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The Importance of Trust in Project Management

One would be easily forgiven for thinking that life is not one grand result but actually the sum of its parts. To some extent, every part of life is a project seeking a manager whether its buying a new house; planning a well-deserved holiday; or building a new jail in one of the New York boroughs. Satisfaction is achieved if the required decisions along are vested in trust; trust of the evidence, the effort, and the people responsible for the outcome. 

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Feature.TechnologyDesign

East-West and the Integration of Technology and Design

Perhaps the rarified air at 35,000 feet while returning from the TIC (Technology in Corrections) and IPIC (Innovative Prison Infrastructure Conference) in Istanbul will bring clarity to a complicated, but essential topic that has been and will continue to impact the planning, design, equipping, and maintaining of correctional facilities. The planning for these two long-awaited consecutive conferences began before the global pandemic and involved members from the Technology and Planning & Design Networks of the ICPA. So, this is being written over the Atlantic Ocean. 

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