Increasing the value of research: a comparison of the literature on critical success factors for projects, IT projects and enterprise resource planning projects

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dc.contributor.authorMaddison Warren, Annie
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-30T16:02:10Z
dc.date.available2016-11-30T16:02:10Z
dc.date.issued2016-11-07
dc.description.abstractSince the beginning of modern project management in the 1960s, academic researchers have sought to identify a definitive list of Critical Success Factors (CSFs), the key things that project managers must get right in order to deliver a successful product. With the advent of Information Technology (IT) projects and, more recently, projects to deliver Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, attention has turned to identifying definitive lists of CSFs for these more specific project types. The purpose of this paper is to take stock of this research effort by examining how thinking about each type of project has evolved over time, before producing a consolidated list of CSFs for each as a basis for comparison. This process reveals a high degree of similarity, leading to the conclusion that the goal of identifying a generic list of CSFs for project management has been achieved. Therefore, rather than continuing to describe lists of CSFs, researchers could increase the value of their contribution by taking a step forward and focusing on why, despite this apparent knowledge of how to ensure their success, ERP projects continue to failen_UK
dc.identifier.citationMaddison Warren, Annie (2016) Increasing the value of research: a comparison of the literature on critical success factors for projects, IT projects and enterprise resource planning projects. Systems. Volume 4, Issue 4, pp. 33en_UK
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/11059
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.3390/systems4040033
dc.publisherMDPIen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.titleIncreasing the value of research: a comparison of the literature on critical success factors for projects, IT projects and enterprise resource planning projectsen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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