Effective project management requires reliable knowledge of cash required in different stages of project life cycle. Getting this knowledge is highly dependent on sophisticated consideration of project environment. Nature of projects and their environments are associated with uncertain conditions. In this paper, a new project cash flow assessment method based on project scheduling is proposed t...

Contemporary factories in capital intensive industries such as semiconductor manufacturing are very complex, with many sources of risk. The highly competitive and global business environment forces companies to analyze, design, and continuously re-design factories with distributed multidisciplinary teams. Traditional factory design approaches using spreadsheets and stand-alone simulations canno...

Executive Summary Predictability in today’s capital-intensive markets is a challenge. Project cost overruns are one of the areas that are out of control and contributing to this dynamic. CAPEX planning, returns on invested capital and cash flow are all impacted negatively by these inefficiencies. Tweaking the project execution process can result in incremental improvement, but does not really m...

This paper develops a framework of analysis of the dialectical relationship between the structure and capabilities of the firm and the competitive environment within which it operates in order to identify the key factors of corporate competitiveness. The nodal concept of this framework is “organizational capital” which denotes synergistic processes between 1) technological and financial corpora...

To provide better services to customers and not to be left behind in a competitive business environment, a wide variety of ready-to-use software and technologies are available for one to grab and build up software systems at a very fast pace. Rapid fielding plays a major role in developing software systems to provide a quick response to the organization. This paper investigates the appropriaten...