The CIO’s immediate responsibility is to meet the organization’s expectations, and this can best be done by judiciously employing the facilities that IT offers. Big business houses often face a tough ...

Strategic planning is the act of creating short- and long-term plans to guide an organization to continued and increasing success in the marketplace. Project managers oversee specific projects ...

Six Sigma principles use statistical and numeric methods to reduce the number of defects in output to an insignificant level. They emphasize simplicity of process, quality of parts and supplies, and ...

As soon as Michael Baker Corp.’s IT department finished installing a Web-based procurement system from ePlus, Bruce Higgins, CIO of the $405 million engineering and construction company, was bombarded ...

Much has been written on the topic of manufacturing execution systems (MESs). Most articles, however, tend to focus on the pre-implementation steps: determining the need for MES software based on ...

A DPU employee installs an AMI electric meter at a multi-resident building. The Department of Public Utilities (DPU) has served the City of Orangeburg, South Carolina, U.S., and surrounding community ...

In India execution of large scale, greenfield projects are not easy to implement. Most of the projects got delayed in past due to various external and internal reasons and therefore also suffered from ...

Energy trading and risk management (ETRM) systems provide sophisticated features and functionality that not only support the entire origination-to-settlement transaction life cycle but also provide ...