Business intelligence is evolving from a reactive ("What has happened?") into a more proactive ("What will happen?") role. In order to maximize benefits it would make sense to more tightly combine business intelligence (BI) with business process management (BPM) rather than implement each solution individually. - Article published in MonitorPro, spring 2011, p. 28-29....
Project managers spend most of our time communicating. This takes place within our project teams as well as outside of the project environment. Traditional communication methods, such as meetings, telephone calls and email are supplemented with more modern forms that include chat rooms, blogs, social media and similar. - International Conference on Organizational Science Development, March 23 – 25, 2011...
In today's competitive environment businesses want to continue to be profitable. They want to hold on to their existing clients and acquire new ones and they want to do this with the least amount of cost. Predictive analytics can help to achieve all of the above. - Article published in MonitorPro magazine, fall 2010, p. 25....
In 2009 Project Management Institute completed a broad research project that confirmed the value of project management when applied in companies worldwide. Although the results of the research were not a surprise to those of us who are involved with projects on a daily basis, we nevertheless often encounter companies in real life who do not embrace the value of project management and view project management as unnecessary bureaucracy. This article will present two examples of projects that were implemented each in a different environment: one where project management was highly valued and one where project management was rejected as an additional expense. Comparing the success of each of the two projects supports the research finding that project management has value. Using results of the comparison of success of each project we present arguments that may be used when trying to sell the value of project management to executive management. -- International Conference on Organizational Science Development, March 24 – 26, 2010...
Business intelligence solutions have matured to the level where we don't have to ask anymore whether they are useful or relevant. It is a given that they supplement other business solutions. Due to increased competition, there is more need than ever to extract even more business value from business intelligence solutions. - Article published in Sistem, February 2010, p. 8-9....
In traditional project management we should know the scope, cost and schedule of our projects. But in reality we often don't know all the details about scope, therefore we can't estimate the project cost in schedule. Agile methodologies have been introduced to deliver quick results and allow the project to address the real needs of the stakeholders. -- Paper presented at ZPM Forum June 3 – 5, 2009....
Managing projects made up of international teams presents unique challenges in terms of communication, collaboration and managing stakeholder expectations. Being able to adapt to local custom is key in reaching successful outcomes, however, when a project team is made up of individuals from different parts of the world it is unclear which local custom to favor. -- Paper presented at PMI Global Congress EMEA Malta, 19.5. – 21.5.2008....
IT developers are often overworked, tired, stressed and required to work long hours. There are always new requirements to be implemented, bugs to be fixed and too many urgent tasks to be completed at the same time. Considering that developers must also take care of their professional development in order to keep up with current IT trends, accomplishing all of the above becomes mission impossible. This article looks at ways organizations can better plan developers' time. -- Article published in Sistem July-August 2007, str. 8-9....
Lessons learned from conversion to Euro projects show that they were all successful, were completed on time and they achieved expected results without any major issues. Comparing this to the general perception that IT projects are always late, exceed budgets or run into trouble we have to wonder what was different in conversion to Euro projects to make them so uncharacteristically successful. -- Article published in Sistem June 2007, p. 22-23....
As service oriented architectures are becoming mainstream we should consider how this affects data warehousing. We can expect impacts of service oriented architectures on both ends of data warehousing implementations: in the way we load data as well as in the way we consume it. -- Article published in Sistem November 2006, p. 6-7....
