Set Of Success Factors Research Articles

Managing Sustainable Energy Projects: A Review on Success Factors

Purpose: This paper aims to compile consideration factors for the success of Renewable Energy projects. The chances of completing a renewable energy (RE) project are still an issue. Over the past decade, researchers have sought to identify the barriers to the project and the key success factors for successful projects. But a comprehensive set of success factors is lacking. Method: A systematic review was conducted using 92 research articles and 45 secondary reports. Literature identification, screening, eligibility and inclusion steps were followed based on Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) Flow Diagram. Findings: As a result, 61 success factors were compiled and classified into nine different categories: Project Strategy, Policies & Politics, Project Attributes, Stakeholder Interactions, Project Parameters, Culture & Leadership Resources, Managing Risks and Project Governance. Originality: A unique scientific tool has been proposed to calculate project success probability. Each success factor score is based on a Likert scale of 1-5 to calculate weighted average value of each category leading to the success probability. This tool will be beneficial for project management practitioners, project sponsors, government agencies, policy makers and researchers. Limitation/Implications: The comprehensive set of project success factors is considered for RE projects only. However, a similar approach can be applied to other projects to ensure higher success. It has been recommended that the project team assess each factor score frequently and make every effort to raise each category score to 5 as much as is realistically possible.

СТРАТЕГІЧНЕ ПЛАНУВАННЯ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ ТОРГОВЕЛЬНОГО ЦЕНТРУ НА ОСНОВІ КРІ

Trade is one of the most intensive growing industries in Ukraine. This necessitates the study and deepening of the methodological foundations of strategic management of enterprises in this industry using modern tools, in particular, key performance indicators. The purpose of this article is to characterize the main business processes and to develop key performance indicators that can form the basis for strategic planning of the shopping center. There is suggested that the overall efficiency of the mall depends on a set of success factors: space, administration, and marketing. In view of this, focusing only on marketing aspects is not sufficient, when determining the key performance indicators for the shopping center; other parameters of the mall’s activities need to be reflected in the strategic plan too (through the relevant goals and indicators): production and operational, administrative. There is proposed a system of Key Performance Indicators to measure the activity of the mall as a complex object: results, cost, functioning, and efficiency indicators. The group of indicators measuring results includes the following KPIs: revenue, profit, use of the area of the mall. Cost KPI group embraces operating and capital expenditures. The group of functioning indicators involves the following KPIs: the number of visitors for the period, the share of permanent leasers, the share of leasers who terminated the lease agreement for the last year, the share of visitors who positively assess mall’s services, and the share of vacant space. The group of efficiency indicators includes the following KPIs: operating costs per unit of area, operating costs per 1000 visitors, profit per unit of area, rental rate. The proposed integral KPIs for the mall as a complex can be transformed into a system of indicators at the level of individual business processes (production and operation, administration, marketing), certain departments, and positions. Use of these indicators allows both to improve the quality of the mall’s strategic planning process and to form an appropriate informational basis for further control.

It All Depends, But on What? Testing Contingency in Public Strategic Implementation

This article examines the factors that lead to the successful implementation of strategic initiatives by U.S. municipalities by testing a contingent model of strategic implementation using project management theory, concluding that situational context alters the relationships between implementation tactics and implementation efficiency. Specifically, this study demonstrates that there are different sets of success factors in four contexts defined by a 2 × 2 typology based on high and low levels of initiative priority and implementation complexity. The tests are conducted utilizing a sample of 218 strategic initiatives gathered from 44 U.S. municipalities. The study also highlights the importance of a dedicated budget allocation for an implementation effort. Collectively, the study endorses contingent implementation approaches based on situational context and calls for further study to identify specifically the most effective contingent implementation approaches.

Untangling the mystery of absorptive capacity: A process or a set of success factors?

The absorptive capacity of an organization is its ability to translate the knowledge sourced from outside into commercial benefits. Having gained a certain academic interest, the mechanism of the absorptive capacity phenomenon is still puzzling. This paper provides some limited confirmation of earlier frameworks; however, absorptive capacity is demonstrated to be a set of interrelated success factors rather than a sequential process of knowledge articulation in a company. The new model of absorptive capacity proposed encompasses four dimensions: continuing development, bottom-up innovation, trust-based internal cooperation, and deferred knowledge use. The continuing development facet entails a strong positive impact on organizational performance, while the bottom-up innovation dimension deteriorates it. Trust-based internal cooperation and deferred knowledge use report mixed results.

Success factors of virtual research teams – Does distance still matter?

