Value creation using the mission breakdown structure

The modern concept of project success includes the project contributing to the value creation of its base organization. We need tools to discuss what the project itself and the base organization should do to enhance this value creation. The Mission Breakdown Structure tool helps a company set up a p...

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Published in:International journal of project management 2014-07, Vol.32 (5), p.885-892
Main Author: Andersen, Erling S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Breakdown
Company structure
Information technology
Mission breakdown structure
Missions
Organizations
Project management
Project success
Studies
Success factors
Value chain
Value creation
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Summary:The modern concept of project success includes the project contributing to the value creation of its base organization. We need tools to discuss what the project itself and the base organization should do to enhance this value creation. The Mission Breakdown Structure tool helps a company set up a project with a clearly defined mission and secures an effective interplay between the base organization and its project. This article presents the tool in principle and use an illustrative real-life case. The case looks like an IT project at the outset, but when using the Mission Breakdown Structure tool, we recognise that it is much more than that and that different stakeholders need to be involved to secure a successful project. Advice on how to use the Mission Breakdown Structure tool is also provided. •We need tools to discuss what the project itself and the base organization should do to enhance this value creation. Mission Breakdown Structure (MBS) is such a tool.•MBS helps a company set up a project with a clearly defined mission.•MBS secures an effective interplay between the base organization and its project.•The paper presents the tool in principle.•The paper presents an illustrative real-life case: an IT-project.
ISSN:0263-7863
1873-4634
DOI:10.1016/j.ijproman.2013.11.003