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Organizational defensive routines and lack of ability to early identify and involve critical competence and knowledge, is a main cost driver in developments projects today. We argue that through systematic cross functional risk assessment (PPA- potential problem analysis), culture and competence will be strengthened towards open, involving and proactive handling of own risk factors and potentials. The project not only has to handle its technical risk, but also continuously be able to provide the best organisational preconditions for reaching own defined objectives. The focus is on barriers and effective interventions. The theory and method is put extra to the test, through a cross, - country, -linguistic, and -cultural attempt to handle common risk between a customer and supplier.
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Husoy, G.J., Karlsen, E., Lund, A.H. (2002). Openness and Cross-Functional Risk Reduction - The Key to a Successful Development Project? - “Hindsight in Advance” within and between Organizations. In: Karagiannis, D., Reimer, U. (eds) Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management. PAKM 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2569. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36277-0_50
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