The document provides a business case for a proposed Christmas Land tourism attraction project in Salford City. It outlines the project objectives of achieving customer satisfaction, completing the project on budget and schedule, and attracting 100,000 visitors in the first year. Key factors for the project's success are identified as stakeholder management, selecting an experienced project team, acquiring high quality materials and contractors, and designing an attractive environment. The document also provides an initial project plan, including a work breakdown structure and Gantt chart to schedule activities and allocate resources. Quality management will follow total quality management principles to ensure high quality from raw materials to customer experience.
The document provides an executive summary and proposal for architectural and engineering design services for the Municipality of Jeddah Food Testing Laboratories project in Saudi Arabia. It includes details of the firm's qualifications and experience, understanding of project requirements, proposed approach and methodology, and management of the project. The proposal emphasizes close collaboration with the client, a clear organizational structure, integrated design and quality control, and management of risks and schedules to deliver the project on time and on budget.
This document is a report on checking the potential for an event management company. It discusses the scope and growth of the event management industry in India. The key points are:
1. The event management industry in India has grown significantly over the past decade and is now a 500 crore industry, growing at 20% annually.
2. The industry covers various types of events from corporate events to weddings to celebrity events. Event management companies offer end-to-end services for planning and executing events.
3. The growth of the industry is driven by increasing spending on events by companies and rising disposable incomes. However, high entertainment taxes remain a challenge.
This document provides an overview of an event management project report submitted by Sahiba Sehgal to fulfill the requirements of a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration. The report includes chapters on event management as a promotional tool, analysis of primary data collected, recommendations, and keys to successful event marketing. It discusses concepts like event designing, communication effects, evaluation of events, and return on investment. The objective is to understand the industry and apply management theories and techniques to practical problems through this research project experience.
Here are some possible scenario questions to test the candidates' construction knowledge:
1. During excavation work for a building foundation, the workers encountered groundwater seepage into the excavation pit. How would you address this issue to allow excavation work to continue?
2. You noticed cracks forming in a building's concrete columns. What could be the possible causes and how would you further investigate and address this issue?
3. During construction, heavy rain caused flooding at the site. What immediate actions would you take to prevent further damage and allow work to resume?
4. Upon completion of a building, some defects were found in the tiling work. As the project manager, how would you handle this situation -
The document discusses the key challenges that event leaders face - time management, finances, technology, and human resources. It provides suggestions for effectively managing time, such as prioritizing tasks, delegating work, and using calendars. Tips for financial success include setting goals, seeking advice, using technology efficiently, and controlling costs. The text also outlines steps for acquiring and maintaining the right technology, as well as emphasizing the importance of empowering employees in human resources.
Biju Prabhakaran is a senior project manager with over 30 years of experience in construction project management and interior fit-out projects in the UAE. He is seeking new opportunities and has successfully managed projects with annual budgets of AED 200-300 million. He has extensive experience in all phases of project management including planning, cost control, scheduling and quality assurance.
Thank you for the detailed response. Let's move to the next scenario question.
● Scenario 2
Candidate's answer:
2.2.2 Leadership
Leadership is one of the important skills required for the management trainee
position. As a leader, the candidate should be able to lead and manage a team to
achieve the company's goals. Hence, we have designed a group activity to test the
candidate's leadership skills. In this activity, the candidate will be assigned to lead a
group of 5 people to complete a task within a given time frame. The task given is to
build a structure using limited materials provided within 30 minutes. During the activity,
we will observe how the candidate
The document provides an executive summary and proposal for architectural and engineering design services for the Municipality of Jeddah Food Testing Laboratories project in Saudi Arabia. It includes details of the firm's qualifications and experience, understanding of project requirements, proposed approach and methodology, and management of the project. The proposal emphasizes close collaboration with the client, a clear organizational structure, integrated design and quality control, and management of risks and schedules to deliver the project on time and on budget.
This document is a report on checking the potential for an event management company. It discusses the scope and growth of the event management industry in India. The key points are:
1. The event management industry in India has grown significantly over the past decade and is now a 500 crore industry, growing at 20% annually.
2. The industry covers various types of events from corporate events to weddings to celebrity events. Event management companies offer end-to-end services for planning and executing events.
3. The growth of the industry is driven by increasing spending on events by companies and rising disposable incomes. However, high entertainment taxes remain a challenge.
This document provides an overview of an event management project report submitted by Sahiba Sehgal to fulfill the requirements of a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration. The report includes chapters on event management as a promotional tool, analysis of primary data collected, recommendations, and keys to successful event marketing. It discusses concepts like event designing, communication effects, evaluation of events, and return on investment. The objective is to understand the industry and apply management theories and techniques to practical problems through this research project experience.
Here are some possible scenario questions to test the candidates' construction knowledge:
1. During excavation work for a building foundation, the workers encountered groundwater seepage into the excavation pit. How would you address this issue to allow excavation work to continue?
2. You noticed cracks forming in a building's concrete columns. What could be the possible causes and how would you further investigate and address this issue?
3. During construction, heavy rain caused flooding at the site. What immediate actions would you take to prevent further damage and allow work to resume?
4. Upon completion of a building, some defects were found in the tiling work. As the project manager, how would you handle this situation -
The document discusses the key challenges that event leaders face - time management, finances, technology, and human resources. It provides suggestions for effectively managing time, such as prioritizing tasks, delegating work, and using calendars. Tips for financial success include setting goals, seeking advice, using technology efficiently, and controlling costs. The text also outlines steps for acquiring and maintaining the right technology, as well as emphasizing the importance of empowering employees in human resources.
