Assessing the relationship between Project Management Maturity and Competitiveness: The Case of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia
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2017-06-20
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
These days, more and more enterprises are adopting and relying upon project
management to secure a competitive advantage; and when project management
becomes the dominant way through which the work these enterprises is
accomplished, organizations strive to become good at delivering projects
successfully. In order to improve project performance and project management
maturity, organizations are considering adopting a project management maturity
models which help them to enhance their project management processes and
show them which area the organization should focus its efforts to improve its
projects and become competitive in their industry. Thus, this study assesses the
relationship between project management maturity and competitiveness in the
case of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE). Descriptive survey design was used
for the study which had Project Managers and Project team leaders of the CBE
projects as the population for the study. Primary data was used for the study,
and the data was collected using a questionnaire. Quantitative data analysis
technique was used to analyze the data. Quantitative data collected were
analyzed using descriptive statistics such as means, standard deviations, and
Correlation, then presented in form of tables, pie-charts and bar-graphs where
applicable. The study established that there is a statistically significant positive
relationship between project management maturity (PMM) and organizational
competitiveness but not with all project management knowledge areas.
Furthermore, an increasing project management maturity improves the speed
and quality services, as well as the competitiveness of an organization's.
Therefore PMM efforts are crucial for the competitiveness of the Commercial Bank
of Ethiopia
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project management, project management maturity, competitiveness