...Wireless Technology Solutions and Automation For Southland Pharmaceuticals, LLC. Wireless Technology and Automation Wireless technologies are not the same radio-frequency devices that were implemented in the 1980s for inventory management. Today, various wireless products are available. Companies are applying these products in innovative ways and, in some cases, achieving large cost savings. Most recently, manufacturers have successfully applied wireless process transmitters and wireless instrumentation to controls and distributed control systems (DCS) solutions that address validation and safety concerns. Often, paper-based validation protocols may be adulterated with chemicals and process materials when initiated and completed near process equipment. In some cases, portions of the paper protocol are lost or destroyed, and the protocol must be executed again. But paperless engineering protocols can be initiated at the point of validation. In a paperless approach, the protocols are initiated electronically to capture the execution data and signatures at the point of validation. Rugged wireless terminals manage the electronic protocol. Power, M. (n.d.). Automation is the result of industrialization, driven by the need to increase productivity, to achieve consistent quality products, and to remove mundane, repetitive, strenuous, hazardous and heavy work from workers. Early attempts at automation took the form of mere mechanical machines, to electro-mechanical devices...
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...Software Project Failure and Solutions According to Krigsman, (2007) business-critical and services project are not completed on time, cost too much, contain a lot of defects and fail to satisfy the business requirements they set out to achieve. Clancy, (1995) states that United States spend more than $250 billion each year on approximately 175,000 IT development project of which most will fail and that software development projects are in chaos. This paper aim to explain the reason why a significant amount of software projects fail and what make software projects succeed by reviewing evidence from a few reports and surveys. Research conducted by Standish Group in 1995, shows that 31.1% of project will fail before they are completed and 52% of project will cost 189% of their original cost. On average only 16.2% of software projects are finish on time and on-budget and 9% of software projects are finish on time within budget for large companies. Similarly failure figures for project failure due to restarts, cost overruns, tie overruns were disheartening and to make things worst nothing change since then (Clancy, 1995). The Standish Group survey of IT executive manager reveals that user involvement, executive management support and clear statement of requirements are the three major reasons why project succeed. Incomplete requirements and lack of user involvement are the main opinion why projects are impaired, eventually cancelled and hence fail. Table 1: Some of...
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...Walmart around the World 1. Evaluate Walmart’s globalization strategy over the last two decades. Where did the retailer struggle? Where did it do well? Can location characteristics explain the differences in Walmart performance 2. Walmart entered in some countries through acquisitions and in some countries through greenfield investment. What entry mode do you think was best? Did location characteristics drive the mode of entry? Why? 3. In 2013, Walmart decided to enter the Indian market in a joint-venture with Bharti Enterprises. Based on your analysis of Walmart’s global expansion up to that point, do you think it was a good idea to go to India? To select joint-venture as the mode of entry? 4. In general, what do you think is the best way to enter a new market: acquisition, joint venture, or greenfield investment? What are the location characteristics that affect this decision? What are the firm characteristics that affect this decision? What industry characteristics affect this decision? Zara – Fast Fashion Please assume you are a competent consultant of a very famous consulting company, such as Boston Consulting Company (BCG), McKenzie, or Monitor. And you are assigned to diagnose/evaluate the current strategy and to give recommendation(s) for the future growth of ZARA (or Inditex). You should submit your report to your boss on the day of the discussion. 1. Describe the characteristics of the industry in which ZARA compete. 2. What are the...
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...SOLUTION-FOCUSED PASTORAL COUNSELING FINAL PROJECT By Marlinda M. House Rhodes Student ID #: 25149472 Presented to Dr. Max Grayson Mills In partial fulfillment of the requirements of Introduction to Pastoral Counseling PACO 500 Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary Lynchburg, VA August 18, 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT……………………………………………………………………………………..3 PART 1: THE COUNSELING SETTING Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling Preference…………………………………....4 PART 2: THE COUNSELING STYLE Rational of Style and Assessments……………………………………………………….5 Overview Check and Balance………………………………………………………....6 PART 3: The Counseling Structure Strategy Phase 1 The Event…………………………………………………………………....7 Phase 2 Preferred Solutions………………………………………………………….….8 Phase 3 The Path to Change……………………………………………………….…9 Phase 4 Covenants for Success …………………………………………………………9 PART 4: Counseling Summation Supportive Approach ……………………………………………………………..10 ...
