...well-aimed program plans, an organization may tap into the resources offered by government, private industry, and other charitable organizations. When writing a grant proposal, there are several important steps which must all be followed if they are to be seriously considered by donors. After finding an appropriate Request for Proposal (RFP) or Request for Application (RFA), it is important to write the proposal to address the issues for which the donor is offering support or program monies. The first step is to write an abstract of your proposal; it contains a basic summary of your proposal including the name of your agency, type of agency, purpose and objectives of the project, specific interventions of the project, target population, location and setting of the project, and relevance of the proposed project to the funding intentions. (Terao & Yuen, 2003) The table of contents is the next phase of proposal submission. This page is basically a guide to what items will be covered within the proposal and where they are located. The specific aims, background and significance, and needs and problem statement are very important parts of the written proposal. These components define the specific needs of the target population, location where services will be provided, the current state of affairs, and what will be...
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...that I have from the beginning of my work experience in different projects and countries, projects are like symphonies. Each instrument has to be introducing in the right moment, in the right performance, in the right intensity and overall harmony has to be predominant. The orchestra director in this case is the project manager and the project participants are the musicians. I want to base my argument in different cases and articles discussed during the course. First, as we can see in the second tutorial, into the Conference Centre Case Study, the project manager, orchestra director, is the maximum responsible of the completion and successful of the project. In that case, the requirement was to build a conference centre with specific condition and constraints. As for orchestra director is not the first time that has to be interpreted a piece of Wagner, any time is required a new version, different and unique to the rest, like projects, with specific conditions that has to be negotiated with producers, clients for the project manager. A very detailed and congruent definition of the scope and a very detailed planning of the project, the score for the orchestra, is the cornerstone for successful. Furthermore, the art of the project is based on the art of the project manager to add harmony between all the integrant to complete any phase on time, on cost and performance. In that case, if the non-experienced project manager had planned and negotiated in detail the scope, significant...
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...five primary segments: global technology services, systems and technology, global business services, software and global financing. The global technology services segment primarily includes IT infrastructure services and business process services. The systems and technology division provides IBM’s clients with business solutions built on advanced computing power and storage capabilities. Offerings include servers and infrastructure storage products; microelectronics for IBM systems and for sale to original equipment manufacturers; and retail store solutions, such as network-connected cash registers. IBM is active in over 170 countries worldwide. In 2011, IBM acquired the following companies. The provider of real estate and facility management software solutions, TRIRIGA, Inc; the provider of intelligence analytics for fraud and crime prevention, i2; the risk analytics firm Algorithmic; the provider of...
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...Executive summary This report will be applied in the case of measuring the actual use of project management which is International Fashion Show(IFS) 2015. The primary model was showed before the report and It will build a new model what more fit for the event in the end. The event can be described as a success, project management model to consider for event delivery. This report will be divided into 7 sections follow the model. In the end, it will explain recommendation for the IFS. In the report, mission statement, the risk management, other process and the evaluation will be changed. According to the change model, the event management can be improve than the previous. Content Executive summary 3 1.Introduction 5 1.1 Project Management 6 2. Team building 6 2.1 Integration 8 3. Defining the event 8 3.1 Brief and Expectation 9 3.2 Core Value(Embok) 9 3.3 Mission Statement (EPARS) 10 4. Project Definition 11 4.1 Aims and Objectives 11 4.2 SMART analysis 12 4.3 Secondary research 13 4.4 Primary Research 15 5. Planning 16 5.1 Stakeholder Analysis 16 5.2 Scope of work 18 5.2.1 EPARS Scope Management 18 5.2.2 Scope of work(Project management cascade) 19 5.2.3 Maylor’s Four-phase Approach 20 5.3 Feasibilities 20 5.4 Strategic Planning 21 5.4.1 PESTLE 21 5.4.2 SWOT analysis 22 5.6 Work Breakdown Structure 23 5.6.1 What is the WBS? (EMBOK) 23 5.6.2 Domains 23 5.6.3 WBS vs. Domains 24 5.6.4 Administration 25 5.6.5 Design 25 ...
