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What Is a Balanced Scorecard? (Example & Template Included)

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Relatively new, the balance scorecard was introduced in 1992 by David Norton and Robert Kaplan, by taking existing metric performance measures and adapting them to include nonfinancial information. By looking at performance from these different lenses, a business or organization can put its strategy in context.

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Change Management The approach to plan and implement strategies that guide individuals and organizations through a change (e.g., Earned Value Management (EVM) A systematic approach to project performance measurement assessing schedule and cost performance. Feasibility Study An analysis of a project’s viability.

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10 Top Process Improvement Tools You Need to Create a More Sustainable Business

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A study by BCG/MIT finds that 90% of executives deem sustainability to be important, yet only 60% of companies incorporate sustainability as part of their business strategy, and even less (25%) integrate sustainability into the core of their business model.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING, an excellence enabling instrument

International Institute for Learning

Step 5: Be able to implement the steps necessary to close the performance gap between your company and other companies/organizations. The person performing the external benchmarking study must possess an excellent understanding of his/her organization’s current project management and business processes.

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Closed Loop Control and Granularity of the Estimating Process

Herding Cats

For software, this can be value produced (assuming we have a unit of measure for that value in the for of effectiveness, performance, key performance parameters, or technical performance measures ). It can be the cost, schedule, and technical performance measures of the software project. https://goo.gl/DP6Jw

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

What Impediments will be encountered along the way to Done and what are the handling strategies for each impediment? What are the measures of physical percent complete needed to inform the decision makers of progress to plan in order to take corrective or preventive actions to stay on plan? An exploratory study," Ricardo Colomo?Palacios,

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

What Impediments will be encountered along the way to Done and what are the handling strategies for each impediment? What are the measures of physical percent complete needed to inform the decision makers of progress to plan in order to take corrective or preventive actions to stay on plan? An exploratory study," Ricardo Colomo?Palacios,