Toward a Smart Vulnerability Assessment Tool: Case of Project Management in Automotive Industries

Abstract

The projects risk management system plays a key role in the sustainability of the company’s operational and managerial functions. Indeed, the main concern of project managers is to identify the vulnerable processes that generate disruptions to the progress of a project. This article recalls previous research work on our qualitative model named “H.I.K” concept, which deals with the three operating factors (Human, Information, and Knowledge). Thus, the latter are fundamental elements to assess any development of a new project may be contaminated by weakness links to different processes in a project management system, as in the case of international companies in the industrial context in Morocco. The basic question that arises is then, how to protect our managerial system from the major risks that are connected to the lack of evaluation or ignorance of the factors of the HIK model? We consider, firstly, a qualitative methodology in order to highlight a qualitative assessment of the elementary and global factors of our concept. Then, we built a smart tool model fitting into the vulnerability modelling approach using the qualitative parameterization of the studied factors. The tool was implemented through experimental studies in a Moroccan automotive industrial environment.