Why Re-Inventing the Wheel? Creative Solutions for Overcoming Barriers in Learning from other Projects

• Autorzy: Joanna Świętoniowska

Warianty tytułu

By nie wyważać otwartych drzwi... kreatywne metody przezwyciężenia barier w uczeniu się z doświadczeń innych projektów

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The challenge for project-based organizations is to provide mechanism to encourage and enhance project knowledge flow within and between projects. Since similar problems could be encountered in other projects, the effective project knowledge flow can reduce the organizational costs of duplicating efforts to invent the same solutions. This paper has outlined barriers to a knowledge transfer discussed by the literature and has identified them through the survey. As human and organizational barriers can prevent effective inter- and intraproject learning it is important to identify and then overcome them. To overcome human barriers managers should use methods facilitating formal and informal communication such as intranet or social networking sites used to share knowledge. Learning from projects requires also organizational support such as corporate culture, ICT use or top management commitment. (fragment of text)

W organizacjach zorientowanych na projekty często istnieje tendencja do "wyważania otwartych drzwi", co oznacza, że zespoły projektowe nie czerpią z doświadczeń pozyskanych z realizacji projektów [Prus97]. Każda organizacja dążąca do doskonałości w zarządzaniu projektami powinna skoncentrować się na zbudowaniu takich systemów, procedur i narzędzi, które pozwolą na efektywne pozyskiwanie, transfer oraz ponowne wykorzystanie wiedzy z innych projektów. W przezwyciężaniu barier organizacyjnych oraz ludzkich, będących hamulcami w wykorzystywaniu posiadanej wiedzy, pomocne mogą okazać się nowe, kreatywne rozwiązania stymulujące uczenie się z doświadczeń projektowych. (abstrakt oryginalny)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Project management; Studying; Knowledge transfer

PL

Zarządzanie projektem; Uczenie się; Transfer wiedzy

• Czasopismo: Studia Ekonomiczne / Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Katowicach
• Rocznik: 2012
• Numer: nr 117 Creativity support systems, methods, and applications
• Strony: 109--118

Twórcy

autor

Joanna Świętoniowska

• University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów, Poland

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