The Lubitsch Touch

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan R. Ellenberger
Keyword(s):  
Front Page ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Ernst Lubitsch ◽  
King Vidor

Hopkins’s secret affair with director King Vidor is revealed when Ernst Lubitsch leaves her a handwritten note on the last page of her Design for Living script. Regardless of the film’s critical success, Hopkins is frustrated with how her career is going. With her walkouts at Paramount making front page news, she looks forward to the day her contract ends. Hopkins finally gets a diversion when she steps in for an ailing Tallulah Bankhead in the title role of the Broadway play Jezebel.

scholarly journals Project Selection Frameworks and Methodologies for Reducing Risks in Project Portfolio Management

2017 ◽  
pp. 245-263
Author(s):  
Fabio Nonino
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Portfolio Management ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Project Selection ◽  
Project Portfolio ◽  
Project Portfolio Management ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Innovative Methodology ◽  
Correct Level

Extracting and consolidating knowledge from past projects can help managers in selecting projects with the correct level of riskiness, while market analysis gives directions for reaching the objective of a balanced project portfolio. To this extent, the chapter discusses strategic importance of project selection and the role of risks and uncertainties in project portfolio management and presents some fundamental and innovative frameworks and project selection methodologies for balancing risks. Finally, the chapter proposes a model containing an innovative methodology, based on artificial neural networks, to help managers in balancing project portfolio and assessing projects during the selection phase on the basis of risks, uncertainties and critical success factors.

The Critical Success Factors in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 84-108
Author(s):  
Tuncer Asunakutlu ◽  
Kemal Yuce Kutucuoglu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Ranking Systems ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Education Administrators ◽  
The University

This study reviews some of the prominent ranking systems with a view to shed more light on what may constitute a critical success factor in the field of higher education. In the first part, the ranking systems are reviewed and the key principles are explained. A brief description of how institutions use ranking information is also included. In the second part of the study, the subject of internationalization in the context of ranking systems is discussed. The main challenges of competitiveness in higher education and the increasing role of internationalization are expressed. The chapter also describes threats and opportunities for the future of higher education. This section also includes suggestions for higher education administrators. In the third part, the subject of ranking with particular focus on the university-industry collaboration and its effects on the future of higher education are discussed. The role of the industry and the changing mission of the universities in the new era are explained.

Disaster Management and Continuity Planning in Libraries

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Hamilton ◽  
Diane Brown
Keyword(s):  
Success Factor ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Continuity Planning ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Asset Recovery ◽  
Disaster Preparation

Libraries are taking on new roles in a disaster and with that comes strategic responsibilities beyond traditional asset recovery activities. In the past, library disaster plans have emphasized recovery of materials. Here, the emphasis is on continuing business operations. Libraries have become the centers of communication for their communities in a crisis. This article will demonstrate the essential role of libraries before, during and after a disaster, both short term and long term and how to get a seat at the table with community planners by demonstrating the functions that are critical to recovery. A literature review and case study are used to develop these recommendations. A critical success factor is to use a disaster preparation methodology that includes a business continuity plan.

scholarly journals The role of managing knowledge and information in BIM implementation processes in the Czech Republic

2018 ◽  
Vol 146 ◽  
pp. 01003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimír Nývlt
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Implementation Processes ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
3D Data ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Building Information Management

Czech construction sector is at the initial stages of implementing and assessing Building Information Management (BIM) on pilot projects. Object modeling developed over the last 20 years is seemed as a stable ground for many professionals. 3D data models are basis for further concepts associated with BIM, helping to support Co-ordinated Project Information (CPI) and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD). This paper presents the role of managing knowledge, information and critical success factors (CSF) associated with BIM implementation within the construction industry in the Czech Republic. Determining the CSF in the context of BIM maturity levels should support BIM implementation processes within the construction industry and also within the associated bodies (education, government, technology).

scholarly journals South Africa's Weekly Media: Front-Page Reporting 9/11, Preventing Islamophobia

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iskander Abbasi
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
Front Page ◽  
Textual Study ◽  
Conceptual Frame ◽  
The World ◽  
Weekly Newspapers ◽  
The Media

New York's twin tower bombings, popularly referred to as 9/11, are regarded as a watershed period in world affairs. It happened at the cusp of the new century and its impact, since then, has been enormous, for it radically changed many aspects of human life. Both the print and the electronic media were pivotal in these changes. Besides shaping the way that communities perceive others, it also influenced the manner in which communities are dealing with one another. Since a radical Muslim group was blamed for this dastardly deed and since Muslims were implicated for this reprehensible act, the secular media expectedly placed the Muslims - in majority and minority settings - around the world under the spotlight. The media's negative portrayal and reporting about Muslims did not only contribute towards a tendentious relationship between the media and the Muslims but it also contributed towards the spread of Islamophobia. This thus caused Muslims in both majority and minority settings to adopt a skeptical view of the role of the secular media. Considering these developments, this essay's focus turns to the South African print media that reported and analyzed their reporting of this event during that period. Since it is beyond this essay's scope to look at all the country' s daily and weekly tabloids, it restricted itself to two widely circulated South African weekly newspapers, namely the Sunday Times and Mail & Guardian. It first describes and discusses their front-page reports as they captured the tragic 9/11 event, before it reflects on their editorials -columns providing one with insights into the respective editors' understanding of this event and their perceptions of Muslims nationally and globally. Being a purely textual study, it conceptualizes Islamophobia as the essay's conceptual frame.

Universal Access to Modern Energy Services

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yinka Omorogbe
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
Energy Planning ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Energy Poverty ◽  
Energy Services ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Key Concepts

This chapter examines the role that law plays in the enablement and empowerment of the world’s energy poor, with a particular focus on Africa, and in doing so, provides the rationale for the research. Against the background of contemporary measures to promote universal access to modern energy services, it critically analyses key concepts such as energy poverty, sustainable development and access to energy. The role of the law as a critical component for achieving this goal and the need for its centrality to be recognized as a necessary ingredient for success is ultimately reinforced. Further, the chapter discusses key concepts such as energy poverty, sustainable development, and access to energy, which underpin most of the contributions, and then highlights the indispensability of modern energy as an essential component of sustainable development. It highlights the need for complementary pro-energy-poor policies and critical success factors of energy planning and finance.

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