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on Project, Program and Portfolio Management |
| By: | Hunger, Tom; Arnold, Marlen Gabriele; Engesser, Sven; van den Boogaart, K. Gerald |
| Abstract: | The integration of sustainability into the early stages of New Product Development (NPD) is critical for fostering innovation and ensuring long-term competitive advantage. This critical review explores the incorporation of sustainability facets within NPD processes. Despite the growing emphasis on sustainable practices, significant gaps persist in effectively embedding holistic sustainability approaches during initial NPD phases. This review critically analyzes existing literature, identifying the extent to which Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) and other holistic methodologies are utilized for sustainable NPD. The review reveals that while numerous tools and frameworks exist to enhance sustainability in NPD, their application is often fragmented and lacks a comprehensive approach. Key barriers include the complexity of sustainability criteria, limited operational tools, data deficiencies, and high costs associated with sustainable practices. Furthermore, the current research predominantly addresses environmental and economic dimensions, with insufficient focus on social, cultural, political, and systemic aspects. The findings underscore the necessity for a multidimensional framework that integrates all facets of sustainability, supported by robust MCDA methods to manage trade-offs effectively. Additionally, the review highlights the importance of stakeholder involvement and the need for industry-specific adaptations of sustainability tools. Future research should aim to develop practical, validated tools that accommodate diverse sustainability dimensions and are adaptable across different sectors. |
| Date: | 2024–08–05 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:osfxxx:qmg76_v1 |
| By: | Salvaggio, Salvino A. PhD |
| Abstract: | This brief article explores the shifting landscape of classical music, driven by evolving audience tastes and preferences. It examines key drivers such as technological innovation, demographic changes, socioeconomic factors, and changing media consumption patterns that have reshaped the industry. The article highlights the impact of these shifts on management strategies, emphasising the need for audience development, financial analysis, and strategic agility. It also showcases innovative practices adopted by orchestras to enhance audience engagement, including hybrid performances, collaborative projects, educational outreach, technological integration, and community engagement. The article concludes by outlining opportunities for future research and the importance of continuous adaptation and creativity for the resilience and vitality of classical music and the performing arts. |
| Date: | 2024–05–25 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:osfxxx:gj7c2_v1 |
| By: | Stephan Bogs; Ali Abdelshafy; Grit Walther |
| Abstract: | The transition to a low-carbon economy necessitates effective carbon capture and storage (CCS) solutions, particularly for hard-to-abate sectors. Herein, pipeline networks are indispensable for cost-efficient $CO_2$ transportation over long distances. However, there is deep uncertainty regarding which industrial sectors will participate in such systems. This poses a significant challenge due to substantial investments as well as the lengthy planning and development timelines required for $CO_2$ pipeline projects, which are further constrained by limited upgrade options for already built infrastructure. The economies of scale inherent in pipeline construction exacerbate these challenges, leading to potential regret over earlier decisions. While numerous models were developed to optimize the initial layout of pipeline infrastructure based on known demand, a gap exists in addressing the incremental development of infrastructure in conjunction with deep uncertainty. Hence, this paper introduces a novel optimization model for $CO_2$ pipeline infrastructure development, minimizing regret as its objective function and incorporating various upgrade options, such as looping and pressure increases. The model's effectiveness is also demonstrated by presenting a comprehensive case study of Germany's cement and lime industries. The developed approach quantitatively illustrates the trade-off between different options, which can help in deriving effective strategies for $CO_2$ infrastructure development. |
| Date: | 2025–02 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2502.12035 |
| By: | Fiegenbaum, Hanna |
| Abstract: | Carbon credits are a key component of most national and organizational climate strategies. Financing and delivering carbon credits from forest-related activities faces risks at the project and asset levels. Financial mechanisms are employed to mitigate risks for investors and project developers, and are complemented by non-financial measures such as environmental and social safeguards and physical risk mitigation. Academic research highlights that safeguards and climate risk mitigation measures are not efficiently implemented in some carbon projects and that specification of environmental safeguards remains underdeveloped. This text examines how ecosystem capacities can be used and valued for mitigation of and adaptation to physical risks and can complement existing risk mitigation measures through biodiversity insurance and resilience value. |
| Date: | 2024–11–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:osfxxx:buvzy_v1 |
| By: | Vivien Braccini (LISEC - Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l'Education et de la Communication - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar - UL - Université de Lorraine, P.S.Institut); Christophe Humbert (P.S.Institut, LINCS - Laboratoire interdisciplinaire en études culturelles - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) |
| Abstract: | Using a systemic approach, this article focuses on the deployment of a digital health innovation approach in the Grand-Est region, aimed at facilitating coordinated exchanges between patients and healthcare profes-sionals. The authors describe the challenges and impact of an action-research project involving a group of people working in new institutional professions dedicated to supporting this innovative approach. By exploring the expectations of those involved in the field, they highlight the dual role of technocracy and sense-making that is necessary for the deployment of innovation and its management by institutional stakeholders on such a large scale. A discussion of these elements will make it possible, on the one hand, to identify several obstacles to the stabilization and optimization of this dual steering and its potential effects on the care system, and on the other hand, to suggest some measures that could be taken to minimize these obstacles. |
