Management
Facilitate effective communications in a project environment
Proper planning provides a stable platform for success
Improve your database for cost estimation
Here’s a systematic approach for storing and retrieving valuable information that may be fragmented between various departments
Look beyond traditional organizational structure
Production-centered design improves, sustains total plant performance
Why is it so difficult to combine experience and theory in business decisions?
Investigate the root cause for conflict between expectations and the modeling system
Joint ventures: managing proposals for collaborative successes
Use these techniques to force transparency, build inter-company trust and win projects
Unintended consequences: the costs of complexity
Unless the root causes of this dysfunction are identified and defeated, organizational problems will continue
Identify value-added work
Here's a review of core activities for initiating the 'right way to manage'
Quality tools produce desired results
Use these proven techniques throughout all job phases as you manage your teams
Quality tools produce desired results Fig 1
Fig. 1. "Road map" displays by project phase which technique is most effective to produce desired results. ..
PSM standards for effective project management
Use these to define project tasks and implement activities to establish a system that yields maximum results

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