Systems thinking in innovation project management: A match that works

Kapsali, Maria

doi:10.1016/j.ijproman.2011.01.003

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“…Systems thinking is a new concept in addressing competencies; accordingly, product invention, creativity, processes and/or business models require firm personnel to learn from experience in terms of both practice and theory to contribute to job performance and new firm projects [21,51,52]. Moreover, systems thinking can utilize multi-theories and techniques to build holistic, contingent perspectives and practices [53][54][55].…”

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Understanding Innovation for Sustainable Business Management Capabilities and Competencies under Uncertainty

Liao

Tseng

et al. 2015

Sustainability

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Abstract:In recent years, many firms have come to understand that innovation is an important issue in sustainable business management, as it helps improve firm capabilities and competencies. Because of the fiercely competitive environment in the hotel industry, innovation has become a critical factor in the process of hotel differentiation, leading to sustainable business success. However, the literature has not thoroughly examined the role of innovation or the hierarchical structure of the capabilities and competencies in sustainable business management. This study adopts interval-valued triangular fuzzy numbers and grey relational analysis to provide a competitive priority ranking for the aspects and criteria that assist firms in decision-making. The study results indicate that innovation in technology capabilities and networking and social capabilities-in addition to competencies in systemic thinking-are the most important aspects of sustainable business management. In particular, this study indicates that to succeed in building a sustainable business in the hotel industry, firms should upgrade and integrate their business technologies, collaborate with actors inside and outside the firm, build trust as well as a shared vision that includes common agreement, and develop competencies in inventive thinking to support innovation and foster changes in strategy, structure, administrative procedures, and systems when necessary. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 13727

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Understanding Innovation for Sustainable Business Management Capabilities and Competencies under Uncertainty

Liao

Tseng

et al. 2015

Sustainability

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“…Systems Thinking successfully contributes to the governance of innovativeness, complexity and uncertainty by embedding flexibility in managerial activities (Kapsali, 2011). (Checkland, 2000) identifies two fundamental forms of Systems Thinking: hard and soft.…”

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Systems Engineering to improve the governance in complex project environments

Locatelli

Mancini

Romano³

2014

International Journal of Project Management

130

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Projects delivered in complex environments are often late, over-budget and provide fewer benefits than what originally expected. Systems Engineering is the emerging paradigm in complex and thereby increase the chance of holistic success. Systems Engineering is a multidisciplinary approach to enable the successful delivery of systems in complex environments through a comprehensive set of approaches, techniques and tools, initially developed in the USA after the Second World War. This paper focuses on how Systems Engineering can transform the governance from "project governance" to "system governance", improving the performance of projects delivered in a complex environment. The paper presents Systems Engineering tools and techniques focusing, in particular, on the most relevant for the project management, project governance and management. At the end it provides a rich research agenda for further studies.

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“…Something unusual begins here. Circular causality appears [6,11,18,38,47,48,61,62,65,70,71,77]. Kelly [19] identifies it as self-causality and physicists who deal with quantum mechanics call it acausality.…”

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Finding sense in new reality: From the epoch of machines to the age of uncertainty

Slinták¹,

Závodná²

2016

HSM

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This paper deals with a new worldview. Using a historical analysis, this paper describes the original worldview in which the world is a mechanical universe, and puts forward a new worldview in which the world is a biological universe. The objective of this paper is to describe the change in the perception of the new worldview and to express the consequences of that change. It was discovered that important technological changes symbolize a new worldview and can also change this worldview. Information and biology became the fundamental impulses for the creation of a new view of the world. However, the world of organizations is still controlled by mechanical ideology which defines organizations as machines and maintains an economic environment based on a non-cyclical system. The new view of the world therefore requires this to change as it does the way we think.

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Systems thinking in innovation project management: A match that works

Cited by 125 publications

References 71 publications

Understanding Innovation for Sustainable Business Management Capabilities and Competencies under Uncertainty

Understanding Innovation for Sustainable Business Management Capabilities and Competencies under Uncertainty

Systems Engineering to improve the governance in complex project environments

Finding sense in new reality: From the epoch of machines to the age of uncertainty

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