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- The Case for Project Management
- As all of those who have worked in the trenches well know, successful project management is the tie that binds services to results. Project management principles are used extensively in some federal organizations, But project management is far less common in other federal agencies. Furthermore, shortcomings exist across the board...
- White papers 2000-08-01
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- First Principles of Project-Management
- "Principles that are established should be viewed as flexible, capable of adaptation to every need. It is the manager's job to know how to make use of them, which is a difficult art requiring intelligence, experience, decisiveness and, most important, a sense of proportion. The paper sets out...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- "Positive Leadership in Project Management - Seventh in a Series Achieving Extraordinary
- The article focuses on positive leadership for project management, where project leader plays an important role. So what can a project manager do to succeed in such an environment? There is certainly no single answer or magic formula. Or is there? Formula is defined as (at least this is...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Defect Tracking for Extreme Project Managers
- Planning is the most crucial part of the project. However, planning does not end, when the product is fully coded, even if the QA is scheduled for a completely different department. When the application finally goes into production, the Project Manager must be held answerable, if something major goes awry....
- White papers 2001-01-01
- Are You a Management Imposter?
- Are You a Management Imposter?Are You a Management Imposter?I would agree that this is a very subjective topic; however, time is usually the litmus test. Repeated short coming and/or failures would lead one to conclude whether this were true or not.Management Imposter gets caught and learnsTrue Management Impostures are discovered...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Performance Evaluation And Management
- The following white paper revolves around the three principles of management—Measure, Manage and Magnify. The author suggests that it is imperative to define proportionate value of the project's Key Value Areas and create at least one project objective that has weighting and measuring standards of performance. The author works on...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Project Management: Identifying And Ranking The Stakeholders
- The range and nature of stakeholders will vary very greatly from one project to another, but the principle of stakeholders identification can be illustrated by an example. Suppose that a project has been proposed to redevelop a derelict urban area. This ambitious project will provide a shopping mall, offices, cinema,...
- White papers 2007-02-16
- The Potential Role of Project Management in Category B Muncipalities
- The South African Government's Demarcation process has ensured that the entire Country now have "City to City" municipal areas. This process has been put in place to ensure that basic services can now be provided to all the people of the Country. With the demarcation process the South African Government...
- White papers 2002-11-01
- The Cult of Six Sigma |BTalk Australia
- (24min 37) Six Sigma is a business improvement pioneered by Motorola, embraced by General Electric and now used by many large corporations throughout the world. Today on BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie talks to Alan Skinner, a six sigma "black belt" from the Faculty of Business at the...
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Setting Clear Objectives
- When you set a clear objective, you or your direct reports are able to focus attention and energy on a concrete aspiration—anything from a small task to a career ambition. In fact, it's not really important how small or large the objective is, so long as the decisions you make...
- Articles 2007-12-13
- Will Outsourcing Relationships Rule the New Millenium?
- The rules and the realities of the business has changed. Organizations don't need to own all of their products,services, and infrastructures, they simply need to be able to access these capabilities and achieve their business goals. Outsourcing represents a long-term, results-oriented relationship between two companies. It is often viewed as...
- White papers 2000-03-31
- Coping with Information Overload
- You know it all too well: The amount of information available to us wherever we go is increasing rapidly and perpetually. As a result, we're all expected to absorb and respond to more information than ever before. The reasons are very familiar:New technology making information available at all times everywhere;Expectations...
- Articles 2007-03-27
- Four Great Teams in Business History
- Great minds, support from management, and their own brand of secret sauce helped these teams come up with some of the biggest innovations in recent business history. The Java Development Team at Sun Microsystems ...
- Articles 2008-01-25
- Strategy in a ‘Structural Break'
- During hard times, a structural break in the economy is an opportunity in disguise. To survive—and, eventually, to flourish—companies must learn to exploit it. There is nothing like a crisis to clarify the mind. In suddenly volatile and different times, you must have...
- Articles 2009-01-12
- Benefiting from the Balanced Scorecard
- Harvard professors Robert Kaplan and David Norton developed the balanced scorecard to help translate vision and strategy into action. This technique can make strategic planning a core part of any business. They showed that financial analysis, which is largely a look backward over past performance, isn't enough to guide long-term...
- Articles 2007-10-03
- The Uncompromising Leader
- Managing the tension between performance and people is at the heart of every leader's job. Focus single-mindedly on delivering profits, and you disenchant your workforce, destroying your capacity to drive needed strategic change. Concentrate solely on...
- Articles 2008-07-18
- Sovereign Bancorp, Inc. Q3 FY07 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions]. Your first question comes from James Abbott with FBR Capital Markets. James Abbott - Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co. The auto portfolio; could you tell us, where the reserve to loan ratio stands on that particular piece of the portfolio? And then...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-18
- London Business School: Re-org is its Own Reward
- London Business School: Re-org is its Own RewardNeither NorI don't think it's lunacy, if it's done in an educated, planned manner. Unhappy workers is the biggest reason for lack of productivity. It'd be a good idea to at least let them know THEY are not the reason, that it is,...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-12
- UAL Corporation Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you very much, sir. First, we will take questions from the analyst community, then we will take questions from the media. The question-and-answer session will be conducted electronically. [Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from the line of Frank Boroch of Bear Stearns. Please...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-24
- American Electric Power Co., Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you. [Operator Instructions]. And our first question is from Greg Gordon from Citigroup. Please go ahead. Greg Gordon - Citigroup Thanks. Would you mind talking in a little bit more detail about what your next steps will be in determining whether...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-25
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