Biju Prabhakaran is a senior project manager with over 30 years of experience in construction project management and interior fit-out projects in the UAE. He is seeking new opportunities and has successfully managed projects with annual budgets of AED 200-300 million. He has extensive experience in all phases of project management including planning, cost control, scheduling and quality assurance.
Thank you for the detailed response. Let's move to the next scenario question.
● Scenario 2
Candidate's answer:
2.2.2 Leadership
Leadership is one of the important skills required for the management trainee
position. As a leader, the candidate should be able to lead and manage a team to
achieve the company's goals. Hence, we have designed a group activity to test the
candidate's leadership skills. In this activity, the candidate will be assigned to lead a
group of 5 people to complete a task within a given time frame. The task given is to
build a structure using limited materials provided within 30 minutes. During the activity,
we will observe how the candidate
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
The document discusses various topics related to learning and education, including the importance of sharing knowledge online, open education, technology integration, digital citizenship, copyright, eBooks, learning spaces, formative and summative assessments, blended learning, and using technology to improve teacher productivity. Sharing ideas and curriculum online can bring together educators from around the world to change the future of education. When teachers effectively integrate technology, pedagogy, and content, it creates an optimal learning environment for students. Digital citizenship and understanding copyright are also important topics covered.
This document discusses building a SaaS startup using the Django and Angular frameworks. It describes the architecture as having a client-side web interface built with Angular that communicates with the backend built using Django. The backend includes components like a task queue using Celery, app monitoring with New Relic, code versioning with BitBucket, and error tracking with Sentry. The document advocates this technical stack can be used to develop a complete product by a single developer within 3 months.
El documento habla sobre el iPhone, un teléfono inteligente fabricado por Apple. Explica que el iPhone permite realizar llamadas, conectarse a Internet, navegar en la web, escuchar música y más, gracias a su pantalla táctil y ausencia de teclado físico. También menciona las partes principales de un iPhone y algunas fechas clave como su lanzamiento en 2007.
This document is a collection of 12 photos credited to different photographers. The photos are not further described and appear to be unrelated images. At the end is a call to create your own presentation using Haiku Deck on SlideShare.
Match the beep tones first to cut between camera angles. Use color grading to even out tones and moods between cameras. Always clean the audio using Adobe Audition to acceptable levels and keep audio levels between -7db and 0db. The number of cuts should match the intended pace of the scene, with more cuts for fast pacing and longer scenes for slow pacing.
Un mapa conceptual es una representación gráfica de las relaciones entre conceptos clave. Se construye jerarquizando los conceptos por nivel de complejidad y uniéndolos con enlaces de palabras. Los elementos clave de un mapa conceptual incluyen líneas para enlaces, elipses para encerrar conceptos individuales sin usar flechas, y la escritura de palabras enlace sobre las líneas. Los mapas conceptuales se pueden usar para introducir nuevos conceptos, hacer resúmenes, estudiar, organizar información y compartir significados.
This document contains a project plan for Marriott's bedding program from 2016. The plan outlines upgrading bedding across 628,000 beds in 2,400 Marriott locations in 68 countries. Key objectives were to improve quality, maintain standards globally, and enhance the guest experience. A $190 million budget was allocated across various costs including materials, training, distribution and implementation. Potential limitations included coordinating a global team and estimating large order volumes. The plan aimed to meet expectations of involving all Marriott hotels and receiving high quality supplies on time.
Mediacurrent Webinar: Estimating web projectsMediacurrent
Everyone knows that process is important, but we have all gotten lost in the rush of daily tasks. Join Project Management expert Rob McBryde and Vice President of Client Services James Rutherford, both from Mediacurrent, as they tell us how building and following a process for estimating web projects has driven success for their clients.
You'll Learn:
* Mediacurrent's approach to building project budgets
* Why having a Project Manager involved is critical to business success
* Things you should know about your website before you approach an agency
* Why Drupal projects fail without proper planning
This document contains a resume summary for Shahzad Zaveri. It outlines his contact information, career objective, and extensive experience managing complex projects for over 10 years in the financial services and consulting industries. It details his work as a Project Manager at Noor Bank from 2014-2015 and as a Senior Project Manager at Summit Bank Limited from 2013-2014, where he led teams and successfully delivered several projects on time and under budget.
This document discusses digital project management. It begins with background on digital project management and introduces the need for digital project managers. It then covers key aspects of digital project management including planning, skills required, methodologies, roles of digital project managers, tools, and benefits. Planning involves initiation, stakeholder involvement, prioritizing goals, and developing a project plan. Popular digital project management tools include Monday, Jira, Podio and Trello. Benefits of digital project management include collaboration, communication, budget management, monitoring, and document sharing.
This document introduces a new approach called the "Value Diamond" that adds a fourth dimension of "Business Value" to traditional project management. It discusses the DART methodology for implementing this approach, which focuses on defining customer objectives, assigning target "value darts" to measure business value, realizing that value during project execution, and tracking/improving value realization. The approach has resulted in millions of dollars in quantified benefits for customers and businesses. Key challenges to implementation include socializing the new approach and customizing it for varied projects.
Overview-of-Project-Management For MBA Studentsajinkyapol4
This document provides an overview of project management. It begins by welcoming the reader and outlining the objectives of informing and instructing about organizing, planning, and executing projects efficiently. It then lists the sections that will delve into foundational concepts, the project lifecycle, work breakdown structures, proposal evaluation, government policies, and more. The goal is to uncover how to achieve triumphant project completion through effective methodologies.