| Abstract: | Utilisant une approche systémique, l'article porte sur le déploiement d'une démarche d'innovation numérique en santé à l'échelle de la région Grand-Est, visant à faciliter l'échange décloisonné et la coordination de parcours entre les patients et les acteurs de la santé et des soins. Les auteurs décrivent les enjeux et l'impact d'un dispositif de recherche-action impliquant un groupe de personnes exerçant de nouveaux métiers institutionnels dédiés à l'accompagnement de cette démarche d'innovation. L'exploration des attentes des acteurs de terrain met en évidence un double pilotage, technocratique et par le sens, nécessaire à une telle échelle, tant pour le déploiement de l'innovation que pour son pilotage par les acteurs institutionnels. Une discussion de ces éléments permettra d'une part d'identifier plusieurs freins à la stabilisation et l'optimisation de ce double pilotage et de ses effets potentiels sur le système de soins, et d'autre part, quelques pistes d'actions à entreprendre pour minimiser ces freins. |
| Keywords: | Health information systems, Pathway coordination, Digital innovation in health, Action-research, Systems Theory, Systèmes d'information de santé, Coordination de parcours, Innovation numérique en santé, Recherche-action, Systémique |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-04964225 |
| By: | Nicolas Jullien (MARSOUIN - Môle Armoricain de Recherche sur la SOciété de l'information et des usages d'INternet - UR - Université de Rennes - UBS - Université de Bretagne Sud - ENSAI - Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Analyse de l'Information [Bruz] - UBO - Université de Brest - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - UR2 - Université de Rennes 2 - UBL - Université Bretagne Loire - IMT Atlantique - IMT Atlantique - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris], LEGO - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Gestion de l'Ouest - UBS - Université de Bretagne Sud - UBO - Université de Brest - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - IBSHS - Institut Brestois des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société - UBO - Université de Brest - UBL - Université Bretagne Loire - IMT Atlantique - IMT Atlantique - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris], IMT Atlantique - DI2S - Département Interdisciplinaire de Sciences Sociales - IMT Atlantique - IMT Atlantique - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris]); Robert Viseur (UMONS - Université de Mons / University of Mons); Jean-Benoît Zimmermann (GREQAM - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - ECM - École Centrale de Marseille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) |
| Abstract: | In this article, we propose a theory that explains how Free/Libre Open Software (FLOSS) projects work and how companies rely on these FLOSS projects to develop their commercial offers, what we refer to as their "opensource" business model(s). This article builds on and refines the studies of the FLOSS organization by connecting two interrelated aspects: 1) how this organization evolves over time, in order to 2) better understand the value that users create and capture at each moment of a FLOSS project, with a particular focus on open-source companies, which are specific users who do business based on the software created by the FLOSS project. We describe these models and show that the open-source business models of companies are based on contributing to FLOSS projects in order to be able to provide "3A" services (assurance, adaptation, and assistance or support for use) that are complementary to the access to the software. Providing these services requires participation in the FLOSS project, which provides the project with the resources to operate. This work can help the software engineering community by showing how FLOSS evaluation tools can be improved by taking into account the maturity of the solution, the strategic need of the target user, and the complementary open-source offers that exist. |
| Keywords: | FLOSS, Open-source, Business models, Value network, Software-flow, Strategy, FLOSS Open-source Business models Value network Software-flow Strategy |
| Date: | 2025–06–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04963100 |
| By: | Glitscher, Wolfgang |
| Abstract: | Decarbonization and the conversion of production to circular processes and the use of sustainable raw materials is in the hands of the strategic decision-makers of organizations who want this transformation. The necessary concepts and organizational measures must be put in place in the following steps. The necessary prerequisites for strategic and operational management and thus also for project management are discussed at the beginning and illustrated with examples. Subsequently, the example of an international group with over one hundred production sites worldwide is used to illustrate how this transformation process is managed via a program and a project management office (PMO) over a period of more than ten years. The process is fully digitalized to ensure the necessary monitoring and control. |
| Date: | 2024–06–03 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:osfxxx:zxk6h_v1 |
| By: | Carleton, Tamara; Cockayne, William |
| Abstract: | A rise of government funding agencies dedicated to radical innovation has occurred in recent years. When launching bold and ambitious programs marked by radical uncertainty and unknowable outcomes, how do innovation-funding organizations deliberately provoke risk-taking behavior in potential applicants? This study focuses on the interplay between risk perception and decision making for deliberate high-risk decisions. We compare the language used in 81 public funding calls and new program solicitations from four US government funding entities, which comprise DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), the Defense Innovation Unit, the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program, and ARPA-H. A list of potential signal phrases was derived, indicating a spectrum of corresponding risk levels for an innovation opportunity. A survey with 92 evaluators validated that certain keywords served as provocations to trigger risk taking in the pursuit of transformative breakthroughs and frontier science. Our work contributes to a lexicon of signal phrases for provoking and communicating innovation, especially for far-reaching programs. More broadly, understanding the impact of language on decision making under high-risk conditions can inform national innovation policy and strategy for other funding organizations seeking to induce scientific and technological advancement in the United States and globally. |
| Date: | 2025–01–20 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:osfxxx:aqgf8_v1 |