environmental impact assessment (eia) reports of projects in different development sectors in sudan (agriculture, roads and highways, power generation, oil production, river engineering projects) were analyzed to investigate how these studies corresponded with the local, regional, international and good practice requirements. the results of the analysis illustrated some variations in the practi...

Large-scale information technology (IT) projects experience higher failure rates than smaller IT projects. When these projects fail in government agencies, they represent significant costs to both the agencies and society. This paper reports the results of a study on large-scale government IT projects that failed over multiple iterations. Data was gathered on the modernization efforts at the In...

The optimisation phase is a crucial step in the process of drug development, yet the mechanics of the projects that make it up are poorly understood. Weak documentation of failed projects makes statistical analysis of the factors affecting project performance challenging, so a better approach may be the development of an underlying theory of how projects work. We present a model based on a modi...

Researchers have found that approximately 70% of information systems development projects in Japan have failed, thus increasing the demand for solutions that will raise expected project success rates. It is said that to improve success rates, support should be provided by the organization to which the projects belong. The study aims to identify projects that an organization should support prefe...

A pilot study is one of the essential stages in a research project. This paper aims to describe the importance of and steps involved in executing a pilot study by using an example of a descriptive study in primary care. The process of testing the feasibility of the project proposal, recruitment of subjects, research tool and data analysis was reported. We conclude that a pilot study is necessar...

"This article reviews the experience of two pilot projects in Bangladesh that have addressed the question of how [operations] research can be designed to foster its utilization. In a rural field experiment [begun in 1972] in Matlab subdistrict, research has demonstrated that contraceptive services, if carefully designed and properly implemented, can influence demographic dynamics even where so...

One of the key roles of a junior doctor is co-ordinating the care of their patients and communicating with different departments or specialties within the hospital. To do this, junior doctors often spend a lot of time on a daily basis contacting the hospital switchboard in order to locate a required bleep/extension/fax number, or trying to navigate an intranet based directory which can be diffi...

BACKGROUND Community service-learning (CSL) has been proposed as one way to enrich medical and dental students' sense of social responsibility toward people who are marginalized in society. AIM We developed and implemented a new CSL option in the integrated medical/dental curriculum and assessed its educational impact. METHODS Focus groups, individual open-ended interviews, and a survey wer...

six sigma methodology is one of the most famous effective problem solving approaches that helps organizations to achieve their goals. despite the variety of its positive advantage, most companies have failed to implement six sigma successfully. the reason for this includes lack of the organizations attention to success or failure factors when implement six sigma projects. hence, while performin...

this research has been conducted due to changing of organizations' operating environment and the need of radical change in short time to facilitate the match between market opportunities and corporate capabilities. as hammer and champy found that 50-70% of attempts have been failed to deliver intended dramatic results, a preevaluation by less time and less costly from the current process d...