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PM Network
Keep Your Guard Up
Way back in 1970, David Crosby lamented in a song of the times about how, in a moment of weakness, he almost cut his hair. I can relate. Letting down my guard as COO almost led to regret. I recently…
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PM Network
India's unfinished business
Metal and concrete skeletons scattered across India are reminders of project management challenges in the country's real-estate sector. Nearly 1 million unfinished apartments, together valued at…
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Project Management Journal
Exploring project knowledge acquisition and exchange through action research
This paper presents a research methodology used to develop a novel framework for an investigation into how project managers acquire and exchange knowledge. The qualitative study was conducted with…
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PM Network
Projects = change
Members of the project management community know that projects create change, and of course, mega projects equal mega change. This article discusses how expectation management is core to the success…
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PM Network
Seamless transitions
Caja Granada, a banking company in Spain, was chosen to implement a new banking technology, "Alhambra," an internal information systems project.Key to the project was a successful change management…
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PM Network
Partnering
Partnering, which brings together all parties at a project’s inception and creates synergies that benefit everyone involved, will become more and more prevalent in the 1990s. It is the solution for…
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PM Network
Boeing Spares Distribution Center
The rapid delivery of spare parts to customers is a critical aspect of Boeing's customer support. This article profiles the project of constructing Boeing's Spare Distribution Center (SDC) in SeaTac…
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PM Network
TQM and partnering
This article discusses two widely discussed change strategies: Total Quality Management (TQM) and partnering. Although both approaches require an organizational environment of employee involvement,…
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