Project sustainability involves creating and launching a project that can continue to generate benefits over time. It requires early consideration of resources and compliance with standards to ensure ongoing success.
Project sustainability is the goal of creating and successfully launching a project that can continue to generate benefits over an extended period of time. This concept of sustainable project development assumes that once the project is launched and starts to generate some types of benefits, you can continue to use the same general approaches to allow the project to continue moving forward, providing those benefits for as long as necessary . As part of the process, the project will often produce resources that can be used in that ongoing operation, making the project worth the time and effort to continue.
Project sustainability details will vary slightly, depending on the nature of the project. Typically, efforts to build sustainability into a project early on are a good approach, since trying to build that kind of ongoing benefit later can be quite difficult. This means that project managers must consider not only the fundamental aspects of structuring a project, but also the eventual outcome and how the effort can continue to produce results over a number of years.
Another key element in project sustainability is consideration of the resources needed for the effort. This means selecting resources that are likely to be available for the foreseeable future, while minimizing the possibility of undermining the project once it’s up and running, due to a lack of essential materials. In many cases, this will mean identifying secondary sources of those materials or even substitutes that can be put to use if circumstances warrant a change in process. For example, a food manufacturer may have a backup resource for certain ingredients in case one or more resources used in the recipe are no longer available or are declared unhealthy by a government agency and need to be eliminated from the product.
Project sustainability requires compliance with current standards as well as providing a viable means for the project to generate benefits on an ongoing basis. Such standards are often determined by considering government regulations relevant to the project as well as the manufacturing and quality standards of the company carrying out the venture. Attention is usually paid to consumer needs and wants as a way of determining whether the results of a project are likely to be attractive enough to generate demand that will continue for an appreciable length of time. Unless all of these elements are present, project sustainability can be difficult if not impossible to achieve.
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