Cutbacks in production had decreased the demand for the standard machine tools. More and more customers were asking for either major modifications to the standard machine tools or a completely new product design. The marketplace was changing and senior management recognized that a new strategic focus was necessary. However, lower-level management and the work force, especially engineering, were strongly resisting a change. The employees, many of them with over 20 years of employment at Williams
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Methodology The main reason the executive staff waited so long to implement an Enterprise Project Management Methodology (EPM) was because many of the employees through the ranks were on different pages and there was uncertainty among those involved. Uncertainty leads to disagreements, mistrust, and personal preferences become tied up in business politics. The lack of cooperation would have trickled down from senior management to lower level employees and would have affected their clients. They had to
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Available online at www.sciencedirect.com International Journal of Project Management 30 (2012) 608 – 620 www.elsevier.com/locate/ijproman The three roles of a project portfolio management office: Their impact on portfolio management execution and success Barbara Natalie Unger a,⁎, Hans Georg Gemünden a , Monique Aubry b a b Technische Universität Berlin, Chair for Technology and Innovation Management, Straße des 17. Juni 135, Sekr. H71, 10623 Berlin, Germany Université du Québec
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Case Study: Concrete Masonry Corporation (CMC) Long Range Planning A plan is an organised way of doing something. An effective plan is one that has been arranged after careful consideration, for conducting a future activity. The term "planning" denotes organising how something should be done, especially how a company should be run to make profits. Planning is the process of selecting realistically attainable business objectives and formulating the general policies and the specific directions
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| Points Received: | 60 / 60 (100%) | | Question Type: | # Questions: | # Correct: | Multiple choice | 3 | 3 | Short | 3 | N/A | | Grade Details | | | | 1. | Question: | (TCO A) Which of the following statements about Project Portfolio Management is NOT true? | | Your Answer: | | | The PPM process will force organizations to abandon the preparation of traditional business plans and analyses. | | | | | To keep from falling into the error
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Executive Summary: Chris Johnson, an experienced technology project manager for A&D High Tech, was asked to meet with the senior managers to discuss taking over the company’s new web site project. The purpose of the project was to establish an online store to increase sales through the internet. Immediately after his transition meeting with senior management, CIO Matt Webb informed Chris that the CEO needed to know if he could complete the project by Christmas, which was only 6 months away. Although the
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global hand-on leaders Besides strong academic business fundamentals, our intensive one-year program is designed to constantly push our MBAs beyond their comfort zone. A diversity of hands-on projects takes them through various settings: - a 6-week startup project - a 9-week international consulting project with medium to large multinational companies - a one-week discovery expedition to an emerging market (this year, South Africa), advising local SMEs With a strong self-awareness With an unparalleled
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harder than expected to unearth those ideas or exploit those capabilities in global innovation projects. Some of the challenges of global projects are familiar: figuring out the right role for top executives, for example, or finding a good balance between formal and informal project management processes. But although the challenges may be familiar, the solutions are not; what works for an innovation project conducted in a single location doesn’t necessarily work for one dispersed across many sites around
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BEngSc Aerospace Operation Assignment topic: | Home Improvement Project | Date Due: | 1st April 2015 | Date Submitted: | 1st April 2015 | Lecturer Name: | Mary Walmssley | Tutor Name | Norman Sim | ------------------------------------------------- I hereby certify that this assignment is my own work, based on my personal study and/or research and that I have acknowledged all material and sources used in the preparation of this assignment. I also certify that the assignment has not
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and Responsibilities for IT Projects Project Title | [type the project title here] | Project Manager | | Document Version & Change History & Update Date | | | Title | Role | Name | Project Sponsor | Commissions the team to deliver the project and champions the cause throughout the project. Typically a senior member of staff with a relevant area of responsibility that will be affected by the outcome of the project. This may be a senior executive, director, or program
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