The challenges for the project managers relative to protecting the digital rights of the book are tough to counter, outside of creating a special ink that cannot be accurately photographed digitally or scanned. To attempt this strategy of creating ink that is not easily duplicable would have significantly increased the production costs, squeezing margins on the book as it moved through distribution channels. The risks of electronic duplication at this point can only be met with litigation against those distributors who violated the embargo, thereby making it possible for those fans wanting to gain notoriety by posting pages before the book was available to get the attention they want, even if it means ruining to books' value. In summary, the project managers did assess and respond to the risks they could foresee, and outside of significantly increasing the production cost, they did mitigate the larger risks of the books being stolen or hijacked in large quantities. The larger threat of digital reproduction and eventual counterfeiting in Asian nations including China would require an entirely different production process that would increase the costs of the books, an entirely different financial risk the publishers probably don't want to take.
Q3. AIDS is a critical issue in southern Africa. In some countries over 1/3 of the adult population infected with HIV. Kona has recently unveiled the Africa Bike project. (http://www.konabiketown.com/)Specially designed bicycles are provided to healthcare workers. In areas with poor roads and little or no public transportation the bicycles have resulted in a huge increase in the number of patients each worker can visit per day. Identify some of the key stakeholders in this project and the partners that Kona had to involve. What role did the stakeholders play in the design of the bicycles and the Bike Town Africa project? (Also see http://www.bicycling.com/article/0,6610,s1-3-12-14517-1,00.html. And http://www.bicycling.com/article/0,6610,s1-3-12-13533-1,00.html
With the mission of serving those patients not capable of travelling long distances across southern Africa including Botswana, the Africa Bike Project was initially founded....
Project Management Before addressing what is project management, let us first look into what is a project? Some have defined a project as a temporary activity that is done to produce a service, a product or a result. It is temporary in the aspect that it has a set duration of being undertaken and thus it is restricted to both in terms of resources and scope. Examples include: the construction of
The level of the investment also isolated them more in the case of a failure. They paid attention to the wrong details. Disney acted on American views of Europe rather than on native views, which could identify the important cultural differences. It appeared that the managers were too confident in their success to research the small details about European cultures. In planning Euro Disney there were not any contingency plans
Public Human Resources Management Challenges facing human resource management Human Resource Management is the element of the organization that deals with the human aspect of the organization. The business world today, is very competitive. Every organization must align its resources to the organizational goals and objectives. According to Gill (2009), the employees of an organization are part of its assets just as capital and technology. Proper utilization of human resource can account
Flexibility on the International Management of Human Resources The continued trend towards increased globalization is facilitated, in part, by the need for organizations to remain competitive, as well as increase their market share. With this trend comes a variety of considerations in regards to developing and implementing human resource policies, in an effort to remain competitive in an increasingly competitive marketplace. One strategy human resources utilizes to enhance their flexibility
speed up the project process when necessary? One of the most expensive strategies that large-scale enterprises rely on to speed up a project process when necessary is adding additional resources in the form of larger project tams and additional headcount. This strategy rarely works as there is a learning curve, an exponentially higher level of cooperation and collaboration needed across project teams, and greater levels of orchestration of new resources
Change Management Critique of Kotter's Eight Stage Model of Change The development of change models to support the way that management undertakes change may be seen as a useful development; providing a framework from which change may be understood and therefore actively managed. One of the first models of change was proposed by Lewin (1951, p22), which presented a relatively simple format for managing change, made up of three stages; unfreezing, the
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