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Matching The Right Project Managers With The Right Project Types
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper could be seen as an extension to his "Notes on credentialing and assessing project managers" in a recent issue of this journal. However, it moves away from generic assessments and...
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Six Degrees Of Separation, Chaos/complexity Theory, Social Networking And Project Management
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Six Degrees of Separation is the foundation of social media websites such as FaceBook, Plaxo, LinkedIn, and others that you or your company may use for personal or professional reasons. With the...
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Systemic Innovation And The Role Of Program Management As An Enabler In The Engineering & Construction Industry
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Periodically it is necessary to step outside of one's day-to-day frame of reference and question whether a current paradigm will suffice into the future. This paper is intended as one such look at...
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Corporative Project Management Office Proposal
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In the PMBOK Guide the Project Management Institute defines project management as "Knowledge, skills, tools and techniques developed for the project activities in order to meet their needs". The...
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Completion Confidence Measurement Tractatus (CCMT)
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
On November 9, 2010, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner test plane made an emergency landing in Laredo, Texas when the flight crew detected smoke in the passenger compartment. The airplane was originally...
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Black Swan Risks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Much has been written on Black Swan type risks, sometimes treated as the risks from Unknown Unknowns. Do Black Swans inhabit the world of program management and are they truly Unknown Unknowns? In...
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Some Implications Of A Changing World For The Management Of Projects
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper is concerned with identifying a variety of changes and/or trends which have occurred in the world at large over the past couple of decades, and with charting the implications of these...
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Complexity Measurement: A New Comprehensive Metric For Project Management
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The dynamism and volatility of a project or a portfolio (frequently changing scope, objectives, priorities, resource allocation, etc) imply that the project can no longer be managed and governed...
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Moving A Project Organisation Towards A Customer/marketfocused Orientation
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In earlier papers in this journal the author has criticised the lack of attention given to customers/clients in the project management literature. These papers included recommendations for adding...
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Program And Agile Management: Two Birds Of A Feather?
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Projects are traditionally used to manage change in an ordered way; in the last decade though, they have become more and more "Unordered" as project management is increasingly used to manage...
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Is Something Missing From Project Management?
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
There are many elements to a project requirements, schedule, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk, procurement, and every project is complex and extremely difficult to manage to...
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Integrative Thinking Skills For Program Managers
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a framework to improve program management through integrative thinking skills and shows an application in a supply chain environment. Integrative thinking could be adopted by...
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Polaris And Risk Management
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Most project managers around the world are familiar with the term risk management. After all, it is one of the PMBOK Guides knowledge areas. Most of them learned what the authors needed to...
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Evaluation In Ethiopia: Institutional Setting, Experiences, Challenges And Prospects
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Arguably "Evaluation" is one of the most dubious words in development theory and practice. Many definitions are roaming around, though its remains to be difficult to get an all inclusive...
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Notes On Project Management, General Management, And Organisational Change
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Increased specialisation in the past half-century has certainly benefited the avocation of project management. However, there appear to be some negative consequences of this specialisation. This...
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Implementing Project Management As Part Of A Corporate Cost Reduction Program
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The Chief Executive is now the champion for driving the project management practices within the organization. Implementation of project management is more than delivering project on time and under...
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Strategic Application Of Project Management Principles At A South African Graduate Business School
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As part of the Nelson Mandela University (NMU)'s internationalization strategy, the Management Graduate School (MGS) had introduced a Master in Business Administration (MBA) degree program in...
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Relationships Between Project Management And General Management
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper first discusses how the two most prominent project management bodies of knowledge see their relationships with general management. The PMBOK Guide (PMI 2004) very directly points out...
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Will Project Management Systems Get A New Pillar Soon?
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
A project management system has its essential character in processes that can be related consistent with best practices to express a project plan. If not influenced by uncertainty, then the system...
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Programme Managing The Supply Chain Portfolio
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Effective and efficient management of the Supply Chain Portfolio is widely regarded as the key to optimal organisational performance. How to achieve this has remained a complex challenge to...
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Perspectives On Program/project Stakeholder And Benefits Management
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses different perspectives in the literature about the relationships of program/project stakeholders and benefits. Identification and classifications of stakeholders are first...
