For me, the most disturbing part of the "freedom center" debate is the obsessive use of the word "freedom" in every detail of the collection of projects.
As this collection of conceptualization projects increases, the potential for meta-analysis across participants, ideas, data (sorting and rating), and findings (maps and patterns) is possible.
Data collection was conducted through project visits and the collection of project related available information.
But this collection of architects and projects herald more than just another stylistic or pyrotechnic, technology-driven trend.
Says Scott Hubbard, Mars program chief: "This is a program, not just a collection of projects".
Coca-Cola, which hands most of the bottling and marketing of its drinks to others, is little more than a collection of projects, run by people it calls "orchestrators".
"We're working with treasury to release some of the frozen funds to move forward with a collection of projects we expect to announce soon," said Mr. Campbell, noting that in recent years, money had been appropriated but not spent.
"Sisi thinks, like all military men, that the economy is a collection of projects that the military runs," Robert Springborg, an expert on the Egyptian military who is currently a visiting scholar at Harvard University, told me.
Githens (2002) adds the notion of program and fit organizational strategy in his definition: "…a collection of projects or programs that fit into an organizational strategy.
Dye and Pennypacker (1999) include the notion of fit to organizational strategy in their definition for project portfolio: "…a collection of projects that, in aggregate, make up an organization's investment strategy".
