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References
Aslam, F., Aimin, W., Rehman, Li, M., & Rehman, K. (2020). Innovation in the era of IoT and
industry 5.0: Absolute innovation management (AIM). Information, 11(2), 1-24.
doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/info11020124
Farhan Aslam holds a PhD in strategic management and is affiliated with a university in
China. Wang Aimin, Mingze Li, and Khaliq Rehman are associated with a university in
China, however, their level of education is unclear. The authors appear qualified to speak
on this subject. This article discussed a new framework to manage innovation. The
authors reported that the “only way to survive” was innovation. However, they did not
provide more detail about who was surviving and what survival meant. The authors did,
however, stress that innovations must be implementable. The article was quite broad
because the authors spoke mainly to the definition of innovation, it wasn’t clear at times
if they were referring to companies being innovative by creating new products, or by
implementing a new computer system to manage data more comprehensively. The article
is relevant to project managers as ensuring that any plan, product, or system can be
implemented is key to success.
Ellitan, L., & Anatan, L. (2020). Acheiving business continuity in industrial 4.0 and society 5.0.
International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development, 4(2), 235-239.
doi:https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/business-policies-and-strategies/29954/
achieving-business-continuity-in-industrial-40-and-society-50/lena-ellitan
Lena Ellitan holds a PhD and serves as faculty in the at a University in Indonesia. Lina
Anatan has a PhD in management and works as faculty at a university in Indonesia. The
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authors are more than qualified to speak on the subject. The authors provided the history
of industrial revolutions which helped the reader to put perspective to the current and
future trends. Future trends in business, and therefore project management include
putting the welfare of humans before, or equal to profits. Other trends will include
ecological awareness and making artificial intelligence more human and user-friendly.
The authors also concluded that systems will be more integrated, and products must be
perfect, not just mechanically acceptable. The topic is very narrow as the authors focused
mostly on the human side of the future of technology and barely touched upon other
areas, such as healthcare.
Guo, K., & Zhang, L. (2022). Multi-objective optimization for improved project management:
Current status and future directions. Automation in Construction, 139, 1-22.
doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2022.104256.
Kai Guo is affiliated with a university in Singapore. Limao Zhang is associated with a
university in China. Only limited information is available on the authors’ educations,
making it difficult to determine if they are qualified to speak on this subject. However,
this is a peer-reviewed article, so may still be valuable. The authors explained that project
managers within the construction industry must be familiar with multi-objective
optimization, ensuring that not just one factor for success is met. This would make it
more difficult to easily calculate project success. For project managers of the future, this
is an important topic. It seems that it will be insufficient to just meet cost and schedule
timelines on future projects. This article is valid to the topic of future project
management. The topic is narrow as it applies to only construction project management,
however, as this is a large field, the article is applicable to many project managers.
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Illies, M., & Stachowski, A. (2020). Improving students’ teamwork experience: Evaluating a
project management application. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology,
6(1), 46-52. doi:https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/stl0000155
Marcy Illies holds a PhD and serves as faculty at a university in Nebraska. Alicia
Stachowski has a PhD in psychology and teaches at a University in Wisconsin. They are
qualified to speak about the topic. The authors tackled the dreaded student group project
in this article. The authors could have provided a good overview of some of the main
theories behind teamwork and how their investigations applied. The authors did note that
other models on organizing team projects could have been helpful. The conclusion was
that student teamwork helps project management students be successful. *Note, this
student does not agree with the authors, university level work should be mostly
individual. A paper of the topic of student teamwork might have been too broad,
however, the authors may have narrowed it too far in choosing only project management
students.
Jaaska, E., Lehtinen, J., Kujala, J., & Kauppila, O. (2022). Game-based learning and students’
motivation in project management education. Project Leadership and Society, 3, 1-13.
doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plas.2022.100055
Elina Jaaska holds a DSc and works at a university in Finland. Jere Lehtinen has a
master’s degree and is affiliated with a university in Finland. Jaakko Kujala has a MSc
and is affiliated with a university in Finland. Osmo Kauppila has a PhD and serves as
faculty at a university in Finland. The authors reasoned that technology will be applied to
project management education in the future due to the current shortage of qualified talent
in that area. Game-based learning offers students the ability to practice their skills safely
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in a virtual environment. The authors surveyed 319 students on the topic. Although a
small sample size, the article had solid information from previous studies and was
informative. This article is relevant as the future of the project management profession is
not just in the work environment, but in project management education as well. This topic
is rather narrow as it applies only to project management students and only to the sub-
topic of game-based learning.
Maddikunta, P., Pham, Q., B., P., Deepa, N., Dev, K., Gadekallu, T., . . . Liyanage, M. (2021).
