HE MASTERY OF RISK DISTINGUISHES modern times from the past: By understanding and measuring risks and their consequences, modern humans no longer perceive the future as a whim of the gods and thereby have been empowered to transform their world (Bernstein, 1996). Strangely, IT project management, despite the fact that it deals with “modern” technologies, is embarrassingly immature in the master...

implementation of enterprise resource planning has had a chaotic history in which many projects ended successfully and many failed or ended without approaching the predetermined objectives. this research, in terms of purpose, is considered fundamental since it designs a new system for solving a fundamental problem and it is also an applied research because the research result is deployed in the...

Indian Railways, since its inception have been under government ownership. But with increasing demand and cost pressures, entry of private sector has become inevitable. railways also embraced the idea use public partnership for better service efficient resource utilization. This paper studies effectiveness using (PPP) model in railways. The public-private investment, though a phenomenal success...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine a Chinese small enterprise’s failed attempt to adopt enterprise resource planning (ERP) and to identify the critical success factors for these type of projects. Design/methodology/approach – Information was collected through multiple site visits and semi-structured interviews with key staff of the ERP project, as well as examination of relevant ...

Despite substantial investments, data science has failed to deliver significant business value in many companies. So far, the reasons for this problem have not been explored systematically. This study tries find possible explanations shortcoming and analyses specific challenges data-driven projects. To identify that make projects fall short of expectations, multiple rounds qualitative semi-stru...

Agriculture accounts for the largest share of anthropogenic methane emissions. Rice paddy fields emit a significant amount gas worldwide. Changing water management practices has an enormous potential to reduce greenhouse gases. The clean development mechanism (CDM) project uses market through private participation. There are various risks associated with investment in CDM projects, although car...

introduction failed back surgery syndrome (fbss) is an increasing cause of chronic pain in most countries. this poses high costs to both patients and national health organizations. case presentation in this report, multimodal pain management based on daily high-dose oxycodone/naloxone (oxn 180/90 mg) led to reduced patient's pain score and improved quality of life. conclusions oxycodone/naloxon...

Failed humanitarian projects provide us with an opportunity to shed light on the complex interactions and conflicts among international donors, workers local recipients. This article explores such a contested terminated project in post-First World War Belgium. The Child Health Section (1922–24) was US development programme initiated by Herbert Hoover Commission for Relief Belgium Educational Fo...