This document outlines the key aspects of project management. It defines projects and operations, and provides examples of each. Projects are unique, temporary endeavors with a defined start and end date, while operations are ongoing, routine tasks. The document then discusses the characteristics of projects, definitions of project management, the roles and responsibilities of a project manager, the project management framework including its nine knowledge areas, and constraints of project scope, time, cost, and quality. Project life cycle phases and the construction team are also mentioned.
This document provides an overview of project management concepts including strategic planning principles. It discusses key aspects of project management like the project life cycle, classifications, risks, scope, and strategic planning goals, objectives and assumptions. Specifically:
1) It describes the typical phases of a project life cycle including conception, definition, planning, operation, and feedback. It also discusses how uncertainty can impact projects.
2) It explains how to classify projects based on work effort and budget into basic or major projects and why classification is important.
3) It identifies categories of project risk like stakeholder, regulatory, technology, external, and execution risks.
4) It discusses the importance of defining project scope and managing scope creep
PROJECT MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP, AND SKILLS: PLANNING AND CONTROL | Yang Sing...Emre Dirlik
The document discusses reopening the Yang Sing Hotel in Manchester, which closed in 2009 due to the financial crisis. It provides an executive summary of the project to analyze problems with the previous project and propose solutions using project management techniques. It then outlines the project objectives, which include eliminating previous problems, performing a stakeholder analysis, developing a new project plan with milestones, and creating a communication plan. It also discusses performance measurement, stakeholder analysis identifying key groups, and a stakeholder matrix showing their interests and roles.
The document summarizes the key learnings from a three-year research project focused on gaining employment for people with mental health issues. It identifies six crucial areas for the project's success: clients, staff, project organization, employment outcomes, risk, and flexibility. It explains that these areas vary in importance at different stages, with an initial focus on strong foundations (organization, staff, clients) before later prioritizing employment outcomes. Personalized, adaptive approaches are identified as most effective for meeting clients' diverse needs.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
The document discusses various topics related to learning and education, including the importance of sharing knowledge online, open education, technology integration, digital citizenship, copyright, eBooks, learning spaces, formative and summative assessments, blended learning, and using technology to improve teacher productivity. Sharing ideas and curriculum online can bring together educators from around the world to change the future of education. When teachers effectively integrate technology, pedagogy, and content, it creates an optimal learning environment for students. Digital citizenship and understanding copyright are also important topics covered.
This document discusses building a SaaS startup using the Django and Angular frameworks. It describes the architecture as having a client-side web interface built with Angular that communicates with the backend built using Django. The backend includes components like a task queue using Celery, app monitoring with New Relic, code versioning with BitBucket, and error tracking with Sentry. The document advocates this technical stack can be used to develop a complete product by a single developer within 3 months.
El documento habla sobre el iPhone, un teléfono inteligente fabricado por Apple. Explica que el iPhone permite realizar llamadas, conectarse a Internet, navegar en la web, escuchar música y más, gracias a su pantalla táctil y ausencia de teclado físico. También menciona las partes principales de un iPhone y algunas fechas clave como su lanzamiento en 2007.
This document is a collection of 12 photos credited to different photographers. The photos are not further described and appear to be unrelated images. At the end is a call to create your own presentation using Haiku Deck on SlideShare.
Match the beep tones first to cut between camera angles. Use color grading to even out tones and moods between cameras. Always clean the audio using Adobe Audition to acceptable levels and keep audio levels between -7db and 0db. The number of cuts should match the intended pace of the scene, with more cuts for fast pacing and longer scenes for slow pacing.
Un mapa conceptual es una representación gráfica de las relaciones entre conceptos clave. Se construye jerarquizando los conceptos por nivel de complejidad y uniéndolos con enlaces de palabras. Los elementos clave de un mapa conceptual incluyen líneas para enlaces, elipses para encerrar conceptos individuales sin usar flechas, y la escritura de palabras enlace sobre las líneas. Los mapas conceptuales se pueden usar para introducir nuevos conceptos, hacer resúmenes, estudiar, organizar información y compartir significados.
This document contains a project plan for Marriott's bedding program from 2016. The plan outlines upgrading bedding across 628,000 beds in 2,400 Marriott locations in 68 countries. Key objectives were to improve quality, maintain standards globally, and enhance the guest experience. A $190 million budget was allocated across various costs including materials, training, distribution and implementation. Potential limitations included coordinating a global team and estimating large order volumes. The plan aimed to meet expectations of involving all Marriott hotels and receiving high quality supplies on time.
Mediacurrent Webinar: Estimating web projectsMediacurrent
Everyone knows that process is important, but we have all gotten lost in the rush of daily tasks. Join Project Management expert Rob McBryde and Vice President of Client Services James Rutherford, both from Mediacurrent, as they tell us how building and following a process for estimating web projects has driven success for their clients.
You'll Learn:
* Mediacurrent's approach to building project budgets
* Why having a Project Manager involved is critical to business success
* Things you should know about your website before you approach an agency
* Why Drupal projects fail without proper planning
This document contains a resume summary for Shahzad Zaveri. It outlines his contact information, career objective, and extensive experience managing complex projects for over 10 years in the financial services and consulting industries. It details his work as a Project Manager at Noor Bank from 2014-2015 and as a Senior Project Manager at Summit Bank Limited from 2013-2014, where he led teams and successfully delivered several projects on time and under budget.
This document discusses digital project management. It begins with background on digital project management and introduces the need for digital project managers. It then covers key aspects of digital project management including planning, skills required, methodologies, roles of digital project managers, tools, and benefits. Planning involves initiation, stakeholder involvement, prioritizing goals, and developing a project plan. Popular digital project management tools include Monday, Jira, Podio and Trello. Benefits of digital project management include collaboration, communication, budget management, monitoring, and document sharing.