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...1. How do we create a partnership between the project manager and line managers when project manager focuses only on the best of his/her project and the line manager is expected to make impartial company decision? I think the most important point is that project manager and line manager should stand on the same level, which means each of them should have same formal authority, line manager should manage right people to project manager, and project manager should arrange right people to the right position, for the best interest of company, this is a partnership they should establish. 2. Who should have more of a say during negotiations for the resource manager or the line manager. I think it depends on what size the company is, for case one, line manager have more of a say during negotiations for resource, during the context, line manager control several key staff, while project manager have to work with the one he does not want to work with. Ideally, project manager should have a say in the assembly of his project team and his resource, which will help him to gain their personal commitment, support and required quality of service. 3. How should irresolvable conflicts over staffing between the project and line managers be handle? Basically, for this kind of conflict should be handle by sponsor, it is the sponsor who support the project, if there is a conflict between the project manager and line manager, sponsor should evaluate the situation to decide who should go...
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...Preventing Project Failure Welcome 10 Major Causes of Project Failure getpmtraining.com 1 Centreline Solutions Inc. Project Management Institute Global Registered Education Provider #2029 Why Projects Fail v.2005.02.18 Copyright, 2004 © Centreline Solutions Inc. Preventing Project Failure getpmtraining.com 2 Why Projects Fail v.2005.02.18 Copyright, 2004 © Centreline Solutions Inc. 1 Preventing Project Failure In this seminar we will cover: What is project failure? The impacts of project failure? The Top 10 problems that result in project failure • The cause of the problem • How to fix the problem • How to prevent the problem from happening again getpmtraining.com 3 Why Projects Fail v.2005.02.18 Copyright, 2004 © Centreline Solutions Inc. Why do I.T. Projects Fail? Why do I.T. Projects Fail? getpmtraining.com 4 Why Projects Fail v.2005.02.18 Copyright, 2004 © Centreline Solutions Inc. 2 Why do I.T. Projects Fail? Because nobody stops them from failing! getpmtraining.com 5 Why Projects Fail v.2005.02.18 Copyright, 2004 © Centreline Solutions Inc. Iron Triangle Manage the Iron Triangle, or it will manage you getpmtraining.com 6 Why Projects Fail v.2005.02.18 Copyright, 2004 © Centreline Solutions Inc. 3 I.T. Project Disposition I.T. Projects have a bad attitude. They WANT to fail. • • • • • New technologies are difficult to use or predict Aggressive time schedules...
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...01 1.1 Introduction of Project Management Although project management history starts further back in latter 19th century modern project management began in the early 1960s. The need of the project management increased with the development of business around projects and to communicate and co-ordinate work across departments and people. According to the PMBOK (2008) project defines as "temporary endeavour undertaken to create a unique product or service.Temparary means that every project has a definite end. Unique means that the product or service is different in some distinguishing way from all similar product or service." PMBOK (2004) analyse project management as “the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities in order to meet stakeholder’s needs and expectations from a project." Where, Grham (1985) identified project management as "a set of people and other resources temporarily assembled to reach a specified objective, normally with a fixed budget and with a fixed time period. Projects are generally associated with products or procedures that are being done for the time or with known procedures that are being altered." These two definitions clearly show the difference of identifying the project management in time to time. Success or failure of the project can influence by project manager. He integrates and co-ordinates and guides them to successfully complete the project. Below are some desirable project manager attributes (Burke...
