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Johnna L. Bruhn – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Industry certification and apprenticeship programs are vital in closing the labor shortage gap while improving graduation rates nationwide. New Mexico has trailed behind the rest of the nation in rebalancing the emphasis on skilled trades, particularly in rural schools. This phenomenological study interviewed ten Career and Technical Education…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Rural Schools, Program Administration, Administrators
James William Kline – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Since so much of what educational technology practitioners do involves project management, there has been an explosion of educational technology jobs that specifically require project management skills. Therefore, it is imperative for our professionals to attain the key competencies needed to effectively manage diverse educational technology…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Program Administration, Competence, Industry
Evan Silberman – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This paper details the findings of a case study conducted at a 4-year private university in the United States. The study site was outsourcing online learning through university-industry partnerships with online program management providers (OPMs). The case study was conducted to reveal university administrators' views on (a) working with OPMs to…
Descriptors: College Administration, Administrator Attitudes, Outsourcing, Electronic Learning
Ly, Phil – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine what caused IT projects to fail at a high rate in the pharmaceutical industry. IT projects failures delayed development of new drugs that can help save lives. It was imperative to evaluate what caused project failures because the collateral damage was delay in drug development. This qualitative…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Program Administration, Qualitative Research, Phenomenology
Barrantes-Guevara, Rita I. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Every year organizations invest billions of dollars in Information Technology (IT) projects; however, IT project success rates continue to be low. Several critical success factors are mentioned in the research literature, the leadership skills of the project manager being one of the most frequently cited in the recent project management…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Information Technology, Leadership, Program Administration
Proffitt, Curtis K. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Project failure remains a challenge within the software development field especially during the early stages of the IT project development. Despite the herculean efforts by project managers and organizations to identify and offset problems, projects remain plagued with issues. If these challenges are not mitigated, to a successful degree,…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Industry, Questionnaires, Resource Allocation