TY - JOUR
T1 - Project management in the live entertainment industry
T2 - What is different?
AU - Hartman, Francis
AU - Ashrafi, Rafi
AU - Jergeas, George
PY - 1998/10
Y1 - 1998/10
N2 - The live entertainment industry consistently delivers projects on time. Their overall commercial success is better than some traditional project management oriented industries, for example construction, which has a higher bankruptcy and litigation rate! This paper examines the practices of the entertainment industry, an industry that rarely, if ever, uses classical project management tools and techniques. This paper first identifies the primary cause of project success in this industry, the alignment of participants. The part of this paper is an assessment of the learnings between traditional project management industries' practices and those of the live entertainment business.
AB - The live entertainment industry consistently delivers projects on time. Their overall commercial success is better than some traditional project management oriented industries, for example construction, which has a higher bankruptcy and litigation rate! This paper examines the practices of the entertainment industry, an industry that rarely, if ever, uses classical project management tools and techniques. This paper first identifies the primary cause of project success in this industry, the alignment of participants. The part of this paper is an assessment of the learnings between traditional project management industries' practices and those of the live entertainment business.
KW - Critical success factors
KW - Entertainment industry
KW - Priorities
KW - Project management
KW - Project metrics
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U2 - 10.1016/S0263-7863(97)00056-2
DO - 10.1016/S0263-7863(97)00056-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032189394
SN - 0263-7863
VL - 16
SP - 269
EP - 281
JO - International Journal of Project Management
JF - International Journal of Project Management
IS - 5
ER -