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Article Communications Management, Information Technology June 2015

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The cloud evolution

By Katona, Stephen As cloud servers are projected to process more than three-quarters of data center workloads, many organizations are looking to integrate disparate cloud services and applications, as well as…

Conference Paper Decision Making, Communications Management, Teams, Information Technology 18 July 2012

Overcoming the computer-mediated communication (CMC) "hump" in project management teams

By Cunningham, Cory J. | McCloud, Carrie A. To implement computer-mediated communication (CMC) tools and overcome issues of virtual teaming, project managers and their organizations need to employ tactics, rules, and methods that require a…

Conference Paper Innovation, Communications Management, Information Technology 9 May 2012

Implementing social project management

By Casanova, Pietro | Bellifemine, Francesco The rapid growth of social media such as blogs, forums, wiki, content communities and social networking, collectively known as social computing and based on the ideological and technological…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Innovation, Communications Management, Information Technology 10 May 2011

Project management use of cloud collaboration

By Dillon, Liam | Scanlon, Rory With projects, we are always drawing up plans and trying to carry them out, usually as part of a team, which ultimately delivers on project execution. This is the basic principle behind project…

Article Communications Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Information Technology March 2010

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Good advice

Many of the issues that notoriously cause information technology (IT) projects to fail involve the nature of the relationship between project teams and project stakeholders. This article examines…

Conference Paper Risk Management, Communications Management, Information Technology 24 February 2010

When agendas override objectives

By Belling, Shawn D. Sometimes, no matter how well a project manager addresses all of the issues involved in implementing a project, an issue emerges that supersedes the effort and causes--despite the project manager's…

Article Communications Management, Information Technology August 2009

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Trial by fire

By Lowe, Libby Ellis In order to respond to emergencies, firefighters must know where to go. But without an advanced communications system in place to do this, emergency crews are severely hindered in effectively…

Conference Paper Portfolio Management, Communications Management, Lessons Learned, Resource Management, Information Technology 3 November 2005

Tendencias en tecnología de gerencia de proyectos y portafolios: funcionalidad y beneficios potenciales

By González Disla, Renato | Espaillat, Leopoldo A. The continuous stream of new software systems is ever increasing the tools project managers have to most effectively and efficiently realize their projects. This article examines the recent…

Conference Paper Communications Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Information Technology 14 July 2002

Communication between IT project manager and project sponsor in a buyer-seller relationship

By Müller, Ralf | Turner, J. Rodney Professors Müller and Turner study formal communication between information technology project managers and project sponsors in project based buyer-seller relationships within business-to-business…

Article Quality Management, Communications Management, Information Technology 1 April 2002

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Evolution of a project information system

By Bondale, Kiron D. The Avantis business unit of Invensys PLC's Software Systems Division formed a project management office to manage all marketing and support-sponsored projects, establish and control all project…