Academic literature on the topic 'Sub Deadlines'

Relationships between project management, operations management, and organizational strategy are well-known, as well as organizational influences on project. Family businesses work on projects, but their unique nature makes family firms a challenging context for Project Management. This chapter aims to present and discuss the specific dynamics of family business that can impact project management practices. By definition, a project is a complex system, consisting of a set of dozens of interrelated sub-processes. As is known, the percentage of projects that satisfy both technical requirements, budget compliance and which meet the deadlines, is extremely low. This fact forces the researchers to equip themselves with more sophisticated tools to face the complexity of a project, in order to increase its chances of success.

Relationships between project management, operations management, and organizational strategy are well-known, as well as organizational influences on project. Family businesses work on projects, but their unique nature makes family firms a challenging context for Project Management. This chapter aims to present and discuss the specific dynamics of family business that can impact project management practices. By definition, a project is a complex system, consisting of a set of dozens of interrelated sub-processes. As is known, the percentage of projects that satisfy both technical requirements, budget compliance and which meet the deadlines, is extremely low. This fact forces the researchers to equip themselves with more sophisticated tools to face the complexity of a project, in order to increase its chances of success.

The last years of the 20th century were tough times for selling food to Europeans. The competition was fierce, the rules uncertain, and the retail markets picky. It was not just that huge supermarket chains had come to dominate food retailing, and to demand products conforming to ever-higher standards of convenience and aesthetic quality; these trends were common across the industrialized world. In addition, they demanded that the suppliers of those products— farmers and manufacturers, but also a range of intermediaries—meet standards of hygiene and accountability that were unimaginable twenty, even ten years earlier. The supermarkets wanted assurances that none of their products would set off another food scare; too many had already shaken European consumers’ faith in the supermarkets’ increasingly globalized offerings. On the supermarket shelves, these assurances might appear as new labels or packaging, if they appeared at all. What consumers largely did not see was the work that went into providing them with food as certifiably pure as it was pretty. This work took place on farms and in packhouses; in consultants’ offices and corporate boardrooms; in activists’ meetings and chemical analysts’ laboratories. It demanded long flights, short deadlines, and nonstop vigilance. Above all, the work of assuring the overall goodness of globalized food required all kinds of people and things to deal with each other in new ways, and often across great distances. In this sense, it transformed the social relationships of food provisioning on both an interpersonal and transcontinental scale. This book explores how these changes took shape within two fresh vegetable trades, or commodity networks, linking two Sub-Saharan African countries to their former European colonial powers. The francophone network brings Burkina Faso’s green beans to France, while the anglophone network brings an assortment of prepackaged fresh vegetables from Zambia to the United Kingdom. Broadly similar in some ways, they differ radically in others, including the ways that they experienced Europe’s late twentieth-century food scares. By exploring the history of these differences and how they are sustained and transformed in specific places, practices, and social institutions, I hope to illuminate the relationship between culture and power in globalized food provisioning.

Introduces the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) and one of its leaders, Nestor Cerpa Cartolina, situating the guerrilla group within the context of the late-20^th century Peruvian armed conflict. Shining Path, a deadlier Maoist armed group, dominated both the armed conflict and the historiography about it, leaving the history of the MRTA largely ignored. The book pays particular attention to symbolic warfare and the gendered dynamics within the MRTA.

A mirror called theology has been given to us to reflect the image of God implanted in those of us Christians who are also heirs to Chinese civilization. —C. S. Song¹ In an ideal world, this volume might have two separate introductions, like those children’s books with multiple narrative threads where you can choose your own beginning and ending: one for theologians, and one for readers interested in Chinese literature. Word counts and press deadlines join with the argument of the book to insist on the less amusing but perhaps more radical task of integrating the two. If this causes any dissonance, the tension only reflects something of that which Chinese theologians have faced as they tried to write of and conceive of a Christian God in a language in which the concepts did not readily exist and in literary forms that bore little relation to those in which they themselves had inherited the gospel....

The Sunday newspaper is an often-neglected success story of the twentieth century news media landscape. The popularity and profitability of Sunday papers grew throughout the century to establish themselves as flagships of cultural and commercial trends and an essential complement to most national daily productions. On account of their production cycle, Sunday newspapers were always able to do things that the daily press with its punishing routines and pressure of deadlines were never able to achieve. Mapped onto the characteristic social class and politically stratified perspectives of British and Irish newspaper reading publics, the Sunday newspaper became a prominent vehicle for the experiments in layout and content after the full computerization of newspapers in the mid-1980s; lifestyle, commentary, colour photography all were pioneered in this format. The range of geographical variants of the Sunday newspaper are also considered from the regional Sunday Sun published in Newcastle from 1919 to the Irish Sunday Independent and Scottish Sunday Post to the migration of English titles across Britain into Ireland with increasing national specialization in their content and appeal. The chapter also considers the varying reasons for the failure of high-profile Sunday papers such as the Sunday Correspondent and the News of the World.

