Nick Hadjinicolaou

Dr Nick Hadjinicolaou

Lecturer

School of Management

College of Business and Law

Dr Nick Hadjinicolaou is a specialist lecturer in Project Management and has over 30 years of experience with managing projects and programs in public and private sectors. Roles have included project, program and IT Management in the Government, Telstra, IBM, Business SA, 3Pillars Asia Pacific, NCVER, Torrens University Australia and BAE Systems Australia. For the last 20 years he has been involved with the design, development and delivery of project management courses for both VET and Higher Education. In 2019 he completed his PhD in the area of supporting project success through the implementation of Project Portfolio Management. He holds a BSc, MBA and MPM have completed over 20 industry certifications including PgMP, PMP, Agile Scrum, SAFe6 Scaled Agile and 6Sigma Black Belt. His research interests include AI, Strategy, Organisational Agility, Project and Portfolio Management and have completed over 20 International publications. His is currently the President of the Australia Chapter for the International Association for Strategy Profeesionals (IASP) and runs his own training and consuting practice at www.iLearningSolutions.com 
He enjoys working with students to progress their learning and careers in project management.Further details can be found onhis LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-nick-hadjinicolaou/

Year Citation
2024 Shafiabady, N., Hadjinicolaou, N., Hettikankanamage, N., MohammadiSavadkoohi, E., Wu, R. M. X., & Vakilian, J. (2024). eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) for improving organisational regility. Plos One, 19(4 April), e0301429.
DOI Scopus11 Europe PMC4
2023 Shafiabady, N., Hadjinicolaou, N., Din, F. U., Bhandari, B., Wu, R. M. X., & Vakilian, J. (2023). Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to predict organizational agility. Plos One, 18(5 May), e0283066.
DOI Scopus55 Europe PMC8
2022 Hadjinicolaou, N., Kader, M., & Abdallah, I. (2022). Strategic innovation, foresight and the deployment of project portfolio management under mid-range planning conditions in medium-sized firms. Sustainability Switzerland, 14(1), 80.
DOI Scopus17

Year Citation
2018 Hadjinicolaou, N., Dumrak, J., & Mostafa, S. (2018). Improving project success with project portfolio management practices. In Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering (Vol. 0, pp. 57-66). Springer International Publishing.
DOI Scopus1

Year Citation
2020 Hadjinicolaou, N., Dumrak, J., & Mostafa, S. (2020). Investigating the Association Between Project Portfolio Management Office Functions and Project Success: An Australian Case Study. In Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering (pp. 287-298). Springer Singapore.
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2020 Dumrak, J., Mostafa, S., & Hadjinicolaou, N. (2020). Using Analytic Hierarchy Process to Evaluate Implementation Barriers of Agile Project Management in Australian Project Environments. In Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering (pp. 277-286). Springer Singapore.
DOI Scopus4
2018 Dumrak, J., Hadjinicolaoua, N., Baroudi, B. M., & Mostafa, S. (2018). Understanding the influence of project team involvement on project design and project outcomes: A case study of health development projects in Thailand. In Springer International Publishing Vol. 0 (pp. 49-56). Al-Zaytoonah University, Jordan: Springer International Publishing.
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2017 Dumrak, J., Baroudi, B. M., & Hadjinicolaou, N. (2017). Exploring Association between Project Management Knowledge Areas and Sustainable Outcomes. In Procedia Engineering Vol. 182 (pp. 157-164). Netherlands: Elselvier.
DOI Scopus13 WoS8
2017 Hadjinicolaou, N., & Dumrak, J. (2017). Investigating Association of Benefits and Barriers in Project Portfolio Management to Project Success. In Procedia Engineering Vol. 182 (pp. 274-281). Elsevier BV.
DOI Scopus27

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  • BUSS 5139 Project Management for Business (2025)

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