Insight into Major Programme Management

Participants on the MSc in Major Programme Management represent all industry and public sectors.

Informed by cutting-edge research and grounded in the best of international practice, the Oxford Masters is built on eight core courses which are completed module by module within two years, and a dissertation.

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Download and Read Dr. Eamonn Molloy's chapter in titled, "International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, Volume Two""Delusion, Deception and Corruption in Major Infrastructure Projects: Causes, Consequences, Cures." This chapter highlights therole of delusion, deception, and corruption in explaining the consistent underperformance of major infrastructure projects in terms of cost estimates and benefits delivery.

Download and read Dr. Eamonn Molloy's paper, "The Governance Paradox in Megaprojects." This paper explores a theoretical and practical paradox in megaprojects.

Read Dr. Eamonn Molloy's paper, "Succeeding programmes, failed projects: A lexicographical analysis of a disputed semantic terrain." This paper proposes that projects and programmes can be empirically distinguished by the way in which they are associated with expectations and evaluations of success and failure.

Dr Eamonn Molloy is the Tutorial Fellow in Management Studies at Pembroke College, and Associate Fellow of Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

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Download and read Dr. Paul Chapman's paper, "From tinkering around the edge to enhancing revenue growth: supply chain‐new product development." This research note suggests avenues forward and areas for practice and research to progress.

Download and read Dr. Paul Chapman's paper, "How to move supply chain beyond cleaning up after new product development." This paper offers insights from industry in three areas of practice and a report on the outcome of a workshop of supply chain executives.

Download and read Dr. Paul Chapman's paper, "Applying selected quality management techniques to diagnose delivery time variability." This research seeks to identify and apply techniques that can be used in a supply chain context to diagnose the causes of variability in delivery lead time.

Paul Chapman is a Senior Fellow at Saïd Business School. He is a leading expert on the learning and development of executives, especially those responsible for leading the delivery of Major Programmes / Major Projects typically valued at $1billion+.

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This paper examines some recent important material about the nature of major projects and why they go wrong.

Financial management is the process of estimating and justifying costs in order to secure funds, controlling expenditure and evaluating the outcomes.

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As programs progress, they require a linkage mechanism that ensures alignment between business strategy and direction, and the path to needed outcomes over the life of the program.

Stakeholder management is the systematic identification, analysis, planning and implementation of actions designed to engage with stakeholders.

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Bent Flyvbjerg is the first BT Professor and inaugural Chair of Major Programme Management at Oxford University's Saïd Business School and a Professorial Fellow of St Anne’s College.

The Sainsbury Library is Saϊd Business School’s own dedicated resource. In addition to housing the main print collection for books supporting the School’s programmes, it is the starting point for access to all the online information resources in the fields of management, business and finance.

Dr. Atif Ansar writes the chapter, " "Impact of the Financial Crisis on Fiscal Space and Infrastructure Spending" in this book, "Public-Private Partnerships in Europe and Central Asia: Designing Crisis-Resilient Strategies and Bankable Projects." This study shows that PPP financing remains viable and can bring value to the economy, despite the difficulties that projects faced.

Read Dr. Atif Ansar's paper, "Location decisions of large firms: analyzing the procurement of infrastructure services." This paper critiques this proposition through a case study of a large manufacturing firm, ThyssenKrupp (TK) AG, which recently invested €7 billion in steel processing facilities in Brazil and USA.

Download Dr. Atif Ansar's paper, "Should We Build More Large Dams? The Actual Costs of Hydropower Megaproject Development." This paper discusses the building boom of hydropower mega-dams underway from China to Brazil.

A Fellow of Keble College, Atif is Programme Director of the MSc in Major Programme Management (MMPM) at the Saïd Business School.

Read Dr. Janet Smart's paper, "Reducing schedule instability by identifying and omitting complexity-adding information flows at the supplier–customer interface." This paper identifies, measures, & reduces schedule instability at supplier–customer interfaces.

Download Dr. Janet Smart's paper, "Big Science and Big Administration Confronting the Governance, Financial and Legal Challenges of FuturICT." The paper considers the issues around managing large scientific projects, and draws conclusions for the governance and management of FuturICT.

Dr Janet Smart, Reader in Operations Management at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford has won the 2017 OxTALENT award for Innovative teaching and learning with technology.

Janet Smart is Reader in Operations Management at Saïd Business School. Her areas of expertise include systems engineering, complex systems, big science projects, and programme management.

Major programmes are large-scale, big budget projects that are executed on national or even international scales.

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