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...In our aspiration to be a world class gas and utilities company, we will continue to see beyond the expected as we transform new opportunities into invigorating growth. ANNUAL REPORT 2 011 LNG Regasification Facilities Project PGB will own and operate the country’s first Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Regasification facility which will become commercially operational in 2012. The facilities, strategically located on one of the world’s busiest shipping lane – the Straits of Malacca, will be a key gateway for reinforcing the nation’s energy requirements via regasifying LNG brought in from readily available sources worldwide. Once converted to gas form, the molecules will then be flowed into PGB’s existing Peninsular Gas Utilisation (PGU) pipeline to meet various energy demands. 1 a nnual report 2011 Our Vision, Mission and Shared Values 2 Milestones in the Making 4 Five-Year Financial Highlights 6 Corporate Information 8 Contents Our Operations 10 Our Presence 12 Organisational and Corporate Structure 14 Corporate and Management Directory 15 Board of Directors 16 Performance Review 36 Directors’ Profiles 18 Q&A Q&A with the Chairman 38 Management Committee 26 CEO’s Business Review 48 Management Committee’s Profiles 28 Financial Review 64 Statement of Value Added 70 Performance of Shares 71 Financial Calendar 71 PGB People 72 LNG Regasification Facilities 74 PGB in the News 76 Awards and Achievements 77 Corporate...
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...learning, competencies and skills that can significantly contribute to the growth of the organization. XLRI has always been proudly associated with academic excellence, personal values and social concern. It has been the crucible of leadership training for over 60 years and its banner is held high by a fine breed of alumni who serve as “change agents” thereby adding a new dimension to their corporate role. This integral and value based formation will greatly assist our students to be innovative, competent and creative leaders. They are groomed in a manner as to serve as agents of continuous improvement and change. It was in 1997 that XLRI recognized an unfulfilled need for formal management training at middle and senior levels of corporate strata. The result of that thought process was the General Management Programme, which has ever since, transformed several industry professionals into veritable leaders who reflect the standards and values of XLRI at various organizations. Recognized by AICTE, the programme places emphasis on stringent admission procedures for selecting the students who are then exposed to a rigorous training regimen which leads them along a journey of rediscovery. Focused academics, structured pedagogical approaches, competition and program rigor, constantly provide the opportunity to assess and reform one’s own abilities. Through these phases, emerge a competent group of leaders ready to take on the challenges that the...
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...STUDY II-2 Real-Time Business Intelligence at Continental Airlines CASE STUDY II-3 Norfolk Southern Railway: The Business Intelligence Journey CASE STUDY II-4 Mining Data to Increase State Tax Revenues in California CASE STUDY II-5 The Cliptomania™ Web Store: An E-Tailing Start-up Survival Story CASE STUDY II-6 Rock Island Chocolate Company, Inc.: Building a Social Networking Strategy CASE STUDY III-1 Managing a Systems Development Project at Consumer and Industrial Products, Inc. CASE STUDY III-2 A Make-or-Buy Decision at Baxter Manufacturing Company CASE STUDY III-3 ERP Purchase Decision at Benton Manufacturing Company, Inc. CASE STUDY III-4 The Kuali Financial System: An Open-Source Project CASE STUDY III-5 NIBCO’s “Big Bang”: An SAP Implementation CASE STUDY III-6 BAT Taiwan: Implementing SAP for a Strategic Transition CASE STUDY III-7 A Troubled Project at Modern Materials, Inc. CASE STUDY III-8 Purchasing and Implementing a Student Management System at Jefferson County School System CASE STUDY IV-1...
