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Project Management Under Internet Era

How to Respond to Challenging Changes in the Digital Era

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  • Systematic presentation of project management, emphasizing system analysis and structured methods and approaches
  • Following the environment changes of project management tools and introducing
  • the new challenges and impact of knowledge economy on project management on its basic theories, missions, and strategies
  • Prediction is made for the future development of project management, and explore
  • its perspectives to the readers
  • Shows readers a future picture of project management as in a virtual platform to deal with virtual objects that make big challenges for every project management practitioner
  • Provides perspective concepts of project management to professional instructors who are going to cultivate talents of project management for the future internet+AI environment

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About this book

Taking account of modern digital era, the emergence of Internet has brought a new scenario of ecology in project management (PM), its methodology, platform, procedures and tools are subjected to subversive changes. So a monograph of Project Management Under Internet Era is urgently needed for renewing concepts in our PM community. The concept of how PM is implemented on the virtual platform through Internet, which is widely used in PM community based on knowledge economy; meanwhile, it is different from former industrial economy with solid assets as its resources and run the project on a real physical manner. Beside the traditional PM, this book presents how shall we accommodate to conventional PM and also accommodate to Internet environment, it also discusses program management and portfolio management under Internet as well as the challenges of PM in the future. From strategic point of view, talent cultivation is extremely critical to PM development,we need to cultivate our talents accommodating to the digital era and on the "Internet +" platform. This is the impetus and the reason of why this monograph is initiated, which can be used as the textbook for graduate and undergraduate students in related majors, also a reference book to the practitioners, who are working on PM under Internet digital era.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

    Shaopei Lin, Dan Huang

About the authors

Professor Lin serves as a professor in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China since 1986, Now in charge of Consulting Director, PM Teaching and Research Center, School of Mechanical Engineering; and Technical Director, Institute of Engineering Management, School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Construction Engineering, devoted to the teaching and research in engineering and management as well as the consulting work for more than 50 years. In 1990s, he has been research professor in Cornell University, USA and in Hog Kong University.


Professor Lin has been the author of seven books (Economic Analyses and B&T Decision; System Analyses and Computer Solutions; Conceptual Design of Structures; Comparative Design of Structures, Quantitative Management; Planning and Design of Smart Residential Zone, etc.) and near about two hundreds of papers, edited around dozen of Proceedings and special volumes in Engineering and Management.


Dr. Huang received the B.E. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2002, and the M.E. (with first class honors) and the Ph.D. degree from The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, in 2004 and 2008, respectively. He was a Lecturer at the University of Auckland in 2009 and has been with Shanghai Jiao Tong University since 2010. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. In 2011, he was a visiting professor at Sloan School of Management, MIT. 


His current research interests include nonlinear modeling and analysis, fuzzy logic control, networked control systems, human factor modelling, and project management. Dr. Huang has published one monograph with Springer. He has published extensively at leading journals and flagship conferences. He is the founding and Co-Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Sensors, Wireless Communication, and Control, published by Bentham Science Publishers.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Project Management Under Internet Era

  • Book Subtitle: How to Respond to Challenging Changes in the Digital Era

  • Authors: Shaopei Lin, Dan Huang

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2799-9

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press and Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-2798-2Published: 28 February 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-2801-9Published: 28 February 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-2799-9Published: 27 February 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 283

  • Number of Illustrations: 60 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Project Management, Political Economy/Economic Systems, Knowledge Management

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