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Sustaining Public Sector Lean Six Sigma: Perspectives from North America

The aim of this research was to identify characteristics that sustained process improvement efforts in the publicsector, with a focus on Lean Six Sigma as practiced in North America. The research methodology consisted ofqualitative survey instruments, including open-ended questionnaires and in-depth interviews. The research found thatpublic sector organizations encounter s number of implementation barriers not found in for-profit or not-for-profitnon-public entities. A list of factors that drove both success and failure in short and long term process improvementimplementations was generated. Based on this list, a set of success factors was developed and synthesized. The resultwas a common set of fundamental practices that were shared by public sector organizations that sustained theirprocess improvement programs. Those factors were: (a) they deployed a sound, consistent, and robust methodology;(b) they built trust by removing fear; (c) they initiated long-term cultural change; and (d) they communicated thevision to all stakeholders.

National health IT infrastructure through the media lens

This paper describes a retrospective study of the big budget National Programme for IT (NPFIT) in the UK. The project is seen through the lens of the national newspapers and analysed via the Cynefin model. A set of success factors in health information system (IS) initiatives are derived from the literature, 584 newspaper stories drawn from the period October 2002, when the NPFIT programme began, until the end of 2012, are analysed using a multi method approach to identify gaps between real information systems issues and reporting. Results suggest that gaps between media reporting and success factors are captured by the less tangible (complex and chaotic) aspects of the Cynefin framework. Further, newspaper articles skirted around many human aspects of system development that were prominent in the IS literature such as of change management and user acceptance. The most commonly reported domain moved from known to chaotic as the project progressed.

An identification of a model for digital library critical success factors

PurposeA significant amount of digital repository research and development activity is taking place worldwide, which calls for the investigation of issues identified as critical to the development, management and sustainability of these repositories. The purpose of this paper is to establish a comprehensive set of critical success factors (CSFs) that would enable successful digital libraries implementation.Design/methodology/approachThe design of this study is exploratory in nature due to lack of previous research about CSFs in digital library projects. The paper builds the research framework to find CSFs for digital libraries initiatives by collecting possible factors from literature on CSFs of information systems; and feedback from ten experts who have had experience in digital library research and development as well as implementation, through e‐mail interviews. Six dimensions in the enterprise architecture framework (namely motivation, resource, people, process, location and time) needed to create the environment in which digital delivery can be effective and sustained, are mapped with the CSF established from the literature.FindingsThe results revealed six dimensions of CSFs and 36 potential success factor statements contributed by the study participants. Based on these findings, this paper postulates that successful deployment of a digital library implementation may depend on this set of success factors. The identification of these factors has important implications on digital library development.Originality/valueThere has been no comprehensive study on the success factors of digital libraries in the library and information science context, as such, no investigation of the factors in some real‐life contexts of digital library activities. It may help digital library start‐ups to understand what sources and services they need to develop to make their applications successful in an already very populated network. Both researchers and practitioners in the field of digital libraries may value the novelty and results of this study.

Context-Aware Mobile Patient Monitoring Frameworks: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda

Designing Context-aware Mobile Patient Monitoring Frameworks (CMPMF) is an emerging study in the biomedical informatics domain. However, literature on this topic is fragmented: first, there are no categories in the literature to characterize these CMPMF; second, there are no success factors that must be satisfied to enhance the design of these CMPMF; third, there is a need for a research agenda that provides a foundation for further research and development to enhance the design of these CMPMF. To address this gap, this paper is a review of context-aware frameworks in general and a systematic review of 10 designed context-aware frameworks in the biomedical informatics domain. Consequently, in this paper, three results are provided. First, a number of categories to be used to gain an intensive and extensive understanding of the designed CMPMF are identified. Second, a set of success factors, called Factors of Successful Context-aware Application Frameworks (FSCAF) are identified, to be used to enhance the design of CMPMF. Third, a research agenda that shows lacks and gaps in the designed CMPMF and provides a foundation to help researchers to design enhanced CMPMF is presented. The results show that no study integrated all of the FSCAF to enhance the design of CMPMF. Therefore, there is a need for further research to enhance the design of the existing CMPMF.

