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■ Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to Select and Prioritize Projects in a Portfolio ■ Blockchain is Changing How Companies Can Engage with Customers ■ Unleashing the Power of Blockchain in the Enterprise ■ How BlockChain Will Change Construction ■ Response to the Crisis: Build Perpetual Capabilities ■ Using Crises as a Catalist for Transformation ■ Identifying and Recovering Troubled Projects: How To Rescue Your Project From Its Failure ■ To Drive Innovation, You must Understand your Ecosystem ■ Transformation is Personal ■ Transforming Traditional Business Doesn’t Have to Be an Elusive Goal ■ Ten Questions to Help You Turn Strategy into Reality ■ The Innovator’s Mindset: Radical Can-Do ■ Great Strategies Need Great Delivery: The 10 Principles of Implementation Excellence ■ Sustainability Indicators to Assess Infrastructure Projects: Sector Disclosure to Interlock the GRI ■ The Sustainability Marker to Support the Project Selection Process: The Unops Case ■ Applying Neural Networks and Analogous Estimating to Determine the Project Budget ■ Modelling Line of Balance Schedules With Start-Finish Relationships ■ Determining the Mathematical ROI of a Project Management Implementation ■ Adopting the Quadratic Mean Process to Quantify the Qualitative Risk Analysis ■ Urgency: A Critical Factor in Project Planning ■ Avoiding Mistakes during the Team Acquisition: Assign the Right People to Their Right Functions using MBTI© ■ Using Earned Value Management Indexes as a Team Development Factor and a Compensation Tool ■ Earned Value Probabilistic Forecasting Using Monte Carlo Simulation ■ Earned Value Analysis in the Control of Projects: Success or Failure? ■ A New Approach to PMBOK® GUIDE 2000 ■ Managing an ERP Implementation Project using Basic Software Tools and Web Based Scheduling Control NEW
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Passionate about transforming ideas into action, Ricardo Vargas is a chief advocate in the project economy. Specializing in implementing innovative global initiatives, capital projects and product development, Ricardo has directed dozens of projects across industries and continents, managing more than $20 billion in global initiatives over the past 25 years.
More than two decades ago, he founded Macrosolutions, a global consulting firm with international operations in energy, infrastructure, IT, oil and finance. Ricardo holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Federal Fluminense University in Brazil and an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering, a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil.
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Ricardo shares his expertise with millions of professionals around the globe through his “5 Minutes Podcast,” which he’s hosted since 2007. He has written 15 books on project management, risk and crisis management, and transformation, which have been translated into six languages and sold more than half a million copies. His influence on the sector was affirmed when he became the first Latin American to be elected Chairman of PMI.
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ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS, BLOCKCHAIN, TRANSFORMATION, SUSTAINABILITY, NEURAL NETWORKS AND OTHER PROJECT MANAGEMENT THEMES A COMPENDIUM OF TECHNICAL ARTICLES Technical articles from 1999 to 2021 that will help understanding transformation, blockchain and sustainability in a project management context 4th edition
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