Management Control

 

Management Control:

The project control cycle: Management, in general, can be seen as the process of setting objectives for a system and then monitoring to see what its true performance is. Especially in the case of large undertaking, there will be a lot going on about which management should be aware. As an example- taken an IT project that to replace locally held paper-based records with a centrally organized database. In might be that staff in a large number of offices that are geographically dispersed need training and then need to use the new IT system to set up the back log on manual records on the new database.





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