Success Factors for Integrated Itil Deployment: An it Governance Classification

ITIL (IT infrastructure library) is a specific, detailed, and widely used service management framework commonly implemented with relevant IS controls from ITG frameworks resulting in integrated ITIL deployment. Since cultural differences impact ITG implementations, it remains unknown whether the success factors of ITG implementation that are applicable in one context can be transposed into a distinctly different context and lead to integrated ITIL deployment. Hence the objective of this study is to come up with a set of success factors from the Asian context gleaned through (I) a high level ITG model and (2) an ITIL specific perspective resulting in a classified set of success factors from an ITG perspective for integrated ITIL deployment. This is done through an exploratory study of six successful LTG/ITIL implemented organizations in the United Arab Emirates through interviews with key IS audit and security personnel. Information is obtained from the respondents on the appropriate success factors to be used for ITIL deployment rather than their experiences in implementing ITIL. While valuable research have been done on ‘best practices’, ‘critical success factors’, ‘success factors’, and ‘adoption factors’ for ITIL implementation, the objective in this study is not only to test the existing list in a different context but also extend and classify the list from a broader ITG and ITIL specific perspective, and to provide contextual positioning of success factors for practitioners

Exploring Market Dispersion and Factors that Predict Auction Success of a Commodity: The Case of Three E-Auction Markets

The current study presents emerging evidence of the heterogeneities of dispersion in price and number of bidders and the combination of factors that predict auction success across electronic auction (e-auction) markets in various countries. We argue that heterogeneities in e-auction markets exist and understanding them can benefit market participants. A spider program was developed to collect live auction data of commodity transactions from e-auction markets in three different countries: Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Our results confirm heterogeneities across these markets. We also found that each e-auction market has a different set of success factors. The article concludes with recommendations to participating members of auctions.

Assessing the management of innovation with software tools: an application of innovationEnterprizer

This paper presents an NPD managerial decision-making software system: innovationEnterprizer. Furthermore, the paper reports on the application of the system at a major European parts supplier to the German automotive industry which was carried out during September 2004. Ten facilitated sessions were conducted with managers. The main results indicated that the project team (human and integration factors) were extremely weak when compared with the formal side of innovation, for which the company had formal processes and scored very strongly. Furthermore, the consistency between units was very high, indicating that general innovation policy, which was formulated at corporate board level, was not adapted to the unit-specific level. This was despite the board's recognition that each unit has a need for its own uniquely combined set of success factors.

Sustainability of Cross-Functional Teams for Marketing Strategy Development and Implementation

This article presents a case study on a cross-functional team used for marketing strategy development and execution at a health insurance company. The study found a set of success factors that contributed to the initial success of the team, but the factors were not enough to maintain the team's high level of productivity over time. The study later identified a set of 8 factors that helped sustain the team's high-productivity level. The 2 sets (ie, success and its subsequent sustainability factors) are analyzed against a normative model of team effectiveness. All the factors are explained by the normative model except for 1 sustainability factor, "challenge motivator." In fact, the study found the "challenge motivator" to be the most critical factor to keep up the team's productivity over time. Apart from a performance crisis, the authors developed 3 "challenge motivators"--first, more granular market information that could unearth hidden performance issues; second, constant value creation to shareholders as the firm being publicly traded; and third, the firm's strategic mandate to meet and exceed customer expectations that puts ultimate performance pressure on the marketing strategy team.

In search of project classification: a non-universal approach to project success factors

In this study we attempt to answer two questions: Is there a natural way to classify projects and what are the specific factors that influence the success of various kinds of projects? Perhaps one of the major barriers to understanding the reasons behind the success of a project has been the lack of specificity of constructs applied in project management studies. Many studies of project success factors have used a universalistic approach, assuming a basic similarity among projects. Instead of presenting an initial construct, we have employed a linear discriminant analysis methodology in order to classify projects. Our results suggest that project success factors are not universal for all projects. Different projects exhibit different sets of success factors, suggesting the need for a more contingent approach in project management theory and practice. In the analysis we use multivariate methods which have been proven to be powerful in many ways, for example, enabling the ranking of different managerial factors according to their influence on project success.

Investments in reusable software. A study of software reuse investment success factors

This research supports the thesis that there is a set of success factors which are common across organizations and have some predictability relationships to software reuse. For completeness, this research also investigated to see if software reuse had a predictive relationship to productivity and quality. The individual success factors were grouped into the following categories: management commitment, investment strategy, business strategy, technology transfer, organizational structure, process maturity, product-line approach, software architecture, availability of components, and quality of components. A questionnaire was developed to measure software reuse capability, productivity, quality, and the set of software reuse success factors. A survey was conducted to determine the state-of-the practice. The data from the survey was statistically analyzed to evaluate the relationships among reuse capability, productivity, quality, and the individual software reuse success factors. The results of the analysis showed some of the success factors to have a predictive relationship to software reuse capability. Software reuse capability also had a predictive relationship to productivity and quality. Based on the research results, the leading indicators of software reuse capability are: product-line approach, architecture which standardizes interfaces and data formats, common software architecture across the product-line, design for manufacturing approach, domain engineering, management which understands reuse issues, software reuse advocate(s) in senior management, state-of-the-art tools and methods, precedence of reusing high level software artifacts such as requirements and design versus just code reuse, and trace end-user requirements to the components which support them.