Preparing for Innovation: Understanding How IT Organizational Change Can Help Drive Success with Unified Communications Table of Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1 Unification and Change ................................................................................
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White Paper: Value Proposition for a Project Management Office (PMO) The goal of the PMO is to execute high quality projects faster and at lower cost by implementing common methods, practices and processes across the entire organization. These common methods include templates, defined/tested processes, and best practices. Some common responsibilities of a PMO include: 1. Develop/support/deploy defined project management processes and project management templates. These reusable objects
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ITMM – 571: Project Management for ITM. CASE STUDY 3: Article Title: SAIC to Pay $500 Million to Settle New York CityTime Fraud. Topic: Case Study on a real-life IT Failed Project: SAIC’s CityTime Project with New York City. Author: Bob Van Voris. File Name: Potula_ITMM_571 Case Study_03_.doc About The Author: Bob Van Voris is the Legal Reporter at Bloomberg News in the Greater New York City Area since 2002. He worked as a reporter at National Law Journal from 1997
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The Role of the Project Manager By Duncan Haughey, PMP A project manager is the person who has the overall responsibility for the successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of a project. The job title is used in construction, petrochemical, architecture, information technology and many different industries that produce products and services. The project manager must have a combination of skills including an ability to ask penetrating questions
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in Chapter 4. 3. Analyze the way in which Tim Aston, the young project manager, was exercising his skills with respect to his project staff and the functional managers. Discuss Tim Aston's effectiveness in light of the three core skills you identified. 4. Analyze the degree of support Tim was provided by his company: What kind of support did Tim require, and to what extent did he receive it? 5. Make recommendations to both the senior executives (the company) and Tim Aston, relative to personnel
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751.htm BUS 375 WK 2 Chapter 1,2 Quiz - All Possible Questions CHAPTER 1: (E) 1. In today’s market, which of the following industries appears to have a need for project management? A. Aerospace & defense B. Construction C. Information systems D. All industries have a need for project management (M) 2. Which of the following is not one of the PMBOKâ Guide’s five process groups? A. Feasibility studies B. Planning C. Execution D.
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751.htm BUS 375 WK 2 Chapter 1,2 Quiz - All Possible Questions CHAPTER 1: (E) 1. In today’s market, which of the following industries appears to have a need for project management? A. Aerospace & defense B. Construction C. Information systems D. All industries have a need for project management (M) 2. Which of the following is not one of the PMBOKâ Guide’s five process groups? A. Feasibility studies B. Planning C. Execution D.
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quality management process varies dependent on the degree of ownership control. It is important to understand how project management and senior leadership work together and understand what it is the stakeholders require when integrating and pulling together a business model while at the same time adding value to the self-regulation of the organization. It is the project management team who is responsible for the implementation of quality in process management. The stakeholder’s responsibility
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Project Introduction Himont, LLC is currently undergoing a revamping of their information technology department. A cost analysis was performed on the IT operations business unit to determine current and future operating costs. It was identified that nearly $250K was being spent quarterly on housing and maintaining physical servers to support the businesses national infrastructure needs in Orange County, California. This cost was thought to be too high to maintain. A project has been spun up to
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07-079 Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage Alan MacCormack* Theodore Forbath** Peter Brooks ** Patrick Kalaher** *Harvard Business School, Boston, MA **Wipro Technologies, Product Strategy and Architecture Practice, Boston, MA Copyright © 2007 by Alan MacCormack, Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks, and Patrick Kalaher. Note: This is one of two papers reporting the results from this research. The other is “From Outsourcing to Global Collaboration: New
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