodology is based on the literature review and analysis of documents from the United Nations, available at the UN Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform ‐ 2021. Four core drivers were identified and discussed: Geographical Governance, Collaboration, Knowledge Transmission, and Value co‐creation. Considering the IE lens, the SDGs can be addressed as the purpose engaging the Major Groups, which are the key contributors in terms of being part of the challenges and solutions. There is a need to prepare stakeholders to be ecosystem conscious and aware of the demanded innovations. Future research should include describing methods to measure IE performance considering the SDGs and empirical studies to analyze the ecosystem roles and relations of the Major Groups.
PurposeEmerging digital ventures and related breakthrough innovations result in new challenges for the development of entrepreneurial competences and demand new perspectives for entrepreneurship ...research. In this context, policy-makers and organizations are increasingly interested in fostering entrepreneurial competences to improve the success of policies and venture capital investments. This paper aims at identifying the core relevant entrepreneurial competences, mapping the current literature and the main clusters and going beyond toward a meta-competence framework.Design/methodology/approachThe research approach is a literature review, combining bibliometric, network and content analysis. The sampling process was conducted in the Scopus and Web of Science databases. The bibliometrics and content analysis were performed with a computer aid approach applying VosViewer1.6, Ucinet and NetDraw 2.139. The content analysis approach was performed considering a detailed coding schema developed. Finally, toward the meta-competences framework, the study applied quantitative analysis on the coding schema, particularly cross-tabulation, core-periphery and network analysis.FindingsThe results show the state of the art concerning entrepreneurial competences. The research identified a list of 98 entrepreneurial competences. Finally, the study proposes a meta-competence framework and clusters the 33 core entrepreneurial competences previously identified.Originality/valueThe proposed conceptual framework exploring meta-entrepreneurial competences offers an original contribution with implications for theory and practice. The research contributes to broadening the understanding of the entrepreneurial competences, helping on the creation, design, development and improvement of entrepreneurship educational initiatives, which are important to entrepreneurs' educators. The proposed framework contributes by providing relevant knowledge for the policy-makers' strategy formulation processes. As implications for the practice, the proposed framework can allow better assessment process for incubators and accelerators, besides more robust ventures considering learning trails based on meta-competences frameworks.
Abstract Organizations continually look for new ways to generate ideas and to convert them into innovative products and services, a movement that strengthens entrepreneurship. Considering the context ...of entrepreneurship education, this paper presents and analyzes the main results obtained with the realization of the “7600001 Innovation and Entrepreneurship” course, offered by the University of São Paulo Innovation Agency (AUSPIN), with support of the platform “Bota Pra Fazer”, an Endeavor and SEBRAE initiative. The paper promotes the discussion concerning best practices for the academic diffusion of entrepreneurship education considering the diffusion of the agile approaches (Design Thinking, Lean Startup and Business Model Canvas). It was possible to conclude that the experience with the 7600001 course, with a blended format and project-oriented learning, was adequate to improve the learning of entrepreneurship at the Brazilian academic environment according to the vision of the students involved.
Resumo O mercado busca novos caminhos para gerar ideias e convertê-las em produtos e serviços, movimento que fortalece o empreendedorismo. Considerando o contexto do ensino do empreendedorismo, este artigo apresenta e analisa os principais resultados obtidos com a realização da disciplina 7600001 Inovação e Empreendedorismo - ofertada pela Agência de Inovação da Universidade de São Paulo (AUSPIN) com apoio do conteúdo da plataforma Bota Pra Fazer, uma iniciativa da Endeavor e do SEBRAE Nacional. Como resultado, fortalece a discussão sobre melhores práticas para o ensino acadêmico considerando a aplicação da abordagem do empreendedorismo baseado em hipóteses, que incorpora os métodos ágeis (Design Thinking, Lean Startup e Business Model Canvas) para a experimentação de um ciclo completo de prototipação de uma startup. Verifica-se, assim, que a experiência da disciplina 7600001, optativa, de formato semipresencial e que aplica a aprendizagem orientada a projetos, mostra-se adequada para a promoção do empreendedorismo no ambiente acadêmico brasileiro, considerando a visão dos alunos envolvidos.
