Author: Stephen S. Bonham Publisher: Artech House ISBN: 1596931205 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 279
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This unique resource presents a new look at how the puzzle pieces of corporate dynamics management can fit together to ensure strategic designs are actionable.
Author: Andretta Tsebe Publisher: Andretta Tsebe ISBN: Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 183
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Discussion on strategic management practices that have been applied in the South African steel industry, including theory on business rescue that was applied to turn around the industry
Author: Alec Sharp Publisher: Artech House ISBN: 1596931930 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 473
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At last - here's the long-awaited, extensively revised and expanded edition of the acclaimed and bestselling book, Workflow Modeling. This thoroughly updated resource provides you with clear, current, and concise guidance on creating highly effective workflow systems for your organization. The new edition offers you an even clearer methodology, refined techniques, more integrated examples, and up-to-the-minute coverage of recent developments and today's hottest topics. Providing proven techniques for identifying, modeling, and redesigning business processes, and explaining how to implement workflow improvement, this book helps you define requirements for systems development or systems acquisition. By showing you how to build visual models for illustrating workflow, the authors help you to assess your current business processes and see where process improvement and systems development can take place.
Author: Darcy Brooker Publisher: Artech House ISBN: 1630818283 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 203
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This practical resource presents basic probabilistic and statistical methods or tools used to extract the information from reliability data to make sound decisions. It consolidates and condenses the reliability data analysis methods most often used in everyday practice into an easy-to-follow guide, while also providing a solid foundation from which to explore more complex methods if desired. The book provides mathematical and Excel spreadsheet formulas to estimate parameters and confidence bounds (uncertainty) for the most common probability distributions used in reliability analysis. Several other Excel tools are provided to aid users without access to expensive, dedicated, commercial tools. This book and tools were developed by the authors after many years of teaching the fundamentals of reliability data analysis to a broad range of technical and non-technical military and civilian personnel, making it useful for both novice and experienced engineers.
Author: Lorna Uden Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319626981 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 558
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This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations, KMO 2017, held in Beijing, China, in August 2017. The theme of the conference was "Emerging Technology and Knowledge Management in Organizations." The 45 contributions accepted for KMO 2017 were selected from 112 submissions and are organized in topical sections on: Knowledge Management Models and Behaviour Studies; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Transfer and Learning; Knowledge and Service Innovation; Knowledge and Organization; Information Systems Research; Value Chain and Supply Chain; Knowledge Re-presentation and Reasoning; Data Mining and Intelligent Science; Big Data Management; Internet of Things and Network.
Author: John Care Publisher: Artech House ISBN: 1596933402 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 360
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This indispensable sales tool shows you the ropes of lead qualification, the RFP process, and needs analysis and discovery, and explains how your technical know-how can add invaluable leverage to sales efforts at every step. You learn how to plan and present the perfect pitch, demonstrate products effectively, build customer relationship skills, handle objections and competitors, negotiate prices and contracts, close the sale, and so much more.
Author: Marco Alexander Caiza Andresen Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3638783375 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 17
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Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Operations Research, grade: 1,7, University of Paderborn (Department of Business Information Systems ), course: Advanced Information Technolgy in Business, language: English, abstract: In consequence of the steadily increasing demand for projects there is an increasing demand for project risk management. Due to the high complexity of project work and its planning there are many possibilities where risks can endanger the success or even the practicability of a certain project. Hence, there cannot be enough emphasis on project risk planning for the smoothly flow of project progression. Within projects the term risk is defined as “[...] the cumulative effect of the chances of uncertain occurrences adversely affecting project objectives” (Wideman 1992, p. I-4). The thorough examination of possibilities for avoidance, elimination or at least for a significant reduction of these risks should lead to a better performance of the ultimate project. The question why some projects succeed while others fail is important to every business. To strengthen the possible future project success, project risk management has to be effectively applied to every project process. Identifying project risks and appropriately cope with them through the development of adequate strategies is the aim of the project risk management process. Having this in mind, the intention of this term paper is to analyze the process of project risk management. After a short introduction, by thorough study of literature in the second chapter the main steps of different approaches of the risk management process in projects will be indicated and compared. After that the most common tools to be used within this process will be indicated before, finally, possibilities for the extension of the project risk management process towards a broader management process will be discussed. In the last chapter a conclusion will be drawn and an answer given to the questions on which are the critical steps towards an effective risk management process and which specific factors have to be focused to overcome the threats concerning management of projects. The work is done on a more general basis to understand the character of the risk management process, giving possibility to an application to many different kinds of projects.
Author: Hazel A. Taylor Publisher: ISBN: Category : Information technology Languages : en Pages : 23
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There is an abundance of research advice and practitioner guidance on how to manage risk in information technology (IT) projects. It seems that everyone knows what they should do with respect to risk management, and yet the promised payoffs from following risk management procedures do not eventuate across industries and organizations, IT projects have an unenviable reputation, with projects failing outright or at least failing to live up to expectations. Does this failure result from inadequacies in the risk management guidance that organizations rely on, or is it a failure by organizations and their project managers to effectively implement this guidance? In this paper we discuss one organization's innovative approach to making IT project risk management realistic, practical, and effective. The IT project risk management approach presented here is the culmination of over five years of collaborative practice research within the Project Management Center of Excellence (PMCoE) of a large, municipal organization. The aim of the initiative was to improve the organization's IT project success rate, and the PMCoE worked through three practical action research cycles to develop and refine a new approach to early risk assessment. The approach is well founded in research findings, and the PMCoE has been able to demonstrate its effectiveness through careful monitoring of project performance data. The PMCoE's contingency-based risk assessment process provides a visual aid for surfacing overall inherent risk at the early stages of IT projects, thereby enabling the proactive implementation of strategies to establish an appropriate level of oversight and to improve foundational elements of the project when it is still malleable. The PMCoE's early risk assessment process, and the risk spider chart that is the primary tool in this assessment, involves a review of a small set of project dimensions known to be related to project performance, without requiring probability-impact estimates of individual risks, which often amount to little more than guesswork at the stages leading up to project launch. The dimension-based assessment provides an easily measurable determination of the overall risk level of a project at the very early stages of the project, and enables the PMCoE to make suggestions to improve the odds of success from the start. The risk assessment process and risk spider chart tool have now been used on over 100 projects, and the organization has been able to demonstrate a steady improvement in project metrics since 2006 when the work began. The PMCoE's early project risk assessment process is readily customizable for different organizations and project contexts, and provides a model for other organizations striving to engage in effective practices to improve IT project outcomes.
Author: Stephen S. Bonham
Author: Steli Loznen
Author: Andretta Tsebe
Author: Alec Sharp
Author: Darcy Brooker
Author: Lorna Uden
Author: John Care
Author: Marco Alexander Caiza Andresen
Author: Hazel A. Taylor
Author: Arthur James Wells