Cost Optimization of the Medical Tourism Market Research Project in Poland and Turkey

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 552
Author(s):  
Mariusz CHMIELEWSKI ◽  
Sylwia KUCZAMER-KŁOPOTOWSKA ◽  
Monika BOGUSZEWICZ-KREFT ◽  
Ali AYCI
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Cost Optimization ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Basic Parameters ◽  
The Cost

Research and development projects constitute a specific group of activities carried out in the course of scientific research. The purpose of this article was the analysis of the planned research and development project related to the research on medical services market in Poland and Turkey in the aspect of cost optimization. The analyzed project was designed to examine consumer behavior in the market of a new and growing tourism sector, i.e. medical tourism. Medical tourism is currently defined as the traveling of people to a foreign country in order to undergo planned treatment there, caused by financial or qualitative reasons or due to the unavailability of services in the country of residence. The aim of the planned research project was to compare the behavior of two different groups of stakeholders on two different markets - Polish and Turkish. Efficient implementation of a research project requires precise planning of all activities that should be conducted. The performed analysis showed that regardless of the location of the planned project, its schedule consists of similar components, but the time and costs associated with the project will be different and will largely depend on the location of the research. In the article, in order to optimize the basic parameters of a research project carried out in various destinations, a traditional project management tool, i.e. the Gantt chart, was used, and complemented with the cost gradient concept. The use of both those tools made it possible to identify activities, the change of which has the greatest impact on the cost and time optimization of the project in Poland and Turkey. The analysis of the research project carried out in various destinations showed that, regardless of the location of the research project, shortening its time is associated with a similar increase in the cost of the project, despite the fact that it concerns different activities in both analyzed cases. As a rule, the implementation of a project, including a research project, should be preceded by planning, which enables its subsequent optimization using traditional project management tools.

Integration of Facility Management and Project Management as an Effective Management Tool for Development Projects

2014 ◽  
Vol 501-504 ◽  
pp. 2676-2681 ◽  
Author(s):  
František Kuda ◽  
Eva Berankova
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Facility Management ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Efficient Design ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Investment Plan ◽  
Insight Into

This paper focuses on the possibility of linking Project Management and Facility Management that would result in an operationally efficient design of a development project. Project management tools are used during a construction project when an investment plan is implemented from the idea all the way until it is put into operation. Adding facility management to a construction project leads to a new insight into the project development which works with suggestions of the future operator of the facility from the very first considerations of the investment. The paper aims to highlight the benefits that a project would gain by integrating there two management areas.

Software Project Planning Through Simulation of Entire Project's Problem-Space

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 22-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moshe Dayani ◽  
Roy Gelbard
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Cartesian Product ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Modeling ◽  
Problem Space ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Modeling Tools ◽  
Rule Based System

The current research has two main objectives: 1) Integration of the system analyst's products together with the project manager's work, via handshaking of software tools used for these tasks (Software modeling tools, Project management tools, as well as Word and Excel files). 2) Simulation of the entire project's problem space subject to organization's policy and constraints in order to achieve best project planning in the given situation. For this purpose, a rule-based system, developed in this study, utilizes a simulation of entire project's problem-space, which is a Cartesian product composed of all system elements (as defined in the software modeling tool), and organization's policy, preferences and constraints, via a specific user interface (see Figure 1). Then the project manager can choose, by simple filtering, the appropriate planning, and the Gantt-chart and all plans' details are automatically exported to the Project Management tool.

Plastic Banknote

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Solomon ◽  
Tom Spurling
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Fundamental Change ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Reserve Bank ◽  
Market Driven

'Have you got any ideas on how to make a better banknote?' In the late 1960s, the detection of counterfeit banknotes and the rise of new photographic and copying technologies prompted the Reserve Bank of Australia to explore options for increasing the security of currency. A top-secret research project, undertaken by CSIRO and the Bank, resulted in the development of the world’s first successful polymer banknotes. This technology is now used in over 30 countries. This book describes the story of the Currency Notes Research and Development project from its inception in 1968 through to the release of the $10 Australian bicentennial plastic banknote in 1988. It exemplifies a market-driven project which resulted in advances in science, technology and approaches to commercialisation, and a fundamental change in banknote security.

