Project Management: TRAINING

The Project-Oriented Organization

Until recently, most organizations tended to specialize in a relatively small number of products and services. Today, almost every organization—from corporations to small businesses to not-for-profit organizations—faces the challenge of responding to constantly changing demands from their customers and clients. Older manufacturing and service models have given way to the project model, a model requiring new skills and paradigms. The project-oriented organization usually has most if not all of the following characteristics:

• There is an ongoing mix (portfolio) of short-term and long-term activities centered on producing products and services. In order to remain competitive and to meet rapidly changing needs of ...