Context Software and information system are everywhere and the projects involving them
are becoming more complex. However, these projects performance patterns are not …

Health systems play a critically important role in improving health. Well-functioning health
systems enable achievement of good health with efficient use of available resources …

Understanding barriers to organizational learning is central to understanding firm
performance. We investigate the role of time delays between taking an action and observing …

In 1979 Theodore W. Schultz, Nobel Laureate for economics, argued that population quality
was the “decisive factor” of production. He emphasized the merits of investing in education …

Changes in the business environment such as turbulent market forces, rapidly evolving
system requirements, and advances in technology demand agility in the development of …

Stage‐Gate® is a widely used product innovation process for managing portfolios of new
product development projects. The process enables companies to minimize uncertainty by …

In most software development organizations, there is seldom a one-to-one mapping
between software developers and development tasks. It is frequently necessary to …

Demands by clients for earlier delivery after a project has started are increasing. This paper
investigates the consequential disruption and delay that follows from the contractor …

Abstract System dynamics (SD) is a modelling approach that has been used to analyse
disruption and delay (D&D) for litigation in a number of cases over the last 30 years …

Commitment to an information system (IS) development project is essential for system
success. However, some projects exhibit escalation of commitment, ie allocation of …