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7. Project Management Methodologies in the Fourth Technological Revolution

Authors : Javier Pajares, David Poza, Felix Villafañez, Adolfo López-Paredes

Published in: Advances in Management Engineering

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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We are at the beginning of a new technological revolution, propelled by the development of cyber-physical systems and technologies like Internet of Things, Bid Data, Cloud Computing, 3D Printing, etc. Therefore, we will see an avalanche of projects to implement new business models, products, services and companies. In this paper, we analyse the main characteristics of these projects and we wonder about the appropriate methodologies and managerial styles to lead them. We argue that these projects are complex in nature, according to the current literature on project complexity and thus, classical project management approaches might be unsuitable for managing them. We suggest some clues to seek for new managerial styles, mainly in the literature concerning innovation and new product development and within the “Agile” approach.

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Title: Project Management Methodologies in the Fourth Technological Revolution
Authors: Javier Pajares
David Poza
Felix Villafañez
Adolfo López-Paredes
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Advances in Management Engineering
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-55888-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-55889-9

Copyright Year: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55889-9_7

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