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Marisa Analía Sánchez Dpto. de Ciencias de la Administración, Universidad Nacional del Sur Bahía Blanca - Argentina
INTEGRATING SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES INTO PROJECT MANAGEMENT RESEARCH PRESENTATION Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Escola de Administração May 2014, Porto Alegre (Brazil)
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Tom Furlong, Facebook's director of site operations, unveils the 'green' data centre in Lulea, Sweden.
Consumers will benefit from a range of different home energy management devices that can be connected to smart meters.
AirCarbon rearranges the carbon molecules from greenhouse gas emissions and produces a plastic that can then be used to make everyday plastic products.
The Museum of Transport in Glasgow. The city was awarded Marisa Sánchez £24mA.funding to implement its future cities programme.
JWT terminated its contract with a bottled water supplier, saving 9,200 litres and €2,050 a year.
The Jaguar Land Rover plant in Halewood, Liverpool. 85% of the company's new Range Rover is made from recyclable materials.
Nike is using a new system to measure the sustainability performance of more than 800 factories.
The power of footfall. An English company harnessed energy Marisa A. Sánchezarriving at the Olympic park during London from spectators 2012.
Beautiful business How does this affect how we should think and talk about sustainability? Marisa A. Sánchez
High sustainability companies Eccles, Robert G. and Ioannou, Ioannis and Serafeim, George, The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance (November 23, 2011). Harvard Business School Working Paper Series 12-035. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1964011
Sample of 180 US companies:
90 High sustainability & 90 Low sustainability
1993-2009 Marisa A. Sánchez
High sustainability companies
Board of directors formally responsible for sustainability. Top executive incentives as a function of sustainability metrics. Established process for stakeholder engagement. Long-term oriented. Higher disclosure of nonfinancial information. Outperform their LS counterparts in terms of stock market and accounting performance. Marisa A. Sánchez
Aim of research Selection and tracking of projects
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Economic, environmental and social impacts Projects or deliverables of a project can have social, economic and environmental impacts that far outlast the projects themselves.
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Project selection and tracking Aligning portfolio selection and monitoring with the principles of sustainable development requires evaluating and comparing several alternatives and ranking them based on their immediate costs, long-term costs and contribution to organizational goals.
Solar-affiliated software services and finance companies are attracting investments.
Hydrothermal carbonisation converting biomass Marisa A. Sánchez into environmentally-friendly biocoal.
Aim of research Develop a framework to help ensure that an organization is working on the right projects to attain its business strategy and stakeholders demands.
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Literature review Intersection of Project Management and Sustainability
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Literature review
Project management according to sustainable principles
Gareis, R., Heumann, M., Martinuzzi, A., 2009. Relating Sustainable Development and Project Management. IRNOP IX, Berlin.
Life Cycle Assessment of projects
Labuschagne, C., Brent, A., 2003. A proposed lifecycle impact assessment framework for South Africa from available environmental data. S. Afr. J. Sci. 99, 115e122. Labuschagne, C., Brent, A., 2005. Sustainable project life cycle management: the need to integrate life cycles in the manufacturing sector. Int. J. Proj. Manag. 23, 159e168. Labuschagne, C., Brent, A., 2008. An industry perspective of the completeness and relevance of a social assessment framework for project and technology management in the manufacturing sector. J. Clean. Prod. 16, 253e262.
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Literature review
The problem of selecting the best portfolio with respect to the organizational strategy that includes sustainable goals:
Vandaele, N., Decouttere, C., 2013. Sustainable R&D portfolio assessment. Decis. Support Syst. 54, 1521e1532.
How to assess the strategy value contribution of Information Technology investments:
Sánchez, M.A., Maçada, A.G., Sagardoy, M.d.V., 2014. Development of a strategy-oriented information technology investments assessment method. Int. J. Manag. Proj. Bus. Adm. 7, 43-60. Marisa A. Sánchez
Abstract
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Steps 1. 2. 3. 4.
Stakeholder analysis Strategy Map and Balanced Scorecard Sustainability analysis (Life Cycle Analysis) Optimization of projects
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Illustrative example Alas Ingenieria – Small IT company that provides engineering and informaion mangement solutions to industrial plants. Marisa A. Sánchez
1. Stakeholder analysis
Shareowners Employees Customers Community Local universities
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2. Strategy Map
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Stakeholders and goals
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2. Balanced Scorecard (partial)
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4. Portfolio selection
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4. Portfolio selection. DEA data
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4. Project monitoring
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4. Project monitoring. DEA data
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4. Project monitoring. Scores
Ongoing projects are inefficient compared with planned counterparts: planning errors, projects are not closed, or benefits have not been realized. Marisa A. Sánchez
4. Projects monitoring Project
Decision
DMU
Score
Remarks
Replace aging outdated equipment with new energy efficient ones
Closed
P1
1,09
R1
1
Realized costs higher than forecasts
Replace aging outdated equipment with new water efficient ones
Closed
P2
1,98
R2
0,99
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Decisions: Continue/Closed/Cancel/Postpone.
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Realized costs higher than forecasts
Thank you very much for your attention!
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