Title :
Case-study of a Virtual Project Office for a systems integrator
Author :
Priest, Jan G. ; Doukas, Dr Louis
Author_Institution :
Graduate Sch. of Eng., R. Melbourne Inst. of Technol., Vic., Australia
Abstract :
The nature and use of management models to analyze a systems integration firm are described and the resultant setup of a Virtual Project Office (VPO) is outlined. Business and organizational benefits that arose are reported together with lessons about the models´ role in facilitating rapid organizational change and performance improvement
Keywords :
information technology; management of change; project management; Virtual Project Office; business benefits; information technology based business systems investments; management models; organizational benefits; performance improvement; rapid organizational change; systems integration firm; systems integrator; Australia; Context modeling; Engineering management; Hardware; Information technology; Investments; Production; Project management; Software systems; Technology management;
Conference_Titel :
Innovation in Technology Management - The Key to Global Leadership. PICMET '97: Portland International Conference on Management and Technology
Conference_Location :
Portland, OR
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3574-0
DOI :
10.1109/PICMET.1997.653420
