BIT Project Board closed the starting up stage of the one winner, one catalogue tender with the authorization to the project manager to start the Initiation stage.
In this post it is described how the BPO has tailored the 4 Activities of this stage and the relative management product: the Project Initiation Documentation. Continue reading
Best Practices
Tailoring Prince2 to answer a public tender: the starting up Project Process
When BIT decided to grow in the Public Sector, it was decided to establish a dedicated public tender team. The director of the Professional Service Business Unit of BIT is part of this team. He convinced the team to adopt the Prince 2 methodology for answering tenders that have an annual, expected, turnover higher than 1 million euro for year.
That’s how BIT tailored Prince 2 starting up Project process.
Balanced scorecard measures and statistical control charts.
In their book “The Balanced Scorecard” K&N introduces a “balanced” system of measures, but they didn’t dedicate attention to the concept of “control” of these measures. .
In this post I will explore one of the possible relations between balanced scorecard measures and statistical control charts.
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How an IT VAR can evaluate the impact of GDPR on its ISO 9001 QMS.
How is GDPR going to affect your ISO 9001 QMS ?
Here the experience of a quality coordinator working in the ICT Channel: my experience.
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Can quality contribute to align company culture and company strategy through corporate jargon?
The challenge
There is evidence to sustain that corporate jargon influences company culture.
I also believe that corporate jargon reflects the company culture; I will articulate this conclusion through an example: the ICT Channel.
This concept had a central place in the first half of my professional carrier (and I hope it will have also in the second part) and I will use it quite often in this blog.
If, like me, you think that company culture should be aligned with the company strategy and you work in the quality, you might wonder how quality can bring a contribution to this alignment.
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QMS in Operations 