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A Postmortem on a Project

is successful the general approach is that the project has to be delivered on time, in budget and to the right specifications (qua...

The Importance of Governance in Projects

and other stakeholders, and spells out the rules and procedures for making decisions on corporate affairs. By doing this, it also ...

Information Technology Projects

change. One dynamic that is often overlooked in IT change projects is the loss of productivity during and immediately after the ...

Why did Barings Bank Fail?

the research on why businesses fail. A study by Moulton (et al, 1996) looked to identify the reasons for business failure. This st...

BLM Case Study

rather than a windows framework of the system. Listening to the users during the development may also have allowed the out of date...

Second World War Participation of Japan

In seven pages this paper examines why Japan became embroiled in the Second World War conflict and its failed effort....

Why Do Companies Failed to Make Accurate Capital Investment Decisions?

the back of envelope it would be unsurprising that the results will be lacking. However, it is not a problem that is associated on...

Project Failures and Successes

To become a project manager it is necessary to understand why projects fail, as well as why they succeed. The paper starts by exa...

Project Management Critical Success Factors

management. This is the aim of this paper, the paper will start by justifying the need for successful project management and then ...

Information Systems Technology Projects Fail

all projects falls between 66 percent and 90 percent depending on which survey data one relies on. Engle (2007) reported that 90 ...

Project Management Control

time when they are needed. Resources may be any inputs that are needed, it may be computer processing time, human labor, or access...

Do Projects Fail because of People and Communication?

of a single or single set of objectives, rather than an ongoing repeated process. For example, planning the building of a structur...

Failing Grades and Learning Disabilities

category was first formulated in 1977. The phrase, "All student will learn to read by third grade" has become a rallying point in ...

Project Planning, Scheduling and Control by James P. Lewis

In six pages this paper analyzes Lewis's project management text. There are no other sources listed....

Future Accounting Projections and Medical Care

In five pages this student submitted case study projects future medical accounts with Microsoft Excel and analyzes how they may be...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Passive Assets And Human Capital

our most important asset" has been around almost as long. If people really are assets, then maybe they should be treated like mac...

Business Closing Letter

when we were given a $60.00 increase. Such a small increase didnt make up for the increases in gas, light and water, all of which...

When Acquisitions Go Wrong - Rover and BMW

The European Union was also changing in terms of competition, with increasing levels of competition from Asian countries such as J...

Caribbean Restaurant Business Plan

prior to deciding to open his own Caribbean restaurant. The owner began as a waiter and worked his way up to manager. The owner al...

Failed Information Technology Project at Washington Mercy Hospital

but fails to deliver in terms of system response. The hospital and its IT contractor, DCS, are entering non-binding mediation in ...

Tax Rates and Investment Assessments

Business should consider a number of factors before making strategic and investment decisions. The first part of the paper consid...

Project Risk Management

of the channel (Franklin, 1993). Getting specialist equipment made and delivered but also the provision of services to use the t...

A FAILURE OF PROJECT SCOPE: VISTA AND GEOPLEX

certainly the case for AT&T with its doomed Geoplex project, and Microsoft Corp. with its latest OS, optimistically called "Vista....

Planned Change

likely modify it. These are unplanned changes that allow the users to use the technology more effectively (Yates, 2008). Yates ...

The Dowding Universal Business Model and Its Influences on Information Technology

as customers, suppliers and managers. With the ten aspects there are a total of fifty five elements (Dowding, 2001). The third...

What are Death March Projects and Who Undertakes Them?

employees or outside contractors, further delaying things (Yourdon, 2004). In these circumstances, declaring a project to be a de...

Business Practices Related to the The Container Store

In eight pages this paper examines Daniel Roth's article 'My Job At The Container Store: Employees at the best company to work for...

Reasons for Failure of Information System Projects

In seven pages this paper discusses the technical, organizational, and human reasons for information system projects' failing. S...

Reasons for Small Business Failure

establish and maintain a sound strategy also could be added (Anonymous, 1999). Fewer numbers of businesses even attempt to survi...