This document introduces a new approach called the "Value Diamond" that adds a fourth dimension of "Business Value" to traditional project management. It discusses the DART methodology for implementing this approach, which focuses on defining customer objectives, assigning target "value darts" to measure business value, realizing that value during project execution, and tracking/improving value realization. The approach has resulted in millions of dollars in quantified benefits for customers and businesses. Key challenges to implementation include socializing the new approach and customizing it for varied projects.
Overview-of-Project-Management For MBA Studentsajinkyapol4
This document provides an overview of project management. It begins by welcoming the reader and outlining the objectives of informing and instructing about organizing, planning, and executing projects efficiently. It then lists the sections that will delve into foundational concepts, the project lifecycle, work breakdown structures, proposal evaluation, government policies, and more. The goal is to uncover how to achieve triumphant project completion through effective methodologies.
This document outlines the key aspects of project management. It defines projects and operations, and provides examples of each. Projects are unique, temporary endeavors with a defined start and end date, while operations are ongoing, routine tasks. The document then discusses the characteristics of projects, definitions of project management, the roles and responsibilities of a project manager, the project management framework including its nine knowledge areas, and constraints of project scope, time, cost, and quality. Project life cycle phases and the construction team are also mentioned.
This document provides an overview of project management concepts including strategic planning principles. It discusses key aspects of project management like the project life cycle, classifications, risks, scope, and strategic planning goals, objectives and assumptions. Specifically:
1) It describes the typical phases of a project life cycle including conception, definition, planning, operation, and feedback. It also discusses how uncertainty can impact projects.
2) It explains how to classify projects based on work effort and budget into basic or major projects and why classification is important.
3) It identifies categories of project risk like stakeholder, regulatory, technology, external, and execution risks.
4) It discusses the importance of defining project scope and managing scope creep
PROJECT MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP, AND SKILLS: PLANNING AND CONTROL | Yang Sing...Emre Dirlik
The document discusses reopening the Yang Sing Hotel in Manchester, which closed in 2009 due to the financial crisis. It provides an executive summary of the project to analyze problems with the previous project and propose solutions using project management techniques. It then outlines the project objectives, which include eliminating previous problems, performing a stakeholder analysis, developing a new project plan with milestones, and creating a communication plan. It also discusses performance measurement, stakeholder analysis identifying key groups, and a stakeholder matrix showing their interests and roles.
The document summarizes the key learnings from a three-year research project focused on gaining employment for people with mental health issues. It identifies six crucial areas for the project's success: clients, staff, project organization, employment outcomes, risk, and flexibility. It explains that these areas vary in importance at different stages, with an initial focus on strong foundations (organization, staff, clients) before later prioritizing employment outcomes. Personalized, adaptive approaches are identified as most effective for meeting clients' diverse needs.
This document outlines an internship project to improve the lighting process at the Key West Marriott Beachside Hotel. The current process uses inefficient incandescent light bulbs that consume large amounts of electricity and cost over $170,000 per year. The project aims to replace all light bulbs with LED bulbs, which use less energy and have a longer lifespan. This is expected to save over $95,000 in electricity costs in the first year alone while making the hotel more environmentally friendly. A 5 Why analysis identified that guests consume electricity inefficiently without paying the bill, so the hotel pays more than necessary for lighting. Replacing bulbs with LEDs will significantly reduce electricity usage and costs.
Urban Engineers is an engineering firm that has operated since 1960 providing services like transportation planning, design, and management. The company has a long history of client satisfaction and strives for excellence through innovation, technical skills, and on-time project delivery. It emphasizes values like operating excellence, diversity, and sustainability. The strategic plan discusses analyzing the company's strengths and weaknesses, recommending a focus on unity among employees and their families to boost morale and performance. Key goals include improving processes, training, knowledge sharing, and meeting financial targets. Risk is managed through adherence to quality standards, proper planning, and oversight. Contingency plans are also in place in case initial plans fail to account for unexpected issues.
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For project managers, a successful outcome is always preceded by a well-prepared project management plan. A lot of effort is put into planning which helps you prepare a better Project Management Plan.
This document provides a project charter, communication plan, and risk and quality management plan for Go Green Landscaping, an eco-friendly landscaping company. The objectives are to receive funding, secure equipment, and hire staff to service the Hampton Roads area by June. Risks include not getting funding, contracts, or facing established competition. The communication plan involves weekly team meetings, emails, and a designated member handling stakeholder communication. Performance will be reported by the project team.
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The document provides an overview of projects and project management. It defines a project as a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result, with defined start and end dates, goals, budget, resources and stakeholders. Project management is described as the planning, organizing, and controlling of resources to achieve project goals on time, within budget and to the required specification. The key project management processes are initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing. The document discusses project life cycles and organizational structures for project management such as functional, projectized, and matrix structures.
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The document provides an overview of fundamentals of project management. It defines a project as a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end, undertaken to achieve unique goals. Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, and techniques to meet project requirements within constraints of time, scope, cost, and quality. Key characteristics of projects include having a unique purpose, being temporary, requiring resources, and introducing change. Projects can be classified based on time, type of product or service, scope, size, sector, technology, and ownership.
This document provides details of a project proposal to attract tourists to Singapore. The proposal includes a work breakdown structure dividing the project into tasks, an organization breakdown structure assigning roles, a network diagram showing task dependencies, and a Gantt chart and budget. The objective is to increase tourism by developing attractions and infrastructure, improving transportation and hotels, and conducting promotions. Challenges include balancing tourism and residents' quality of life. Metrics like visitor arrivals and tourism receipts will evaluate the project's success in boosting the tourism industry, which contributes billions annually to Singapore's economy.
