This book has been written for the benefit of young entrepreneurs thinking of a business idea. It takes them through the journey of becoming a successful, big contractor. It covers major issues in starting a contracting business and the major dos and don’ts. It also briefly explains the basic knowledge of various streams of contracting, project management and tendering. This could also be a good guide to rising and ambitious contractors.

Engineering, Medical, Chartered Accounting and Law are a few professions that are considered to be good for one’s status, salary and other perquisites. But, just managing one’s admission into professional institutions does not make a person successful professionally.This book has eleven levels. The first five levels explain what engineering is and how one can become a successful professional, for which parents and teachers should contribute significantly.The rest of book takes a civil enginee...

Managing a country, your work or even your own life, all are projects in themselves and the person managing such projects is project manager. A project manager’s functions and responsibilities could be divided into minute key result areas or KRAs. A man at a laundry may have fewer responsibilities than a managing director or a prime minister but conceptually their projects are similar. Awareness and proper implementation of their functions and responsibilities contribute to making successful ...

Green field, heavy industrial and infrastructure projects face many problems during mobilization and execution due to issues with the local community, land, social, industrial relations and human resources. This book provides some real life examples to serve as a guide for project managers to handle such problems in their projects. The book highlights easy methods for relationship building with the community, client, consultant, banks, procurement and other requirements that are necessary for...

For any organization, the decision to take up new infrastructure projects or to set up a new production business is dependent on the company’s current involvement in new projects as well as several other considerations. Still, there is always the search for a good, new project.Papua New Guinea (PNG) has readily available opportunities for varied businesses but has been deprived of the right attention due to various irrelevant reasons.Several lucrative opportunities are available—for...

Big data means big profits. In fact, businesses that make the most of big data are fully 6 percent more profitable than those that don't. In times like these, that's an uncommonly large number. What do you need to know to capitalize on big data? Here, in this short-form book by technology pioneer Barry Libert, is how to bring the advantages of big data to your organization.

Before giving to charity, do you check to see how much is spent on overhead? Most people believe that the more a noonprofit spends on overheads the less effective they are. Unfortunately, this is a myth. Nonprofit ovehead rates have more to do with accounting practices than anything else. In just 20 pages this book breaks through all the myths and will forever change how you evaluate nonprofits.

The "Wealth of the People" Book SeriesThe task of explaining the causes of the wealth of the people in a society is a long and complex subject for a single e-book. To facilitate the explanation and the delivery of the material, an e-book will be published in each set of topics.The following are the planned titles of the book series:Your WealthThe first book looks at the time savings gained by a single person increasing his physical and mind assets in an island....

The manual is prepared to assist citizens, community activists, neighborhood groups, students, planners, government officials, and any person interested in grassroots organizing and planning neighborhood improvements by maximizing human resources through the concept of self-help. It offer two elements that are interrelated:"Grassroots Organizing," and "Simple Approaches to Neighborhood Improvements.Regardless of what stage of development neighborhood organizations are, this ...

Interim Management has grown in several developed countries to an established and acknowledged tool to cover different topics in an organization. The applicability of an Interim Manager is multifold and in tricky as well as in everyday situations it can repre-sent an excellent alternative to own internal resources. Especially when topics, which cannot be found in the portfolio of the core competences of the undertaking have to be dealt with. This book provides an insight into the professio...

The fact that you are seeking out information about setting up a non-profit organization goes a long way to show how selfless and committed you are to your community and environment. It is indeed laudable, and your interest in giving back is what inspired me into writing this book. The best thing about setting up a 501 (c) (3), is its hitch-free process, so many individuals encounter challenges with application, approval, setting up a board and even sustaining the organization after the te...

This book cover all the information related to the procurement management which is the main part of the project management professional PMP. This book will discuss this module in easy way and provide also the practical way in apply these methods in practical life and present the advantages and disadvantages for every method. This is a critical subject and need more care in dealing with so all the terminology should be known very well. In addition to the FIDIC contract will be addressed in ...