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...Project Scope Document Template Human Resources Information System (HRIS) Project Scope Document GenRays March 13th 2014 Table of Contents Project Scope Description 3 Customer Requirements 4 Statement of Work 4 Project Deliverables 5 Acceptance Criteria 6 Work Breakdown Structure 7 Project Boundaries 9 Project Assumptions 10 Initial Defined Risks and Constraints 10 Project Approval 11 Project Scope Description GenRays has been enjoying a great deal of financial benefits and increased productivity as a result of the very successful implementation of the new Financial System. The executive leadership team of GenRays is pretty confident that a similar deployment of a comparable system in Human Resources will not only return similar financial savings but will radically improve efficiency and productivity in the company’s currently manual processes within Human Resources. Presently, from an operational aspect, all processes are very manual intensive with almost no centralization. Every satellite office of the organization has their own dedicated Human Resources team which caters to the general administrative and HR related needs of the employees in that respective office. With the deployment of the HRIS solution, GenRays would be moving forward in leaps and bounds towards a centralized and consolidated employee database which would be the core of simplified operations with Human...
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...#1 - Lack of Visibility of all Projects A common reason why projects fail is related to visibility. All three tiers of the project team, executive management, project managers, and team members, need access to the right level of information at the right time. Executive Management Executives often complain that they do not have visibility into all current enterprise projects. They often do not have access to the project schedules in real-time. Sometimes project managers present the plan at the outset of the project, then become gatekeepers of the schedule, claiming to executives that the schedule has not been updated recently and is not ready to be shared. The sponsors of a project and the executives do not have access to a schedule or reports until it is too late to either re-direct the effort or to cancel the project. The net result that management cares about is the cost of the schedule overruns to the company. Project Managers Project managers often put together a schedule and plan at the outset of a project. The schedule does not always get updated for a variety of reasons. The project managers are so preoccupied with managing issues and re-organizing resources that they do not have time to update the tasks on the schedule and review their impacts. In fast paced environments, project managers are asked to work on several projects at one time. Many project managers attempt to keep pace with the task updates on their project schedules. Those that do, end up...
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...Introduction to the Capstone Project Recommended Activities for This Unit Instructor Functions|Student Tasks| • Discuss the course structure layout. • Present an overview of the capstonecase study or Request for Proposal (RFP).|Discuss the capstone project or Request for Proposal (RFP) to identify the following: o Objectives and scope o Requirements and specifications o The resources, such as human, time, funds, space, and tools, required to deliver the product o Tasks o Deliverables o Milestones• Identify major milestones and individual tasks.| • Explain how to launch and configure Microsoft Office Project 2003.|Explore Microsoft Office Project 2003.| • Discuss project planning and management using Microsoft Office Project 2003 and relate the software to the capstone project. o Define the basic terminology of project management. o Explain the project management life cycle. o Explain project management knowledge areas.|Define project management terminology and apply the terminology to the capstone project.| • Organize project teams. o Define team member roles and responsibilities.|Select teams.• Define team member roles and responsibilities.• Elect peers to fill appropriate roles.| Network Development Capstone Project Unit 1 Instructor Functions|Student Tasks| • Identify the key components of the capstone project. o Discuss the key requirements for the successful completion of the project. See Appendix B for a complete...
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...Vision/Scope Customer Name Directions for using template: Read the Guidance (Arial blue font in brackets) to understand the information that should be placed in each section of this template. Then delete the Guidance and replace the placeholder within with your response. There may be additional Guidance in the Appendix of some documents, which should also be deleted once it has been used. Some templates have four levels of headings. They are not indented, but can be differentiated by font type and size: • Heading 1 – Arial Bold 16 font • Heading 2 – Arial Bold Italic 14 font • Heading 3 – Arial Bold 13 font • Heading 3 – Arial Bold Italic 12 font You may elect to indent sections for readability. |Author | | |Author Position | | |Date | | Version: 1.0 ( 2002 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. The information contained in this document represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the date of publication. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft...
