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A History of PMI & Its Role in Project Management

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The Project Management Institute (PMI) is a nonprofit organization for those working in project management across the globe. If you have even a passing interest in the field, then you’ve bumped up against PMI. Given its vast influence, it’s important to have a basic understanding of PMI and its history. A History of PMI.

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Chess and Business Strategy

International Institute for Learning

Undoubtedly the chess game is fascinating because it implies deep thinking, strategy, and prediction ability. It is often seen analogous to a business strategy. By knowing the value, it is easier to make decisions about game strategy and placement. By Luigi Morsa, Ph.D. Each piece in a chess game has a specific value.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING, an excellence enabling instrument

International Institute for Learning

This can include: Project Management Institute (PMI ® ) publications. As an example, the aerospace division of a Fortune 500 company benchmarked against their competitors. Then, they decided to benchmark against best-in-class companies in project management, all of which were in different industries other than aerospace.

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Artificial Intelligence and Project Management: The First Step

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For example, by identifying relationships and trends in data, the system can remove excessive information and ‘white noise’, enabling management to focus solely on the most relevant and important information to derive actionable insights and strategies. is an Aerospace Engineer and Project Manager working in the Aircraft Industry in Germany.

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Agile. Creativity. Innovation.

International Institute for Learning

How an idea is treated outside to Agile-Loops can change depending on the fields and companies´ strategy, but what it is important is to have and ensure the needed freedom beforehand to start the routine and loop characterised by the phases, Design > Develop > Test > Deploy > Review , for example. Creativity Is Not Enough.

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Divergent-Convergent Paths Process For Conflict Management

International Institute for Learning

By Luigi Morsa – Aerospace Engineer and Project Manager, SII Engineering & IT. A possible strategy to resolving divergences can be based on the following sequential steps: Understand by a backwards process why the deductions diverge. Managing a team is complex and challenging at the same time. Dealing with Divergence.

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People Innovation: A New Vision to Innovate

International Institute for Learning

In order to efficiently pursue this task, companies have adopted several tools, procedures and strategies that help the birth of new ideas – in addition to adopting the classical Research and Development department (especially if we are speaking about product innovation). It is clear that a company has to focus on innovations at each level.