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Examining the Project Management Profession: Digital transformation trends in the profession

The world, as we know it is changing, and due to the current digital transformations, the times are now volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. This change is impacting how products, services, processes, and systems are developed. The project management discipline and roles are also evolving with this new trend. Using experiences of some project management events attended, I will try to illuminate these changes and key capabilities that exist today in this field due to disruptive business model innovations and new digital technologies.  PROJECTUM a European-based Project management application company, on the 13th of March 2019, had a webinar titled “Effective Project Management Using Microsoft Teams”. This event presented the new features added in the Microsoft application called Teams to conduct virtual meetings successfully. There was a demonstration in the use of features on this application to schedule meetings, share documents, take notes, and record the whol...

THE POWER OF THE PERMANENT VOTERS CARD (PVC)

It is about time again! The Nigerian 2019 general elections are fast approaching. You spent the last 3 years listening to legislators from your region talking with no visible in your community. You spent years listening to a governor explain how he can't pay your salary but yet he and his friends live large and build statues worth millions of Naira. You have spend years getting explanation on why you don't still have adequate power supply , good roads and job opportunities. You have seen a switch in political parties yet situations remain the same. Your weapon for 2019 is you Permanent voters card (PVC). Steps on how to use this PVC : If you don't have one, go and get one. lf you have a friend that doesn't have one, wait for him to complain about any bad situation in the country. Tell him his solution is in the PVC Stop voting for Parties. Vote for individuals. Even your favorite party can field bad candidates.  If he has been in position before, he is not ...

THE BIOGRAPHY OF AND TRIBUTE TO HONOURABLE CHIEF LORD MAYOR OTISI OMOJI

Mayor Otisi Omoji Otisi was born in 1926 to OMOJI OTISI of Ndi Omoji, Ihebu Ameke and Madam Inyang Eme Echeghe (Nwaegele) of Ndi Echeghe, Ihungwu, Ameke both of in the Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State Nigeria  in West Africa. He attended the then Church of Scotland Mission School, Afiankwo, Abiriba where he obtained his First School Leaving Certificate in 1939. For his secondary education, high school equivalent, he passed through then famous Aggrey Memorial College, Arochukwu, under the revered mentorship of the great Alvan Ikoku (of blessed memory). The Abiriba community identified the young Mayor as one of the talented potentials of his generation and magnanimously sponsored him to study at the pioneer and prestigious University College, Ibadan (UCI), Nigeria, an overseas affiliate to the University of London, London. He successfully completed his course of study there in record time in 1952, thus, becoming one of the few pioneer graduates of the institution wit...

The 2019 Nigerian Elections political strategy

     It is a well known fact that in Nigerian elections, funding is a very big factor. Millions are spent to secure the party nomination and much more is spent campaigning to get to power. For this reason, we have politicians looting the treasury to secure their reelection bid. Those that go for sponsors from political godfathers have to pay back with appointments and contracts when in power. This begs the question, how do you win an election with smaller funds and a party platform with no national spread? An uphill battle you might say and a miracle is required. Something happened  in the last Presidential election that changed my views about the Nigerian electorate. I always believed that it was hard to defeat and incumbent president because of the resources at its disposal. It was clear that the Peoples Democratic Party outspent the All Progressive Congress and they had more machinery in all 36 states of the federation. What then went wrong that people abandoned...

A SHIFT TO STATE CONTROLLED POLICE IN NIGERIA

       For a while, notable Nigerians have been calling for the police command to be run by states. This is a significant shift from the model we have in place today where the federal government is in charge of running the Nigerian police force under the leadership of an inspector general. This model is not only inefficient but is not proper for a country as large and diverse as Nigeria.     This article already assumes we need to shift to a state police model and will be looking at a way to transition without causing so much disruption in the security formations in place currently. Let us first talk broadly about the criminal justice system. This is made up of three major arms namely, Law enforcement, the court system (judiciary), and correctional facilities.  These 3 arms are linked together and must work together to give a smooth ruining criminal justice system. It is expected that when an arrest is made or a complaint is received against an individ...

PERSONAL FINANCIAL GUIDELINES

Saw this in a video and it made some sense. Just want to share and hear your point of view. Rule #1 Strive to save 10 -20% of your income. Rule #2 Pay your credit card balance in full every month. Rule #3 Max out your 401 (k) and other tax - advantaged savings account.  Rule #4   Never buy or sell individual stocks Rule #5 Buy inexpensive, well - diversified indexed mutual funds and exchange - traded funds. Rule #6  Make your financial professional commit to a fiduciary standard Rule #7 Buy a home when you are financially ready or stable. Rule #8 Make sure you are protected (Insurance). Rule #9  Do what you can to support the social safety net. (Controversial) Rule #10 Always look at these rules before making financial decisions.  *Copied from an online financial advisor. 

THE DIAGNOSIS OF AN ILL NATION PART 1 (history, examination and diagnosis)

Patient is a 57 year old nation who presented with a 2 year history of national division and call for tribal self determination. She developed this symptom of tribal call for self determination 2 years ago after a change in leadership in the nation. This symptom was associated with years of systemic corruption, mass poverty, national insecurity and an army of jobless youths. This national division was alleviated temporarily due to a 6 year leadership of the past government and a national conference that brought hope for a national restructure and a new constitution. Symptoms are exacerbated by the skewed representation in appointments made by the present administration to the disadvantage of a region, speeches that fuel disunity by elder state men of the various regions and the arrest of leaders of movements that preach dissolution of the union. Treatments that have been attempted include, a national conference, use of force to silence agitators, various dialog with leaders of variou...