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Mar 1, 2021 · A network strategy consists of your plan for building and managing a network of partners in a way best suited to meet your shared goals. It focuses on the considerations of HOW you’ll build your network, in terms of what you will do, and won’t do, to align your work with your goals.
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- Introduction
- Network Organizations
- Complexity Issues
- Risk Mitigation and Management
- Differences Between Multi-Site Internal and Distributed Network Projects
- Inter-Organizational Relationships and Knowledge Exchange
- Virtual Project Management
- Project Portfolio Selection
- Discussion
As competition in the global marketplace strengthens, and technological change offers better communication infrastructures and collaboration tools through eBusiness technologies, firms are more frequently teaming with other firms that offer complementary expertise. The objective of forming these arrangements is to increase company capacity to organ...
Network organizations can be characterized as having complex adaptive systems, no central hierarchical control, and many agents acting in parallel. These organizations have an innate capacity of being adaptive, and thus avoid the tendency of complex hierarchical systems (large centrally controlled organizations) to approach long-term equilibrium an...
Higher levels of interdependence among network firms tend to lead to higher orders of complexity in distributed network projects. To increase project completion speed in these circumstances requires attention to complexity reduction and management in order to improve the likelihood of project success. Project complexity considerations derive from t...
Any increase in project complexity tends to increase risk. For this reason, risk mitigation strategies are an important consideration in distributed network projects. In Table 1a (next page) we have listed the sources of risk, classified by type of project complexity, including some risk mitigation strategies suggested by the literature. Note that ...
Project complexity and its management is an issue that has been handled in a variety of ways by large integrated firms as well as network organizations. Some of these approaches are suitable for both types of organization. Much of the literature we have discussed, relevant to complexity and risk, has drawn upon research in multi-site internal proje...
Inter-organizational relationships are not easy to build. Most managers believe that, once these relationships are in place, it is essential to expend substantial efforts in maintaining such relationships. As pointed out in the previous section, working with trusted business partners and building and exchanging relevant knowledge are important aspe...
Collaboration among different business units in the same organization, or among different organizations for the purpose of undertaking projects, almost invariably involves geographical separation of sites. Projects that involve multiple sites are often called virtual projects. Due to modern technology, there are a multitude of technologies availabl...
Optimizing the choice and management of a portfolio of projects has always been a difficult issue due to the interaction of multiple resource constraints. As network organizations grow in influence, and international and cultural boundaries are encountered, selecting individual or multiple projects requires an ability to understand and mitigate the...
In this paper we have addressed a variety of issues that affect both internal multiple site projects and distributed network projects. For network organizations, these issues become more difficult to resolve as the level of interdependence among the organizations increases. Complexities can arise from structural and uncertainty aspects of the proje...
Feb 1, 1992 · Project management as a way of thinking is a function of your most critical resource: your maintenance managers and supervisors. Encouraging the use of project management techniques is not good enough. Experienced, “up-from-the-ranks” managers need assistance on two fronts: training and example.
Apr 5, 2024 · Network design is the practice of planning and designing a communications network. That process starts with identifying business and technical requirements and continues until just before the network implementation stage (when you actually do the work to deploy and configure what was designed).
Based on forecasted demand, organizations can ensure they have sufficient network capacity to handle the future increase in traffic without affecting performance. This involves assessing the current capacity and comparing it with projected growth rates to determine necessary upgrades.
Jul 19, 2023 · Network diagrams provide a visual roadmap, highlighting critical paths and allowing project teams to identify dependencies, analyze project timelines, and optimize resource allocation for successful project execution.
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The network diagram is a way to visualize the interrelationships of project activities. Network diagrams provide a graphical view of the tasks and how they relate to one another. The tasks in the network are the work packages of the WBS. All of the WBS tasks must be included in the network because they have to be accounted for in the schedule.
