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Meeting Challenges with

resilience – How
innovation projects deal
with adversity
Abstract: “Innovation Project Management is never easy.”

Budget Cuts

Fluctuations

Inter team conflicts

Introduction of Innovative Resilience Behaviour.


Introduction: Innovation Resilience
Behaviour and its needs.

How does IRB relate to the


success of innovative projects?
Resilience is a method and not an output.

Can IRB compensate negative


effects of adverse situations?
Innovation Resilience Behaviour:

5 principles of IRB:

1. Preoccupation with Failure

2. Reluctance to Simplify

3. Commitment to Resilience

4. Sensitivity to Operations

Deference to expertise
Theoretical
and 2.1 Resilience: What is resilience?

Literature
Review
Resilience in the Innovation Resilience
workplace Behaviour
Theoretical and Literature Review:

IRB and Project Success Project Success depends on: Project Success is divided
into three dimensions:

Different perspective by
different team leaders and
team members
1. Project management
2. Product Success (Quality 3. Learning Success
Success (In due time and
of result)
budget)
Hypothesis 1:
• IRB Positively relates to Project Success

Hypothesis
: Hypothesis 2:
• The relationship between IRB and project success
becomes stronger with increasing strength of adversity
that the project team faces.
Methodology:
• 4.1. Sample and Data
Samples were taken from a large German Logistics service provider with 3,20,000 employees.
87 different projects
119 project teams
204 completed questionnaire
• 4.2. Measurements:
Dependant Variable: Project Success as a 3 dimensional variable measuring: (i) Assessing time (ii) Assessing Budget (iii)
Adherence to Scope
Independent Variable: IRB is measured using the 5 principle variable
Moderator Variable: Level of Adversity
Control Variable: Project Innovation, Individual Resilience, Team Resilience
Measurement Validation: Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Confirmatory Factor
Analysis:

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