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...Project Management Project and Programme Management Resources for Students Gower have teamed up with a major provider of project management training, ESI International, to bring you a range of project and programme resources to support your learning. Visit www.projectmanagement9.com and: • • • • Download white papers on topics as diverse as the project communication, project leadership, risk management and project troubleshooting. View professional project webinars from some of the leading presenters on project management covering topics such as: risk management, troubled project recovery, portfolio management, business requirements, earned value management, performance-based service contracting. Learn about the qualifications and development available from the PMI, Project Management Institute, the world’s largest non-profit professional association in project management. Link to further resources, professional bodies, news sites and more. These resources are designed to help you develop your learning on project management and start you on the road to professional qualifications or further development, once you have finished your degree or your current qualification. Visit www.projectmanagement9.com Project Management Ninth Edition DENNIS LOCK © Dennis Lock 2007 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise...
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...Dr. A. Robert Wasson has spent over 18 years in management consulting roles with A.T. Kearney, Strategic Decisions Group, Toffler Associates, and, most recently, Kalypso. His consulting focus has largely been across all aspects of the idea-to-commercialization process, ranging from analyzing future business environments for ideation activities in the fuzzy front-end of innovation, to designing and implementing new technology and product development processes, to developing business strategies for emerging new businesses. Bob led transformational consulting engagements utilizing megatrend analysis with Toffler Associates, implemented new product development and portfolio management processes while with Kalypso, and developed marketing and commercialization plans for clients with Strategic Decisions Group. Complementing his consulting experience, Bob has over 12 years of experience with Fortune 100 companies including Alcoa, Chevron, and the Continental Group, mainly in corporate new venture activities and R&D centers. The speaker provided insights into stage gate process and its significance in the role of new product development. In a new product pyramid strategic excellence, portfolio excellence and development excellence are the major drivers and development excellence could be achieved by complying to stage gate process. The main objective of stage gate process is to manage pipe lines and execute pipelines. The idea would be reviewed at every gate and go or no go...
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...Hardware Replacement Project This paper is a discussion concerning the upcoming hardware replacement project that is rapidly approaching the IT department with the implementation of a new CRM into our existing infrastructure to replace the less efficient version that we have currently in place. To do this correctly an important factor regarding the hardware must be addressed first, which is the cause for this project. The equipment that is currently in place has to be improved to support the upgraded functions that we wish to utilize with the updated CRM system. To properly implement this transformation we have to address all of the main variables possible with proper project management. Project Management Project Management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to achieve specific targets within specified budget and time line constraints (Laudon, 2011). Within project management are these variables required for us to manage in order for us to complete a task like this successfully. The first variable that we must understand completely is the Scope, which defines the work that is or is not included in a project (Laudon, 2011). Understanding the scope is understanding what work will be required for the goal which is the proper implementation and function of the new CRM by upgrading the current IS infrastructure by replacing if necessary equipment that is deemed non-functional, obsolete, or incompatible with current operational standards or need’s...
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...MANAGING VIRTUAL PROJECT TEAMS A research project submitted to the faculty of San Francisco State University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Business Administration by Bryan Rolf Trautsch San Francisco, California December 11, 2003 Copyright (c) 2003 by Bryan Trautsch. CERTIFICATION OF APPROVAL I certify that I have read VIRTUAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT by Bryan Rolf Trautsch, and that in my opinion this work meets the criteria for approving a research project submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Business Administration degree at San Francisco State University. ________________________________________ Dr. Robert C. Nickerson Professor of Information Systems ________________________________________ Dr. Sam S. Gill Professor of Information Systems ABSTRACT MANAGING VIRTUAL PROJECT TEAMS Bryan Rolf Trautsch San Francisco State University Fall 2003 The purpose of the project is to explore the communications and collaborations issues associated with managing virtual project teams. In order to establish a better understanding of the problem, the paper evaluates virtual teams against more traditional collocated teams to provide some background and depth to the research. The method used in the research was in the format of a questionnaire consisting of six questions. The questionnaire was delivered via e-mail to various project managers with virtual project team experience dispersed through...
