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While he won’t rule out further acquisitions, he says PSA doesn’t need to grow dramatically to be successful. “More than volumes, profitability is the most important element,” he says. “I prefer agility and efficiency to being the biggest car group.” Bloomberg Businessweek, September 3, 2018,...
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October 19, 2018 Bruce Benson
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Although Pompeii is frozen in time, the workers are in a hurry — to spend money. In the next 11 weeks they have to burn through almost $100 million — about five times what they’ve spent in the past three years — or risk losing...
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November 4, 2015 Bruce Benson
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“The numbers are big, but the effectiveness of the infrastructure spending has been very, very poor,” says Dennis Dykes, chief economist at Nedbank Group, South Africa’s fourth-largest lender. “Thus far, we have got no return at all from a number of capital projects. We have...
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July 2, 2015 Bruce Benson
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Getting free rein over our work schedules helps improve our productivity. Just don't give that improvement away for free.
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December 13, 2013 Bruce Benson
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Our project costs are out of control, so why are we talking about fixing the schedule first?
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May 21, 2012 Bruce Benson
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Technical folks often look more like the customer than the sales and marketing folks I’ve worked with. Let’s take a real world example to add some perspective.
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May 14, 2012 Bruce Benson
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This is obvious, yes? If we do work for a customer, we charge them for it. Ok, so the customer would rather get work done for free. It helps their bottom line after all, doesn’t it? Maybe not.
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September 29, 2011 Bruce Benson
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A good budget is often the output of fixing other parts of the project management process such as project planning and schedule estimating.
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July 20, 2011 Bruce Benson
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Computing the project cost using our project management tools is a fundamental step in planning a project. Yet, I’ve found that some managers have a tough time when large numbers are involved or it is the first time they’ve ever seen an accurate overall cost of a project.
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November 1, 2010 Bruce Benson
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I don’t talk as much about project cost as I do schedule and quality. This is because I’ve rarely experienced a project that was on time where anyone complained, much, about it being too costly. If cost became a problem it was always associated with a late, often very late, project.
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October 5, 2010 Bruce Benson
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