Project Management: Lessons Learned From Project Plans in the New World
The article Project Plans in the New World (osenwinkel (1995) provides many useful insights into how to manage a complex project successfully, taking into account the many factors or variables that are crucial for a project's success. The author concentrates on the "Free Wheeler" type of project leader who often ignores constraints of time, cost and resources in determining how to successfully manage a complex project to completion (osenwinkel, 1995). Comparing this article to experiences launching new products, followed by an interpretation of two "people" and "project" variables, and a summary of how a project's direction and scope would need to be modified based on lessons learned from osenwinkel (1995) are presented in this paper.

Analysis of Project Plans in the New World

The pragmatic tone of the article indicates the author has experiences many projects that have been successful and many…...

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References

Chaney, P.K., Devinney, T.M., & Winer, R.S. (1991). The impact of new product introductions on the market value. The Journal of Business, 64(4), 573.

Rosenwinkel, J. (1995). Project plans in the new world. Journal of Systems Management, 46(2), 34.

EP Project Plan
Objective of this project is to present the project plan for the Enterprises esources Planning (EP). The whole project plan will span for approximately 18 months. The project will start on the 4 June 2012 and end by 30 December 2013. Each of the major phases of the project is broken down in-between 8 and 10 sub-processes. The study uses Microsoft project to complete the plan and the GANTT chart. "The basic purpose of a GANTT Chart is to break a large project into a series of smaller tasks in an organized way. The chart shows when each task should begin and how long it should take." (University of Michigan, 2002 P. 1). The Fig 1 provides the Gantt chart and the project plan and time-frame to complete each process. Overall Project plan is as follows:

Detailed EP Project Plan

Project Management and Selection Process.

: User Interview and Checklist

: Consolidated…...

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Resources Planning

Reference

University of Michigan (2002). ME450: Gantt Chart Handout. USA.

Power Project Plan make a microeconomic analysis automobile industry. Project: Will Power price According resources availed countries, explicate price variation products services relation automobile industry special reference car industry.
Power Project Plan

Price in the automobile industry

In most products and services, variations in demand are indirectly correlated with variations in price, and vice versa. For instance, in the scenario of an increasing demand for the product X, it is expected that the same product supply be less able to serve the entire need. In order to regulate the demand then, the product would be retailed at a higher price. Vice versa, when the demand for an item decreases, it is expected that its retail price suffers a reduction in order to stimulate the demand.

Within the automobile industry, prices play an essential role in shaping the demand for the automobiles and the adherent accessories and services. And the most relevant example in…...

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References:

2006, Why Toyota is better than Ford, Economist's View,   last accessed on April 13, 2011http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2006/02/why_toyota_is_b.html 

2008, Declining sales rock auto industry, CBS News,   last accessed on April 13, 2011http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/01/business/main4224296.shtml 

CRM Project Plan
CustomerSuccess2015

Project Description

Connecting with and keeping customers buying over the long-term is essential for any business to grow over time. One of the most cost-effective and efficient approaches to galvanizing a company around its customers is to use a CRM system (Banerjea, 2011). Cloud-based CRM systems are adept at quickly being deployed across any size organization, providing a more unified view of the customer and greater insights into overall purchasing activity (Harding, Cheifetz, DeAngelo, Ziegler, 2004). The CustomerSuccess2015 project is designed to enable our company to better attract, sell and serve our customers.

Business Justification

The following is from the Project Justification, which shows the costs and benefits of the project:

With a total cost of $90,000 and a monthly subscription fee of $10,000 for all components including integration and security services, the costs of the planned CRM implementation need to be compared with the potential benefits to determine the return on…...

MacVille Villiano Coffee Project Plan
Final Project Overview

Overall, the project has been a success. Despite a few mishaps and lessons learned, the venue was a hit and the budget was satisfactory enough to pull off a great marketing campaign for the event and the brand. With the whole team working together, it was a successful event.

Still, there were some clear issues that could have been worked out better before the event took place. For one, the choices of the venue was sufficient, but could have been more cost effective and have provided a more pleasurable ambiance for the event. The venue that was chosen for the event was at the South Australian Maritime Museum. This venue offered a great location, close to modern development and amenities. Yet, in hindsight, the Greenway Art Gallery might have been a better choice. The South Australian Maritime Museum was the costlier of the two…...

