How a project management office can help the Icelandic gaming industry achieve its goals

The gaming industry is a young promising industry in Iceland. In 2009, the gaming companies joined forces to support development of the industry in an organization, called Icelandic Gaming Industry (IGI). Since 2011, IGI has had a strategic plan in place that laid out direction for the organization. Despite the enthusiastic environment that characterizes the industry, implementing that strategic plan has been slow because of lack of dedicated project leadership. This spurred the interest of this research, where we asked the question “How can a Project Management Office (PMO) help IGI achieve it strategic goals?” Our position is that the PMO is a functional entity that does not only provide large corporations with the means to monitor large project portfolios and develop standards for them, but also takes on the role of project management to resolve some of the problems facing IGI.

Authors dc:creator

• Aðalsteinn Haukur Sverrisson 1973-
• Elmar Bergþórsson 1979-

Contributors dc:contributor

• Háskólinn í Reykjavík

• Verkefnastjórnun
• Stefnumótun
• Eigindlegar rannsóknir
• Tækni- og verkfræðideild
• Meistaraprófsritgerðir
• MPM
• Project management
• Strategic planning
• Qualitative research methods
• School of Science and Engineering
• Master of project management

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1946/16320

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:skemman.is:1946/16320