These include disciplined project management skills that will allow a company to process a resource play as efficiently as if it were an assembly line, repetitively drilling and fracking and completing wells one after another with a rabid eye on cost control.

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The Rare Genomics Institute acts as the project management office and organizers of this unique and virtual process.

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The consultation process will be managed by an independent project management company which will submit a report to the Secretary to State for Education Michael Gove, who makes the final decision on whether to give the initiative the go-ahead.

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In each phase, from planning and assessment to implementation, several factors must be carefully considered, including technical infrastructure, process, application, change management, data management and project management.

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It remains to be seen whether PwC will charge the Academy for the additional technical and project management support the firm probably provided this year to help design and implement the new electronic voting process and insure it was safe from hackers and inaccurate counts.

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The parliament's chief executive, Paul Grice, rejected a number of the critical conclusions in the report, including those on cost management, responsibility for programming, the process of reporting cost increases to MSPs and the ability of project managers to cap consultants' fees.

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