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...Project Management Jo Anne Bishop Ashford University Project Planning and Management BUS611 Dr. Caroline Howard October 14, 2012 Project Management Effective project management is crucial to the success of any project regardless of the size or complexity. Project management experts Karen Tate and Paula Martin said, “Trying to manage a project without project management is like trying to play football without a game plan” (Martin & Tate, 2001, pg 9). Project managers have a difficult job. Their jobs are often times made more difficult by the dynamic environment in which they must work. Project managers must take a project through the entire project management life-cycle, from an idea to a fully developed deliverable. While the job is difficult, there are many tools and processes that have been developed to assist in project management. While they are responsible for the leadership of the project, they have many, such as the project sponsor and project team members, who are there to assist them in ensuring the job gets done. In addition to the personnel who will help him, there are many different project management tools as well. Project scope, work breakdown structures, contingency plans and project management software are all tools that, if used properly, can ensure that a project can be completed within time and budget. Project management is not an easy job but if a project manager understands his project and his roles and responsibilities along with the...
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...Assignment 2 for CSG 2344 project methods and professionalism Stage 1-----Due day: 28th March Works: 1. Title page 2. Executive summary 3. Table of contents 4. Glossary of terms 5. Introduction 6. Assumptions 7. Scope management and work breakdown structure 8. Stage 1 progress report (The form is in the blackboard) Stage 2-----Due day: 11th April Works: 1. Stakeholder analysis table 2. Risk management: a. Risk Assessment Table, original and final b. Explanation and justification of all differences (or lack of) between the original and the final versions 3. Human management: a. Table showing the required human resources for the Project Team 4. Stage 2 progress report Stage 3-----Due day: 2nd May Works: 1. Procurement Management a. Table showing: ▪ all goods and services that need to be procured ▪ where they should/could be procured from ▪ when they are required ▪ duration of the contract (if applicable) ▪ approximate costs 2. Communications Management a. Stakeholder Management Strategy Table b. Stakeholder Communications Analysis Table 3. Quality Management a. Table showing your quality plan which must include identifying relevant, specific, quality assurance tasks and quality...
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...External company is called the outsourcing company Project overview The objective of this project is to research about outsourcing various services to an external company. The external company is called the outsourcing company. This research is based on outsourcing call centers of Dell Computers. Dell Inc. is an American multinational information technology corporation based in United States, that develops, sells and supports computers and related products and services. The company is one of the largest technological corporations in the world, employing more than 103,300 people worldwide. Dell Computer's strategy was built around a number of core elements: build-to-order manufacturing, mass customization, partnerships with suppliers, just-in-time components inventories, direct sales, market segmentation, customer service, and extensive data and information sharing with both supply partners and customers. Through this strategy, the company hoped to achieve what Michael Dell called "virtual integration"—a stitching together of Dell's business with its supply partners and customers in real time such that all three appeared to be part of the same organizational team. Outsourcing Outsourcing can be defined as the contracting out of business function(s) to an external, provider. The ability of businesses to outsource to external companies outside the nation is referred to as offshoring or offshore outsourcing. Outsourcing is done for various purposes. Business organizations...
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...How to Create an Effective Change Management Plan Prosci's Change Management Toolkit is one of the most comprehensive guides for managers, project teams and consultants involved in change management. The toolkit includes detailed planning templates, readiness assessments and guidelines for building executive sponsorship and managing resistance. Templates include communication plans, training plans, sponsor roadmaps, coaching plans and resistance management plans. Based on research with more than 700 companies, The Change Management Toolkit is a leader’s guide that contains templates and guidelines to help you effectively employ change management and write a complete and professional change management plan. Assessment tools and implementation guidelines will help you implement an effective change management strategy.The Change Management Toolkit enables you to: * Manage the people side of change, not just the business side. * Develop a change management strategy for your project. * Create a communication plan. * Actively manage resistance to change. | Toolkit elements: * Change management overview - what is change management, why is it important, what can I do to manage change effectively * Assessments - tools for evaluating your change and your organization's readiness for change * Templates - critical document templates for planning and executing change management - provided on CD-ROM * Theories and perspectives - a practical discussion of change principles...
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