Motorcycles -- The Comprehensive Project Plan 1.Describe project scope project management plan. Align plan strategy recommended senior executives Assignment 2. 2.Analyze type staff company order make manufacturing switch motorcycles larger motors.
Project Scope

The scope of the project is to switch the manufacturing process to larger motors motorcycles. This is an important strategic decision that affects not only the future of the company, but also its current situation. Switching to manufacturing motorcycles of larger motors requires significant investments. It is likely that the company should reallocate certain funds from other activities to this project. Therefore, it is important to carefully develop the project plan so that the investment is made efficiently and risks are reduced to the minimum.

Project Management Plan

Project management approach

The authority and responsibility for managing and executing this project belongs to the project manager. The project manager is in charge of the project team that is formed of several…...

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Reference list:

1. Schreiner, E. (2015). Seven Strategies for Developing Cohesive Teams. Hearst Newspapers. Retrieved February 27, 2015 from  http://smallbusiness.chron.com/seven-strategies-developing-cohesive-teams-17354.html .

2. Rayl, J. (2013). Strategies in Team Building. Retrieved February 27, 2015 from  http://acb.org/node/1287 .

3. Baker, D. (2015). Top 10 Characteristics of Great Project Managers. Retrieved February 27, 2015 from  http://99u.com/articles/6946/top-10-characteristics-of-great-project-managers .

Middleweight motorcycles

Coffee Launch Event
Stakeholders

Stakeholder

Stakeholder Group

Interest in Project

MacVille Adelaide

Project Management Committee

Adams and Elizabeth

Barista Champion

ichmond Hotel

Competition winner

Venue for Marketing and promotion of the Project

Adelaide City, South Australia

Create awareness and boost up sales

Project Management Team

MacVille Adelaide

Smith

Marketing Management Team

MacVille Adelaide

Business promotion and advertisement designing team

Marketing Department

Coffee segment (MacVille Villiano brand)

Communication and promotion

Coffee etailers

Minimum 300 in the Adelaide City

Distribution

Project Tasks

Conduct preliminary analysis:

Find a location that best suits the nature of this business segment, e.g. low competition, pleasant atmosphere, nearby developed areas, etc.

b. Book the place and make initial payment

Book flight (in Pacific Airlines) and accommodation (in ichmond Hotel) for Barista Champion iii. Locate and contact minimum 300 retailers in Adelaide City, South Australia that can become a potential value chain member for this coffee brand.

iv. Formulate marketing strategies:

a. Design advertisements, mails, documents, broachers, and pamphlets for the target audience

b. Start advertising and mailing to the potential audience (participants)

v. Finalize the list of participants

vi. Finalize arrangement…...

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References

Google Maps, Distance and directions for Greenaway Art Gallery from Adelaide International Airport.

Google Maps, Distance and directions for South Australian Maritime Museum from Adelaide Town Hall.

Meredith, J.R. & Mantel, S.J. (2012). Project Management: A Managerial Approach, 8th Edition. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley

Paws Veterinary Hospital
Pets Hospital

Betoull Dashti 16108

Sara Al Hindi 20088

The 3,000,000 KD capital input in the business will be used to buy the necessary equipment so that the organization can provide the service to its market target. This money will be used to buy drugs, insurance, cleaning gadgets and even pay for the insurance that will cover the business. About thirty percent of the capital will be used in buying the products and offering the services; equivalent to 1,000,000 KD. Another 1/8 of 2,000,000 will be set aside for training purposes to ensure that all staff members are aware of what their customers expect to receive from the hospital.

The 250,000 KD will also be used to buy a uniform for the staff members to help their customers identify relevant personnel to ask questions if the need arises. Uniformity in the organization will also help the management get organization when it comes…...

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Resources

Managers should look into opening new avenues that will promote their marketing tactics

Health Promotion for End-Stage Dementia
End-Stage Dementia Care

Health Promotion Plan for End-Stage Dementia

Health Promotion Plan for End-Stage Dementia

Globally, an estimated 35.6 million adults are living with dementia, a number expected to double by 2030 and triple by 2050 (World Health Organization, 2014). Most patients with dementia in the United States will die in a nursing home (reviewed by Goodman et al., 2010), which means that these patients sometimes live for years within these institutions. The level of dementia care required can sometimes be quite high as the ability for self-care and effective communication is lost (Puurveen, n.d.). These facts and statistics explain why an estimated $157 to $215 billion is spent each year on dementia care in the U.S. And why there is a need for cost effective and humane dementia care globally; however, some care professionals have questioned the efficacy of the traditional medical model and the humaneness of the…...

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References

Brownie, S. & Nancarrow, S. (2013). Effects of person-centered care on residents and staff in aged-care facilities: A systematic review. Clinical Interventions in Aging, 8, 1-10.

