- Graham Winch,
- Eunice Maytorena-Sanchez
- , and Natalya Sergeeva
Abstract
This chapter introduces the concept of strategic project organizing (SPO), which primarily revolves around how organizations and society deliberately transform their futures. It considers how transportation and information technology profoundly changed the world and stimulated the invention of new ways of projecting. The Three Domains Model addresses a fundamental paradox in project organizing, wherein the vast majority of project managers work for permanent organizations while also focusing on temporary organizations. The chapter discusses the systems paradigm of project organizing that laid the foundations for subsequent research and teaching on project organizing. It then references Thomas Cole's Voyage of Life to show that, fundamentally, SPO is a voyage through the life cycle that is projected.
