Toward a Contingency Approach: Tailoring Project Management to Achieve a Competitive Advantage

This study addresses the ways projects are managed as influenced by the business strategy in form of a theoretical framework. In particular, examples of how market leader companies tailored their project management - project strategy, organization, process, tools, metrics, and culture - to achieve a competitive advantage is presented. Additionally, general guidelines of how to tailor project management are provided. In essence, the study offers a "one size does not fit all" mindset, leading to an adaptation of appropriate project management styles to different types of business strategy