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The aim of this study is to examine the project management process of the U.S. military's floating pier that was intended to provide humanitarian assistance in the Gaza Strip during the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict since October 2023. The purpose of this research is to present a summary of the project management procedure for an obscure military capability known as Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (JLOTS), which transports soldiers, vehicles, and equipment worldwide for military and humanitarian operations. Moreover, it seeks to gain insight into how this process can offer options to enhance mission effectiveness and efficiency to support guaranteed mobility, freedom of movement, and delivery of assistance in volatile and inaccessible areas. Additionally, it seeks to clarify how a complex project costing 320 million U.S. dollars, with a twomonths lifespan, providing supplies equal to only a few days of aid, and now decommissioned before its intended completion, has become a representation of great project failure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses how international entities working in post-conflict countries can develop and implement relevant and effective exit strategies. It highlights the process to be adopted so the INGOs can disengage from their interventions related to aid provision, reconstruction and rebuilding in the post-war environment in a manner consistent with the goal of ensuring local sustainable development. The paper reviews several contextual elements before overviewing the project management process as well as the varying elements that frames the ''Exit Strategy's'' dynamic -- and guarantees the continuous delivery of services even when aid is withdrawn. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to present a general outline of INGOs project management who work with local partners to implement community programs and humanitarian activities. The idea is to review how a well-structured project plan can improve the implementation of both programs and activities while developing sustainable partnerships between different stakeholders to ensure targeted results and improved livelihoods. By checking the structure, process, and dynamic of the project - programs delivery and sustainable services provision can be checked. When it comes to partners, INGOs are working with various local partners ranging from government ministries, departments, local public administrations, non-governmental organizations, cooperatives private sector, etc. Hence, the value of the paper - when it comes to developing a clear project management process that helps strengthening the projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to outline some of the details of the United Nations' entities project management dynamic while taking into consideration the context of their work as well as the conditions surrounding them. The idea is to find out how their projects can succeed in their unstable environments, risky supply chains, and the difficulties surrounding the coordination of multistakeholder projects. In this paper we will be presenting the implementation process of humanitarian projects while outlining the ''How to'' approach of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The paper proposes a descriptive approach to explaining the implementation process of the entity's projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Developing and managing United Nations projects is not an easy task to do. This article seeks to decrypt the project management dynamic of UN projects. The article reviews the processes and procedures of UN projects and programs while considering their particularities and highlighting how to attain outcomes compliant to SDGs. The paper proposes an executive approach to facilitate both technical and operational implementation of the proposed project management process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the study of competitive business strategies, hypercompetition has emerged as the result of business innovation, scarce competition, and industries' wars. The study of hypercompetition has attracted significant interest from both economists and managers however, few scholars have studied this topic from a project management approach. The aim of this study is to present an overview of how firms immersed in hypercompetition can adopt a Wartime Project Management approach to gain a competitive advantage. The paper will outline the various principles of Wartime Project Management dynamic. Finally, the paper aims to facilitate a broader understanding of this particular managerial approach that can advance the knowledge on hypercompetition-related projects and give suggestions for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within the context of hypercompetition in a more globalized market and constant environmental changes, business entities must review their organizational model in order to ameliorate their performance. Project management practices can help organizations achieve their goals and increase the value of their actions. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the various elements that constitutes project management frameworks with the aims of improving operational practice and achieving project efficiency and effectiveness. The paper will present a useful overview to provide guidance to organizations on implementing or restructuring their own project management framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today, more than ever, our world is facing supply chain constraints that threaten the basics of current market dynamic on all levels and in every economic field. From economic sanctions limiting commercial trade, the COVID-19 crisis, post-pandemic economic stagnation, the ongoing conflict in the Ukraine, the global chip shortage, as well as the effects of the current Israeli- Palestinian war and its impact on freight transportation in the Red Sea have all exposed the vulnerability of today's global supply chains. The purpose of this paper is to review how supply chain must be designed to ensure their flow and deliverables in complex, uncertain, and everchanging environment. The paper will study how supply chains must be resilient by addressing current challenges through agility to meet both socio-economic and political volatilities, and sustainable through their transition to socio-ecological compliant economies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive systematic literature review of crisis management. The study provides an insight for academicians and practitioners on the main areas of crisis management. The paper also provides a novel contribution through highlighting a new approach to crisis management by integrating a response planning process in an organization's business contingency plan. The research also addresses a number of conceptual and managerial elements related to our studied subject such as the types of crises and the factors affecting crisis management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to outline the methodological process of project-orient supply chains. The project supply chain management (PSCM) methodological guideline will describe the elements, concepts, processes, etc. that are to be infused in most business activities as means for improving competition within a complex business environment. The paper presents a normative model to guide managers in the effort to manage their supply chains in order to bring substantial benefits through careful planning and execution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today’s unstable and turbulent business environment requires continuous crisis management. Nowadays, project managers need to deal proactively with potential crisis both effectively and efficiently. This papers outlines crisis management and project management as a necessity for an organization’s continuity and an integral part of contingency planning. It presents crisis project management as a set of approaches, measures and methods used in situations where orthodox project management models are non-applicable nor sufficient. The purpose of this paper is to propose a Proactive Crisis Project Management (PCPM) model that is adopted by organization to either avert or overcome an unwanted crisis and facilitate business continuity and speed up actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Unexpected, uncertain and uncontrollable events specially in unstable environments would require either quick project intervention or complex project adjustments. The aim of Urgent Emergency Project Management (UEPM) is to properly conduct actions in unstable and uncertain crisis-driven / unfavorable disastrous environments. The idea is to pilot operations before, during and after the event in order to arrive to a favorable situation - or at least adapt to the existing one. In other words, UEPM establishes both a proactive (vigilance) and reactive (resilient) strategic approaches to project management. The article aims to introduce Urgent Emergency Project Management (UEPM), its foundations, dynamic, planning, processes, and outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Linking project management to logistics, this article aims to decrypt the adoption of a project-based process to supply chain management – and more precisely logistics, which derives substantial benefits to the organization. The current research will examine an ensemble of concepts that are relevant to both Supply Chain Management and Project Management. This exercise will help identify the key components and factors of a successful logistics’ project implementation. Finally, this article will present the best practices to succeed in a logistics project by exploring a new emerging business field: Logistics Project Management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]