Introduction

Overview

The success or failure of projects is a topic that has interested both practitioners and theorists for decades. Several attempts have been made to report in detail what went wrong or well in a project implementation as defined, with the hope that all could learn from it and, as a consequence, projects would be managed with higher success rates in the future. We take a different perspective and approach. Our interest is to look for the exceptional thinker and manager—one who is not fixed on what is given, but seeks out and acts on opportunities to create the maximum value for a project's stakeholders.

This report addresses a study which was partially funded by Project Management Institute (PMI) in 2008 and 2009, with ...

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