Identifying factors hindering project success in the South Africa navy

South Africa is a maritime nation with an abundance of natural resources. These resources must be protected and preserved for the economy of the country. This makes the SA Navy a strategic component of South Africa and it must be well resourced to provide appropriate protection. In view of this South Africa has a Navy with a broad range of balanced capabilities as a key component of the National Defence Force in order to support the nation's objectives to project peace or, if necessity, strength, during times of tranquillity or tension. Project management plays a crucial role in ensuring that the Navy has these capabilities. However, project management in the SA Navy is full of challenges. There are a number of factors hindering project success in the SA Navy. These factors must be managed and understood in order to mitigate their impact on project management in the SA Navy. The literature identified various factors hindering project success in the SA Navy. The literature identified and treats these factors individually, however, this study proposes a holistic system based approach to factors hindering project success in the SA Navy and adopts Warfield's Interactive Management (IM) to investigate these factors. Interactive Management is chosen due to the methodology's ability to encourage communication and understanding of the problem among participants as well as to facilitate the examination of the interaction between problem elements. The end product of the Interactive Management methodology is the graph depicting the interaction or relationship between elements. Through the Interactive Management, this study identified six key factors hindering project success in the SA Navy namely, "Lack of top management support", "Lack of technical expertise by project managers", "Too much control from superiors", "High turnover rate of project officers", "Complexity of design" and "Inability to attract and retain talent". These are the key factors that must be addressed in order to ensure success in SA Navy projects.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Construction Economics and Management

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Theletsane, Kula Ishmael

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Tuan, Nien-Tsu

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27813

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/27813