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...3 1.1 Introduction 3 1.2 Ownership of Company 3 1.3 Number of Years in Business 3 1.4 Employee Details 3 1.5 Financial Statement for the Year 2003-2004 3 2. QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE 3 2.1 Company Experience 3 2.2 Team Qualification and Experience 4 3. TECHNICAL SOLUTION 4 3.1 Technical Approach 4 3.2 Proposed Benefits 4 3.3 License Agreements 4 3.4 Warranty Information 4 4. PROJECT MANAGEMENT APPROACH 5 4.1 Project Approach 5 4.2 Quality Assurance Plan 5 4.3 Project Schedule and Key Milestones 5 5. COST ANALYSIS 5 5.1 Equipment and Software 5 5.2 Installation 5 5.3 Ongoing Support 5 5.4 Project Management 6 5.5 Training 6 5.6 Documentation 6 5.7 Miscellaneous 6 6. CONTRACT TERMS AND CONDITIONS 6 7. REFERRALS 6 GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS The instructions for completing each section are given in italics. After completing each section, delete the instructions. You may add more sections, if required, to include additional information. 1. COMPANY BACKGROUND 1.1 Introduction Include background information of the company here. Ensure that you highlight the company functions that are relevant to the proposed solution. 1.2 Ownership of Company Provide information about the company ownership. 1.3 Number of Years in Business Include information about the company history such as start date, objectives, and the key milestones. 1.4 Employee Details Provide information about the number...
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...Microsoft Office System Customer Solution Case study REI Improves Its Product Development Processes by Integrating Process and Project Management Tasks “REI is combining the best of what Visio and Apprentice Process Modeler do for process modeling; what Project and PM Solutions do for project management; what SharePoint does for collaboration and document management; and what Outlook does for communication and collaboration. It’s all tied together with the Microsoft .NET Framework.” Kevin Myette Director of Business Operations REI (Gear and Apparel) Successful manufacturers of retail products, like Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI), need to consistently develop high-quality products and decrease the time it takes to deliver them to market. To do that, they must efficiently manage product development processes, projects, and information. The REI Gear and Apparel division is taking an integrated process and project management approach to designing, managing, and tracking its product development processes and projects while collaborating and managing the workflow online. REI is combining Microsoft .NET technology, the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution, and software based on Microsoft Office Visio 2003 to create an integrated business solution it can use to model as-is business processes, experiment with what-if scenarios, and then convert the optimized processes into detailed project plans. Project managers can further develop these plans, assign...
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...Table of Contents Project Management Information System 2 Introduction 2 Types of project Management Software 3 Desktop software’s: 3 Web Based software: 4 Characteristics of Project Management Software: 5 Benefits of Using a Project Management Software 7 Things to Look for When Implementing Project Management Software 7 Application of PMIS in project management stages 11 Typical Reports in a PMIS Includes: 13 Project management information systems data security 13 Conclusion: 15 Refferences: 15 Project Management Information System Introduction Since the project management is one of the core functions of a business organization, the project management function should be supported by software. Before software was born, project management was fully done through papers. This eventually produced a lot of paper documents and searching through them for information was not a pleasant experience. Once software came available for an affordable cost for the business organizations, software development companies started developing project management software. This became quite popular among all the industries and these software were quickly adopted by the project management community. Project Management Information System (PMIS) is used by upper and lower management to communicate with each other. Project Management Information System (PMIS) help plan, execute and close project management goals. Definition Project Management Information System (PMIS)...
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...a major part of enterprise business. Software development is activity connected with advanced technology and high level of knowledge. Risks on software development projects must be successfully mitigated to produce successful software systems. Lack of a defined approach to risk management is one of the common causes for project failures. To improve project chances for success, this work investigates common risk impact areas to perceive a foundation that can be used to define a common approach to software risk management. Based on typical risk impact areas on software development projects, we propose three risk management strategies suitable for a broad area of enterprises and software development projects with different amounts of connected risks. Proposed strategies define activities that should be performed for successful risk management, the one that will enable software development projects to perceive risks as soon as possible and to solve problems connected with risk materialization. We also propose a risk-based approach to software development planning and risk management as attempts to address and retire the highest impact risks as early as possible in the development process. Proposed strategies should improve risk management on software development projects and help to create a successful software solution. Table of contents: 1. Introduction 4 2. Risks In Software Development 5 3. Risk Management...
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