An AI-Driven Dashboard for Sustainable Project Decision-Making: The Case of a Pilot Application of the 4P Framework

Abstract

Incorporating sustainability into project management is a growing imperative for managers, where performance and long-term resilience must be considered, but current traditional frameworks such as the Triple Bottom Line: People, Planet, Profit don't explicitly consider time. This research presents the 4P Framework, adding Patience to represent long-term orientation, adaptive capacity and innovation continuity. The study utilizes Design Science Research (DSR) to create a dashboard tool embedded with metrics, predictive analysis, and scenario simulation to operationalize the 4P Framework with the infusion of AI. The artifact combines multiple data streams to deliver real time sustainability information and medium to long-term insights, allowing project managers to consider trade-offs for all four dimensions. A pilot project demonstrates effective visualization of 4P performance, identification of emerging risks and models' long-term outcomes using the dashboard. The research contributes to a new sustainability framework, an operational AI decision-support artifact and a basis for future empirical testing in real-world project contexts.