Developing Organisational Capabilities through Customer-Led Systems Integration Projects: The Case of the Major Project BT 21st Century Network in the UK

• Autor(a) principal: Yamasaki Sato, Carlos Eduardo
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Gestão e Projetos (GeP)
• DOI: 10.5585/gep.v8i2.518
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uninove.br/gep/article/view/9666
• topic: Customer-Led Systems Integration Projects; Major Projects; Organisational Capabilities; Project Performance; BT 21st Century Network (BT21CN); Customer-Led Systems Integration Projects; Major Projects; Organisational Capabilities; Project Performance; BT 21st Century Network (BT21CN)

Traditional approaches to systems integration in major projects take the strategy of selecting a supplier-led prime/systems integrator. Although this strategy pushes a significant amount of risk to the supplier, project performance may suffer due to lower engagement of the customer in the anticipation of potential issues involving a major project.  Thus, this research investigates the implications of the customer, as opposed to a selected external supplier, assuming the role of systems/prime integrator. A case study approach is conducted on the major project BT 21st Century Network (BT21CN) to demonstrate that customer-led systems integration projects may provide more balance in the relationship and distribution of risks between supplier and customer, having a positive impact on project performance and on accelerating the development of BT’s organisational capabilities.