The importance of project management in SMEs for the development of new products through E-Collaboration

The research in this paper seeks ways for manufacturing companies to accomplish projects in real time with less cost. This paper describes a new model using critical success factors of implementing projects in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The factors in the conceptual model were ident...

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Main Authors: Mohammadjafari, M., Ahmed, S., Md Dawal, S.Z., Zayandehroodi, H.
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spelling my.um.eprints.80692013-07-03T05:21:06Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/8069/ The importance of project management in SMEs for the development of new products through E-Collaboration Mohammadjafari, M. Ahmed, S. Md Dawal, S.Z. Zayandehroodi, H. TS Manufactures The research in this paper seeks ways for manufacturing companies to accomplish projects in real time with less cost. This paper describes a new model using critical success factors of implementing projects in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The factors in the conceptual model were identified in past studies and are validated from interviews with 20 project managers in the electronics industry in Iran. Several prior researches have suggested critical success factors for reducing time and cost in the development of a new product. These factors are related to design, product, planning and procurement. However, none of these studies has proposed a model that specifies practices that should be undertaken to facilitate the progression to reduce time and cost in developing new products in SMEs. Following this, a development of a new model will likely prove important to help SMEs to understand what is required in order to be an effective global organization in terms of reducing time and cost through electronic collaboration (E-collaboration) and project management. The concept and value of E-collaboration and project management, and its strengths and weakness on SMEs, is also explained. 2011 Article PeerReviewed Mohammadjafari, M. and Ahmed, S. and Md Dawal, S.Z. and Zayandehroodi, H. (2011) The importance of project management in SMEs for the development of new products through E-Collaboration. African Journal of Business Management, 5 (30). pp. 11844-11855. ISSN 1993-8233
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Mohammadjafari, M.
Ahmed, S.
Md Dawal, S.Z.
Zayandehroodi, H.
The importance of project management in SMEs for the development of new products through E-Collaboration
description The research in this paper seeks ways for manufacturing companies to accomplish projects in real time with less cost. This paper describes a new model using critical success factors of implementing projects in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The factors in the conceptual model were identified in past studies and are validated from interviews with 20 project managers in the electronics industry in Iran. Several prior researches have suggested critical success factors for reducing time and cost in the development of a new product. These factors are related to design, product, planning and procurement. However, none of these studies has proposed a model that specifies practices that should be undertaken to facilitate the progression to reduce time and cost in developing new products in SMEs. Following this, a development of a new model will likely prove important to help SMEs to understand what is required in order to be an effective global organization in terms of reducing time and cost through electronic collaboration (E-collaboration) and project management. The concept and value of E-collaboration and project management, and its strengths and weakness on SMEs, is also explained.
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author Mohammadjafari, M.
Ahmed, S.
Md Dawal, S.Z.
Zayandehroodi, H.
author_facet Mohammadjafari, M.
Ahmed, S.
Md Dawal, S.Z.
Zayandehroodi, H.
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title The importance of project management in SMEs for the development of new products through E-Collaboration
title_short The importance of project management in SMEs for the development of new products through E-Collaboration
title_full The importance of project management in SMEs for the development of new products through E-Collaboration
title_fullStr The importance of project management in SMEs for the development of new products through E-Collaboration
title_full_unstemmed The importance of project management in SMEs for the development of new products through E-Collaboration
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