In the 1960s, coinciding with population increases, great amounts of water from the water system we know as the Jordan River began to be drained off for irrigation and overall water needs. The Jordan River is also the main feed for the Dead Sea. With reduced water volumes, the Dead Sea levels are lowering at […]
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Battersea Power Station, Deptford Dockyard, Grimsby Ice Factory and Sulgrave Manor in Northamptonshire are the UK sites listed today on the 2014 World Monuments Watch. They join a diverse group of 67 sites from 41 countries and territories across the world, including the city of Venice, the Ancient Irrigated Terraces of Battir outside Bethlehem
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There are lessons to be learnt by sharing relevant data between NHS organisations to help drive clinical efficiency and enable better decision-making, says Peter Osborne of LOC Consulting. The NHS’s implementation of Clinical Commissioning Groups in April this year is designed to streamline healthcare commissioning by placing clinicians at the heart of the commissioning process.
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Arras People, the UK\’s programme and project management recruitment and careers specialist, have just launched new career focused workshops for project managers. The workshops have been created to provide practical advice and support when it comes to job focused career development. Arras People\’s Lindsay Scott; Over the last 11 years we\’ve found that project practitioners
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Over 70 project management bloggers came together on Wednesday 25th September at 1am GMT for the first ever Project Management Flashblog. The #pmflashblog was the brain child of Shim Marom, a project management blogger from Australia. The idea of the #pmflashblog is to have a large number of bloggers post an article, in their respective
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Project management framework provides an organisation with a structured approach to delivery of projects. As described in my last post \”what is a project management framework?\” they include the following elements A common life cycle with defined stages and gates. A defined set of roles and responsibilities including the sponsor, project manager and users. A
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Gower Publishing have launched their latest Handbook in the series – The Handbook of People in Project Management. With three years in the making, over 60 chapters and 44 individual contributors, the new handbook is an eclectic mix which offers something new to the project practitioner. The handbook\’s sections include; Management and Organisation People In
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When a small team within an organization is working on a project it is important to have a document storage solution which allow for effective collaboration. The document storage option that you choose should allow all of the project participants to access the documents and allow for the project manager to oversee the entire project.
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Recently the head of the government’s flagship welfare reform project known as Universal Credit has stated that it has been suffering from poor project management. The aim of Universal Credit will merge a number benefits including income support, housing benefit, jobseeker’s allowance, child tax credits and also the working credit to provide one combined benefit.
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Forget January for New Year’s Resolutions. The return to work after the summer holidays is the best time to get your projects in shape, says Jason Westland. LA HABRA, Aug 29, 2013 – Returning to work after the summer is the time when most project managers focus their minds on getting things straight on their
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