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Henry
Laurence Gantt's legacy to management is the Gantt chart. |
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Henry Laurence Gantt (1861-1919) was a
mechanical engineer, management consultant and industry advisor. He developed
Gantt charts in the second decade of the 20th century as a visual tool to show scheduled and actual progress of projects.
Accepted as a common-place project management tool today, it was quite a
radical concept and an
innovation of world-wide importance in the 1920s. Gantt
charts were first used on large construction projects like the Hoover Dam,
started in 1931 and the interstate highway network which started in 1956.
Download Organizing for Work,
a book by Henry Gantt. |
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| Henry Gantt's contribution to
the management process is honored today through the
The
Henry Laurence Gantt Medal. The award established in 1929 is
given for distinguished achievement in management and for service to the
community.
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Evolution of a
Gantt chart. |
