Posted by business | management | Posted on April 27th, 2010
What to do when your company is confronted with the loss of senior management, or when a project or business is beyond the scope of your current management capabilities? When is it best to turn to “the pros from Dover”?
Management consultancy firms have been a traditional stop-gap method, but these can be much more costly – and not necessarily as efficient – as bringing in an interim manger or interim management tea Read full post
Posted by business | management | Posted on April 25th, 2010
Introduction
The title of project manager (PM) is used to mean different things in different companies. Fortunately there is a standards body called the Project Management Institute which provides excellent guidance around the role and function of a project manager.
Some will disagree, but I don’t care if your project manager is PMI certified or not. You need to care about havi Read full post
Posted by business | management | Posted on April 23rd, 2010
By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
We hear it all the time. “Put your money where your mouth is,” “Skin in the game,” and, “Eat your own dog food.” All phrases that talk about the one thing in the investing world that many fund managers try to avoid. Accountability. When you hear the word accountability these days it usually refers to CEO’s that are on their way to jail, or Clu Read full post
Posted by business | management | Posted on April 23rd, 2010
Professional Project Management is becoming more pervasive. Like “electrification” occurred during the era of proliferation of electricity, “projectization” is occurring throughout the workforce and organizations. Most of the emphasis I have seen is on professional project management. However, most people will not be professional project managers, but rather will be team members, support personnel, subject matter experts, depart Read full post
Posted by business | management | Posted on April 22nd, 2010
Operations management, in essence, is the management of production and services with the overall goal of quality performance. Operations managers are constantly thinking about how they can optimize work flow and resource utilization. A better flow of operations means less cost, increased productivity, and more time to focus on customer needs and planning new projects.
There are many operations management articles on the Read full post
Posted by business | management | Posted on April 21st, 2010
A management course Dublin may just be what you need if you want to become an effective manager and leader of your team. You have wide variety of choices that you can simply pick, depending on what you want to achieve after participating in a management course Dublin.
Why You Need to Join a Management Course Dublin
Virtues that will lead you to become efficient leaders of the pack are not innate. If they a Read full post
Posted by business | management | Posted on April 21st, 2010
Copyright (c) 2008 Shona Garner
There’s much emphasis these days on leadership kills. Almost every organisation talks of the need to develop these; and almost every manager or aspiring manager is encouraged to develop them. But in the race to invest often huge sums of money and time into leadership development programmes, have we forgotten or somehow demeaned the critical skills of managing others?
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Posted by business | management | Posted on April 18th, 2010
I used to think I knew everything there was about project management, well that was until I was put on a project management course. I had always known that project management is “a set of well-defined methods and techniques for managing a team of people to accomplish a series of work tasks within a well-defined schedule and budget.” However, I was missing out on a lot of nuances within the subject, and this was hi Read full post
Posted by business | management | Posted on April 12th, 2010
Robert Kiyosaki likes real estate investing is because real estate touches each part of his financial statement. Starting with his best-selling book Rich Dad Poor Dad and continued in many of his subsequent books, Robert explains how real estate gives cash flow to his income statement and on the expense side of the income statement he’s able to deduct the property’s depreciation as an expense.
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Posted by business | management | Posted on April 12th, 2010
As the need for project management courses is becoming more and more prevalent, quite a number of courses with more up-to-date training are being offered. Global Knowledge, the leader in information technology instruction, for example, has recently opened project management courses that feature Microsoft Office Project product training. These courses are expected to provide managers with the project management knowledge they nee Read full post
