Don't start vast projects with half-vast resources.

Projects are usually undertaken to either solve a problem or take advantage of an opportunity. The probability that the project - even if precisely executed - will complete on time, on budget, and on performance is typically small. Project management is utilized to increase this probability. So in a sense, project management is risk management.

One of the things that is really needed in cultural services is somebody to look at the mayor's big projects. They need somebody there at the right hand of the director working for the mayor, pulling those pieces together to make sure the vision gets across.

Higher output at a handful of ramp-up projects combined with the start of full scale mining at Two Rivers, should see platinum volumes in 2006 grow by 8 percent year-on-year.

Many of these projects, which were discovered in the mid-1990s or even earlier, were put on the shelf when prices drifted below US$350. But these are the kind of projects that are coming back on stream.

There are lots of projects going on where, if we could enhance the communications, it could make it a lot easier.