International Project Management

Abstract

Globalization has brought us a more integrated and interdependent world economy and therefore is creating an increasing number of international project, i.e. a project that reach beyond national boundaries regarding either the project purpose or the nationality of the stakeholders. However, survey shows only a 40% success rate of international effort. One could think that standard project management methods can be applied within those project as it is quite successful on a national scale. But international projects bring many different issues that are not covered by standard methods. One of the most difficult challenge companies have to undergo is cultural differences.
To identify and mitigate all the new issues created by international projects, a new project management methods have to be applied and neww tools have to be developed.