All 60,000 thousand words. In the required academic style. More footnotes that I care to recall. And a frank amazement that after 20 years of Standish’s Chaos Reports and PMI on the project management side and Lewin, Kotter and other researchers on change management, that there is so little that integrates the two.
After all… ‘deliverables’ are only used if people wish to!
Academic research is requires long title – necessary to provide all the details. In one breath.
Mine: Factors leading to the Success and Failure of Large Multi-Country Projects in Multi-National Organisations. In addition to reading more dry articles and quite a few books (the pile is taller than me), I’ve now interviewed nearly 30 executives in some impressive roles. Over half have worked in Asia, the majority are western executives. Two are Board Members of well known companies. Fascinating how west meets east – and the implications how projects actually generate results (or don’t).
Concept… why do we keep repeating failure? No project manager (or sponsor) wants this in their life.
A good research topic for my thesis at HEC and Said.
