...the Firm’s Asian practices. After review of this case there are many problems related to cross-cultural management and organizational structure and control. Had the Firm researched these cultural differences Farquar could have approached the review with more knowledge and the project could have been supported. ANALYSIS: In reviewing this case numerous problems are revealed; cross-cultural management and organizational structure and control. Alfonso Farquar was recruited by Mr. David Mossman to travel to Taiwan and India to review their practices and find reasons for their slow market growth. He was advised to transfer a “best practice” approach to Business development to the Asian practices. After completing his evaluations of the Asian practices he was to report his findings to Mr. Honeysuckle. Although Farquar had never traveled overseas, never met any of these executives and was excited about the opportunity, he failed to understand the cross-cultural differences between both countries. When communicating with the Asian practices, Farquar could have used the four rules for overcoming cross-cultural difficulties: •Assume differences until similarity is proven •Emphasize description rather than interpretation or evaluation •Be empathetic •Treat interpretations as a working hypothesis Upon arrival in the Taiwan office, Mr. Dim Sum,...
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...this notice is included in any such reproduction. © 2013 BreakNeck Limited, 33 Aldgate High Street, London, EC3N 1EA BreakNeck ONLY This document can be freely distributed within BreakNeck but should not be copied outside the company without the agreement of the information owner. TRADEMARKS All trademarks are duly acknowledged. Contents 1. Introduction 2 1.1 Purpose of this Document 2 2. Standard Terms 3 2.1 Severity & Priority 3 2.1.1 Severity 4 2.1.2 Priority 4 3. Roles and Responsibilities 6 4. High level Process Description 8 4.1 Identification 8 4.1.1 QC required fields for Identification 8 4.1.2 Standards 9 4.2 Analysis 10 4.3 Fix/Resolution 12 4.3.1 Fix Resolution QC Fields 13 5. CLC Defect State Transition 16 6....
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...processes 1 Project Management process diagram Project Management (PM) Work Products • • • • • • • Project Plan P j t Pl Meeting Record Change Request Acceptance Record Progress Status Record Correction Register Verification Results 2 Project Plan • Product Description - Purpose - General Customer requirements • Scope description of what is included and what is not • Objectives of the project • Deliverables p - list of products to be delivered to Customer • Tasks, including verification, validation and reviews with Customer and Work Team, to assure the quality of work products. Tasks may be represented as a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). • Relationship and Dependence of the Tasks Project Plan (Con’t) • Estimated Duration of tasks • Resources (humans materials standards equipment and (humans, materials, standards, tools) including the required training, and the schedule when the resources are needed. • Composition of Work Team • Schedule of the Project Tasks, the expected start and completion date, for each task. • E ti t d Effort and Cost Estimated Eff t d C t • Identification of Project Risks 3 Project Plan (Con’t) • Version Control Strategy - Product repository tools or mechanism identified - Location and access mechanisms for the repository specified - Version identification and control defined - Backup and recovery mechanisms defined - Storage, handling and delivery (including archival and retrieval) mechanisms specified Project Plan (Con’t) ...
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...------------------------------------------------- Test Plan Document< E-Voting System >Project Code: BSSE-08-KS-5056Internal Advisor: Ma’m Sadia MunawarExternal Advisor: Sir M. IlyasProject Manager: XyzProject Team: BSE-F08-50, BSE-F08-56Submission Date: 04th April’2012 * * _____________________ Project Manager’s Signature | Document Information Category | Information | Customer | Election Commission Pakistan | Project | E-voting System | Document | Test Plan | Document Version | 1.0 | Identifier | PGBH01-2003-TP | Status | Draft | Author(s) | BSE-F08-050,BSE-F08-56 | Approver(s) | PM | Issue Date | March 04, 2012 | Document Location | | Distribution | 1. Advisor 2. PM 3. Project Office | Definition of Terms, Acronyms and Abbreviations This section should provide the definitions of all terms, acronyms, and abbreviations required to interpret the terms used in the document properly. Term | Description | EVS | E- Voting System | TP | Test Plan | AOB | Any Other Business | PP | Political party | BB | Ballot box | CA | Constituency Area | | | | | * ------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents * * 1. Introduction 5 1.1 Purpose of Document 5 1.2 Project Overview 5 2. Scope of Testing 5 3. Test Plan Strategy 6 3.1 Unit Testing 6 3.2 Integration...
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...attendance system for the benefits of employees and the factory. I wanted to take this opportunity to welcome you to your education. Writing this book has been a lot of fun for me and I sincerely hope that you get a lot out of it. I have tried to be balanced in presenting both the advantages and disadvantages of some of the new ideas. I encourage you to adopt a similar open and critical stance when reading this book. You are welcome to e-mail me at so.sereyboth@gmail.com with your thoughts and comments while you are reading this book or afterwards. I promise to get back to you speedily. Mr. SO SEREYBOTH MScIT (4th Semester) Roll No. 541010894 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT In my effort to successfully develop this project, I would like to thank all of the people who take part directly and indirectly to make it possible. First and...
