August 2023: How to track progress in a project? Work progress in a project should be monitored to be controlled throughout the lifetime of the project. Monitoring and controlling will include benchmarking the current status of the project as opposed to the original plan baseline, or another more recent modified baseline. Opposing actual measures to planned measures will reveal how deviated is the progress of the project work from the expected or desired track. This tracking and measurement is done periodically and reported in a project status report, and it will cover at minimum scope, time, and cost tracking, to avoid project scope creep, or schedule slippage, or running over the allocated budget. When a deviation is noticed and need to be corrected, a change request may be required to modify the project plan with new targets, and a new baseline is created for future tracking. Software tools make this task less time consuming and more accurate, as long as you have the correct measures data fed into the tool.
July 2023: What is Artificial Intelligence? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a technological term that represents an umbrella of several advanced computer science technologies, including Machine Learning, Robotics, Augmented and Virtual Reality, etc. Compared to classical computing technologies, AI is characterized by dynamic and adaptive computing that enhances algorithms based on data collected from the environment of operation, so that produced results are smarter and more realistic and guide insightful decision making. Applications of AI are uncountable and continually increasing and spreading, in all industrial fields, like agriculture, manufacturing, education, health care, data science, social and psychological sciences, and even gaming. It's crucial to understand that reliance on data fed into the system and provided databases makes the system only as good as the quality of the data. Data cleansing is critical.
June 2023: What is SAP system? SAP is a popular system used in many organizations, and the word is so popular that it's considered a type of systems by its own, while it's in fact just one sort of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems, being propably the most well known ERP system. SAP is a company name, and they develop and release various packages of ERP system, hosted and on-site installed, fitting different purposes for different organization types and sizes. You can also hear the word SAP in training course catalogues, as there are many certifications that qualify users for different roles in the SAP system, and these training courses are provided by partners of the SAP company. In addition to SAP, there are other ERP systems that are worth mentioning, including those developed by large enterprises like Oracle and Microsoft and others.
May 2023: What is the Blue Ocean Strategy? The Blue Ocean Strategy is one of the marketing strategies that avoids competition and focuses on new unbenetrated markets or products. The term blue ocean signifies calm water with few navigators and fishers, and plenty of fish to catch. Blue Ocean markets can be found by inventing new products or services that target a customer segment for which a need exists but no supply fulfill this need. Alternatively, a new market is penetrated where providers of an existing product or service are not available. Companies can achieve the Blue Ocean Strategy by building on other marketing startegies, like differntiation and cost leadership strategies. The term Blue Ocean is sometimes opposed to the Red Ocean term, to signal the situation where many competitors exist and sailing and catching are hard to do. Blue Ocean marketing strategies may work for a short term, meanwhile a competitor enters the market, unless your product is not imitable, or your market is so unique and difficult to benetrate.
April 2023: What is ROI? ROI is a popular abbreviation that stands for "Return on Investment". This term is used in many contexts where investment of any sort is made, and it's required to understand how profitable is this investment based on the expected or actual return. ROI is used for informed decision making, along with other calculations, that guide the decision maker whether to proceed or not with a certain investment. Return on investment in most cases is calculated in financial terms, when a specific amount of money is invested in some project or endeavor, and the return is expected to be financial. In other cases, return can be non-financial, when intangible results are targeted, like motivating an audience, or promoting an idea or image. Intangible results are still measurable in quantitative terms, using techniques like scoring.
March 2023: What are Project Management standards? There have been initiatives to develop international standards for project management since a number of years, most notably when the ISO organization created the technical committee (TC 258) for project, program, and portfolio management in 2011. In contrary to the project management frameworks developed by professional bodies that serve as basis for commercial professional certifications, these standards are developed by representatives from national standardization bodies in countries who are members in ISO. This committee has released a number of standards, covering project, program, and portfolio management guidance, concepts, and governance, as well as specialized standards for earned value management and work breakdown structure. In addition to ISO, there are other international bodies, like the African organization (ARSO) which develops standards more focused on inter-continent requirements.
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