5/21/2011 Strategic Planning In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. Pick a general direction and implement like hell.” Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric between 1981 and 2001 1 5/21/2011 • “We have a strategic plan, It´s called doing things.” Herb Kelleher, Cofounder and CEO of Southwest Airlines between 1971 and 2008 • “Strategy is 10 per cent vision and 90 per cent execution.” Percy Barnevik, CEO and Chairman of Asea Brown Boveri between 1988 and 2002 2 5/21/2011
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Why is it necessary to have top management support for the implementation of technology innovations? Innovation implementation require adequate resources including money, but more importantly, people and time. These resources will not be formed without top management support. Top management support is essential for the project since it is they who allocate the funds which turn the wheels of changes in the organization. At all stage of implementation, management must monitor and change the process
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copies of this document are uncontrolled project management DECEMBER 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents 2 Purpose 3 Scope 3 Overview 3 Procedure 4 1. The Proposal 4 2. Initiating the Project 5 3. Implementing the Project 6 4. Finalising the Project 7 5. Roles and Responsibilities 8 6. Definitions 8 Appendix – Tools for Project Planning 9 Tool 1. PERT Analysis for the calculation of time estimates. 9 Tool 2 . Risk Management 10 Tool 3 . Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
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2.1 Defining of Knowledge Management System According to Lin and Tseng (2005) defined Knowledge Management System is rapid development of the internet and information technology pushed the world into the era of a new economy. Damodaran and Olphert (2000, as cited in Li, Liu and Liu, 2016) explained that Knowledge Management Systems are information systems that are perceived as facilitating organizational learning by capturing important content and process ‘knowledge’ and making it available to employees
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Athens Metro can be certainly considered as a Mega-Project. It is a high cost infrastructure project, it took many years to develop and build, it involved many public and private stakeholders and it changed the life of many Athenians and the public transportation network of Athens. Furthermore, around some metro stations the urban weave infrastructure transformed from its previous condition Public transportation in Athens Athens is the capital of Greece and the largest city in the country.
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DELIVERY OF COMPUTING PROJECTS INTRODUCTION: A project can be defined as a process of creating a new product or service. It has a beginning and an end as stated by (Project Management Institute 2008). The outcome of a project is said to be tangible or intangible, even though it may present some project deliverable and activities, this will not change the unique characteristic of a project. However, the most essential part of a project are the relations stuck between the planning variables and their
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Successful project Hassan – Radzhin History Taking into account a economic situation of Russia service of transcontinental transport streams gains the increasing importance. Strategic development of the company is directed on increase of global competitiveness of Russian Railways and their deep integration into the Euroasian transport system. In this direction of JSC RZD sets for himself the following tasks: • increase in a share of Russian Railways in the international transport market (first of
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|RESEARCH PROPOSAL | |On | |CLOUD COMPUTING AND SECUTITY | |Submitted | |for Ph.D. Approval
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ADVOCACY PROJECT PROPOSAL Project Title: YouthFM AIDS Awareness Project Project Period: Three-years Target areas: Phase I: Dar Es Salaam, Coast, Tanga, Zanzibar & Morogoro. Phase II: Mwanza, Arusha, Dodoma & Mbeya Total funds requested: Year-One: US Dollars -------------------- Year-Two: US Dollars ------------------- Year-Three: US Dollars ----------------- Proposal submitted to: ---------------------------------. Proposal submitted by: Tanzania Youth Aware
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of computing that can spontaneously be provisioned and released with reduced management effort or service provider interaction (Mell and Grance, 2011: 2). This paper will focus on a project dealing with migration of an IT company to the cloud. As a project manager it is essential to keep an eye on what is happening during the project and foreseeing the general procurement of that newly remotely hosted service. Project Scope It is worth in noting that the strategy for acquiring cloud migration
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