Enhancing DotProject to Support Risk Management Aligned with PMBOK in the Context of SMEs

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Queiroz Gonçalves ◽  
Elisa de Freitas Kühlkamp ◽  
Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Medium Enterprises

Many problems in software development projects are due to risks and could be avoided or minimized if identified and treated pro-actively. In this context, software tools to support risk management could be very helpful. However, it is difficult to find a project management tool, accessible to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that provides adequate support to risk management in conformance with best practices such as the PMBOK. Therefore, this paper has the objective to review support provided by popular project management tools with respect to risk management and to present enhancements made to the open-source tool – dotProject – in order to systematically support risk management aligned with the PMBOK. An initial evaluation identified benefits in the implementation of risk management processes in software SMEs, and, thus, contributing to their projects' success.

scholarly journals Research and Development Project Management, Course Number 42501.

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie Wong ◽  
William Priedhorsky ◽  
Michael Pappas
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Development Project

scholarly journals Meaningfulness of basic factors of economic competition through the prism of the use of instruments of project management in an entrepreneurship

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-145
Author(s):  
Maryna Samsonenko ◽  
◽  
Khrystyna Peredalo ◽  
Yurii Oherchuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Economic Competition ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Restrictive Measures ◽  
Specific Project

The main factors of economic competition are considered, namely: people, time, money and quality. The ability to manage these factors through specific project management tools is reflected. The practical significance of each of the factors of economic competition is emphasized and the appropriate project management tool for the management of each of the factors on the example of companies in various sectors of the economy, based on research results or statistics. In particular, when considering the factor of economic competition "people", it is recommended to pay special attention to their role in improving the effectiveness of strategies implementation and changing the goal as a key quintessence of the organization, and for the development of this factor improved stakeholder assessment process is proposed, which is often used in project management to increase its competitiveness. Another tool in people management is analyzed - SCRUM teams, which have become especially popular globally. Research data on the level of their use in various areas of management are presented. To control the time parameter of economic competition, it is recommended to pay attention to the SMART technique, according to which the goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and limited in time. The importance of the "time" factor in the competitive environment is demonstrated by the example of postal companies and compared their level of competitive advantage according to this criterion, as well as those companies that responded quickly to restrictive measures during the Covid-19 pandemic and changed their priority projects to those that are more urgent today. Regarding the "quality" factor, analyzing the world's achievements, attention was paid to the effectiveness of using 14 principles of E. Deming, which still remain relevant. The "costs" factor is governed by classical and further tools such as budgeting and the popular E. Deming cycle. It is concluded that the use of various project management tools in the field of economic competition to increase the positive impact of its factors allows ensuring the desired level of competitiveness of the organization of any field of activity and at any stage of its life cycle. These tools are easy to use, versatile and practical.

scholarly journals Decommissioning cost estimation for a multiple reactor site with interdependent plants: case study using a new management tool and top-down approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3A) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deiglys Borges Monteiro ◽  
João Manoel Lousada Moreira ◽  
José Rubens Maiorino
Keyword(s):  
Cost Estimation ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Operational Life ◽  
The Cost

In the end of operational life, a nuclear power plant should be decommissioned to release its site for a new purpose. The decommissioning cost estimation is part of the decommissioning plan, which also include the decommissioning strategy definition. The cost estimation is performed by management tools, most of them according the bottom-up approach. However, this approach usually requires large quantities of data and detailed knowledge of the site conditions and the project phases, which are often unknown in the project beginning, requiring the adoption of several assumptions. Otherwise, the top-down approach requires less data or assumptions, and the project details is known as it became mature. Due to this, the top-down approach is a better approach for cost estimation during planning phase than the bottom-up. Despite it, most part of management tools found in literature to cost estimation are structured according the bottom-up approach. To suppress this lack, recently a new management tool was developed according the top-down approach, being able to estimate the decommissioning cost of nuclear power plants for budget/bid purposes. This work aims to present the cost estimation to decommissioning a multiple reactor power site with similar characteristics of the Brazilian ones, which would be used as benchmark. The results demonstrated that the interdependencies among the plants are important and affects significantly the cost to decommissioning each plant. This work is part of a research that is under course in which several strategies alternatives would be evaluated.  

Using Management Methods from the Software Development Industry to Manage Classroom-Based Research

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 38-46
Author(s):  
Edd Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Software Industry ◽  
Agile Software Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Group Management ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
Agile Software

This case details a classroom-based research and development project facilitated with management approaches adapted from the software industry to the classroom, specifically a combination of the methods generally known as ‘Scrum’ and ‘Agile’. Scrum Management and Agile Software Development were developed in response to the difficulties of project management in the constantly changing world of technology. The on-going project takes a classroom of students and has them design and conduct research based on software tools they develop. An emphasis of the project is conducting research that involves all class members and makes students think critically about group management.

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