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Off to The Land of the Morning Calm

After a busy winter term at alma mater Faculty of Economics @ University of Ljubljana, I am off to Korea for a visiting position at Kyungpook National University, one of the best Korea’s national universities. I will be giving a Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management Systems course to 3rd and 4th year undergraduate students of College of Economics and Business Administration.

I am more than looking forward to the experience. According to Wikipedia, Republic of Korea is one of the world’s most technologically and scientifically advanced countries; it is the only country in the world having nationwide 100Mbit/s broadband internet access, full HDTV broadcasting, DMB, WiBro and 3G HSDPA. Couple of days ago, Samsung SDI introduced a world’s first 31-inch organic LED display which is only 4,3mm thick and consumes less than half the power needed for regular LCD. Korea is currently the most wired nation in the world, with 90% of homes connected to broadband internet. Korea is a global leader in electronics, computers, digital displays, mobile phones and hightech gadgets, headed by the two chaebols, Samsung and LG. It is world’s largest shipbuilder, has the 3rd biggest steel producer (POSCO), and is the 5th biggest automobile manufacturer. The world’s first cloned dog, SNUppy, comes from Korea, too. Besides the cultural experience, all this will definitely make up an exciting visit.

The IT-supported Project Management Handbook is out

My new book entitled “With practical examples through MS Project 2007 and MS Groove 2007” has been released yesterday.  It has been coauthored with Peter Vre?ar and published by Pasadena in our “With practical examples…” series.  

This is a book for everyone that takes part in projects, both project managers and project team members. Supposably, “It is the only handbook you will ever need for MS Project and MS Groove”. We add that it is not only the only such ”software hands-on guide” written in Slovene language, but also a concise revision of project management methodology from the ‘project initiation’ to the ‘project closure’ phases (incl. topics such as CPM-planing, organizing and closing a project in a manner to ensure organizational learning, reporting and control, role of project management offices, etc…)

In a very concise form, through a running case of a project of organizational change, the reader learns 1) how to better manage a project from start to finish and 2) how to be more productive as a team member, both with help of latest Microsoft Office Project 2007, Microsoft Office Groove 2007 and some of the MS Project Server-based components, and 3) how to break down a business process change-project.

Interested? Read it? Would love to hear your thoughts and comments…

US Dollar’s nosedive

Why American Dollar is the Worlds Problem is title of a great article, published couple of days ago in Der Spiegel… Very thorough and worth every single word…