Project benefits co-creation: Shaping sustainable development benefits

Keeys, Lynn A.; Huemann, Martina

doi:10.1016/j.ijproman.2017.02.008

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“…Such orientation allows them to significantly dynamize activities as well as to reduce the complexity of the environment. This is confirmed by well-developed worldwide studies (see: Keeys, Huemann, 2017;Lombardo S., Cabiddu F., 2017;Cossío-Silva F.J., et. al.…”

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Openness to co-creation as a method of reducing the complexity of the environment and dynamizing companies’ competitive advantages

Adamik

Nowicki

Szymańska

2018

Management &Amp; Marketing

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Openness is an expression of an enterprise’s ability to adapt to changing environment conditions and its ability to cooperate with different types of partners. A given company’s openness shows its readiness for the creation of dynamics of many business processes, including the creation of its competitive advantage. Due to the nature of today’s enterprises’ environment, mainly its “high velocity” & “complexity” attributes, openness of companies has to be multifaceted. Organization-customer relationships, called co-creation, are one of such facets. The capacity for effective co-creation gives a company the ability to gain a competitive advantage along with the chance for its permanent dynamization and sustainability. The main purpose of the paper is to present the framework and algorithm of co-creation as a method of reducing the complexity of the environment and dynamizing companies’ competitive advantages. A review of literature in the areas of open organization, open culture, partnership, co-creation, and competitive advantage provides a basis for understanding the process of co-creation. Collected data show that the activity of enterprises in this process is a key factor in the reduction of complexity of a company’s environment and an important stimulator of the dynamization of a company’s competitive advantage. The authors’ own CATI questionnaire survey research conducted in Poland showed the level of preparation Polish SMEs have to co-create.

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Openness to co-creation as a method of reducing the complexity of the environment and dynamizing companies’ competitive advantages

Adamik

Nowicki

Szymańska

2018

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“…Values-based Sustainability inevitably is a normative concept, reflecting values and ethical considerations of society. "Sustainability is the ideal state of sustainable development efforts" [44], which is based on the ethics and values of the actors. Following the conclusion that sustainability is embedded in the values of the social system that the sustainability relates to, a logical question is which values sustainability is based upon.…”

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Exploring Responsible Project Management Education

Silvius

Schipper²

2018

Education Sciences

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As projects are evolving from tactical level 'tasks' to societally-relevant 'instruments of change', the theories, methods, and practices of project management need to evolve, too. Academic programs on project management, logically, should be frontrunners in this development, which calls for societally-relevant and 'responsible' project management education. Following the model of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education, some first ideas on what Responsible Project Management Education should entail developed. The study presented in this article uses meta-synthesis to explore the meaning and characteristics of responsible project management education. The study concludes nine characteristics that provide a conceptual starting point for more empirical research on the topic.

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“…Considering that stakeholder engagement has been identified as an important factor for the benefit identification of a project, methods and tools to promote stakeholder engagement are of high importance during the co-creation process. Benefits of co-creation are improved when multiple points-of-view are integrated, as the identified solutions are more likely to reflect the needs of diverse stakeholders and, accordingly, facilitate stakeholder buy-in to the project [44].…”

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“…Although all of the approaches, methodologies and methods mentioned above consider continuous improvement in a different way, they all start when the opportunity for improvement has been identified and finish when the solution is designed (as in the case of Design Thinking [27]) or implemented (as in the PDCA and DMAIC cycles [28,29]). Regardless of their constraints, when considering the co-creation process as more than just coming up with a solution to a problem, and bearing in mind that the cycles mentioned above (PDCA and DMAIC cycles [28,29]) are the basis of most continuous improvement processes, there are some frameworks in literature defining steps for co-creation that mostly use a Design Thinking approach [1,27,[43][44][45]. These three approaches provide a solid basis for the design of the LCCCP for NBS.…”

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Mapping the Life Cycle Co-Creation Process of Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptation

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Developing urban and peri-urban ecosystem services with nature-based solutions (NBS) and participatory approaches can help achieve more resilient and sustainable environments for cities and urban areas in the face of climate change. The co-creation process is increasingly recognised as the way forward to deal with environmental issues in cities, allowing the development of associated methods and tools that have been described and published for specific stages. It is argued that the co-creation process comprises various interlinked stages, corresponding stakeholders, and subsequent methods and tools that need to be mapped and integrated across all stages. In this study, a Life Cycle Co-Creation Process (LCCCP) for NBS is developed, building on continuous improvement cycles and Design Thinking methodologies, and for which the stages and substages, involved stakeholders and engagement methods and tools are mapped and defined. For stakeholders, the actors of an Urban Living Lab (ULL) are adapted to the LCCCP; for the engagement methods and tools, the goals of stakeholder engagement are used as a guide to select examples of co-creation methods and tools. The developed LCCCP comprises five stages, i.e., CoExplore, CoDesign, CoExperiment, CoImplement and CoManagement, creating a unique path that can be followed by practitioners for NBS co-creation.Resources 2020, 9, 39 2 of 26 they provide to the population [5]. Considering that urban ecosystems and biodiversity represent an important role in climate change adaptation and mitigation, cities must develop a long-term systems-based approach that considers the impacts on urban areas and the human population. Urban areas evolve and are being reshaped constantly as urbanisation advances and more inhabitants are migrating towards metropolitan areas [6]. Hence, "urban planning is a continuous process of foreseeing, anticipating, and preparing for the future" while seeking a balance between interests from different stakeholders and sectors [7] (p. 76). Considering that climate change is constantly generating new challenges for cities, the concept of continuous improvement and innovative measures (combining or integrating urban planning and climate change) need to be taken into consideration.Developing urban and peri-urban ecosystem services with a nature-based and participatory approach can help achieve more resilient and sustainable environments for cities and urban areas [5]. In fact, the claim for new participatory approaches to deal with complex environmental challenges is related to failures in top-down decision-and policy-making processes to deal with those challenges [8][9][10]. These processes were traditionally positioned in the domain of trained experts, lacking detailed local knowledge and support from communities [11]. Moreover, urban biodiversity and ecosystems need to be safeguarded and enhanced for them to deliver critical, nature-based co-benefits that promote the well-being of its inhabitants.Nature-based solutions (NBS) are solutions that can help support clima...

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Project benefits co-creation: Shaping sustainable development benefits

Cited by 125 publications

References 45 publications

Openness to co-creation as a method of reducing the complexity of the environment and dynamizing companies’ competitive advantages

Openness to co-creation as a method of reducing the complexity of the environment and dynamizing companies’ competitive advantages

Exploring Responsible Project Management Education

Mapping the Life Cycle Co-Creation Process of Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptation

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