Apply a Project Core View to Promote Project Success

Authors

  • Siw Lundqvist Linnaeus University - School of Business and Economics Sweden
  • Leif Marcusson Linnaeus University - School of Business and Economics Sweden

Keywords:

project manager, project management, project manager recruitment, project success, core product, core competence, project core product, project core competence

Abstract

Achieving successful projects is critical and the project manager's role is beyond dispute. Hence, successful recruitment processes that put critical competence requirements in focus could facilitate successful project coutcomes. It is fundamental that a certain project supports the organization's core product, because that is the basis for the organization's success in the first place. Therefore it is important that the project core product is viewed since it is supposed to support the core product. Further, it would be helpful to distinguish between general competences and core competences in order to avoid focusing on more or less insignificant general qualificaion requirements while missing to elucidate the core qualificaion requirements that should be decisive for the outcome. This paper aims at shedding light on the necessity of paying careful attention to project core product and project core competence as basic conditions for project success. Implications for practice and research are discussed.

Author Biographies

  • Siw Lundqvist, Linnaeus University - School of Business and Economics Sweden

    Siw Lundqvist , is Assistant Professor atLinnaeus University, School of Business andEconomics. Her research interests include projectmanagement, organizational change, mergers anddigital commerce. She has practical experiencefrom for example e-health projects that focusedon digitalized patient information, active citizenship,and evaluation in county council. She has written a textbookin project planning.

  • Leif Marcusson, Linnaeus University - School of Business and Economics Sweden

    Leif Marcusson, is Assistant Professor atLinnaeus University, School of Business andEconomics. His research interests include projectmanagement, decision making, organizationaldevelopment and digital commerce. He has severalyears of experience from the IT project managementfi eld and from systems and organizationaldevelopment within Swedish industry e.g. SAABand the public sector e.g. the Swedish national defence and thecounty council. Besides, he has written textbooks about projectse.g. project planning and project management.

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2022-05-20

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2015): The Journal of Modern Project Management

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Apply a Project Core View to Promote Project Success. (2022). The Journal of Modern Project Management, 3(1), 113. https://journalmodernpm.com/manuscript/index.php/jmpm/article/view/179

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