Different levels of management are appropriate for different projects. The hard part is knowing how much is enough. Many project managers believe that the amount of management effort, and type and scale of management techniques, is a function of project size, duration, cost, or complexity. While this is partly true, the real issue is, “How important is it to achieve the project objectives?”
Management systems are evolving as part of a larger trend toward risk management and sustainability. We are entering the fourth era of organization management. First came the control era, where the focus was on defining and controlling characteristics, conditions, and contaminants. This period roughly ran from 1925 to 1975. Then came the assurance era, where the focus was on defining and following processes. This period lasted about half as long as the first: 1975-2000. Recently, we entered the management era, where separate systems were established and often certified. Continue reading
Feel like you are the only one in the job hunt that gets no response? Well apparently not, according to this data from Career Builder.
After you read the data, consider if this is the trend and what can you do different to get a response from a recruiter?
The answer: Your approach and attitude.
Response Required: 82% of workers expect to hear back from a company when they apply for a job, even if the employer isn’t interested.
Any business / any organization has its key business processes that create the products or services that make that business / organization “be”. Without these products / services the organization would not exist. The more these products / services address “must have” requirements of its customers with the agility to continuously evolve them to address customer needs and wants, the more successful that organization is.
It used to be said “It’s not a matter of if you will be hacked. It’s when.” But, now it has progressed to “What?”
In other words it was not a question of whether or not you would be hacked, it was given you would be. The real question was just when was it going to happen. But, now that question is no longer operative. The information security community is generally conceding that you have been hacked whether you know it or not. Continue reading