Decision Process Analysis on Project Priority Strategy: A Case Study of an ICT Design Firm

Table 3

Characters on bridging the gaps between previous research studies and our empirical case analysis.

Characters	Issues and findings	Research studies
(A) Literature review on researchers’ analysis
(i) Knowledge-based resources	Intangible resources on project management to competitive advantage	Killen et al. (2012) [2]
(ii) Resource capacity and management	Schedule-driven project in a multi-project environment	Yaghootkar and Gil (2012) [3]
(iii) Customers’ functions and needs	On new product development for project progress success	Ernst et al. (2011) [13]
(iv) Strategic alignment with customers	Customer integration on project portfolio management success	Voss (2012) [10]
(v) Project level risk	Project risk management on market competition	Dey (2010) [12]
(vi) Human resources allocation	Time taken effect to information system project achievement	e Silva and Costa (2013) [14]
(vii) Project portfolio management	Tasks and execution and management involvement to PPM performance	Jonas (2010) [15]
(viii) Financial management	Finance leverage and management on project risk factors	Liu et al. (2012) [18]
(ix) Expected revenue risk	Developing new product development project criteria	Chiang and Che (2010) [19]
(x) Supplier risk and management	Delays in supply and technical problems to project risk	Nieto-Morote and Ruz-Vila (2011) [17]
(xi) Supplier capacity and delivery schedule	Effectiveness on product design project analysis	Shidpour et al. (2013) [5]
(B) Project priority strategy analysis factors through the aspects of external environments and internal resources
(i) Customers’ needs and satisfaction	The impact of customer requirements and satisfaction to empower the firm’s market competition
(ii) Competition and innovation	Up-to-date solution and differentiation on project design for the firm’s competition and innovation
(iii) Relationship development	The benefits for long-term business success through relationship development and cobusiness management
(iv) Engineer resource management	Engineering manpower capabilities on solution design and engineering resources management on project process
(v) Project portfolio management	Project complexity management-schedule control, cross function design arrangement, and project risk management
(vi) Key supplier management	Key suppliers’ quality management on cost, products, delivery, and risk management control
(vii) Financial leverage	Cash flow arrangement and accounts receivable and accounts payable control for short-term financial management
(viii) Return on investment	Competitive advantage by return on investment analysis for long-term financial investment and risk management
(ix) Inventory analysis	The effectiveness of inventory control and management to a firm’s net profit

Note: (B) Project priority strategy analysis factors: the research takes the variables of external environments and internal resources into account that interact between clients/markets, the examined firm, and suppliers, which is the so-called business of the project development supply chain.