Top Management Support-the Project Friendly Organization

摘要

This article is about a study that focused on top management support provided to project managers. Project management literature has identified top management support as highly valuable to project success. This article identifies the top management support processes and ranks them according to their contribution to project success. Data collected from 275 projects in Israel pointed to the top management support factors. These factors include communication, quality management, advanced project management techniques, project manager assignment, project success measurement, and an organizational knowledge management system. Based on these results, a maturity model is introduced to assist organizations with measuring their current situation, identifying their strengths and weaknesses, as well as to help in directing them in improving the level of top management support.