This document provides an overview of IT project management. It discusses that a project has a clear definition and plan, and must be managed to achieve objectives on time and within budget. The five key dimensions of a project are scope, quality, time, cost, and risk. It also defines stakeholders, customers, deliverables, and the PRINCE2 project management methodology, which has principles, themes, and processes to guide a project through its lifecycle.
The document discusses risks facing the construction industry. It begins by defining risk as exposure to loss or gain, or the probability of loss or gain occurring multiplied by its impact. It then lists several major risks construction projects commonly face, such as delays, cost overruns, accidents, equipment failures, and weather events. The document stresses that properly identifying, assessing, allocating, and mitigating risks is important for construction project success.
Before commencement of any project, the first thing that we need to do is project planning. Any reasonable project manager* certainly understands importance of planning a project well. Carefully planned project takes into account necessary aspects of a project (e.g. tasks, milestone, schedule,risks, communication, quality, etc.) and provide a plan which project team can refer during execution.
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This document proposes the ASAN Wazifa solution, an online job portal for the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled (MoLSAMD) in Afghanistan. The portal will provide a centralized system to gather and share workforce data currently scattered across different ministries. It will allow citizens, companies, and organizations to register profiles and be informed of relevant job opportunities. The portal aims to help MoLSAMD better monitor the job market and make data-driven decisions by providing real-time access to workforce analytics from across the country. It is designed to connect job seekers with opportunities and coordinate data sharing between ministries.
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Augmented reality (AR) allows users to view their environment with additional virtual objects overlaid onto the real world. The document discusses the history and development of AR from 1968 to present day, including early prototypes and increasing applications in fields like education, business, and healthcare. It also notes potential privacy and surveillance issues with AR technologies like Google Glass that could allow unconsented collection of personal information. The conclusion recommends that while AR has benefits, its development must address public concerns about privacy and data protection to gain widespread acceptance.
1. Augmented reality (AR) modifies a user's perception of the real world by overlaying virtual objects. While AR provides benefits like data visualization and education, it also enables privacy and surveillance concerns.
2. People using AR technology are often unaware of future challenges, like companies having influence over private data and vulnerable privacy. The Google Glass project demonstrated these issues, with users feeling their privacy was at risk.
3. AR has both positive impacts like improved data visualization and navigation, as well as negative impacts including privacy intrusion, disturbing ads, and enabling the abuse of publicly available personal information. Managing these tradeoffs will be important as AR is adapted in more areas of life.
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This document discusses organizational change management and leadership strategies. It addresses transforming organizational culture from tight management to empowering employees in decision making. The document covers leadership styles and their impact on change management. It also discusses performance management systems and how they need to adapt to modern realities and empower employees. Organizational transformation requires leadership to believe in change and guide the process while understanding today's diverse and skilled workforce.
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This document provides an analysis of entering the Turkish market for Netflix. It examines the macroenvironmental factors through a PESTAL analysis and SWOT framework. Some key points include:
- Turkey has over 44 million broadband subscribers providing a large potential market for Netflix.
- Entering the market could impact DVD/CD rental companies but also provides opportunities to hire local workers.
- Netflix will face competition from other streaming services and need to differentiate with local language dubbing/subtitling and customer service.
- Strengths include Netflix's brand and subscriber base while weaknesses are cultural/language differences.
- Opportunities exist in high internet availability and demand for streaming, while threats include social restrictions and competitors
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Christmas Land project is a very huge opportunity for the Salford City Council to promote the city and attract the attention of stakeholders not only for the project but also for the future of the city. Christmas is an event where people across the country tries their best to spend their vacations in best recreational facilities with their family, thus it is best opportunity for businesses and bankers to invest on such projects. Notwithstanding its benefits and future impacts on the city, the project does entail its own complexities and risks that needs careful study when planning. High number of stakeholders with different objectives each is a challenge for the project whereas the project objective should be narrowed down to mitigate the risk of losing focus while it should encompass the expectations and objectives of stakeholders at the same time. Hence the project’s success and failure highly depends on the identification and analysis of stakeholders and selection of objective(s) for the project. Initial planning of the project needs careful and concentration in that the scope of the project should be carefully defined in which the boundaries of the project, activities associated in the project including the timeframe and any expected uncertainties of the project should be considered.
When planning the project a detailed work breakdown structure should be defined so that activities with same resources should not overlap each other. Dependencies of activities should be considered as well as resource allocation and time boundaries for each activity should be defined. A professional quality control mechanism should be defined for the project so that each activities performance are evaluated at several stages to mitigate risk of low quality delivery of service. The project has its associated risks which should be clearly defined and approaches to mitigate such risks should be considered beforehand.
After implementation of the project, the closure of the project is a very important phase where lessons learned should be documented from the project for future success of projects. The city council can further develop the project into a permanent recreational facility for the city residents where any festivals and events can be conducted in the project environment. After reviewing the project performance of activities can be identified and best practices can be listed that brought the project to success.
2. Christmas land project is good business opportunity for investment, because most of the people in the
cities are interested to visit these type of recreational areas with their families during their vacations.
Christmas land type business are running on very short period of time with very high profits and the
bankers and other investors are interested to finance these businesses. People from across the country
are planning their vacations to visit such recreational places, hence the project is able to gain high number
of customers.
3. It is a difficult to acquire all stakeholders’ expectations in a project, especially when we have multiple
number of stakeholders as each stakeholder’s objective is different. In order to tackle this problem and
carry the project to success by achieving each stakeholder’s expectation we have to narrow down
objectives of the project by harmonizing stakeholders’ objectives.
