Design Engineer in Civil Engineering from EPT in 1997 and with an International MBA from Paris in 2018, Mohamed Laye started his career at the CSE where he was Director of Works for Road Projects in 6 countries in West Africa. Since 2016, he has been at AGEROUTE where he currently holds the position of Head of the Major Road Works Division.
In September 2021, he defended his Executive Doctorate in Business Administration (Executive DBA), on the topic of ‘Optimizing performance in large public infrastructure projects: the case of AGEROUTE Senegal’ under the supervision of Professor Boubacar Baidari, Full Professor of Management Sciences, Faculty of Economics and Management of Abdou Moumouni University (Niamey, Niger).
Thesis Direction
Pr Boubacar Baidari
Thesis Title
Optimising performance in major public infrastructure projects: the case of AGEROUTE Senegal
Abstract
Road infrastructures provide direct support for productive activities, the movement of goods and people as well as the development of human capital, hence the importance of their role in the socio-economic development of nations. This importance makes time and cost overruns and quality defects an undesirable outcome in road projects.
However, in Senegal, as everywhere in the world, meeting these performance criteria continues to be a challenge in the implementation of road projects because they are complex and surrounded by uncertainties. Thus, in the context of the road projects carried out by AGEROUTE in Senegal, we asked ourselves as a research question “how to optimize the performance of road projects within the framework of a broader vision of the stakeholders?”
The main objective of our research is to determine the roles of the stakeholders (contracting authority, consultant, road company, financial backer, users and residents), in order to optimize the performance of the road project.
In order to achieve this objective, our research relied on a qualitative methodology of an inclusive and participatory approach through 34 semi-structured interviews with stakeholder representatives. The textual data thus collected was subjected to Textual Data Analysis (TDA) with the Sphinx software.
The TDA allowed the emergence of managerial themes relating to the roles of each of the stakeholders. The managerial implications resulting from the aforementioned themes have been classified according to each phase of the road project (identification, preparation, implementation and evaluation), according to the criteria (quality, construction time, cost, satisfaction of the stakeholders and the environmental protection) and axes (efficiency, relevance) of the performance.