Article: Exploring project excellence concept: how the potential and its reinforcement contribute to achieving excellent project results Journal: International Journal of Business Excellence (IJBEX) 2024 Vol.34 No.4 pp.467 - 493 Abstract: Searching for excellence is an important direction in developing modern organisations that, more and more often, regard striving for excellence as a way of strengthening their competitive edge. The article discusses issues of project excellence and ways of achieving it. The deductive model developed assumes that the existing potential, consisting of the attitude of the management, competencies of the project leader, and efficiency of the project team, and appropriately reinforced through the effective management of project implementation processes, makes it possible to attain excellent project results. The deductive model is based on the assumptions of the project excellence baseline (PEB) model. The conducted studies indicate that the measurement and structural model show a very good match with empirical data and a high predictive capacity. It was found that the potential of excellence existing in an organisation determines the excellence of project results in a similar way as the reinforcement of the potential even though differences occur depending on the project category and the methodology used. It was also found that the project team, a key element of the potential of excellence, influences the manner of reinforcement by appropriately using the available and initiated project implementation processes and the related resources. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Exploring project excellence concept: how the potential and its reinforcement contribute to achieving excellent project results

Authors: Mariusz Hofman; Grzegorz Grela

Addresses: Institute of Science about Management and Qualities, Faculty of Economics, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland ' Institute of Science about Management and Qualities, Faculty of Economics, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland

Abstract: Searching for excellence is an important direction in developing modern organisations that, more and more often, regard striving for excellence as a way of strengthening their competitive edge. The article discusses issues of project excellence and ways of achieving it. The deductive model developed assumes that the existing potential, consisting of the attitude of the management, competencies of the project leader, and efficiency of the project team, and appropriately reinforced through the effective management of project implementation processes, makes it possible to attain excellent project results. The deductive model is based on the assumptions of the project excellence baseline (PEB) model. The conducted studies indicate that the measurement and structural model show a very good match with empirical data and a high predictive capacity. It was found that the potential of excellence existing in an organisation determines the excellence of project results in a similar way as the reinforcement of the potential even though differences occur depending on the project category and the methodology used. It was also found that the project team, a key element of the potential of excellence, influences the manner of reinforcement by appropriately using the available and initiated project implementation processes and the related resources.

Keywords: project excellence; potential of excellence; excellence reinforcement; project excellence models; PEMs.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBEX.2024.143696

International Journal of Business Excellence, 2024 Vol.34 No.4, pp.467 - 493

Received: 29 Oct 2020
Accepted: 17 May 2021
Published online: 06 Jan 2025 *

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