Project Management Methodologies in the Fourth Technological Revolution

  1. Javier Pajares
  2. David Poza 1
  3. Felix Villafañez 1
  4. Adolfo López-Paredes
  1. 1 Universidad de Valladolid
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    Universidad de Valladolid

    Valladolid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01fvbaw18

Libro:
Advances in Management Engineering
  1. Cesáreo Hernández (coord.)

Editorial: Springer International Publishing AG

ISBN: 978-3-319-55888-2

Año de publicación: 2017

Páginas: 121-144

Tipo: Capítulo de Libro

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55889-9_7 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

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Resumen

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.