Supervise external consultants in completion of project tasks.

UNESCO: Job title

Sageworks analyzed accounts receivable days for privately held companies in various construction-related industries, including those tied to early-stage work, such as architectural design and foundation work, and those for drywall, flooring and other end-of-project tasks.

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Similarly, when your manager is judging you solely on your performance of its project management tasks, everything else will fall by the wayside, too.

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Crowdsourced labor usually involves breaking a project into tiny component tasks and farming those tasks out to the general public by posting the requests on a website.

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Surfacing real risks and then providing actionable tasks within a larger project demystifies the issue.

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Other tasks during the three-month project include navigation skills on Salisbury Plain and a teambuilding day with an injured armed forces veteran.

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During the first stage of the project, this secretariat has taken on two fundamental tasks: documenting the State of the Art in teaching policy in the region, and drawing up criteria or guidelines for policy making in the field.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

By the project's end, the software should be able to combine such tasks when necessary.

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The premise is that humans are vastly superior to computers at tasks such as pattern recognition, says Peter Cohen, director of the project at Amazon, so why not let software take advantage of human strengths?

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One of the most important tasks for the researchers will be extracting meaning from the huge amounts of data created by the project.

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