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The Need For Strategic Project Management Approach To Implement And Sustain Successful Economic Development Projects In Less Developed Countries (LDCs)
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper is in response to a clarion call to fill the deficit in the literature of project management and economic development by stimulating the beginning of a discussion on the challenges,...
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Defining & Classifying Project Management Methodologies
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Across all industrial sectors, project management has become an essential element in the successful delivery of projects. Regardless of the industrial sector or size of project, Project Management...
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Adding Marketing Perspectives To Program/project Management?
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
In previous papers in this journal the author has noted the lack of attention give to clients/customers in the program/ project literature. This reflects the fact that this literature is strongly...
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Reliability And Productivity Models Of The Elements Of Work Flows
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Classical theory of reliability is applicable for the project's reliability analysis. The main idea behind the mathematical modeling of the project's reliability is to represent the entire project...
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Assessing The Art And Science Of Project Management
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The organization's project managers influence the success or failure of people business to a greater extent that might imagine. If people business activity is mainly organized on a project basis,...
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Identifying/verifying Customers' Needs Before Specifying Product/service Requirements In The Program/project Context
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In an earlier paper, the author pointed out that customers/clients do not feature nearly as prominently in the program/project literature as stakeholders as large. Indeed, they are often listed as...
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Change Management For IT Project Managers - A Practical Approach
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Traditionally project managers have been trained to view project success as an open- and shut case defined by meeting all agreed-upon scope requirements within an allocated timeframe and within a...
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Healthcare Project Management In The New Economy
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Public health care spending in the United States is expected to have its largest single year increase in 2009. Once the recession starts to ease next year, there should be an upturn in both...
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Strategic Program Management: Key To "Giga" Program Delivery
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Across many markets we are seeing dramatic growth in the scale and complexity of capital construction programs. Like all programs, these consist of a series of discrete but closely coupled...
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The New Federal Project Management Credential
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
An important movement has begun within the U.S. federal government; for the first time ever civilian employees have the opportunity to earn a certification in project and program management that...
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State Equation Of Projects And Project Change Analysis
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Contemporary project management needs high-level quantitative representations of projects for their successful planning and execution. Such representation is possible on the basis of balance...
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Innovation & Project Management - Exploring The Links
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
If innovation was traditionally seen as technology-led, it now covers a much broader canvas. Innovation is possibly best defined as the exploration and exploitation of new ideas in pursuit of a...
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Human Effort Dynamics And Schedule Risk Analysis
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Human work duration and related risks are the results of human actions. Therefore quantitative analysis of human action dynamics is becoming a problem of paramount importance for the new...
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Using Program Management To Achieve Global Product And Service Development Success
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Visionary leaders of today have recognized that competitive advantages can be gained over their rivals with an effective globalization strategy. Globalization is now an essential business strategy...
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Innovative Product R&D - The Value Of Project Management Practice In China
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Project Management is more than delivering project deliverables on time, under budget, with quality specified. A majority of project assignments were "Missions Impossible" to Project Managers and...
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Failure Of Financial Sector Risk Management As An Analog for The Engineering & Construction Industry
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
It was spring of 1827 and Robert Brown had just returned from collecting pollen in the Scottish countryside. A botanist, Brown placed some of the pollen in water under his microscope and observed...
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Marketing Of Project Management In An Oil-Rich Developing Country
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
For over five years, the authors have been marketing, implementing, and conducting training on project management software packages in Nigeria, a major oil producing country. Opportunities should...
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Public Private Partnerships: The New Infrastructure Mega-Projects
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The funding and delivery of US Infrastructure projects using Public Private Partnerships (PPP) is an increasingly attractive tool in the United States. Legislative changes in SAFETEA-LU (the...
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Churchill The Agile Project Manager Creating Intelligence And Knowledge
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Most people are very familiar with Winston Churchill but may not be familiar with his "Agile" approach to project management and his skills as a PM in the summer of 1940. With an invasion imminent...
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How Male Machismo Shaped Project Management
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Imagine a man dressed in black sitting next to you in the office. He looks over your shoulder, observing as you type up a report. He takes notes, nods and mumbles quietly to himself. He counts the...
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Power, Politics And Program Management
April 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Joseph Algere, a veteran program manager, is a bit perplexed and more than a little frustrated. He just returned to his office from a meeting with the senior manager of his division. Staring at...
