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Mitigating communication barriers in water supply projects in sri lanka: the client’s perspective
No full textMitigating Communication Barriers in Water Supply Projects in Sri Lanka:
The Client’s Perspective
Future competition will be managerial competition, and the focus of competition among
organizations will be effective communication among the members of the organization and
with external organizations.
In this regards, this study aims to investigate how communication barriers can be mitigated in
water supply projects in Sri Lanka firstly to review the important effective channels, media,
directions, formal and informal, barriers and facilitators of communication together with
project phases and stakeholders in the construction, secondly to identify the effectiveness of
communication in water supply projects thirdly to identify barriers to effective
communication in water supply projects and finally to propose measures of mitigation and
facilitators/enablers to improve effective communication in water supply projects in Sri
Lanka.
The study is conducted on Water Board Projects by the author in various national level
project implementations. The study was conducted as a Qualitative study and with interview
approach to collect the data from various levels of professionals in the project organization.
This included projects which are distributed across the country and also which are constituted
in one project location as well.
Based on research findings, the lack of clear objectives was revealed as the main
communication barrier in water supply projects in Sri Lanka. Finally, it is identified as
decentralization of project office and standardization of project documents are the leading
communication facilitators for effective communication in water supply projects in Sri Lanka
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Develop a framework for project management of a successful interior project
No full textThis research aims to explore and identify the challenges faced by the project manager while managing an Interior Design Project to its Successful completion. This research would find these challenges and simultaneously focusing upon strategies in overcoming those challenges. The study would introduce and emphasize the theoretical tool as a core strategy that could be adopted by the project manager for the successful interior projects to manage the project and the study is to report on the results of a recent study that was conducted in an effort to test the importance of those factors that have long been believed to be critical to project success in interior projects. In order to achieve the following objectives were checked by using the following methods. To develop a work plan for the phases, to review and identify success and failure factors for project success, to investigate the practical challenges faced by project managers at each life cycle phase in interior projects.
The qualitative case study based research has been chosen for this study and literature related to theories and concepts have been collected and reviewed. Identifying common factors for project success during the phases will be done by analysing three different case studies by comparing each other with a semi-structured interview-derived through the previous literature. Finally explained the sample frames and limitations of interview and framework of the interview questionnaire also analysis and data presentation.
Therefore suggested a framework for successful project completion of an interior project is mainly considering to generate the spectacular framework for all characters who were involved for the projects. Since it is important to explore, the Project management in interior design the author has tried to achieve this topic to some extent since it had not been investigated.
Keywords: Project Management Life cycle phases, Project Manager, Successful completion
Key reengineering roles for the successful implementation of business process reengineering projects in Sri Lanka
No full textTo be highly competitive in present globalised economy, there is a decisive need for organisations to rethink and transform the prevailing business processes for improved quality and efficiency, reduced costs, and increased profitability. This leads to the introduction and evolvement of Business Process Reengineering(BPR) projects in various organisations over the past decades. Since BPR facilitates the organisations to enhance the performance of their business processes, despite the complexity and riskiness of BPR projects, it has spanned numerous industries. Regardless of the extensive adoption, in many instances efforts of BPR implementation has proved unsuccessful. BPR projects often tend to be large with long durations and tend to involve numerous stakeholders. It has been asserted that the selection and organisation of the people, who really do the reengineering, is key to the success of the endeavour.
Accordingly, there is a necessity to identify the key stakeholders who should get involved in BPR projects to assure their success. Since the key stakeholders involved in each reengineering project may differ based upon the process being selected for reengineering, this study is aimed investigating the key reengineering roles for the successful implementation of BPR projects. Altogether, four (4) BPR projects implemented within the last two years in four different organisations in the Western Province of Sri Lanka were selected as case studies to investigate the BPR roles. Findings revealed eight (8) reengineering roles that is needed to facilitate successful implementation of BPR projects in the Sri Lankan context.
The functions to be performed by each role during the pre-implementation, implementation and post-implementation phases of BPR projects were also identified. The study revealed two reengineering roles: i.e. ‘initiator’ and ‘reengineering facilitators’; not identified in literature, but were recognised as important in BPR implementation in the Sri Lankan context. In doing so, the paper brings forwards the findings with respect to the key reengineering roles to be involved throughout the BPR projects in the Sri Lankan context
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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