Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence in the Complex Environment of Megaprojects: Implications for Practitioners and Project Organizing Theory

Abstract

This article articulates the prospect of improving megaproject execution and performance via digital project delivery. Various digitalization options, such as cloud computing, automation, artificial intelligence, information modeling, and data analytics and their recent usage in megaprojects, are critically reviewed. Prospective future developments and forthcoming challenges of digitalization in megaprojects have also been identified based on the current progress of these technologies. In terms of theory, we suggest information economics and organizational economics as a starting place to develop a research approach to artificial intelligence and megaprojects.