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Enabling Proactive Behaviour of Future Project Managers

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Enterprise Interoperability IV

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This positioning paper aims at exploring the requirements and challenges to be addressed when implementing proactive project management in the industry. It describes the current challenges of project management and explains how proactive behaviours could increase the success rates of projects in the future.

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  1. Future Workspaces Research Center - Think LAB, School of Build Environment, University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester, UK

    Georgios Kapogiannis, Terrence Fernando, Gilles Gautier & Collin Piddington

  2. Salford Centre for Research & Innovation (SCRI), School of Build Environment, University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester, UK

    Mike Kagioglou

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  1. Georgios Kapogiannis
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  2. Terrence Fernando
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  4. Gilles Gautier
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Future Manufacturing Applied Research Centre, Coventry University, CV1 5FB, Coventry, UK

    Keith Popplewell

  2. Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, LE11 3TU, Leicestershire, UK

    Jenny Harding

  3. Research Centre on Production Management and Engineering EPSA, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Pza Ferrandiz y Carbonell, 2, 03801, Alcoy, Spain

    Raul Poler

  4. Grupo de Integración y Re-Ingeniería de Sistemas DLSI, Universidad Jaume I., Av Sos Banyant s/n, 12071, Castellon, Spain

    Ricardo Chalmeta

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Kapogiannis, G., Fernando, T., Kagioglou, M., Gautier, G., Piddington, C. (2010). Enabling Proactive Behaviour of Future Project Managers. In: Popplewell, K., Harding, J., Poler, R., Chalmeta, R. (eds) Enterprise Interoperability IV. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-257-5_34

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