The CIO’s immediate responsibility is to meet the organization’s expectations, and this can best be done by judiciously employing the facilities that IT offers. Big business houses often face a tough ...

As any experienced electrical contractor will tell you, implementing a company-wide project management (PM) system in a construction company has much more to do with training, change management, ...

Once a project is completed, the work isn't over. Implementation is a whole other aspect of project management that requires its own set of procedures and documentation. Even independent project ...

A RACI matrix is a simple, effective means for defining project roles and responsibilities, providing a comprehensive chart of who is responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed every step of ...

As soon as Michael Baker Corp.’s IT department finished installing a Web-based procurement system from ePlus, Bruce Higgins, CIO of the $405 million engineering and construction company, was bombarded ...

Much has been written on the topic of manufacturing execution systems (MESs). Most articles, however, tend to focus on the pre-implementation steps: determining the need for MES software based on ...

Enterprises without integrated systems face inefficiency, which often presents itself as an organizational process. Departments exist separately from one another, and spreadsheets disappear between ...

Effective pre-implementation planning is critical for successful adoption of intelligent process automation (IPA). The comprehensive IPA pre-implementation framework outlined in this document provides ...