To achieve customer satisfaction we need to use different quality control approaches to ensure
conformance of performance to our pre-defined standards which is defined with consideration to
customer’s needs and expectations. Time to time every individual task of the project should be
controlled to start and end based on the project schedule.
Considering our high quality of service and good marketing approach we can target 100,000 number of
visitors/customers for our project.
4. Our main entity for the Christmas Land project, as for any other project, is the Stakeholders. Selecting,
assigning and management of stakeholders are very critical and hard work of the project. When planning
and designing the project we have to define tasks for every stakeholder. Sometimes activities and tasks
of stakeholders may overlap each other which does not only create conflict but also slows down the
project. It is project manager’s job while designing the project to manage and control activities of
stakeholders not to overlap each other.
5. One of the main factors on which Success and failure of the project depends is Project Team. The actual
implementer of the project are the project team who are involved in the project from the beginning till
end. Thus staffing the project – selecting members for project team – and positioning them is an important
task that should be carefully considered while planning and designing the project. To mitigate any risk of
delivering low quality outcome from the project, it is important to select a team of highly qualified
professionals with professional background of delivering successful projects, especially in projects similar
to Christmas Land.
Infrastructure and assets or materials used in the project are another important factor on which success
and failure of the project depend. Step by step quality check should be done for materials in order to have
best outcome.
Selecting best suppliers for our material and professional contractors for the design of environment have
also significant impact on project outcome. In order to attract more customers and gain their satisfaction
the environment should have a unique and attracting design which needs experienced contractors and
designer with successful past experience
7. Contents
1. Literature View......................................................................................................................................7
2. Introduction ..........................................................................................................................................7
3. Project Initiation: ..................................................................................................................................8
3.1. Objectives......................................................................................................................................8
3.2. Stakeholder Analysis:....................................................................................................................9
3.3. Success and failure of the project.................................................................................................9
3.4. Initial Planning.............................................................................................................................10
4. Project Planning:.................................................................................................................................11
4.1. Project Scheduling and Work breakdown structure (WBS)........................................................11
4.2. Quality Management..................................................................................................................13
4.2.1. Planning Quality:.................................................................................................................13
4.2.2. Quality Assurance: ..............................................................................................................13
4.2.3. Quality Control:...................................................................................................................14
4.3. Risk and Opportunity Management............................................................................................14
4.4. Problem-Solving and Decision-making .......................................................................................14
5. Project Closure (Development):..........................................................................................................14
5.1. Project Completion and Review..................................................................................................14
5.2. Performance Improvement ........................................................................................................15
6. Conclusion...........................................................................................................................................15
7. Bibliography ........................................................................................................................................15
8. 1. Literature View
This document is a business case report that is intended for the conceptualization, plan and design of a
Tourism Attraction Area for Christmas in Salford City. The report is developed based on the researches on
similar projects that are previously conducted in UK; lessons learned from projects are taken to
recommend successful approaches for the implementation of the project. The ‘Blunderland’ project of
Harrogate is studied in detail in the report, examples are provided that caused failure of the project and
solutions are pointed to proactively prevent such problems.
The recommendations in the document for each approaches in project management are given based on
the research from some highly read books in the subject. Project initiation and planning approaches
described by Dr. Maylor in his book Project Manage are suggested in the document.
2. Introduction
Having fun has always been people’s dream, and businesses on creating fun for people is top of the all
running and successful businesses in the world. Most of the recreational events are planned and
established on special religious holidays, as people respect and organize their vacations on such events.
Christmas land is one of these investment business opportunities that can be a good point of attraction
for businessmen’s interest.
Assuredly, not all the recreational projects are successful sometimes these type of project fail if they are
not carefully planned and designed. The ‘Blunderland’ project of Harrogate’s is a good example which
eventually failed. According to Calleam Consulting Ltd “updated 16 Dec 2014: The Magical Journey did in
fact reopen after a three day closure. Unfortunately, with just 9 days to go before Christmas, a key financial
backer has withdrawn from the project and the event has now closed its doors permanently”. The report
states the causes of the failure of this project as “poor management and lack of quality”. If we ponder on
the project, one of the main reasons behind first closure of the project from project management’s
perspective was not considering the uncertainties of the project. The organizer of the project did not
consider unexpected weather change of the environment which resulted in the failure of the project.
Planning Christmas land project in Salford City council is an opportunity for promoting the city and attract
tourists to the community and improve the local businesses and also introduce the city to the new
commerce. Setting up the Christmas land project in the Salford City with 100s of attraction and exciting
games for the visitors will change the Salford city view. Shareholders are not the only people that gain
benefits and revenue from this project, however the other stakeholders will also gain benefits from
Christmas land project. Along this the community will have long-term benefits.
Defining and designing of Christmas land project is a very complex task, it requires a detailed scrutiny of
the availability of the resources in the markets, environmental challenges such as unexpected climate
9. change, targeted customers with their budgets and city existing law. Considering these factors beforehand
will mitigate the project risk and also facilitate other associated tasks within Christmas land project. In
Christmas Land project of Salford City Council we need to clearly define any uncertainties associated with
the project and project environment.
The Christmas Land project should be intended to deliver high level quality services to the customers with
conformance to many different stakeholder’s expectation from the project. Moreover planning this
project in budget within timeframe is the most difficult task, Christmas land project cost estimation should
be done based on the market price with 10% margin to secure the project from any uncertainty in the
market prices. One of the major failure factor of the ‘Blunderland’ project was poor cost and benefits
analysis. Regarding MailOnline reported “there were claims that the crisis-hit attraction crumbled under
pressure to pay its staff wages of more than £100,000 per month - just nine days before Christmas”. It
shows a vast cost difference in their plan when designing the project.