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...post bland, uninteresting job descriptions, crossing their fingers in hope that they will find the ideal individual who is an organizational fit. In addition, the most shocking aspect of this is that most business leaders focus their resources and efforts going after the 17% of candidates who are actively seeking employment, yet desire to employ the 83% who are not looking for work (Adler, 2013). Employers want to hire top performers, but most are not cognizant of doing so in effective ways and avoid violating anti-discrimination and other significant employment laws. For example, Adler (2013) informs that there are a variety of reasons that hiring managers have a hard time finding the best recruits, including that: employers depend on a surplus of candidates during the hiring process, but seek them in a talent scarce environment; candidates do not know how to engage in the hiring game; and few hiring managers take responsibility for attracting quality candidates because they are focused on attracting quantity, hoping to discover that diamond in the rough. These are all significant issues that need to be addressed, dissected, understood, and reframed in a strategic manner to produce the most effective hiring programs that will attract top talent (Adler, 2013). In this paper I will prepare an advertisement for the position my manger is hiring for. In that advertisement I will provide the job description, description of job duties, and description of minimum qualifications...
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...Orion Shield Project Case Study Executive Summary Scientific Engineering Corporation (SEC) is competing for the contract of the Orion Shield Project, funded by Space Technology Industries (STI). Henry Larsen, the director of engineering at SEC has insisted on having Gary, an engineer with no previous managerial skills, be the program manager. Over the last 14 years Gary had established a reputation as a respected and talented project engineer; he has never managed a project before. Henry Larsen chose Gary to be the project manager, because he thought Gary could be easily manipulated and would not challenge Larsen’s unethical ways. This case study explores the ethical, technical, legal, contractual and other project management issues faced by Gary in the execution of the project. Gary spent more time working directly on the project rather than managing the project, ignoring his new job description. There were many oversights and failures by the two of them that lead to a delay in project timelines and created cost over-runs. Trust issues between the client and SEC began to arise when Gary failed to divulge the necessary information to his stakeholders. The project was mishandled by SEC and the client is very unhappy. Gary’s first attempt at project managing isn’t what he expected. 1.) Are there any valid reasons for Henry Larsen to suggest that SEC’s proposal should state that it expected to be able to meet the specified performance standard? Yes, there are valid...
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...GROUP PROJECT (March 2015) The learning outcomes: • Integrate concepts and principles, understandings of entrepreneurial issues into actual business ideas and scenario applications • Exhibit high level of group efforts and cooperativeness • Effective roles as group members. The Task: The group tasks to identify and choose a successful entrepreneur, and come up with a report (which also needs to be presented) on the findings that relate to entrepreneurial issues about the entrepreneur and the business. Refer to the Rubric for Assessing Group Project below as to what are the areas that your group need to provide/cover in your report. The requirements: The report should be prepared using Microsoft office word, with line spacing of 1.5, using font 11 on Times New Roman or Arial. The length of the report should be between 3,000 to 3,500 words. Proper heading and sub-heading should be used to organize the flow of the report. Minimum of 15 sources should be used to prepare the report. A softcopy of the report should be kept by the group, in case of the lost of report. Plagiarism could be penalized to Zero mark. The report is due on the 12th week of the semester, in class – after which, marks could be deducted based on lateness. RUBRICS FOR ASSESSING GROUP PROJECT PAPER Principles of Entrepreneurship (ENT530) Entrepreneurial Opportunity or Business Issues Identification & Analysis Skill | | ...
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...[pic] PROJECT MANAGEMENT BUSINESS CASE: MOLADI HOUSING | NAME: | |KEFAYAT SAYED ALLY | |STUDENT NO: 206507344 | |WORD COUNT = 5129, EXCLUDING TABLES, | |BIBLIOGRAPHY & APPENDECIES | | | | | CONTENTS SECTION 1: 1.1. INTRODUCTION 3. SECTION 2: 2.1. BACKGROUND 3. SECTION 3: 3.1. PROJECT DESCRIPTION 4. 3.2. OBJECTIVES 5. 3.3. SCOPE 6. 3.4. VIABILITY 8. SECTION 4: 4.1 FINANCIAL COSTS AND FORECASTS 9. 4.1 STAGE 1 COSTING TABLE 10. 4.2 STAGE 2 COSTING TABLE 10. 4.3 STAGE 3 COSTING TABLE 12. SECTION 5: 5.1. INTERPRETATION OF FINANCIAL TABLES 13. SECTION 6: 6.1. CONCLUSION 13. 6.2. BIBLIOGRAPHY 15. 6.3 APPENDICIES 16-24. 1.1 INTRODUCTION This business case has been presented to provide a solution...
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...PERIODIC REPORT TEMPLATE FRONT PAGE PROJECT PERIODIC REPORT Grant Agreement number: Project acronym: Project title: Funding Scheme: Date of latest version of Annex I against which the assessment will be made: Periodic report: 1st □ 2nd □ 3rd □ 4th □ Period covered: from to Name, title and organisation of the scientific representative of the project's coordinator[1]: Tel: Fax: E-mail: Project website[2] address: Declaration by the scientific representative of the project coordinator1 | | |I, as scientific representative of the coordinator1 of this project and in line with the obligations as stated in Article II.2.3 of the Grant | |Agreement declare that: | | | |The attached periodic report represents an accurate description of the work carried out in this project for this reporting period; | |The project (tick as appropriate): ...
