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    Motivate a project team

    You have broken the news of replacing a key member of your project team. As expected, the team is heartbroken, but your project sponsor is supportive of your move. Discuss what you will do to motivate your team.

    A project resource is not qualified to be in my team

    You have realized that one of your key project resources is not qualified to be a member of your team. You have worked with this resource in previous projects. The resource is very popular with the team and your project sponsor. Explain how you will handle breaking the news to your team and the project sponsor.

    Dashboard in Action

    Find an organization that has adopted a real-time dashboard for its internal use. * What are the most important parts of this dashboard? * How do these parts help the business managers? How do they help the individual contributors? * Have real-time dashboards replaced the traditional business report? Justify your answer.

    Identifying and engaging with customers on social media

    The executive management team of a medium-sized business wants to be more customer focused in the marketplace. Because you oversee the CRM, you have been assigned to support the newly created social media marketing plan: Describe the best steps to identify customers and the different ways they contact your company. Explain t

    Tracking of user behavior

    You may have noticed that when you look at products on a search engine, that same product appears as an advertisement in your social media and other sites you visit. Many search engines provide advertisers with tools for evaluating the impact of different keywords or phrases. These tools typically "track" user behavior patterns

    Issue Related Viral Video

    Considering the various aspects of social networking in relation to group influence, go to YouTube and find an issue-related viral video that is no more than five years old. Discuss in-depth why the video created buzz and how it reflects elements of reference groups such as online communities, opinion leaders, reference group so

    Improving procurement process

    As we are looking to improve procurement process and trying to apply a more category management approach across all its categories. The number of RFQ issued every year is 80 to 100. The contract value for majority of these bids is less than $ 5 M and 5% of tenders are over 10 M. The procurement team includes a manager and 5 proc

    Case Analysis: More Hassle from HR?

    More Hassle from HR? In their three years at Vreeland Pharmaceuticals, Vitorio Nuños and Gary Shaw had rarely crossed paths, and they had exchanged no more than a dozen sentences. But here they were, seatmates on a plane headed to company headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. And suddenly, they had a lot to say to each other.

    Design appropriate organization benefits packages

    As a consultant for Allied Health, Inc. (AHI), your task is to design appropriate benefits packages for the different groups of people AHI employed. One of the requirement is to advise AHI on which benefits to offer to three groups of employees: health care professionals, contingent or temporary workers, and night-time custodia

    Guidelines for effective project scope management

    This solution provides guidelines for effective project scope management. Scope management is the ability for avoid deviation from the project's original intent and effectively communicate the purpose of the project to stakeholders. Without effective scope management, a project can deviate from it's original intent, going over

    Project Management: PERT

    Complete the following table and state the project completion time. See the attachment. Consider the following project. Activity Time (days) A 11 B 6 C 5 D 11 E 6 Complete the following table and state the project completion time. Activity Time (days)

    Project Crashing and Cost

    Calculate the crashing cost per period for each of the activities of the project. Suppose that the critical path of the project is B-D-E-F-G.  Which activity would you select to crash and at what cost per period? Activity to crash = Crashing cost per period = 

    Establishing a Change Control Process for Projects

    This solutions provides guidance for establishing a change control process for projects. Change in projects often involve implications for projects costs and time. If all parties do not agree with the side effect of change before implementing the change, this can have negative consequences for stakeholders and damage the proje

    Section 106 Review of Federal Undertakings (Historic Sites)

    Section 106 requires Federal agencies to consider the impacts of their actions on historic properties (Overview of the NHPA Section 106 Process p. 11). This process starts with the initiating of an undertaking by a federal government or an agency that receives funding, licenses, or permits from a federal agency.

    Project Management: DRAGONFLY Developing a Proposal for a UAV

    Dragonfly: Developing a proposal for an Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle (UAV) https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/IN1059-PDF-ENG Question 1: How could Bob Lake formally represent the evolution of the project, showing interdependence and parallelism among activities? What was the expected completion time of the project? Assume first

    Management and Ethics Training

    Discuss in scholarly detail what managers can do to increase the probability that ethics training influences organization members to act ethically over time?

    Plunging Oil Prices

    The story behind the oil's plunge 1. Identify the most significant point presented in the video and explain why it is important? 2. Who loses the most when oil prices drop? who gains when the price drops?

    Health Care

    Shared governance is one of the newest terms that one will hear when it comes to health care. I have seen places that have instituted shared governance and it has helped the organization. I have also seen organizations that have tired to institute shared governance but because of the staff involved, it was not successful. The st

    Value of needs assessment

    Need assistance in addressing the following statement: Learning about needs assessment and how to perform them can be a huge help when in a management role and when it comes to change. One of the most important things would be that the staff are also aware of the benefits of doing a needs assessment. Would you agree? Tho

    Research Articles

    Sometimes the problem with change is that transparency is not evident in an organization. By this, I mean that information is hidden and not shared. Transparency does need to start at the top. There is nothing as frustrating as trying to do your job and not be able to because of a lack of communication. What are some things t

    Payroll system project

    Please consider the political, economic, technical, operational, legal, and schedule aspects in your feasibility study, and make sure to discuss the following issues in your presentation: The scope of the proposed system—its functions, users, dimensions and constraints A rough estimate of the system size, costs, schedules

    PDCA and PDSA

    Need assistance with a post that addresses the differences between PDCA and PDSA.

    PDCA: Quality Tool

    What is it about the PDCA model that makes it appealing to you? And compare PDCA to another project management process that you like.

    PDCA - Quality Tool

    There are many processes that can be used to ensure quality and that your project is meeting the needs. One process used to be called FOCUS-PDCA. This was the first quality tool I ever used in one of the facilities where I worked. It was difficult to learn at first, but then once I got it, I enjoyed it. Other newer models have c

    Virtual Teams and Protecting Information Assets

    Please help me with three to five significant ideas about the management of virtual teams that could be usefully assessed by conducting systematic organizational research. As we said, your research recommendations need to be supported by the literature and the evidence. Obviously, as noted below, this will obligate you to act

    E-Business Developments

    Describe three big developments in e-business that will become commonplace by the year 2020. Explain why you selected each development and the impact it will have on society and on businesses.