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- a set of activities designed to achieve a specified goal, within a given period of time. Projects focus on activities outside the routine operations of an organization. They vary immensely...
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- Managing Projects Effectively
- Project management is a technique used to organize work into separate, definable units to ease the coordination of different tasks. Although its earliest roots can be traced to the military and the construction industry, NASA's legendary achievement of landing Neil Armstrong on the moon popularized the technique. Since then, Governments...
- Articles 2007-11-28
- Keeping On Top of Project Management
- A project can be an awkward beast to manage. Because the purpose of a project is to bring about change, the context is often unsettled and uncertain. As a result, unexpected issues tend to crop up—changes occur and mistakes are made. An effective project manager must accept that the unexpected...
- Articles 2007-10-08
- Creating Cross-Functional Teams
- Most business projects require a wide variety of skills to complete the tasks involved. If you're managing such a project, it's almost axiomatic that you will be directing a group of individuals from different backgrounds: They may be members of your own organization, from other units of your company, or...
- Articles 2007-10-04
- Film Director Joe Carnahan: Managing a $17 Million Project
- Directing a film is a lot like running a business. You have a budget. You have crew. And then you have the biggest H.R. challenge the world has ever known: celebrity egos. Director Joe Carnahan has worked on the low-budget "Narc," the $17 million "Smokin' Aces" and the $180 million...
- Videos 2007-09-26
- Eldorado Signs Option Agreement To Acquire Vila Nova Project, Amapa State, Brazil.
- VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Apr 11, 2005 CCNMatthews via COMTEX all figures in United States dollars - Paul N. Wright, President and Chief Executive Officer of Eldorado Gold Corporation (TSX:ELD)(AMEX:EGO) ("Eldorado" the "Company" or "we") is pleased to announce that an agreement...
- Research articles 2005-04-11
- Securing Business Grants and Funding
- Both public and private sector organizations award grants routinely, almost always for a specific project or purpose. For example, a grant might be awarded to help a business develop a new product, buy equipment, run a training program, or research a specific problem. A typical grant is a one-time payment...
- Articles 2007-05-29
- INDIA: Joint venture construction plans for proposed $8,450,000,000 steel mill, iron ore mine and coke plant, BHP BILLITON [Australia] & POHANG IRON & STEEL CO. (POSCO) [South Korea] Order #: 094004.
- PROJECT OVERVIEW: An Australian/South Korean joint venture recently submitted a proposal to the government of Orissa regarding the development of an iron ore integrated business in the state. The partners in the proposed undertaking include Australia-based BHP BILLITON and POHANG IRON & ...
- Research articles 2004-09-01
- PHILIPPINES: Construction start-up on planned $32,000,000 gold mine, LEIGHTON HOLDINGS LTD. [Australia] Order #: 085104.
- PROJECT OVERVIEW: Australia-based LAFAYETTE MINING LTD. recently awarded a gold mine construction contract to LEIGHTON HOLDINGS LTD. of Australia. According to the terms of the award, LEIGHTON will be responsible for building the Rapu Rapu copper, gold, silver and zinc mine. ...
- Research articles 2004-08-01
- Media Advisory - TransAlta and Wayne Gretzky challenge Ottawa students to take on Project Planet.
- TORONTO, Nov 09, 2000 TransAlta is challenging the students of Ottawa's Vincent Massey school -- and across Ontario -- to change the world. At a school assembly, hockey great Wayne Gretzky and TransAlta President and CEO Steve Snyder will announce the launch...
- Research articles 2000-11-09
- HUNGARY: JOINT VENTURE CONSTRUCTION PLANS FOR PROPOSED $32,000,000 CARBON MONOXIDE AND HYDROGEN PLANT, BORSODCHEM [HUNGARY] & LINDE [GERMANY] - Order #: 124799.
- PROJECT OVERVIEW The local BORSODCHEM, the country's second biggest chemical manufacturer, is presently aiming to move out of the low-value- added chemical commodities business. In so doing, the company recently entered into a joint venture with Germany-based LINDE AG in order to ...
