Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2017 February 4

= February 4 =

Moving industries within the public sector
In project management, is it easy to move industries within the public sector? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:B91F:B600:686D:D709:EFE1:1DA9 (talk) 09:33, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Heavy industry or light industry?--Shantavira|feed me 10:12, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
 * You're going to have to clarify what you mean. Project management is a series of tools and best practices designed to reduce the risk and increase the efficiencies of projects. It can be applied to any manner of project and/or applied in varying degrees of formality. The public sector refers to various government services. Where I'm stuck is what you mean by industry. Are you referring to the physical change in address of a particular business? Or maybe a change in zoning ordinance to shift industrial concerns to a particular area? Something else? Moving businesses is almost always a difficult task and PM is frequently used to increase the chance of success, but it is tricky and difficult work regardless of the use of formal PM tools. Matt Deres (talk) 17:36, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I wonder if the OP wants to know how easy it is for a Project manager working in the public sector to move between industries, say betweem the healthcare sector and the tax department or transport. Or maybe they mean something like a project manager for IT changing to be a project manager for some non IT part of a road construction project. Nil Einne (talk) 04:23, 5 February 2017 (UTC)