29th March 2012
Over the last two decades the mining sector has become a crucial industry for the growing world economy. With mining extraction companies viewed as the core players of this industry, mining consultancy groups and field servicing groups have also expanded ...
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27th March 2012
Many accounting and auditing firms seek to maximise revenue through venturing into new investments, hiring new resources and adapting to the latest technology. While these methods can increase your revenue, they increase the company’s expense sheet as wel...
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20th March 2012
Imagine you are the IT resource coordinator of a multinational corporation. You need to find the right set of resources for a critical project, which under any circumstance has to be delivered on time. More than 60 IT related projects are conducted at any...
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20th March 2012
It is complicated dealing with large numbers of human resources and coordinating them across different locations, especially when they’re moving around. It remains complicated even if you have spreadsheets and tables to support you. What’s the alternative...
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02nd December 2011
IT Teams and companies are often faced with similar resource management challenges whether they are sitting in San Francisco or Bangalore, so why do they struggle to effectively address it?
Let’s first identify the challenges and then explore how they ...
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16th June 2011
How can an employee create risk? How can you reduce that risk?
A risk is the potential that a chosen action or activity will lead to a loss or an undesirable outcome, which in the case of a business can be financial risk, project risk and reputational ...
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01st June 2011
If you spend a lot of time speaking to resource and project managers, you will notice that they often complain about how much of their time is taken up finding available staff and booking them. They will spend time going back and forth, through their exce...
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17th May 2011
Imagine – you are stressed out, your clothes are lying around your house, the dishes are dirty and you can’t find your spectacles. It is frustrating to have everything in a mess, making it hard to get things done, but the fact that your key instrument – y...
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03rd May 2011
Do you have a global business where your employees are located or constantly moving from one part of the world to another? How do you manage them, track their work and their productivity?
Regardless of whether a company’s staffs are global or local, a ...
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30th March 2011
Traditionally businesses have always considered how to maximise shareholder value, and maximise their bottom line – their profit. However business in the 21st century has begun to evolve, with company’s looking at maximising stakeholder value, not just sh...
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18th March 2011
Reporting is an important part of a business’s operations, as it aids decision making, the minimising of costs, maximising of revenue, having an overall understanding of the business and for external reporting and accountability. When you are a resource m...
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07th March 2011
Most companies want to maximise their profit. They will often consider cutting staff, working staff harder, entering a new market, increasing advertising, amongst other things. However, companies often forget the importance of effective resource schedulin...
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18th February 2011
Is Matrix Management a complicated word? Or is matrix management a simple word in a complicated world?
Matrix management has been created to simplify management in the companies of the 21st century. Despite many businesses implementing such management,...
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01st February 2011
An employee being usually a company’s largest overhead; they play a huge role in determining overall company profitability. So any improvement in employee productivity adds directly to the bottom line of the organisation. It requires dedicated employee sc...
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07th January 2011
Traditionally management theory has suggested that to increase the efficiency of our companies we need a division of labour. Adam Smith first suggested this in the 1700s arguing that by dividing labour and allowing them to specialise in a specified area, ...
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