Barbosa, A., Sousa, L., Nolan, M., & Figueiredo, D. (2014). Effects of person-centered care approaches to dementia care on staff: A systematic review. American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementias, published online ahead of print 20 Jan. 2014, doi: 10.1177/1533317513520213.

Department of Health, Australian Government. (n.d.). About the Community Health Action Pack. Retrieved 13 Feb. 2014 from http://livelonger.health.gov.au/about-the-community-health-action-pack/.

Goodman, C., Evans, C., Wilcock, J., Froggatt, K., Drennan, V., Sampson, E., Blanchard, M., Bissett, M., & Iliffe, S. (2010). End of life care for the community dwelling older people with dementia: An integrated review. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 25, 329-37.

video is very shocking because it basically exposes how law enforcement officers will use duress or "wear down" a suspect and provide that suspect with details of a crime so that the suspect can later "confess" in detail about the crime that he/she committed -- when in actuality the story was essentially fed to the suspect by the officers who think (or not) that they have found the guilty party and just need to coerce him (over a number of hours -- not recorded on videotape) using whatever tactics they deem necessary (the judge and jury never see these tactics because they are not recorded but it may be surmised that they border on torture, which should invalidate any confession then and there). What is most infuriating is that these officers essentially act as judge and jury themselves in that they determine the guilt of their suspect and then…...

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References

False Confessions or Admissions. (n.d.) Innocence Project. Retrieved from  http://www.innocenceproject.org/causes-wrongful-conviction/false-confessions-or-admissions

The use of Gantt charts for enabling interprocess integration and knowledge management in the A&D industry is a best practice for also managing process-intensive projects (Singh, Keil, Kasi, 2009). These include the development of new computer systems and advanced technologies where the project needs to capture the knowledge to fulfill its objectives. Project management's core set of tools therefore needs to be focused on how to augment and strengthen project performance while also capturing process and product knowledge critical to its success (Besner, Hobbs, 2006). The combining of Gantt charts, progress reports, change requests and the use of kick-off meetings to set objectives is critical in this regard.
ecommendations to Project Managers Using the Product Launch Activity Plan

The pro-forma Product Launch Activity Plan shown in Table 1 of the Appendix is designed to provide project managers with a framework to define a Gantt chart to manage the new product introduction…...

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References

Claude Besner, & Brian Hobbs. (2006). THE PERCEIVED VALUE AND POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION OF PROJECT Management PRACTICES TO PROJECT SUCCESS. Project Management Journal, 37(3), 37-48.

Saumya Bhattacharya. (2009, August). Creating a project plan: The secret sauce of a project is in its planning.. Business Today.

Blackstone, J., Cox, J., & Schleier, J.. (2009). A tutorial on project management from a theory of constraints perspective. International Journal of Production Research, 47(24), 7029.

Michael Burkett. (2005, July). The "Perfect" Product Launch. Supply Chain Management Review, 9(5), 12-13.

.....project management approach is increasingly becoming popular in today's workplace. Organisations are ever more recognising the benefits of accomplishing tasks and activities as projects -- better task coordination, quicker task execution, and so on (Larson et al., 2013). The author's organisation, a renewable energy firm with operations in Australia and beyond, has particularly been shifting to the project management approach in recent years. The organisation is currently interested in acquiring or merging with a suitable rival to improve its market share and competitive advantage. The merger or acquisition process is often not an easy undertaking. It requires proper planning and execution. With the application of project management concepts, however, the process can be easier. This report analyses the relevance of various project management concepts to the merger or acquisition process. Attention is particularly paid to the project environment, project definition, time and cost estimation, project plan, risk management, resource scheduling,…...

Project isk Management
isks associated with projects successful completion

A project is an undertaking of human beings towards satisfying world needs. Projects are endeavors with a defined beginning and an end. Projects suffer from scope, time, cost and quality constraints. It is necessary for project managers to manage the risk of developing weak scope. Scope of a project incorporates the objectives of a project, the target population, the output and impact of that endeavor. Therefore, managers of project need to do a problem analysis, stakeholder analysis, environment analysis to know if the project is sustainable (Cleland & King, 1988). On the risk of time, managers need skills on time management. Management of projects requires one to be well versed in developing schedules. Time management involves developing systems that has a specific time of completion and start time.

Scheduling of projects includes hiring of individuals for the accomplishment of projects. There is a need…...