To assure the Christmas land project is designed based on the stakeholder’s expectation, it’s required to
apply different project management approaches, in that the Total Quality Management TQM is one of the
successful approaches to keep maintain the project and provide high level services to the customers
within time in the right place.
3. Project Initiation:
3.1. Objectives
Planning the project main objective, which is to accomplish the project within timeframe and budget, is a
complex work in planning and designing stage. Having multiple objectives for a project is also considered
as a factor that may result to the failure of the project. Minimizing number of objectives for the project
will facilitate concentration on the project and project objectives while multiple objectives will result on
losing focus from the project. Keeping everyone happy is a difficult task, and having multiple number of
stakeholders will result in maximization of project objective since each stakeholder will have its own
expectation and objective from the project. To narrow down multiple objectives into few objectives that
encompasses the expectation of all stakeholders is one of the major task in Design stage of the project.
Most projects fail because of having multiple objectives. Likewise projects with ambiguous and unclear
objective are considered to be failed projects. The ‘Blunderland’ project, for instance, is a project in which
objectives were not accurately considered during budget estimation, nor during execution of the project.
In a small change in the budget and plan of the project, focus from the project objective was completely
distracted. The quality and performance were completely ignored and instead all focus was routed to
minimization of project cost. To make the Christmas land project successful we limit the main objectives
of the project. Following are considered as main objectives of Christmas Land project:
Customer satisfaction with high level services, high level customer care
To finish the Project within budget and schedule.
Target at least 100,000 visitors in the first year
10. To achieve the aforementioned objectives it is required to have an experienced professional team in
management, financing and designing. Also good financing for the Christmas land project is another factor
that can enhance the project objectives accomplishment.
3.2. Stakeholder Analysis:
Christmas land project success is dependent on stakeholder satisfaction, stakeholder can be a team or an
individual. Defining stakeholders for the project is tough work, because they have direct impact to the
project success and failure. How the stakeholders are managed and assigned to the specific portion of the
project is another complex work. The Christmas land requires different number of stakeholders who are
involved in different part of the project based the project requirements. According to Dr. Maylor’s book
Project Management key questions to be asked about stakeholders are “Who are the stakeholders?
What do they want? What influence is this going to have on the project process or outcome?” In general,
according to Dr. Maylor, stakeholders are divided into two main groups External stakeholders and
internal stakeholders. External stakeholder those who are externally involve with the project and
received the project services (e.g. customers, sponsors). Internal stakeholders are those who are
associated with the project process (e.g. member of project team or government structure).
All stakeholders focus on their own significant benefits and have influence on the project, or sometimes
the stakeholders overlap each other activities. To manage this issue within different stakeholders it is
required to map related tasks to each stakeholders and give them a proper guidance.
The management board will be the actual organizer to the Christmas land and they will take more benefits
from this project. Considering that the Christmas land project is a recreational project, many companies
will be interested to sponsor it. Establishing such recreational place in main city requires a lot of legal
work, and it is required to have the legal team to arrange such work and push for the appropriate laws to
be passed through legislative body if not already in place. Residents of the adjacent area are critical
stakeholders for the project. They can directly earn benefits from this project (e.g. the Christmas land
visitors will use their hotels and shops). Also residents will use the Christmas land to do their marketing
and advertisements. Suppliers (contractors) are the companies or individuals that are preparing the
Christmas Land environment. Companies that supply raw materials for the project are also considered as
stakeholders for the project. Suppliers can be from the local or international companies.
3.3. Success and failure of the project
The Christmas Land project success factors and benefits are depending on complexities associated with
the “objectives” of the project and the stakeholders’ requirements/expectations. Thus selection of
stakeholders and bringing the contradictions and conflicts of requirements from each stakeholder group
into harmony and thenceforth defining relevant objectives for the project is of the most important tasks
of the Project.
Once the project stakeholders are identified and objective(s) set for the project the second most
important tasks which defines success and failure of the project is the allocation of resources for the
11. project. In resource allocation first point of focus should be given to the human resources as they are
those who are using other resources and running the project. Delivering a project within time, budget and
defined quality while achieving stakeholder’s expectations is a difficult task which requires a team of
professionals for board of management as well as skilled team for the execution and implementation of
the project.
Capital resources, which includes materials, infrastructure and other assets that are required to run the
project, is the second point of focus in resource allocation. Success of Christmas Land project depends on
the selection of high quality materials and capital resources for the project. The reason that ‘Blunderland’
project was closed permanently after re-opening was selection of low quality materials to minimize cost
as the report states “Trees laid low with snow – reality: a few hastily erected plastic Christmas trees in a
muddy field”. In Christmas Land project it is required to select best suppliers with past experience in
delivering quality products for such events on time.
Last but not least of the key success factors for the project is the interior/environmental design of the
Christmas Land area. Arranging and setting-up a world class entertainment environment for the visitors
in such a unique event requires selection of best contractors and designers for the project. A Challenge
for the project is to select contracts and designers in consideration of the project budget. Methods can be
used to convince such contractors with low cost, such us providing other benefits in the project for
contracts. For instance, advertisement opportunity for contractors is a good point to attract their interest
in the project. This way, contractors are considered as the stakeholders of the project and thus tries their
best to provide quality service.
These are the main factors that help the Christmas land project drive into the success stage, while poor
management of these factors will fail the project.
