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ICT as a Means of Generating Knowledge for Project Management

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This research is aimed at businesses or organizations that find in the information and communication technology ICT, a means to generate knowledge in project management, recognizing competitive advantages by leveraging the basic specifications that techniques, tools and applications used by ICT give as an important contribution for profit in the execution of a project. These technologies are analyzed from the main factors assessed for both success and failure of a project, among which lack of collaborative work from the project team and others involved can be evidenced, as well as their interactions and the way each individual tackles and meets their functions. In a competitive environment, highlighting that collaborative work, performed through the use and appropriation of information and communication technology is fundamental, increasing not only the sense of belonging to the execution of a project, but the application of better practices, built out of mistakes and experiences from the team members. As a consequence to this approach, this paper shows the inclusion of the use and appropriation of ICT as a means of generating knowledge in project management.

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    Project Management Institute is a non-profit association for professionals in project management. Its main objectives are: to define professional standards in project management and creating knowledge. through research and promote project management as a profession, through their certification programs.

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    Price Waterhouse Coopers is a services firm with presence in over 120 countries, organized into three business areas: audit and technology risk, business and financial consulting, legal and tax advice.

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    Group of individuals involved in the project that may affect or be affected by the results of the project.

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    ComScore Inc., company whose purpose is to measure how people surf the digital world and turn the measurement results into relevant information for maximizing their clients digital investment.

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    Project Place International. It is a European company that provides project collaboration solutions on the Web. Since 1998, it has been leading the development of online project tools.

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    International Data Corporation, is a global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events.

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    National Institute of Standards and Technology de EE.UU: Federal Agency of the Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness in the U.S. through advances in measurement science, standards and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve quality of life.

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    Webinars: Seminars transmitted via World Wide Web with specific date and time, its main feature is the interaction between the speaker and audience participants who are connected through their computers.

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Piraquive, F.N.D., García, V.H.M., Crespo, R.G. (2014). ICT as a Means of Generating Knowledge for Project Management. In: Uden, L., Wang, L., Corchado Rodríguez, J., Yang, HC., Ting, IH. (eds) The 8th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7287-8_50

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