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Healthcare is a vast and complicated industry which requires project managers to adapt to a whole range of new skills and requirements due to its intricacies. A report by Georgetown University and the National Institutes of Health came to the conclusion that by 2020 there would be 5.6 million new healthcare jobs. This is fueled...
Most business owners are intimately familiar with the concept of risk management. If you’ve ever formulated a business plan, you must consider the potential risks involved with launching an enterprise so that you can prepare, plan a response and convince lenders and investors to get your venture off the ground or help you to grow...
What is Control Management? The concept of control management stems from French mining executive Henri Fayol’s five functions of management (Planning, Organizing, Commanding, Coordinating and Controlling). In this sense, Controlling relates to ensuring that all the processes being undertaken – and their results – are in line with previously established standards. As Fayol himself said:...
What is the Project Management Triangle? The project management triangle defines the basic constraints that a project operates within, namely: Cost Time Scope The triangle model demonstrates how one element cannot be altered without affecting the other constraints. For example, a broadening of the scope of a project will most likely lead to increases in...
As large organizations implement newer and more effective project management methodologies, they often struggle to ensure that projects and processes are managed in a consistent manner across the entire company. Due to varying business needs or individual preferences, teams in one department might wish to manage their projects differently from teams in other departments. While...
Agile som projektledningsmetod har blivit enormt populär runt om i världen när den har utvecklats från sina rötter inom mjukvaruutveckling till att omfatta organisationer inom nästan alla branscher. Det är därför ingen överraskning att agil marknadsföring har blivit ett hett ämne, med tanke på de naturliga synergierna mellan hur marknadsföring och agila processer fungerar. Marknadsföringsprojekt...
With the rise of cloud-based software improving working practices across the world a number of new buzz words have become increasingly prevalent in the digital sphere. These can leave many people mildly bewildered, asking questions like: What is Digital Asset Management? What do UX designers do? or Who on earth are disruptors? If you find...
Being a project manager, in the adventurous and diverse land of business, requires the mastering of a broad spectrum of skills, including having great human relations, excellent research and planning competence, resourcefulness in task delegation, readiness in foreseeing difficulties, calmness in troubleshooting and efficiency in negotiating. When managing just one project at a time, things...
Som vi nyligen diskuterade är det näst vanligaste nyårslöftet "Livsförbättring/självförbättring". Med andra ord? Förändringshantering. Tyvärr vet både enskilda beslutsfattare och företagsledare att förändring är lättare sagt än gjort. 95% av alla människor avbryter sina nyårslöften, medan många inom affärsvärlden uppskattar att minst hälften av alla förändringsledare...
När det gäller projektgrupper kan tilldelningen av roller och konfigureringen av godkännandeprocessen ofta orsaka betydande och skadliga förseningar. När detta händer är det upp till projektledaren att formulera en effektiv RAM-mall (Responsibility Assignment Matrix), till exempel med hjälp av ett RACI-diagram, för att klargöra vem som ska göra vad...
