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Capital Budgeting: Definitions, Steps & Techniques

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Figuring out what to spend its capital on, such as capital spending on long-term assets, is part of capital budgeting. First, we need to define capital budgeting, what a capital budget is and why it’s important. Then we can go through the capital budgeting techniques and the steps to a capital budgeting process.

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What Is an IT Budget? IT Budgeting Basics (Template Included)

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Managing information costs and managing information security for those costs are part of making an IT budget. First, we need to understand what an IT budget is, how often they’re made and what is the best size for one. What Is an IT Budget? An IT budget consists of all the IT spending for an organization over one year.

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Risk Mitigation Plan: Definition & Top Strategies

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But first, let’s figure out what risk mitigation is, and what strategies exist to control risk in your project. Risk mitigation is a strategy that seeks to foresee risk in a project before it’s executed. This speaks directly to your bottom line, protecting your budget and helping your project meet its schedule. Accepting Risk.

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How to Build and Implement a Project Strategy

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Project strategy is the plan that defines a project, which is why project management strategy is so important. To better manage projects, one must clearly understand project strategy, who’s responsible for it in the organization and the steps to create a project strategy. What Is Project Strategy?

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Organizational Process Assets: Definitions, Examples & Templates

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They’re more concerned with culture, strategy and decision-making in the organization and they’re used to guide how decisions at the organization are made. This allows organizations to better manage their activities by defining what forms to use, and having a definite set of steps for processes, reporting, payment and so forth.

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How to Create a Strategy Map for Your Organization

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To communicate this, organizations will usually employ what is called a strategy map. Then we’ll provide an example to better illustrate what we’re talking about and even provide a download to a free strategy map template to help you get started. What Is a Strategy Map? What Should Be Included in a Strategy Map?

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How to manage team conflict (& 5 strategies for conflict resolution)

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In this article, we’ll look at the causes of team conflict on projects, how to identify conflict and resolution strategies so you can all get back to work. Conflict examples in the Definition Phase In this phase the project is being fully scoped and planned. Here are some project management conflict resolution strategies.