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References

King, W.R. (Eds.) & Cleland, D.I., & (1988). Project management handbook (Vol. 2). New

York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.

Anbari, F. T & Kwak, Y.H., (2009). Analyzing project management research: Perspectives from top management journals. International Journal of Project Management, 27(5),

435-446.

Project schedule and risk management are some of the most important components of project management. These components play a crucial role in project planning, which is a process used to organize various areas of a project such as workloads and management of the project team. Project schedule basically refers to a listing of the activities or tasks, milestones, and deliverables of a project that includes the expected start and finish dates ("Project Scheduling," n.d.). isk management is a process through which a project manager and team predicts risks, estimates impacts of these risks on the project, and describe reactions to these issues. This process usually involves the preparation of a risk management plan or outline in order to accomplish these goals.
Definition of What Needs to be Done:

One of the most important aspects to consider when developing a project schedule is all the work that needs to be completed. The need…...

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References:

Harris, S. (n.d.). How to Implement An Effective Risk Management Team. Retrieved January 23,

2014, from  http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/tip/How-to-implement-an-effective-risk-management-team 

"Project Schedule Development." (n.d.). Mind Tools -- Essential Skills for An Excellent Career.

Retrieved January 23, 2014, from  http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newPPM_71.htm

Project Management Techniques:
Signatures Inc. is a company that focuses on manufacturing personalized products like coffee mugs and pens with company logos. The firm generates over $40 million in annual revenues with a workforce of more than 300 workers. Since the company is in the middle of a large multimillion-dollar SCM implementation, it has hired a project management outsourcing company to take charge of its project management efforts. The decision to outsource its project management initiatives is based on the challenges it has experienced in middle of this costly implementation process. Actually, Signatures' implementation of the expensive SCM project has been failing because of three major reasons. The three reasons are the use of traditional waterfall methodology, failure to follow SDLC and skipping the testing phase, and the development of the project plan during the analysis stage, which was never followed or updated by the old project manager. Therefore, the company…...

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References:

Fisher, A. (2013, November 22). 4 Steps to Turning around a Troubled Project. CNN Money.

Retrieved December 23, 2013, from http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/11/22/4-steps-to-turning-around-a-troubled-project/

Symonds, M. (2013). Project Management: One Size Does Not Fit All. Retrieved December 23,

2013, from  http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-consultant/project-management-one-size-does-not-fit-all/

Formulating a Strong Technology Thesis Statement

1. Define the Scope and Context:

Clearly state the specific technology or technological domain your thesis will address.
Establish the context by outlining the broader technological landscape, industry trends, or societal implications related to the topic.

2. State the Central Argument:

Express your main argument or hypothesis regarding the technology in a concise and assertive manner.
Avoid vague or speculative language; instead, provide a specific claim that can be supported by evidence.

3. Outline Supporting Evidence:

Briefly mention key pieces of evidence or insights that support your argument.
These may include research findings, case studies, industry data,....

Literature Review: Student Involvement in Self-Government Activities and Employability

Introduction
Student involvement in self-government activities has been recognized as a valuable experience that contributes to the development of essential skills and qualities for future success. This literature review examines the correlation between student involvement in self-government activities and employability and career advancement.

Leadership Development
Self-government activities provide students with opportunities to exercise leadership roles, which is crucial for their employability. Studies have shown that students who participate in student government are more likely to develop leadership qualities such as:

Initiative and self-motivation
Decision-making and problem-solving skills
Communication and interpersonal abilities
Confidence and assertiveness

These qualities....

Key insights can be gained from existing literature on AI in construction management by analyzing the various applications, benefits, challenges, and future trends associated with the integration of AI technologies in the construction industry. Several studies have highlighted the potential of AI to revolutionize construction management practices and improve project efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and safety.

One key insight from the literature is the role of AI in enhancing project planning and scheduling. AI technologies such as machine learning algorithms and predictive analytics can analyze historical data, identify patterns, and make accurate predictions about project timelines and resource requirements. This can help....

Ensuring Sustainable and Equitable Outcomes in Developmental Projects

Sustainable and equitable development is imperative for improving the well-being of communities in need. To achieve this, it is crucial to adopt a multifaceted approach that addresses both the long-term viability of projects and the fair distribution of benefits. Here are fundamental principles to ensure sustainable and equitable outcomes:

1. Community Engagement and Ownership:

Involving affected communities in every stage of project planning and implementation fosters a sense of ownership and ensures that initiatives align with local priorities. Participatory approaches empower communities to share their knowledge, contribute ideas, and shape the direction of projects. This....