Adding insult, bureaucrats have forked over tens of millions of dollars more to winning bidders for cost overruns on most major projects.
The best way to efficiently deliver major projects is to develop processes and approaches that ensure scarce resources are focused on the most critical projects, specify decision-making protocols, clearly articulate project progression from stage to stage and delineate team member roles all of which are core project management skills.
So earlier this year, I proposed the Partnership to Rebuild America -- a collaboration between the private and public sectors to break ground on our most pressing infrastructure projects.
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We know our country can do better -- which is why I proposed a "Fix-It-First" program earlier this year to put people to work on our most pressing transportation projects.
Executives at the majors argue that selling declining assets frees scarce managers to concentrate on the biggest and most productive projects, which will make the most difference to the company's fortunes.
What makes the Hines story unusual is that it concentrates on the most complex, difficult projects, the ones that require an inordinate amount of money and planning up front in exchange for a greater return later on.
What makes the Hines story unusual is that the firm concentrates on the most complex, difficult projects, the ones that require an inordinate amount of money and planning up front in exchange for a greater return later on.
"We were particularly impressed with the excellent results of Dolby's new Dolby TrueHD with advanced 96k upsampling on one of our most recent projects, the San Francisco Symphony at 100 Blu-ray, " said Luke Fazzary, Director of Operations, Giant Interactive.
On the studio front, Paramount was the most represented with four on the list, including DreamWorks Animation projects.
OneWorld Health chooses most projects strategically, based on a variety of factors including the disease area and identified therapeutic needs within that area, the technical feasibility of the project and its probability of success, its current development stage (e.g. discovery stage vs. clinical stage) and the potential impact.
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Most technical projects can be described on a white board by engineers in good detail on day 1 of a project.
When workers spend most of their time on high-priority projects, it's important to designate a time to clear away the cobwebs and resolve any old issues.
The logging companies, often working on projects that are financed for the most laudable of reasons by the European Union and the World Bank, build forest roads and send in their trucks.
Google is the most visible company working on these types of vehicles, but similar projects are under way at other organizations, including Caltech.
Unlike what you might see on public personal social networking sites, most of the discussions revolve around projects, customers, enterprise issues, glocal events, or requests for assistance.
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He spent most of his final 37 years on Cape Breton, working on projects as varied as the vacuum jacket (a forerunner of the iron lung), man-carrying tetrahedral kites and, most famously, the hydrofoil.
Sadly, the consensus of tech experts is that Posterous may now flatline, because most of the company's employees will switch to working on projects for Twitter.
While consultancies and project development companies are hard to scale, the impact of millions of mom and pop consulting shops and project-developers working on energy reductions in homes, on fuel conversion for fleets of trucks, on renewable energy projects would dwarf the impressive work of the most innovative clean energy companies to date.
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This is important because most green jobs will be easily filled by skilled workers who are not on traditional construction projects anymore.
Professor Tarzi worked on projects to restore the other Bamiyan Buddhas in the late 1970s and has spent most of his career researching the existence of the missing giant.
Unlike most funding for social projects, which tend to pay for inputs, SIBs rely on results.
But while most of the corruption allegations centre on the Iraqi money, the financial chaos also extended to projects financed by US taxpayers.
While Kickstarter maintains a tighter focus and curates the creative projects approved on its site, Indiegogo approves donation-based fundraising campaigns for most anything music, hobbyists, personal finance needs, charities and whatever else you could think of (except investment).
The UK military, who are currently fighting the most intense insurgency in the country, in Helmand province, have focused on "quick impact" projects.
Analysts give diverse reasons for the meltdown, most pointing to the current account deficit fueled by numerous infrastructure mega-projects that rely on external financing in U.S. dollars.
Warner Brothers, owned by Time Warner, the parent company of CNN, snapped up film rights on all four books -- as well as an option on the next three -- and the first Harry Potter movie became one of the most talked about projects in Hollywood.
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