Last year, 100 goats were brought to the AmberGlen corporate campus in Beaverton to chomp down on blackberry bushes. The animals provided a way to reduce invasive species without using harmful chemicals. That's a good story," said Kim Schoenfelder, project director at KG Investment Management, which represents AmberGlen. "People will read that and think, 'I want to rent at AmberGlen.'
The economic pressures of competing in today's global marketplace are driving many companies to make costly errors: either managing too many projects or implementing the wrong projects. But when such companies embrace a well-defined project management approach, they then possess the processes and techniques needed to resolve seemingly insurmountable project problems and manage daunting project risks. This article features four project management professionals discussing the processes and techniques their companies used to confront and resolve project problems. In doing so, they make a case for organizational investment in project management and for the discipline's capacity to help companies improve their project performance and complete their projects as estimated and as planned.
Those project managers who provide their project's stakeholders with clear and concise directives are those professionals most likely to garner the loyalty and support of their team members, peers, and superiors. This article discusses the advantages project managers can realize when they focus on communicating with their project's stakeholders. In doing so, it describes the communication practices that can keep all project stakeholders connected and focused in a way that is respectful to each individual. It also outlines several techniques and tools project managers can use to navigate conversations - even those that are potentially conflicts - that involve project decisions, project team goals and expectations, and project updates. It then details several methods for communicating pro...
... Engineering Group, a change management consultancy based in Santa Barbara, Calif., USA. "...
In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA, has invested significantly in knowledge management technology. In an interview, In-Q-Tel's Greg Pepus, senior director of federal and intelligence community strategy, discussed what drives In-Q-Tel and what it expect from its investments. Pepus described his technical role as helping identify promising technology companies and products, helping provide the intelligence community with a vision of how it might deploy those technologies to face business challenges, and then helping in the investment and project management activities related to those investments. Pepus also discussed some of the companies in which the organization has invested. More information about In-Q-Tel's history and investments can be found at its Web site, in-q-tel.com.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Yale Global Health Leadership Institute announces a new partnership with Management Science for Health, as part of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Leadership, Management and Governance Project. This five-year project will support health systems strengthening in developing countries around the world. Investment in leadership and management are critical in helping our own and other countries establish efficient and effective health care systems," says Elizabeth Bradley, Ph.D., faculty director, Yale Global Health Leadership Institute. "This collaboration helps Yale expand on its goals to develop leadership to address health problems that transcend national borders.
Many scholars suggest that, in general, successful R&D involves the systematic reduction of unique risk. Consequently, firms should adopt diversification or hedging behavior to reduce risk when investing in R&D projects. These projects can be evaluated through a real option method while considering the hedging behavior of firms. However, conventional real option methods may over- or under-state a project's value because they are apt to be influenced by the R&D firm's subjective expectations of the future market or technological prospect. The method proposed in this paper, which incorporates the hedging behavior of firms, would provide a more reasonable assessment of R&D projects, and would not be influenced by the arbitrary judgment of project evaluators. Additionally, t...
... unique risk of R&D projects by using investment diversification, such as investing in other simila...
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