Industry 5.0: A survey on enabling technologies and potential applications. Journal of
Industrial Information Integration, 26, 1-19. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jii.2021.100257
Praveen Maddikunta has a PhD and serves as faculty at a university in India. Quoc-Viet
Pham holds a PhD and is affiliated with a university in Dublin. Prabadevi B has a PhD
and is faculty for a university in India. N Deepa holds a PhD and is faculty for a
university in India. Kapal Dev has a PhD and acts as a faculty member at a university in
Dublin. Thippa Gadekallu has a PhD and teaches at a university in India. Madhusanka
Liyange holds a DrSc and is affiliated with a college in Dublin. The authors posited that
another industrial revolution is past due. While industry 4.0 was an act of digitizing
manufacturing and equipment, industry 5.0 will entail making everything ‘smart’, or
interconnecting systems and machines. The authors posited that healthcare will be
impacted by industry 5.0 in the form of artificial intelligence and medical equipment
being integrated to reduce human error. In addition to other uses, the authors predicted
that this will also be applied to education, making learning more interactive and relevant
to the real-world. The article is relevant to the future of project management as this is
something which project managers will need to be aware of and work with. The authors
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took a broad topic, industry 5.0 technology, and narrowed it to few focus areas to prevent
topic being too broad.
Sankaran, S., Jacobsson, M., & Blomquist, T. (2021). The history and future of projects as a
transition innovation: Towards a sustainable project management framework. Systems
Research and Behavioral Science, 38(5), 696-714. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2814
Shankar Sankaran holds a PhD and is faculty for a university in Australia. Mattias
Jacobsson has a PhD and serves as faculty for a university in Sweden. Tomas Blomquist
has a PhD and is a faculty member at a university in Sweden. In this article, the authors
provided a historical view of sustainability in project management, which is helpful to
picture how this trend has evolved over time. The authors posited that future projects will
be more fluid, less written in stone, to ensure project success more easily in an ever-
changing world. They also noted that sustainability will as massive a topic for project
managers as change management is currently. This change will be driven by society as
more concern is show for social and ecological issues. This topic could easily be too
broad; however, the authors nicely narrowed the article down to technological transitions.
The authors further narrowed the topic to how it applies to project managers, but still did
not make the topic too narrow.
Toljaga-Nikolic, D., Todorovic, M., Dobrota, M., Obradovic, T., & Obradovic, V. (2020).
Project management and sustainability: Playing trick or treat with the planet.
Sustainability, 12(20), 1-20. doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208619
Danijela Toljaga-Nikolic is faculty for a university in Serbia and has a PhD. Marija
Todorovic is affiliated with a university in Belgrade, but her educational background is
inaccessible. Marina Dobrota has a PhD and serves as faculty for a university in
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Belgrade. Tijana Obradovic also has a PhD and is faculty for a university in Belgrade.
Vladimir Obradovic has a PhD and serves as a faculty member at a university in
Belgrade. The authors reported that the future of business, and therefore project
management will rest on how sustainable an organization can become. This article noted
that soon, organizations who only consider the bottom line will be at a disadvantage. The
only way forward in project management is to be socially and environmentally
responsible. This article is relevant as ecological and social responsibility will be even
more important for project managers of the future. Although the authors created a very
assertive, almost aggressive article title, the article itself was more of a representation of
current and future project management trends. Although sustainability can be a very
broad topic, the authors were able to stay on track and provide an overview of
sustainability in business.
Tornjanski, V., Knežević, X., & Vulević, B. (2023). Perspectives of project management
sustainability in the society 5.0 context: Moving forward towards human-centricity.
European Project Management Journal, 13(1), 61-73.
doi:https://doi.org/10.56889/qxqq4024
Vesna Tornjanski has a PhD and is a faculty member at a university in Belgrade.
Snezana Knezevic has a PhD and serves as faculty for a university in Belgrade. Branimir
Vulevic holds a PhD and is associated with a university in Belgrade. The authors
provided a history of project management so readers could better understand how the
future is evolving from the past. The authors highlighted how project management
originally began during a time of organizational growth and stability and was mainly
created to ensure process control. They noted that many of the traditional project
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management theories had become obsolete prior to industry 5.0. The authors noted that
it is past time for the next large transformation to occur, so industry 5.0 will be the
future. This article is relevant to the topic of the future of project management. The
authors noted that there will be a bigger push to integrate a humanistic approach to
technology. Although the topic was slightly broad, the authors did a good job of
focusing and summarizing so that the article was able to be understood and applied.
Zizic, M., Mladineo, M., Gjeldum, N., & Celent, L. (2022). From industry 4.0 towards industry
5.0: A review and analysis of paradigm shift for the people, organization and technology.
Energies, 15(14), 1-20. doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/en15145221
Marina Zizic holds a PhD and serves as faculty for a university in Croatia. Marko
Mladineo has a PhD and is faculty for a university in Croatia. Nikola Gjeldum has a PhD
and is a faulty member at a university in Croatia. Luka Celent holds a PhD and is faculty
for a university in the United Kingdom. The authors posited that the future trends of
project management will be industry 5.0. Differing from the current trends of industry
4.0, which has been focused on companies becoming more digitalized, industry 5.0 will
focus more on the humans who use the machines. Making systems and machines more
user friendly will be the future of project management. The authors also noted that future
workers will be needed who can take ideas from the physical world and apply them
virtually, and vice-versa. Being able to work smoothly between the virtual and physical
world will be in high demand for all project managers. As the authors focused mainly on
the manufacturing industries, the topic is not too broad.
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