Tennis players at all levels intuitively know how to upgrade their games. It's about improving technique and putting good form into practice on the tennis court. This pursuit of better tennis practices results in boosting the players' odds at winning. The same is true for project professionals. By putting proven...
The globalization of the international economy and the rapid rise of outsourcing have created a sharp rise in the demand for sharing and disseminating data securely. Software companies outsource the software testing function, which requires secure sharing of test data. Financial companies are increasingly outsourcing financial analysis and tax filing...
Most R&D projects are confronted with high levels of uncertainty. The management of these projects requires a different approach than the traditional network techniques would prescribe. The project management literature recognises this and offers a series of methods to master uncertainty, in order to extend the domain of application of...
Holding regular reviews and engaging partners must be a regular activity for ensuring innovative growth. Governance is pivotal to a person's success. Innovation is best obtained via transformation, best practices, new technology, and continuous process improvement. Fortunately, there are a variety of techniques for extracting innovation from a person's agreements.
BPMN is generic enough to cater not only to BPM techniques for business automation, but also to more longstanding workflow techniques for the support of processes in which human input is required at key data entry and decision points. BPMN is not suitable, and cannot realistically be extended, to cover...
The risks involved in Information Technology Outsourcing has since long been known to affect business decisions of whether to outsource or not. This has lead to numerous research on topics such as: Understanding and Managing Outsourcing Risks, Methodologies to measure Outsourcing Risks, Risk Factors in Information Technology Outsourcing, Assessing the...
The starting point is to recognize that the graphical notation for process modelling known as BPMN is on the way to universal adoption. BPMN is generic enough to cater not only to BPM techniques for business automation, but also to more longstanding workflow techniques for the support of processes in...
Managers, executives and probably even some CLOs have long viewed project management as a tactical, operational endeavor, with which they have had mixed success. But a quiet revolution has been taking place over the past decade that has propelled project management to the top of many CEO's agendas. The reason...
This paper describes how to improve manufacturing performance in a high mix environment using lean manufacturing techniques. It concentrates on how high mix environments are different from high volume environments, and therefore; require extensions to traditional lean manufacturing techniques via flow path management. Starting with a background on why improving...
The publisher explores new techniques for the use of cryptographic puzzles as a countermeasure to Denial-of-Service DoS attacks. The author propose simple new techniques that permit the outsourcing of puzzles - their distribution via a robust external service that is called as a bastion. Many servers can rely on puzzles...
Testing effectiveness for a software product can be improved by testing all possible combinations or by automation, but both these techniques incur high cost and time. There are solutions in this area based on Six Sigma methodologies that provide approaches like Orthogonal Arrays OA. OA is derived from the Design...
With the increasing use of web services, many new challenges concerning data security are becoming critical. Data or applications can now be outsourced to powerful remote servers, which are able to provide services on behalf of the owners. Unfortunately, such hosts may not always be trustworthy. A one-server computationally private...
Since the publication of Goldratt's Critical Chain, most of the books and articles devoted to Critical Chain Project Management CCPM present it in contrast to an assumed well-known but undefined "Traditional" CPPM Critical Path Project Management, spending more attention to describe how CCPM differs from traditional CPPM than in describing...
Total Quality Management TQM is a broad management philosophy used within the organizations with the aim of promoting a culture and attitude of continuous improvement of product/service quality. Statistical Process Control SPC is a technique used within the TQM framework for reducing variation in processes, which we deal with everyday....
This article contains a project which was taken up as a demonstration example within the framework of building a Six Sigma mind-set in the organization, while training a core group in the use of the techniques and the teamwork required. The problem solving methodology consisted of seven steps, combined with...
For the project initiation the first thing involved is creating a framework. A key factor to getting a project off the ground is the development of a structured approach toward identifying the work scope and timing for the work. If we define the process of project planning and control...
The following article is about the various tips and traps involved in the organizing for project management and project initiation techniques. To start with we consider the organizing for project management. The various traps involved are like assuming that everyone can be a project manager, Include all stakeholders in the...
Virtually any organization can go through the motions of creating and implementing processes that comply with ISO 9001:2000's requirements. The true challenge is ensuring that such compliance consistently adds value to the organization and helps it achieve its business goals. Using the standard, organizations can build more robust systems to...
This article discusses the various management techniques, or philosophies advocating what have become known as Total Quality Management. It is no longer the employee that is responsible for the quality, it is management. It provides fourteen points and follows with the seven deadly sins. Some of these are create constancy...
Intense competition marks the business environment. It is imperative for an organization to conduct a business analysis in order to profitably survive the competition. Such an analysis entails the study of the policies and practices of other competing firms. The paper examines the techniques for conducting such analysis. Some laws...