The migrant is, according to philosopher Thomas Nail, ‘the political figure of our time.’¹ Perhaps nowhere is this more the case in the early twenty-first century than in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire. From Libya to Iraq, Yemen to Macedonia, the Middle East has become the epicentre of the greatest migrant and refugee crisis in generations. Countries throughout the region struggle to cope with swelling populations of displaced people, many of whom have been left to languish in squalid camps with little access to food, water, medical treatment or education. Exacerbating the situation are the efforts of many states, especially those located on the frontiers of the European Union, to close their borders, effectively stranding millions of migrants and refugees in transit. The militarisation of land and sea borders separating North Africa and the Middle East from the European Union has contributed to the emergence of a vast smuggling industry, particularly along the Mediterranean rim. Desperate migrants pay often exorbitant fees to smugglers who are eager to adopt ever-riskier strategies to assist their clients, while also avoiding capture. These dynamics have led one prominent scholar of migration to refer to the Mediterranean as ‘the world’s deadliest border.’...

As new technologies continue to emerge, firms in diverse industries increasingly must respond. Future economic rents and competitive advantage rests on the organizational ability to assimilate new technologies in the right manner. Broadcasters, content and service providers, packaging providers, and many other firms have been affected by the advent of digital technologies in the digital television (DTV) industry. All these firms have considered the adoption of digital technologies. Digital television is a new television service representing the most significant development in television technology since the advent of color television in the 1950s (Kruger, 2005). DTV can provide several benefits: sharper pictures, a wider screen, CD-quality sound, better color rendition, integration with Web technologies, increased programming options, easy integration between broadcasting networks and broadband telecommunication networks (e.g., B-ISDN—Integrated Services Digital Network), and other new services currently being developed. The nationwide deployment of digital television is a complex and multifaceted enterprise though. It has a profound impact on the entire TV system: from the offer typologies to the consumption manners. Therefore, a successful deployment requires the development by content providers of compelling digital programming; the delivery of digital signals to consumers by broadcast television stations, as well as cable and satellite television systems; and the widespread purchase and adoption by consumers of digital television equipment (Kruger, 2005). In sum, the advent of the digital television has caused an actual breakthrough innovation on almost all levels of the value chain. Although the adoption of breakthrough innovations is highly risky to pursue, research has shown that firms always follow them (Charitou & Markides, 2003; Ketchen, Snow, & Hoover, 2004). In the case of the television industry, the adoption also happens because the government and the telecommunication regulatory agencies in many countries have foreseen deadlines for the complete transition from analog to digital technologies in this industry. Despite lingering standardization issues, digital transmission is replacing analog transmission in the three major delivery platforms (terrestrial, cable, and direct broadcast satellite [DBS]) (Galperin & Bar, 2002). Therefore, in the future we expect that all firms in this industry will have adopted these digital technologies. Furthermore, this adoption will vary according to both the firm’s activities and the type of breakthrough innovation. This research will present some theoretical arguments to describe the adoption of the digital technology by two different activities in the digital TV industry: TV channels and content providers. These two different types of firms were chosen because the emergence of the digital TV has meant the adoption of different types of breakthrough innovation for each one of them. The next section defines these different types of breakthrough innovation. The two following sections describe the two cases of the adoption of DTV: by TV channel and by content provider. Finally, the last section presents the conclusion and implications of this research.

SCRUM framework is an agile technique that is widely used by development teams in order deliver incremental value to customers and dynamically react to project needs. SCRUM framework might be adapted to conform the development team specificities. In the context of an industry project, we have found that an inexperienced development team frequently faced difficulties with estimating the time needed to complete tasks, which led to missed deadlines in most of the projects. Such problem hampers the risk management and degrades the relationship with the customer. Upon closer analysis, it was identi

Transferências de Dados em Massa (BDT) e sua generalização, Múltiplas Transferências de Dados em Massa (MBDT), são serviços críticos para o funcionamento dos negócios nas redes inter centro de dados geo-distribuídas. Nessas redes, aplicações do tipo BDT ou MBDT realizam sincronizações, ressincronizações, replicação de dados, migração de máquinas virtuais e agregação big data, entre outras tarefas, exigindo grandes quantidades de largura de banda e soluções eficientes de engenharia de tráfego. As Redes Ópticas Elásticas (EON) permitem o provisionamento e alocação de recursos sob demanda por mei