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Introducing The Project Complexity Model A New Approach To Diagnosing And Managing Projects
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Traditional project management techniques are based on a desire to decompose work into simple and easily managed components. Yet such a building block model just doesn't capture the reality of...
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Human Resource Management In A Project
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
As the authors know that people are an important part of a project's success. The projects are resource constrained. The management of the human resources on a project has a major impact on the...
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Bridging The Academic And Business Worlds
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The author notes that learning through engagement must be coupled with reflection to be effective. A major point is that 'Imitation' or normative learning as the authors put it, is no longer...
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Expert Advisory Panels For Project Management Governance And Oversight
August 6, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Project management governance is an important aspect of overall corporate governance, especially for project-based organizations and for organizations with large capital investment projects...
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Program Management: A Framework For Collaboration
August 9, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Scott Jones recently accepted a new position as Director of New Product Development with a company in the consumer electronics industry, and he found himself in a very different and complex...
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Why Agile Popped Up On The Radar When It Did
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In the first half of the nineties, the author was studying Business Informatics at Vrije Universtiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. As a final exam, the author performed field research at a...
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UPMM - A Full Model For Portfolio Management
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
What is a project portfolio? May it contain a set of investment project only? But in project-based organizations just commercial projects and their sets are much more important than investment...
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The Project/Program Management Office (PMO)
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The Project/Program Management Office (PMO) is the fastest growing concept in project management today and is key to effective implementation of project management across the organization. To keep...
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Churchill The Agile Project Manager Churchill's Team - Beaverbrook
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Most people are very familiar with Winston Churchill but may not be familiar with his "Agile" approach to project management and his skills as a PM in the summer of 1940. Part 16 looked at how...
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Churchill The Agile Project Manager The "Fighter" Supply-Chain
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Most people are very familiar with Winston Churchill but may not be familiar with his "Agile" approach to project management and his skills as a PM in the summer of 1940. With an invasion imminent...
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Project Management In China
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
PMBOK was introduced to China at the beginning of this 21st Century. Since its early introduction, professional and senior management realized the advantages and benefits of project management...
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Contemporary Aspects Of Critical-Path Planning And Scheduling
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
A characteristic of contemporary project scheduling is the over-simplification which stems from the inability of unaided human beings to cope with sheer complexity. Even though the authors know...
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White Papers
Churchill The Agile Project Manager Creating Intelligence And Knowledge
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Most people are very familiar with Winston Churchill but may not be familiar with his "Agile" approach to project management and his skills as a PM in the summer of 1940. With an invasion imminent...
Provided by PM World Today
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White Papers
Public Private Partnerships: The New Infrastructure Mega-Projects
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The funding and delivery of US Infrastructure projects using Public Private Partnerships (PPP) is an increasingly attractive tool in the United States. Legislative changes in SAFETEA-LU (the...
Provided by PM World Today
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White Papers
Marketing Of Project Management In An Oil-Rich Developing Country
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
For over five years, the authors have been marketing, implementing, and conducting training on project management software packages in Nigeria, a major oil producing country. Opportunities should...
Provided by PM World Today
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White Papers
Failure Of Financial Sector Risk Management As An Analog for The Engineering & Construction Industry
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
It was spring of 1827 and Robert Brown had just returned from collecting pollen in the Scottish countryside. A botanist, Brown placed some of the pollen in water under his microscope and observed...
Provided by PM World Today
-
White Papers
Innovative Product R&D - The Value Of Project Management Practice In China
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Project Management is more than delivering project deliverables on time, under budget, with quality specified. A majority of project assignments were "Missions Impossible" to Project Managers and...
Provided by PM World Today
-
White Papers
Using Program Management To Achieve Global Product And Service Development Success
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Visionary leaders of today have recognized that competitive advantages can be gained over their rivals with an effective globalization strategy. Globalization is now an essential business strategy...
Provided by PM World Today
-
White Papers
Human Effort Dynamics And Schedule Risk Analysis
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Human work duration and related risks are the results of human actions. Therefore quantitative analysis of human action dynamics is becoming a problem of paramount importance for the new...
Provided by PM World Today
-
White Papers
Innovation & Project Management - Exploring The Links
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
If innovation was traditionally seen as technology-led, it now covers a much broader canvas. Innovation is possibly best defined as the exploration and exploitation of new ideas in pursuit of a...
