The News Review:
- Project Management Keeps IT From Being A Victim Of Success
- Don’t let incompetent management force you out of a job you like;…
- Traffic management centre begins operations
- Focus on traffic management plan
- People are key to wildlife management
- Ping An, Fortis reach final deal on global asset management unit
- News: Village management audits found major management problems |…
Project Management Keeps IT From Being A Victim Of Success
InformationWeek – Apr 5, 2008
Establishing a good, documented project initiation and ongoing evaluation process is your best defense against managing by whim. Reach out to non-IT departments when you’re creating the process so that they buy in to the final product, and take these factors into consideration:Measure work capacity. You can’t even begin to justify why you need a process until you have a clear sense of how busy the IT staff is. Even if you don’t believe your group is overburdened, you can use capacity data in other ways.
Don’t let incompetent management force you out of a job you like;…
Toronto Star – Apr 5, 2008
Mary Ellen Slayter
Washington Post
Anyone who has been in the workforce for a while has advice to share – and it doesn’t always sync up with mine. Stephen Farina says that workers who hate their bosses shouldn’t be so quick to resign. "I have been in my job for 16 years and have seen (upper management) come and go five times," he wrote in a recent email. "What I have learned is that their decisions are often wrong or based on their own personal biases. It is often far better to stay and seek legal advice and document, document, document.
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Traffic management centre begins operations
Hindu – Apr 5, 2008
This is the first such centre to be set up in the State. From the centre, which is now housed in the Ashok Nagar police station premises, the police can observe the movement of vehicles across 40 junctions using surveillance cameras. Another 40 junctions will be shortly added. “We will not only man the traffic movement but also use the facility to book cases of violations.
Focus on traffic management plan
Hindu – Apr 5, 2008
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Udhagamandalam: A sudden increase in the inflow of tourists created havoc in this hill station on Friday. Having participated in the 19th CPI(M) Congress at Coimbatore, thousands of party cadres along with their families flocked to this town in vans and buses. Though the spurt was anticipated, the arrival of hundreds of buses almost one after the other threw arrangements out of gear. With parking lots in different parts of the town, including the main one near the Nilgiris Cooperative Marketing Society (NCMS) overflowing with vehicles, the police were forced to make alternative arrangements. Since even the stop-gap arrangements were not enough, the drivers parked their vehicles wherever they could find sufficient space.
People are key to wildlife management
Youngstown Vindicator – Apr 5, 2008
Wildlife managers call this stocking, and I?m most often reminded of this practice on opening day of trout season when anglers stand shoulder to shoulder on heavily stocked segments of streams. It seems neither sporting nor much fun. But then I remind myself that the people who buy the licenses and stamps that finance these programs are the clientele of wildlife agencies. If these agencies don?t provide what users want, they?ll find something else to do with their free time.
Ping An, Fortis reach final deal on global asset management unit
china.org.cn – Apr 5, 2008
cnPing An Insurance, a major Chinese insurer, has acquired a 50-percent stake in the Belgian-Dutch financial services provider Fortis’ asset management unit, Fortis Investments, for 2. 15 billion euros (24. 2008-04-05 13:41:01.
News: Village management audits found major management problems |…
OCRegister – Apr 5, 2008
Globe records show that performance audits of operations and departments of the community’s management company, Professional Community Management, Inc. stretch back more than 30 years and the bottom line results were no fraud or major problems. And when reasonable suggestions were made for efficiencies, they were implemented in a timely manner. Earliest records in the Globe newspaper clipping morgue indicate an audit occurred in 1976. In 1990, then Golden Rain Foundation President Al Hanson argued the need for a new study of community operations because of the 14 year interval.
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