nowadays project management is a key component in introductory operations management. the educators and the researchers in these areas advocate representing a project as a network and applying the solution approaches for network models to them to assist project managers to monitor their completion. in this paper, we evaluated project’s completion time utilizing the q-learning algorithm. so the ...

A unlt-hnked hfe insurance contract ~s a contract where the insurance benefits depend on the price of some specific traded stocks We consider a model describing the uncertainty of the financial market and a portfoho of insured individuals simultaneously. Due to incompleteness the insurance claims cannot be hedged completely by trading stocks and bonds only, leawng some risk to the insurer. The ...

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B2 Lack of experienced project managers and PMO leadership Many PMO initiatives do not have experienced project managers and leaders who understand the challenges of a PMO implementation and who are aware of the political terrain in the organization. B3 Lack of dedicated resources in the PMO implementation team In most PMO projects, the team members are shared resources, often pulled into other...

Despite the intensity of information technology investments, too many projects fail to meet their multiple objectives of time, cost, quality, scope and stakeholder expectations. Consequently, organizations are implementing project management offices (PMO) – an organizational unit that centralizes and coordinates the management of projects. While there is a growing interest in practice, there is...

Given the popularity of PMO and international projects, and the difficulties experienced by PMO, it is important and necessary to study PMO in a global context. This paper raises a challenge for a PMO who uses traditional approaches to supervise international projects characterized with external embeddedness. Would such a character demand this PMO be operated differently to adapt to environment...

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The concept of the IT Project Management Office (PMO) appears to be rapidly growing in popularity and influence globally. This indicates considerable interest in the industry on the potential of the IT PMO, a central element of IT project management in organisations. Although established to ensure project success, the value of these IT PMOs is being questioned, putting them in a paradoxical sit...

Healthcare management and public health have been significantly grown over decades. Based on report presented by Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), healthcare spending will grow to about 19.8% of US GDP by 2020. Other countries have spent huge investment on health sector as well. Therefore, in order to improve public health services and with the aim of attaining better performance...