RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS
Renewable Energy Projects: Project Management Opportunities, Challenges and Risks
-- Morgan Henrie and Annie McIntyre
When analyzing or working on a renewable energy project or a project that includes elements of
renewable technologies, the project manager faces some unique efforts which transcend the usual project success iron
triangle of schedule, product (quality) and costs. Project managers also face significant renewable technology
challenges and risks and at times, a severe lack of broad-based knowledge pools.
© 2008 Morgan Henrie and Annie McIntyre. This article was first published at the asapm website: www.asapm.org. Reprinted
with permission.
PROJECT ENVIRONMENT
PM Methodology and
Process Improvement
-- George Pitagorsky
Performance improvement is an objective of every organization. Every organization wants to continuously
increase Return On Investment (ROI), minimize costs, get to market faster with better products and services,
to increasingly satisfy customers, shareholders, regulators and employees. A Project Management (PM)
methodology that promotes a lean (no waste) and agile (flexible and supportive of good interpersonal relations) approach is
a means to the end of improving organizational performance.
© 2009 allPM. This article was first published in April issue of allPM newsletter (www.allpm.com). Reprinted with permission.
PROJECT FINANCING
Financing Desalination Projects:
Case Studies of Israel and Singapore
-- Abu Naser Chowdhury and Po-Han Chen
Water is a precious and strategic resource for both, Singapore and Israel. As an attempt to provide reliable
and assured water supply, desalination plants have been set with Public Private Partnerships in both the
countries. Both, Ashkelon in Israel and Tuas in Singapore are the first Public Private Partnership desalination projects in
their respective countries, serving as a test case for government, lending institutions and the private sector. The
dual case study is a comparison of project financing of desalination projects in Israel and Singapore. The analysis
reveals the key issues involved in the successful financing of desalination projects.
© 2009 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
COVER STORY
Capital Budgeting Systems:
Missing Link in Project Appraisal
-- Robert C Higgins and Lawrence Schall
Capital budgeting systems define the way a company allocates decision rights and responsibilities for
capital expenditure analysis. This article argues that capital budgeting systems are central to effective resource
allocation and discusses two recurring challenges in system design and management: maintaining top management
leadership and properly defining top management's administrative role. We maintain that leadership is best achieved
by tightly linking strategic planning and capital budgeting and argue that the top management's chief
administrative responsibility is to create a healthy decision-making environment for operating managers.
© 2009 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
INTERNATIONAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project Management in Support of Public Administration: Reflecting the State of the Art in
International Project Management
-- Russell D Archibald
This article is intended to provide governmental ministers and their senior executives with the understanding
of what they must demand of their staff members, today and in the coming years, in order to achieve the full
benefits of modern project management, within the realities of the Internet age. It is also intended for use by
project management professionals at all levels, to communicate with their senior executives and convey to them
the direction in which the development of the project management discipline should be going.
© 2008 Russell Archibald. This article was originally presented as a Keynote paper at the Seminar on Project Management in
Public Administration, organized by the Istituto Italiano di Project Management/ISIPM and the Luiss Business School, Rome, Italy
in November 2008. Reprinted with permission.
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