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Engineering
Society of Detroit
- Technology Century Magazine |
- So, one day you
accidentally walk past your boss' office and he/she
calls you in for a brief discussion. Yep, you guessed
right, you are given another assignment. Your title may
not reflect it, but you are now a Project Manager.
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2001
Project Management Institute's International Symposium |
- The tug-of-war occurs
between project teams and corporate management. Neither
side is willing to concede. Neither side should. The
corporation wants common processes and the benefits
which go with them. Project teams demand the autonomy
that is essential to meeting the specific demands they
encounter during the course of the project. Management
and project teams cannot both get what they want, or can
they?
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1997
Project Management Institute's International Symposium
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Many companies are looking
towards re-organization and process re-engineering in
order to meet today's business challenges. The problem
is, how will these companies, your company, know that
the re-organization and re-engineering will be a true
process improvement as opposed to a process
"re-arrangement"? Corporate re-organization is
simply shaking the tree and watching the monkeys move to
different branches. Process re-arrangement is simply
changing the way you "do it". Process
improvement involves a total analysis of the current
state and desired future state of the company from the
ground up. It is not a white wash of the current company
but a re-development of it. True process improvement is
much more difficult but yields much larger, more
profitable results!
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Purchasing
Today
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To see the silent pictures
Judith of Bethulia (1913) or The Birth of a Nation
(1915) is to witness the results of project management
by one of the world's first and great project managers,
movie director D.W. Griffith. But while Hollywood has
been project managing since the beginning of film, it's
usually the construction and aerospace industries that
are traditionally associated with the discipline,
followed more recently by the telecommunication and
computer industries. Yet over the last decade, project
management - a team-based approach to work - has leapt
out of the box and is being recognized and embraced by
more and more organizations in a wide spectrum of
businesses.
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System
Solver's Ltd Newsletter
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To
effectively improve your company's process you need to look
at the basic laws of business. Just as their are undeniable
laws of physics, there are undeniable laws of business
which, if broken, yield catastrophic results. Re-inventing a
company's process is a four (4) step operation. The steps
must be followed in the proper order or the results will be
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