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How to Create a Project Management Office and Select Project Mngt Software …
CIO – Framingham,MA,USA
Phil Bertolini, the CIO of Oakland County, Mich., says having clear reasons for establishing a project management office will help IT leaders obtain…

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Working paper: Using Financial Innovation to Support Savers—From Coercion to Excitement

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5922.html
Download the PDF. This paper by HBS professor Peter Tufano and Daniel Schneider acknowledges the wide range of solutions to the problem of low family savings. The authors discuss each program from the perspective of would-be savers as well as from that of other key stakeholders.

Working paper: Evaluating the Impact of SA 8000 Certification

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5946.html
Download the PDF. The Social Accountability 8000 Standard (SA 8000), along with other types of certification standards and corporate codes of conduct, represents a new form of voluntary “private-governance” of working conditions in the private sector, initiated and implemented by companies, labor unions, and nongovernmental activist groups cooperating together.

Working paper: Accounting Information as Political Currency

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5954.html
Download the PDF. The study of accounting and the political process has long been viewed through the political cost hypothesis, the basic premise of which is that firms manage earnings in order to extract first-order benefits (or avoid first-order costs) from regulators.

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Christian Science Monitor, June 18, 2008

A simple new low-cost solar dish developed by MIT students produces steam heat for less than the cost of heat from oil or natural gas, according to the MIT team.

The steam heat can be used cost effectively for manufacturing, food pasteurization, and heating buildings.

http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2008/06/18/mit-team-plays-with-fire-to-create-cheap-energy/

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Inside IT Project Failure: Deadly Project Lust
Baseline – New York,NY,USA
Often poor planning, poor communication between IT and business clients, project creep, and an overall lack of project management controls designed to …

Make a business case for your proposal
Malaysia Star – Malaysia
Suffice to say that, from a purely financial aspect, as part of the measurement of value of the project, management will consider many things such as the …

WCU book review: Barkley traces every step of product development
Asheville Citizen-Times – NC,USA
‘Project Manage-ment in New Product Development” explains how to use project management concepts and tools in order to manage new product development. …

PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)(SM) Credential Introduced
PR Newswire (press release) – New York,NY,USA
“The Project Management Institute recognizes the importance and special qualifications needed to be a scheduling professional. The PMI-SP credential will …

The Secret to Successful Project Teams

This project needs world-class teamwork and project management, both in the proposal or feasibility study phase and the implementation phase. But based on past experience, applications developers don’t seem to be up to the challenge. …

Project Management Defined

Project Management Defined By Tom Carlos (PMP) Project Management is a process that uses tools and techniques to direct the use of various resources in order to achieve a set of clearly defined objectives. The success for any project is …
PM Hut – http://www.pmhut.com

Improving Knowledge in Projects
By Eric D. Brown
In the project management world, a considerable amount of research exists to describe the reasons behind the success or failure of projects in the information technology space. Most of this research focuses on failures being caused lack …
Aligning Technology, Strategy,… – http://ericbrown.com

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