Deck 1: Introduction: Projecting the Modern World

Question 1

Strategic Project Organizing is about:

A) How organizations change their world and thereby change ours.
B) Tools and techniques required to complete projects.
C) Decision making.
D) Projecting the modern world.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) require radical transformation in how the global society and economy works.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Matching
An important trend over the last 30 years or so has been:
-Adoption of digital technologies

A) To transform industries
B) For visioning uncertain future
C) To transform the society and economy

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Matching
An important trend over the last 30 years or so has been:
-Emergence of a concept of 'projecting'

A) To transform industries
B) For visioning uncertain future
C) To transform the society and economy

Question 5

Matching
An important trend over the last 30 years or so has been:
-The growing projectification' of many organizations

A) To transform industries
B) For visioning uncertain future
C) To transform the society and economy

Question 6

The process that takes us from idea to reality - from the first idea that there is a potential for achieving performance improvement to delivering an operating facility that enables us to achieve that benefit:

A) The management of projects.
B) Executing projects.
C) Project lifecycle.
D) Value creation.

Question 7

A project lifecycle is a linear stage process in which a project is executed at particular points in time.

Question 8

Matching
Cities are fundamental features of the modern world and its 21^st century knowledge economy and their development also relies on projecting:
-Their development relies on projecting: water, energy, and sanitation networks

A) To achieve carbon-free economy
B) For achieving SDGs
C) That were vital to their expansion over the last 400 years and remain so today

Question 9

Matching
Cities are fundamental features of the modern world and its 21^st century knowledge economy and their development also relies on projecting:
-Global challenges

A) To achieve carbon-free economy
B) For achieving SDGs
C) That were vital to their expansion over the last 400 years and remain so today

Question 10

Matching
Cities are fundamental features of the modern world and its 21^st century knowledge economy and their development also relies on projecting:
-Global economy

A) To achieve carbon-free economy
B) For achieving SDGs
C) That were vital to their expansion over the last 400 years and remain so today

Question 11

The fourth industrial revolution is built around the digital technologies of the internet of things, big data and machine learning.

Question 12

Information technology is profoundly changing our world but has not stimulated the invention of new ways of projecting.

Question 13

Not all change in economy and society is the result of strategic project organizing.

Question 14

What are the three broad categories of strategic change projects:

A) Incremental changes, radical changes, hybrid changes.
B) Process, product and service development projects.
C) Transactional, transformational and mediating change projects.
D) Infrastructure projects, new product development (NPD), transformation projects.