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Importance of Effective Communication within an Organization

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Effective communication is the backbone of any successful organization. It ensures that information flows seamlessly across all levels – facilitating understanding, decision-making, and collaboration. Clear communication reduces ambiguity, minimizes conflicts, and promotes transparency. Impact on Team Dynamics and Company Vision Accountability: When expectations, goals, and responsibilities are communicated clearly, each team member knows what is […]

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Cost Management in the Project Management

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For the successful and timely completion of a project, Project Cost Management is very critical. For a project manager, it is very important to estimate, budget and control the project cost efficiently. Any glitch in this process may lead to slowdown the overall progress of the project in the absence of fund. While, in some

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Project Scheduling Techniques in Project Management

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In project management scheduling is the listing of activities and milestones for a project from start date to finish date. Moreover, this listing is based on logical and sequential manner. A project schedule can be at a very top level showing some main activities and milestones. This high-level project schedule is prepared for the top

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Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

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In an organization we all are involved in some kind of project at any point of time. However, this project can be a big one having 1-2 years or larger duration. On other side it can be a very small, where required completion duration can be around a week of time or lesser. In any

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Project Investment Appraisal Methods

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As a chemical engineer there are situations, where we need to evaluate various investment options for purchasing a machine or going for a new plant project. So, to select the best option among available alternatives we use project investment appraisal methods or techniques. There are many Investment appraisal techniques like payback period, return on investment,

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How to Prepare a Project Charter?

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In my last article on fundamentals of project management I had mentioned that project charter is the important document at the end of project Initiating Phase. This document is very critical for the successful, within budget and timely completion of your project. In other words, we can say this is just like a foundation of

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Project Management Fundamentals

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As a chemical engineer we are involved in number of small or big projects. Where we initiate the project and perform number of activities, to meet end results within a pre-defined time frame. In our plants, these small projects can be like, plant maintenance activities, equipment replacement work, running a product campaign, plant performance improvement

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Vapour Liquid Equilibrium Systems

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In process calculations of vapour-liquid equilibrium system there are two phases. One is vapour phase and second is liquid phase and this system can be multi-components. So, to carry out the process calculation of the unit operations involving vapour-liquid phases, we need to understand the distribution of these components between the phases. Moreover, the design

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Interview and Hiring Process in Organizations

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In my 21 years of experience, I took lots of interviews. It includes the interviews for direct and campus recruitments. During interview I found there were many candidates who could have been cleared the interview. However, due lack of proper preparation they couldn’t make it. Therefore, based on my experience in this article I am

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Batch Distillation Column Operation & Controls

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We can find batch distillation column in almost every chemical process industry. Specially, you can find it more in fine chemicals, specialty chemicals, pharmaceutical and small-scale chemicals production industries. This is so because, batch distillation column requires lower fixed cost and provide higher operational flexibilities. However, batch distillation columns consume more energy than a continuous

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