- Research articles 1999-12-01
- HUNGARY: PLANS FOR PROPOSED $150,000,000 POWER PLANT UPGRADE PROJECT, BUDAPESTI EROMU RT. (BERT) [HUNGARY/JAPAN/FINLAND], TOMEN CORP. [JAPAN] & FORTNUM [FINLAND] - Order #: 112399.
- PROJECT OVERVIEW: The local BUDAPESTI EROMU RT. BERT recently concluded a funding agreement with a syndicate headed by German and Hungarian banks regarding its planned power plant expansion project. BERT is a joint venture company that is operated by Japan-based TOMEN and FORTNUM...
- Research articles 1999-11-01
- SOUTH AFRICA: CONSTRUCTION PLANS FOR PROPOSED $125,000,000 REFINERY UPGRADE PROJECT, NATREF [SOUTH AFRICA] - Order #: 108099.
- PROJECT OVERVIEW: The local NATREF, a subsidiary of SASOL LTD., currently operates a refinery with an installed production capacity of about 90,000 barrels per day. However, demand for light products including jet fuel is said to be growing at a rate of 11% per...
- Research articles 1999-10-01
- U.A.E.: INVITATION TO BID ON LARGE-SCALE POWER DISTRIBUTION UPGRADE PROJECT IS TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED TO BE ISSUED SOME TIME AROUND MID-2000, ABU DHABI WATER & ELECTRICITY AUTHORITY (ADWEA) [U.A.E.] & SWEDPOWER INTERNATIONAL [SWEDEN] - Order #: 104
- PROJECT OVERVIEW: The local ABU DHABI WATER & ELECTRICITY AUTHORITY ADWEA is currently gearing-up to undertake a major expansion of its power distribution network. In so doing, ADWEA recently retained the services of SWEDPOWER INTERNATIONAL, a subsidiary of SWEDPOWER AB, to act as ...
- Research articles 1999-10-01
- QATAR: CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT AWARD FOR PLANNED $24 MILLION WATER INJECTION PROJECT, MANNAI CORP. [QATAR] & TECHNIP [FRANCE] - Order #: 107799.
- PROJECT OVERVIEW: OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM OF QATAR, a subsidiary of U.S.-based OCCIDENTAL CORP., recently awarded a construction contract for a planned water injection project to the local MANNAI CORP. According to the terms of the award, MANNAI will be responsible for the fabrication and...
- Research articles 1999-10-01
- U.A.E.: JOINT VENTURE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT AWARD FOR PROPOSED $500,000,000 ETHYLENE DICHLORIDE PLANT IS SAID TO BE IMMINENT, CHIYODA CORP. [JAPAN] - Order #: 073399.
- PROJECT OVERVIEW: The local ABU DHABI NATIONAL OIL CO. ADNOC is currently gearing-up to build an ethylene dichloride plant in the U.A.E. The proposed facility, to be sited in Ruwais, will have an installed production capacity of 520,000 tons per year. The...
- Research articles 1999-07-01
- The Top Project Management Challenges
- Project success is measured by the ability to have achieved all the requirements as outlined in the Scope Statement, with all approved Project Change Requests. Organizations may well be in crisis with respect to how projects are being managed. Overall, there is a need for organizations to link their projects...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- The Project Manager's Ethical Dilemma
- A Project Management Offices PMO that is structured to manage projects across departments, locations and countries is best implemented on an enterprise-wide basis. This is because it will hold the responsibility for ensuring consistency in the management of all elements of each of these projects and will also be able...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Process Management Vs Project Management
- When you are given a project plan to review, this paper explains ten things you should look for to determine the quality level of the plan. When a project has already been started, check to see if the tracking of actual data is predicting how the future of the project...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- PMO Preliminary Research Indicates Survival At Risk
- By examining the definition for project management it can be determined that the management of a project is a process. The management of a project follows a consistent series of steps that ensures it is successfully managed and meets the project's customer requirements. However, the process is not subject to...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- How You Can Have A Stress-Free Holiday Season Using Project Management
- The Project Management Office's goal is to help their organization manage projects in nowadays' complex, global marketplace. Managing projects across departments, locations and countries is best managed when project knowledge is passed from one project to the next. This reduces repeated, costly mistakes. The Project Management Office holds the responsibility...
- White papers 2009-01-01
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