Building Project Capabilities: From Exploratory to Exploitative Learning

Organization Studies - Tập 25 Số 9 - Trang 1601-1621 - 2004
Tim Brady1,2, Andrew Davies3
1Centre for Change, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
2University of Brighton, UK
3University of Sussex, UK

Tóm tắt

This paper presents a model of project capability-building consisting of two interacting levels of learning. First, it describes the bottom-up, ‘project-led’ phases of learning that occur when a firm moves into a new technology/market base: an exploratory ‘vanguard project’ phase; a ‘project-to-project’ phase to capture lessons learned; and a ‘project-to-organization’ phase when an organization increases its capabilities to deliver many projects. Second, it addresses the ‘business-led’ learning (within which the project-led learning is embedded) that occurs when ‘top-down’ strategic decisions are taken to create and exploit the company-wide resources and capabilities required to perform increasingly predictable and routine project activities.

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