Investigation of Project Manager Role for Value Management in Project based Manufacturing Organisations

Abstract

The present study aimed to examine the diffusion of evolving project management practices in context of value management, especially in Indian Project Based manufacturing industry. This paper aims to investigate for requirement of enhanced role of Project Manager in the context of establishing value management processes in organisation. With evolving research in project and simultaneously in value management, emerges with key recommendations for enhanced role of project manager. This paper attempts to identify and compile key research recommendations and put the two checks on it. One is whether project industry accept that these recommendations are required for their implementation or practicing and two, to what extent, these recommendations really implemented that means diffused in practice. These findings, presented statistically, give macro-view of acceptance of value management practices by practitioners and gap indetification of more penetration of these practices into organisation is evidend. This also indicates the strength of link in between researcher and practitioner and provokes for mutual dialogues for practicing value management.