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What You Can Learn About Goal Setting from the Manhattan Project

Leapfrogging

Managing projects with the Critical Path Method (CPM) allows teams to streamline processes that drive success even when the odds are stacked against you. In the 1940s, the United States began working on a secretive program called the Manhattan Project. Step 3 : Chart the Project. By upBOARD.

Project 100
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Growkomp project yields a promising model for regional transformation projects

Innovation 360 Group

This ambitious development project was launched in 2016 with 8.2 million Swedish crowns funded by the European Social Fund , and ended on May of 2018, with a media conference to announce and celebrate the projects results, including: Average growth of orderbook by 25%. It included: As-is-analysis. Follow-up analysis.

Project 40
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Green finance through shared savings

Norbert Bol

In this financial concept the beneficiary of the implementation of green technologies or sustainability does not have to invest or make an upfront payment for such a project. There also needs to be an independent judgement about the technology being used as well as a sound analysis of the incurred costs. Norbert Bol. Literature.

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Should Lean Tools Be Used for Every Improvement?

Kainexus

This small improvement didn’t require a belt, root cause analysis, or a project champion. October 10, 2019. But when I reread it, I was struck by the line, “This small improvement didn’t require a belt, root cause analysis, or a project champion.” This was added during the first break. But what did it require?

LEAN 42
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Aussies Tackle Antibiotic Resistance

IdeaSpies

As the Ad hoc Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance stated in their report to the Secretary-General of the United Nations in April 2019, “there is no time to wait. These researchers come from 13 organisations, including Australian leader in gut microbiome analysis, Microba. 2 World Health Organization.

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Responsible Artificial Intelligence

Norbert Bol

Clarke (2019) describes 10 themes for responsible AI, which are: (1) Assess Positive and Negative Impacts and Implications. (2) Clarke (2019) also indicates that organizations should evaluate the appropriateness of AI technologies to their own operations through risk assessment and risk management processes. 2) Complement Humans. (3)

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We are falling badly behind on our invention in technology for the Energy Transition

Paul Hobcraft

In summary: The Technology Collaboration Programme supports the work of independent, international groups of experts that enable governments and industries worldwide to lead programmes and projects on a wide range of energy technologies and related issues.