Approaches, drivers and strategic capability
Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS) — Fourth Year
Subject: Project Management (MGT 258)
Unit 1: Project and Project Management
Academic Year: 2083/84
Topic Objectives
After studying this topic, students should be able to:
- Explain the scope and key elements of approaches, drivers and strategic capability.
- Apply the relevant concepts to a defined organizational or venture situation using evidence and stated assumptions.
Curriculum Scope
- Socio-technical approach of project management
- Current drivers of project management
- Phases of project management
- 7-S of project management. Project management as a strategic capability
Detailed Microsyllabus
Socio-technical approach
- Explain interacting social and technical project dimensions.
- Assess people, structure, processes and tools.
- Relate current drivers to organizational needs.
Phases and 7-S
- Study the management phases in prescribed material.
- Explain the specified 7-S framework and relationships using that material.
- Avoid assuming all published 7-S variants are interchangeable.
Strategic capability
- Assess project management as an organizational capability.
- Connect skills and processes with strategic implementation.
- Identify learning and improvement priorities.
Curriculum reference: Tribhuvan University, Faculty of Management, revised four-year BBS curriculum, PDF pages 124–125.
Source note: The curriculum scope above is retained from the existing TU syllabus breakdown. The numbered study subtopics are editorial elaborations for teaching and study, rather than a separately issued TU syllabus. Unit or component allocations apply at their stated level; no separate topic hours or marks are assigned here. Examples involving current laws, rates, institutional products or Nepalese status must identify the relevant period and official materials; no changing numerical or legal requirements are invented here.