Project Management

Issue 3 2008

10 Euro

Project Overload

Overload in multi-project settings

Page 3

LENS living lab project

Page 8

Enterprise project management solution

Page 13

Complex projects require special skill

Page 16

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Research and development – the backbone of the project management profession

By Brane Semolic, Editorial Board Chairman

According to the Frascati Manual (OECD), scientific and technological innovation may be considered as the transformation of an idea into a new or improved saleable product or operational process in industry and commerce or into a new approach to a social service. It thus consists of all those scientific, technical, commercial and financial steps necessary for the successful development and marketing of new or improved manufactured products, the commercial use of new or improved processes and equipment or the introduction of a new approach to a social service. R&D is only one of these steps. In science we deal with the natural and engineering sciences and with the social sciences and humanities. Research and experimental development (R&D) comprise of creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase and refresh the stock of knowledge and competence, including the knowledge of man,...