Enhancing the Competitiveness of Education and Training through Flawless Project Management

Abstract

As a basic management tool, project management has not made significant advancements in recent decades. Along with a traditional technical environment, it is now enhanced with an organizational environment that identifies different portfolios of project work, which is extremely beneficial to the educational sector. In the education sector, its principles and techniques have evolved into a strategic environment for program management and portfolio management. According to many practitioners and authors in the education sector, project management refers to the tools, techniques, processes, and structures used to accomplish a project's goals. The term program management refers to the integrated and coordinated management of several related projects in order to achieve a specific strategic objective and gain competitive advantage. This is especially true in the educational sector. The concept of project management in education has traditionally been regarded as a subset of general management (operations and production). As part of a portfolio management strategy, an organization identifies the right programs for achieving its strategic goals, which may also result in a competitive advantage. There are those who view programme management in terms of a loose collection of education and training projects, and there are those who view it in terms of a more specific group of initiatives. The authors reached a comprehensive conclusion after conducting primary and secondary research in order to determine how project management enhances competitiveness in the education and training sector.