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Commercial stability is core BOM policy

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Friday, 14 October 2011 08:55

613x459_opt2.0Our vulnerability is such that it suffices for a European butterfly to flap its wings for the Mauritian export sector to be ablaze.

This is what Rundheersing Bheenick, Governor of the Bank of Mauritius (BOM), wrote in a foreword to the Bank’s annual report for its FY2009/10, released late last year. In it, he highlighted the measures the Bank took before the global financial crisis and to which it planned to adhere, even though there were signs of an economic recovery.

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Managing the media

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Friday, 19 March 2010 07:39

AndreEngelbrecht_optThe role played by the media as a channel for project communication on public infrastructure projects

Multimillion-dollar projects are becoming more and more common in today’s increasingly complex world.

Public infrastructure projects such as the Gautrain Rapid Rail involve billions of rand spent over long periods of time to achieve critical economic and political objectives.

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A mind for what matters

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Tuesday, 11 August 2009 12:19

Exploring the role of the project manager

Project, programme and portfolio management. People have been doing projects for ever. The purpose of this article is to explain – from a PMI perspective – the difference between these terms in detail and what standards exist to support best practice, with some real-life examples if possible.

Every person at some point will plan and execute projects. For most, the biggest projects they will handle may be their wedding, moving to a new house or country. Much of this is done intuitively and some will do it much better than others.

However, if you are going to build a pyramid, or the Colosseum, or a new model of passenger airplane such as the Airbus A380, then intuition is simply not enough to carry the project through – but it will still help.

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