The Sewer Rate Reduction System sm Across the United States the commercial and industrial water rates are increasing due in part to the need for rebuilding for larger capacity, and the new chemicals that are now needed to handle water and structural infrastructure expenses. What...

According to a North American firefighters' association, campfire burns account for sixty-eight percent of the recreational burns requiring admission to a hospital. This amazing high statistic underscores the need for commercial and public parks and campgrounds to provide safe and durable fire rings. One other...

Several Slogans including "Clean and Green", "The Earth is yours. Save it" "Save the Earth or Die" and "There is no Planet B" and more have been used around the globe to create awareness to save our planet. As a Project Manager, how can you...

If your company must keep records of their work, document management is a great way to go paperless. By scanning of documents , they can be transferred from paper to digital documents. Digital documents require less storage space, are easier to access, and are much...

POME Case Study: Handling the Selection Interview — Case Problem: ‘‘Apply Here if You Dare'' Overview After ten years as a field sales rep selling magazine advertising space for a mid-size publishing company, Larry Williams has been promoted to regional sales manager. One of his...

POME Case Study Considering the Nontechnical Social Factors in Hiring — Case Problem: ‘‘The Shining Star'' Overview Upset about the unexpected meeting that had just occurred in his office, Tom, director of new product development, walked over to the office of Eric, a senior research...

POME Case- Study Building High-Performance Teamwork — Case Problem: ‘‘Changing Paradigm'' Overview Six months ago, Mark, a senior systems analyst with eight years of experience, assumed a position as manager with the Information Management Department. Today, he received his first management performance review from his...

PM VALUE INITIATIVE: PHASE ONE Phase One focuses on educating a measurement team on the PM Value Measurement Program to help them understand and enable them to clearly identify the program's objectives and goals. Organizational constructs that affect the PM Value Measurement Program identified, including...

So what does a project manager do? The project manager's challenge is to combine two discrete areas of competence: The art of project management—Effective communications, trust, values, integrity, honesty, sociability, leadership, staff development, flexibility, decision making, perspective, sound business judgment, negotiations, customer relations, problem solving,...

POME Case- Study Setting High Departmental Standards as a New Manager — Case Problem: ‘‘The Bitter Beginning'' Overview While having lunch in the company cafeteria, Jack, the general credit manager and a twelve-year veteran, couldn't wait to tell his friend, Marv, a sales representative, about...

Choosing Metrics for Project Team Goals and Objectives Keep the quality tenet "quality is a product's ability to meet customer requirements" in mind when selecting the metrics to base your scorecard on. The first question a senior executive might ask regarding your project is "What...

POME Case Study Orienting New and Transferred Employees — Case Problem: ‘‘The Disoriented Employee'' Overview ‘‘John, can I sit here and talk with you a few minutes while you're having lunch?'' asked Mary of a fellow accountant who had joined the firm only three months...

BENEFITS AND PITFALLS OF TEAMING Teamwork offers a number of concrete benefits: Teamwork enhances success. Teamwork helps your group excel at what it's doing and boosts its chances of "winning." Teamwork promotes creativity. The team approach stimulates innovation and encourages people to try new approaches...

POME Case- Study Utilizing Temporary and Part-Time Workers — Case Problem: ‘‘The Second-Class Citizen'' Overview Five years ago, Lola, a successful marketing manager, resigned her position to raise her new baby daughter. After four-and-a-half years of caring for her child full time, Lola decided to...

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EFFECTIVE PROJECT TEAM MANAGEMENT The project leader must foster an environment where team members are professionally satisfied, are involved, and have mutual trust. The more effective the project leader is in stimulating the drivers and minimizing the barriers shown in Figure below, the...

The Project Management Institute (PMI) is the leader and the most widely recognized organization in promoting project management best practices. It was founded in 1969 and started offering the Project Management Professional (PMP) exam and Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) certifications in 1984.  These...

With Car Become the main means of transport of human, some say, traffic accidents have become the "world's first victims." And car ownership in China only 3% of the world (not including Hong Kong and Macao regions), the death toll is more than ten years...

The English name Amethyst Amethyst, from Greek, meaning "not easily broken. Amethyst is purple to dark purple crystal crystal crystal family is the most expensive one, because the crystals contain Mn crystal , Fe3 + and a violet color. transparent, in the two-color microscope obvious...

Channel Recommended: flesh and blood Attachment to Wenchuan East region is the development of China's market economy is the fastest one of the earliest, East China's window?? Shanghai, it is the "Wall Street of China", "Oriental Paris" and the reputation of East China's Jiangsu, Zhejiang...

[ HC office supplies network ] The United States leading marketing magazine "Advertising Age," Online Journal of Culture, said today, although Google is still a very popular consumer Internet brand, but in the current U.S. and global economic downturn environment, the major media companies and...