The recent success of startups resulted in an increasing interest concerning entrepreneurship approaches. However, there is a lack of studies with focusing on the understanding of how entrepreneurs ...experience these concepts and tools in practice. This paper investigates how entrepreneurs apply new entrepreneurship methodologies to create new businesses. Moreover, it aims at identifying the most important phases and activities. The research design is a survey-based research with a sample of 87 Brazilian startup entrepreneurs. As a result, a recursive stage-based framework for supporting startup initiation that combines concepts and tools from the lean startup, the business model canvas, and design thinking approaches are incorporated in recursive learning loops.
O presente estudo aborda a melhoria da experiência na compra online por meio do design thinking, identificando e apresentando uma solução para uma das principais dores identificadas nesse meio, que é ...a ausência da prova física de produtos de vestuário. Considerando os aspectos comportamentais, essenciais para o pensamento de experiência do usuário, a pesquisa identificou que a experimentação dos produtos de vestuário aumenta a confiança para a compra e reduz o risco de troca do produto. A identificação da dor e construção da solução contemplou um conjunto de etapas realizadas dentro da abordagem do design thinking, que foram: uma revisão sistemática da literatura; benchmarkings e análise de dados secundários; entrevistas em profundidade com usuários; uso de ferramentas do design como criação de personas, mapa de empatia, jornada do usuário e ponto de vista; e desenvolvimento e teste de protótipos. Foi identificado que aspectos visuais, como a qualidade e a diversidade de imagens e a disponibilidade de informações, e um sistema de recomendação de tamanho contribuem para a melhoria da experiência de compra online e que podem ser utilizados de forma complementar.
This study deals with improving the online shopping experience through the process of design thinking, by identifying and presenting a solution to one of the main pain points identified in this ...medium, which is the lack of physical proof of clothing products. Considering behavioral aspects, essential for the user experience thinking, the research pointed that the experimenting of the clothing products increases the confidence for the purchase and decreases the risk of product exchange. The identification of the pain and construction of the solution included a set of steps carried out within the design thinking approach, which were: a systematic literature review; benchmarking and secondary data analysis; in-depth interviews with users; use of design tools such the creation of personas, empathy map, user journey and point of view; and development and test of prototypes. It was identified that visual aspects, such as quality and variety of images and the availability of information; and a size recommendation system contribute to the improvement of the online shopping experience and can be used in a complementary way.
Resumo A demanda por gerentes de projetos é crescente. Um dos principais fatores que impactam no desempenho desse profissional relaciona-se ao aspecto comportamental, ou seja, àquele em que as ...relações e o entendimento entre os indivíduos de um grupo são fundamentais. Ante essa problemática, o objetivo deste trabalho foi realizar uma análise bibliométrica sobre aspectos comportamentais na gestão de projetos, buscando identificar as relações entre aspectos comportamentais e o gerenciamento de projetos. Para tanto, utilizou-se a metodologia bibliométrica: as bases de dados que compõem a amostra foram coletadas em ISI Web of Science e Scopus, desde que os artigos da Scopus também estivessem na base principal da ISI Web of Science. As análises sugerem ou evidenciam que os aspectos comportamentais, o “lado humano”, se apresenta como fator essencial para o sucesso na gestão de projetos.
Resumo A demanda por gerentes de projetos é crescente. Um dos principais fatores que impactam no desempenho desse profissional relaciona-se ao aspecto comportamental, ou seja, àquele em que as ...relações e o entendimento entre os indivíduos de um grupo são fundamentais. Ante essa problemática, o objetivo deste trabalho foi realizar uma análise bibliométrica sobre aspectos comportamentais na gestão de projetos, buscando identificar as relações entre aspectos comportamentais e o gerenciamento de projetos. Para tanto, utilizou-se a metodologia bibliométrica: as bases de dados que compõem a amostra foram coletadas em ISI Web of Science e Scopus, desde que os artigos da Scopus também estivessem na base principal da ISI Web of Science. As análises sugerem ou evidenciam que os aspectos comportamentais, o “lado humano”, se apresenta como fator essencial para o sucesso na gestão de projetos.
Abstract Due to the growing demand for project managers, one of the main factors that impact their performance is related to behavioral aspects, namely that in which relationships and understanding between individuals in a group are key. Faced with this problem, we aim to perform a literature review on the behavioral aspects topic in project management in order to identify the relationship between behavioral aspects and project management. Therefore, we used the bibliometric methodology, and the database composing the sample was collected from the Web of Science - ISI and Scopus, since Scopus articles were also the main base in the Web of Science. Analyses suggest based on the behavioral aspects that the “human side” is an essential factor for increasing success in project management.
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