resource management

USES OF DRONE APPLICATIONS TO MONITOR PRODUCTIVITY

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"USES OF DRONE APPLICATIONS TO MONITOR PRODUCTIVITY" by Piero Anticona

Abstract: Drones are Unmannered Aerial Vehicles (UAV) that are having different applications because of the amount of information that they can collect in a short period of time during flight inspections.

It is also, one of the technologies that are rapidly increasing its use in construction, agriculture, maintenance, building design, mining, solar, etc.

Using more effective project management to improve strategic performance

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Title: "Using more effective project management to improve strategic performance"

Author: "Chris Bragg PMP., B.Sc., Dipl. Data"

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Ths paper suggests some practical actions that organisations can take to align projects with strategy, and to help drive successful execution of strategy.

Diversity Risk in the Canadian Workplace

A good understanding of diversity risk must be part of planning. The world is laden with so many cultures. Mixtures of these various norms creates a new norm that must be considered seriously.

If we look in the past, multiculturalism has a long and wide history in Canada. It was then adopted by the government during the 1970s and 1980s (Kobayashi, 1993) and (Duncan & Duncan, 1993).

Comparative Resource Scheduling Using Various Software Packages

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Resource Allocation is without doubt one of the most important areas of concern to construction management. The two main problems of resource allocation of concern are resource levelling and resource scheduling. The normal convention is for, the resource scheduling problem to be solved using either heuristic methods or optimization techniques. Where heuristic methods are used, resource scheduling is always treated as a subsequent problem for the critical path analysis.