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Why the West Is Losing the Wars in the Middle East

(Parker, 2005, p. 2). The result was that technological innovation "and the equally vital ability to respond to it, soon became an...

Why an IT Project Failed

as a former, but more simple, IT project took 2 years this should have been a warning sign. The two year time scale was only for t...

Reasons for Mergers and Why Some Fail

economies of scale leading to a potential cost advantage, the merging of contrasting advantages following the merger or the aspect...

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...

Just Following Orders

equipment someone has the responsibility of guarding it. These watches, like most everything else in the military, begin and end a...

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 ...

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....

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 Listening to the users during the development may also have allowed the out of date...

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...

The Importance of Being on Time for Appointed Military Duty

to be found. At times, this means that the person on duty has to remain on duty for an extended period of time; or it can mean tha...

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...

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...

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...

Soil Salinity in the Imperial Valley

and wildlife in various ways. Plants obtain water through osmosis, a process "which is controlled by the relative level of salts i...

ETHICS AND FRIENDSHIP: HOW FAR SHOULD A WHITE LIE GO?

deceive" (Fallis, 2009; 29). Falls (2009) in his article about lying and the ethics of lying, goes on to suggest that individuals ...

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...

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 ...

Project Risk Management

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

Earthquake: A Terrifying Force

they strike without warning and can do tremendous damage. At this point the student will want to consider an experience in an ear...

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....

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...

Planned Change

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

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...

MS Project Case

When looking at Provenance there appears to be a lack of any clear definition. The project is led by Mr Howe, who...

Project Management

and reporting that progress to the appropriate persons (Oxford Brookes University, 2006). It is also during this phase project tea...

Questions About Project Management Articles

all can be outlined and appreciated. For example, if this is a project for a new supermarket it may include all elements from the ...

The Importance of Women's History

women to the sidelines of history, as insignificant to the progress of humanity. By implication, this view says that women did not...