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...Software Project Management Plan August 27, 2012 IT Management System Luvianka Olivares Table of Contents Scope Statement.........................................................................................3-4 Work breakdown structure..........................................................................5 Network diagram...........................................................................................6 Risk management plan............................................................................7-10 Resource management plan..................................................................11-12 Communication management plan......................................................13-14 Scope Statement Project Name: IT Management System Project Manager: Luvianka Olivares Project Objectives: To design and install a computer network for a small business. Deliverables: Software package will manage: * Running of all computers in the business * Training and extensive end-user documentation * Technical support self-service website * Full backup process * Security of IT development tools * Project Management- Project charter, project scope statement, status reports, final project report, lessons-learned report, and any other document required to manage this project Milestones: Training digital video files Preliminary database ...
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...NEWCASTLE BUSINESS SCHOOL & LEARNING DEVELOPMENT GSBS6001 ASSIGNMENT 2: Individual Case Study Analysis Analytical argument and recommendations ANALYTICAL ARGUMENT Below are descriptions outlining the features of 3 paragraphs. Read each one. Description 1 * ------------------------------------------------- There is no topic sentence, so the main idea of the paragraph is unknown * ------------------------------------------------- The writer summarises the key point of each source * ------------------------------------------------- The writer’s point of view is unknown * ------------------------------------------------- There is no indication of how the theories are similar or different Description 2 * ------------------------------------------------- The Topic Sentence expresses the writer’s argument (or point of view) * ------------------------------------------------- Ideas-prominent referencing indicates an analytical quality in the writing by expressing how content/ideas are related (e.g. 3rd sentence) * ------------------------------------------------- Critical evaluation is stronger and supported by additional evidence Description 3 * ------------------------------------------------- The topic sentence indicates the overall focus of the paragraph * ------------------------------------------------- The writer shows links between the 3 theorists by using connective words *...
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...Case Analysis: Bob Knowlton Kristen Onkka 1. DESCRIPTION. Bob Knowlton is a successful new project head for the photon unit. Things had been going well for him under the direction of Jerrold up until a new man by the name of Fester entered the story. Fester turned out to be more capable than Knowlton had anticipated and quickly overshadowed the team. The dynamic he brought to the group distanced the team and made Knowlton feel unappreciated. In the end, Knowlton quit his job for a new one and Fester left the switched projects to become a project head. 2. DIAGNOSIS. This case demonstrates the power of groupthink. The photon unit group had been making progress but not nearly to the degree as when Fester joined the group. Fester’s way of thinking challenged group norms and helped further the project along. This case also illustrates the influence ...
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...Study: The U.S. Census Bureau Field Data Collection Project: Don’t Count on it Exclusive Summary: In April of 2006, the census Bureau awarded the Field Data Collection Automation (FDCA) contract to the Harris Corporation for $ 595.7 Million - a five year effort intended to automate and integrate major field operation for the 2010decennial. The U.S. Census Bureau Field Data Collection Automation (FDCA) program provided advanced, automated systems that streamlined the Decennial Census field operations. Harris Corporation served as the systems integrator, as well as providing overall program management for the FDCA program, as it delivered the following systems and services for the 2010 Decennial Census: * Mobile Computing—Applications and custom mobile computing hardware that enables data collection, GPS address verification, and administrative applications * Office Computing—Large, nationwide, reliable office and back office infrastructure deployment; geographically prioritized workforce management and operational status; automated decision workflow and dissemination * Security—Applications, procedures, and protocols necessary to secure confidential Census data * Telecommunications—Wireless connectivity to all Census offices and enumerators in the field * Support Services—Procuring, deploying, and maintaining all IT equipment 1. How important is the Field Data Collection Automation project for the U.S. Census Bureau? How does it impact decision...
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...“Genius,” Thomas Edison famously said, “is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” He would have found a kindred spirit in Elif Bilgin, 16, of Istanbul, Turkey, winner of the 2013 $50,000 Science in Action award, part of the third annual Google Science Fair. The award honors a project that can make a practical difference by addressing an environmental, health or resources challenge; it should be innovative, easy to put into action and reproducible in other communities. Bilgin spent two years toiling away on her project to develop a bioplastic from discarded banana peels, enduring 10 failed trials of plastics that weren’t strong enough or that decayed rapidly. She was undaunted. As she put it in her project description: “Even Thomas Edison said, ‘I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.’” Finally, in her last two trials, she made plastics with the features she sought, and it did not decay. We admire her persistence, which will be help her to take advantage of another aspect of her Science in Action prize—a year’s worth of mentoring to help further her work. I like to think, too, that Edison, who used to stop by the Scientific American offices in New York City to demonstrate his latest inventions, would have approved. The ingredients to make Bilgin’s plastic are relatively benign. As she wrote in her entry materials, “it is possible to say that one could do it at home.” In her research, she learned that starch and cellulose are used elsewhere...
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