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...
Decision making can be hard. Almost any decision involves some conflicts or dissatisfaction. The difficult part is to pick one solution where the positive outcome can outweigh possible losses. Avoiding decisions often seems easier. Yet, making one's own decisions and accepting the consequences is the only way to stay in...
How one prominent academic, UC Berkeley's Lee W. Schruben, sees the evolution of operations research in the business world. BNET: What are the big unsolved problems for OR in practice today? Schruben: We have to realize that what we’re actually doing...
Decision making tools and techniques are often spoken about together, but this paper will make a distinction. Such things as visual aids and other helpful instruments are decision making tools, and techniques are the processes used to arrive at a decision. As such, decision making tools and techniques are not...
View Available Dates and Locations Effective decision makers are those rare individuals who are able to consistently identify and choose the best option among multiple alternatives. Their decisions are imaginative, reasoned, and defensible. In this course, you will be provided with the training and tools ...
View Available Dates and Locations This course features activities and role-playing exercise that will help you improve your oral interpersonal and small group communication skills in a workplace environment. Determine your communication style to help you capitalize on your strengths and improve your weaknesses. Have more...
When an important decision must be made in a high-pressure situation, it is natural to worry about making a “bad” or “wrong” decision. Most people prefer to have sufficient time to analyze a situation and consider the alternatives. In a high-pressure situation, however, time is often a luxury they cannot...
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...
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...
Productivity improvement is a main issue in the context of large-scale developments, where produced software needs to meet quality criteria, both on budget and schedule. This paper explains the introduction of the software factories technique to automate and improve production of complex software systems in the context of Model-Driven Development...
One of the main problems with software engineering is due to the difficulties in evaluating and improving the software processes, especially in the light of the fact that reuse depends on a process which supports it. Generally used approaches to the evaluation and improvement of software processes are based on...
Return on investment ROI analysis of business intelligence BI can be a useful technique for evaluating alternatives, but only if the process is rigorous and evaluates all of the true costs over the life cycle of the technology. Incomplete and inconsistent models can lead to false positives, such as favorable-looking...
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...
This paper deals with digital sound synthesis. Among all known sound synthesis techniques, there is at least one that will never be outdated, the sample playback. The main application of the technique in focus is virtual music synthesizers running on personal computers. This paper proposes a high quality, cheap and...
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...
From the executive summary: ‘Two tools frequently used by teams to make decisions are Multivoting and Nominal Group Technique. While idea-generating tools such as Brainstorming produce a list of possible alternatives, Multivoting and Nominal Group Technique help to identify the important or popular items or prioritize the items on a...
Decision-making involves evaluating different alternative solutions to a given problem and choosing the best solution from amongst them. According to the paper, a company’s most valuable and scarcest resource is top management’s time. A lot of the same is spent on decision-making. The paper examines the ways in which top...
The techniques in this section help us to make the best decisions possible with the information available. With these tools you will be able to map out the likely consequences of decisions, work out the importance of individual factors and choose the best course of action to take. The section...
Removal or reduction of uncertainty is an important if not required step in most thermal/fluid analyses. However, existing techniques are labor-intensive and faulty since they are rarely rigorous. This paper has shown how existing models built using existing software can be automatically rerun using NLP technology tasked with seeking a...
Top Employee Communications and Human Resource Experts Plus "Fired Up or Burned Out" Author Converging To Better Understand Employee Motivation and Communication Best Practices at Communitelligence Innovating Employee Engagement Conference in Chicago. CHICAGO -- Employee engagement -- the heightened emotional connection that employees feel for their organization that...
