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Project Management Intelligence—Mastering the Delivery of Life Cycle Solutions

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This chapter provides new insights into how business intelligence tools can be used to successfully deliver life cycle solutions as projects. During the past decade, the role of services in the industrial setting has grown, encouraging more companies to switch to service-oriented business models and to the delivery of life cycle solutions. Emerging technology trends and changing customer needs encourage businesses to digitize and use business intelligence tools to optimize internal processes transforming into intelligent learning organizations. This chapter outlines a step-by-step project delivery process and also provides insights for practitioners in the project business into how business intelligence tools can be used throughout the project delivery process to facilitate project learning .

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  1. University of Vaasa, Vaasa, Finland

    Valeriia Boldosova

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Boldosova, V., Petäjä, E. (2017). Project Management Intelligence—Mastering the Delivery of Life Cycle Solutions. In: Kohtamäki, M. (eds) Real-time Strategy and Business Intelligence. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54846-3_9

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