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Capital Budgeting: Definitions, Steps & Techniques

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Opportunity costs are the benefits lost because of investment decisions and important to consider when capital budgeting. The time value of money is about the potential rate of return on the investment as well as the reduced purchasing power over time due to inflation. Conducting a feasibility study is a good idea.

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The Importance of Operational Project Management for Businesses

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Therefore, these are internal projects that aren’t designed to directly impact an audience or customer base. However, because they’re concerned with streamlining department workflows, implementing new technology or processes or even updating the company’s offerings, customers will eventually see the benefits of these improvements.

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How to Use Project Management Principles to Improve Online Assessment Outcomes

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It needs accurate planning, execution, and monitoring so the result will be accurate and trusted. This is the part where project management principles come into play. Companies can improve results and reduce risks by using project management principles in online assessments.

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5 Notorious Failed Projects & What We Can Learn from Them

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Developed by Sony, Betamax was introduced in the mid-1970s but was unable to get traction in the market, where JVC’s VHS technology was king. Long before it discontinued the technology, Betamax was already irrelevant. This was a creative project, which might not have met its paper objective, but created a slew of useful technologies.

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Measuring the Project Management Maturity of Your Organization

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Resource Management The efficient planning, organizing, scheduling and managing of a project’s resources is the goal of resource management. Resources are both human and nonhuman and can include teams, tools, equipment, tech, facilities, raw materials and so on. Risk Management Risk in a project can be positive or negative.

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Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM): Understanding ROM Estimates

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No one needs to tell you that projects cost money. But how much they’ll cost is an open question. The closer you can come to an accurate forecast of project costs, the more likely you’ll deliver a successful project. Rough order of magnitude (ROM) can help you better estimate project costs.

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The 10 Project Management Knowledge Areas (PMBOK)

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Project management knowledge areas coincide with the process groups, which are project initiation, project planning , project execution, monitoring and controlling, and project closing. These are the chronological phases that every project goes through. Project Cost Management.