Provided by PM World Today
-
White Papers
State Equation Of Projects And Project Change Analysis
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Contemporary project management needs high-level quantitative representations of projects for their successful planning and execution. Such representation is possible on the basis of balance...
Provided by PM World Today
-
White Papers
The New Federal Project Management Credential
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
An important movement has begun within the U.S. federal government; for the first time ever civilian employees have the opportunity to earn a certification in project and program management that...
Provided by PM World Today
-
White Papers
Strategic Program Management: Key To "Giga" Program Delivery
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Across many markets we are seeing dramatic growth in the scale and complexity of capital construction programs. Like all programs, these consist of a series of discrete but closely coupled...
Provided by PM World Today
-
White Papers
Healthcare Project Management In The New Economy
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Public health care spending in the United States is expected to have its largest single year increase in 2009. Once the recession starts to ease next year, there should be an upturn in both...
Provided by PM World Today
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White Papers
Change Management For IT Project Managers - A Practical Approach
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Traditionally project managers have been trained to view project success as an open- and shut case defined by meeting all agreed-upon scope requirements within an allocated timeframe and within a...
Provided by PM World Today
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White Papers
Identifying/verifying Customers' Needs Before Specifying Product/service Requirements In The Program/project Context
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In an earlier paper, the author pointed out that customers/clients do not feature nearly as prominently in the program/project literature as stakeholders as large. Indeed, they are often listed as...
Provided by PM World Today
-
White Papers
Assessing The Art And Science Of Project Management
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The organization's project managers influence the success or failure of people business to a greater extent that might imagine. If people business activity is mainly organized on a project basis,...
Provided by PM World Today
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White Papers
Reliability And Productivity Models Of The Elements Of Work Flows
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Classical theory of reliability is applicable for the project's reliability analysis. The main idea behind the mathematical modeling of the project's reliability is to represent the entire project...
Provided by PM World Today
-
White Papers
Adding Marketing Perspectives To Program/project Management?
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
In previous papers in this journal the author has noted the lack of attention give to clients/customers in the program/ project literature. This reflects the fact that this literature is strongly...
Provided by PM World Today
-
White Papers
Defining & Classifying Project Management Methodologies
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Across all industrial sectors, project management has become an essential element in the successful delivery of projects. Regardless of the industrial sector or size of project, Project Management...
Provided by PM World Today
-
White Papers
The Need For Strategic Project Management Approach To Implement And Sustain Successful Economic Development Projects In Less Developed Countries (LDCs)
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper is in response to a clarion call to fill the deficit in the literature of project management and economic development by stimulating the beginning of a discussion on the challenges,...
Provided by PM World Today
-
White Papers
Perspectives On Program/project Stakeholder And Benefits Management
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses different perspectives in the literature about the relationships of program/project stakeholders and benefits. Identification and classifications of stakeholders are first...
Provided by PM World Today
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White Papers
Programme Managing The Supply Chain Portfolio
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Effective and efficient management of the Supply Chain Portfolio is widely regarded as the key to optimal organisational performance. How to achieve this has remained a complex challenge to...
Provided by PM World Today
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White Papers
Will Project Management Systems Get A New Pillar Soon?
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
A project management system has its essential character in processes that can be related consistent with best practices to express a project plan. If not influenced by uncertainty, then the system...
Provided by PM World Today
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White Papers
Relationships Between Project Management And General Management
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper first discusses how the two most prominent project management bodies of knowledge see their relationships with general management. The PMBOK Guide (PMI 2004) very directly points out...
Provided by PM World Today
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White Papers
Strategic Application Of Project Management Principles At A South African Graduate Business School
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As part of the Nelson Mandela University (NMU)'s internationalization strategy, the Management Graduate School (MGS) had introduced a Master in Business Administration (MBA) degree program in...
Provided by PM World Today
-
White Papers
Implementing Project Management As Part Of A Corporate Cost Reduction Program
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The Chief Executive is now the champion for driving the project management practices within the organization. Implementation of project management is more than delivering project on time and under...
Provided by PM World Today
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White Papers
Notes On Project Management, General Management, And Organisational Change
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Increased specialisation in the past half-century has certainly benefited the avocation of project management. However, there appear to be some negative consequences of this specialisation. This...
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