3.4. Initial Planning
To run the project within scope and time frame, it’s required to do project initial planning based on the
market available resources and costing. Dr. Kerzner in his book Project Management A Systems Approach
to Planning Scheduling and Controlling lists “Poor Initial Planning and Market Prognosis” among the nine
reasons that are stopping projects. Initial planning is considered the foremost important step after
outlining “the requirements, measures and benefits” in that the outcome of the project is clearly defined
and the activities involved to deliver this outcome is defined. Based on the data from the requirements,
measure and benefits of the project, the project scope and out of scope is clearly defined and
documented.
The Winton Park of Salford City is recommended for the project as it has wide area where all the required
environmental settings for the project can be configured. In order to mitigate any risks and scope creeps
in the project, the project scope is defined as follow:
Design and Construction of Christmas Tourists Attraction Area in Winton Park with 100 Stalls
Provision of 10 beautifully designed wagons with their reindeers
12. Provision of 100 Santa with real-looking costumes
Staffing of the area with welcoming young teens
Provision of Christmas gifts for children
Advertisement of the project to TV channels and other media
In order to achieve the project objectives within the defined scope and within the timeframe, it is required
to define a work breakdown structure for the project and assign resources for each activity of the project.
Activities in WBS should be logically sequenced in that the predecessor activities should be considered
before scheduling any successor activity. Preparing a Gantt chart is one of the best approaches that
facilitates the provision of WBS with consideration to predecessor and successor attributes as well as
assigning resources to each activity.
4. Project Planning:
4.1. Project Scheduling and Work breakdown structure (WBS)
The time estimation and resource allocation are depending on the project activities, which tasks need to
be performed by which resource in which timeframe. The project timeframe is required to reflect all
project associated activities within project time, while planning the project timeframe we control the
project resource overlapping activities. Also some of the project activities start directly or depend on other
prerequisite tasks. Delivering project associated tasks within timeframe and controlling the deliverable
tasks is the project manager’s work. Project manager need to communicate and control all allocated
resources within the project.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a good approach for project scheduling and resources scheduling. In
this approach first the project is decomposed into activities and tasks, resources for each tasks are
identified. Task dependencies are identified in the WBS and based on their dependencies and priorities
they are scheduled. Gantt chart is very useful for WBS where a complete view of project activities are
viewed in one chart.
14. 4.2. Quality Management
Quality is very important in such projects, where customer experience plays a huge role in the success of
project as well as long-term viability of the business.
We will adhere to Total Quality Management (TQM) principles and address quality as end to end process,
from raw material to the customer experience everything should be part of the quality management
practices.
We are planning to address the quality management through three stages process:
4.2.1. Planning Quality:
Quality should be planned into project activities not Inspect into, meaning everyone should know in
advance what quality standards or processes to follow rather than inspected by the quality manager or
supervisor and told them how to do it.
The Quality metrics should be defined from the initial planning stage of the project, as we are establishing
recreational park, we need to consider environmental, legal, safety and other such process required by
law, as well as provide good customer care, maintain the equipment for optimum performance all the
time and provide good quality entertainment.
All these and other services as well as obligations need to be identified and planned in light of stakeholder
requirements and legal framework.
4.2.2. Quality Assurance:
Once everything is planned we will make sure that this plan is implemented as required. Some of the
practices for quality assurance could be:
Processes: we make sure all the processes involved in the project are carried out appropriately and within
the specified time limit, these processes could include arrival of raw material on time, hiring of the right
people, appropriate disposal of the wastages, implementation of the environmental considerations as
outlined by law and others.
Doing things right: everyone involved in the project should know how to do their work right, these could
include adherence to industry best practices, requirements of the law and usage of the right tools, in most
case it will be required to provide the project personnel and other stakeholders training to highlight or
convey the knowledge of “doing things right”
Adherence to the Project requirements: In most cases when we are managing medium to large scale
projects, people are lost in details and they forget the bigger picture the main objectives of the project,
15. we will make sure that everyone understand why the project is being implemented and what the end
results we are expecting to meet.
4.2.3. Quality Control:
It’s one of the most common challenge in quality and requirements management that we plan something
very well and it’s also implemented as planned, but it’s not what the customer want, as a result the end
product is not acceptable to the customer.
Through quality control practices and processes we will make sure the work is carried out as by the overall
objectives of the project, and we make sure the end product is acceptable to all involved.
4.3. Risk and Opportunity Management
Risk is basically the impact of uncertainty on project activity, some of the risks we can consider for this
project;
Adherence to the government/ local laws: we consider if it’s not properly planned and not
Usage of right Raw material:
Hiring of experienced personnel:
Lack/ No adherence to quality practices:
Risk of acceptability of the end products:
Maintenance of the recreational/ game equipment:
Safety processes/ practices:
4.4. Problem-Solving and Decision-making
We will work through projectized approach for the project, where the project manager will have the
ultimate responsibility and authority for making project relevant issues, he/she will be reportable to the
project management board, which can have their periodic meetings.
All problems and conflicts will be addressed through at the grass root level, will be addressed at the first
level of happening, then if we could not address them at that stage, we will escalate it one stage, and it
will move up towards the project manager and management board.
5. Project Closure (Development):
5.1. Project Completion and Review
The project will work through phase wise approach, meaning each phase will have an end deliverable,
which will be verified and if required accepted by the customer/stakeholder.
As we will be managing our project WBS and will complete our Work Packages in time-phased manner,
every deliverable completed will be handed over to project team or stakeholder and moved to another
16. task, so towards the end of the project limited issues will be needed to complete, meanwhile if we face a
problem or rejection of certain deliverable we can fix it without losing anytime or extending the end date
of the project.
Toward the end of the project, the formal closure will take place, which will fulfills all the legal and other
requirements.
5.2. Performance Improvement
One of the main jobs of the project manager is continuous improvement and learning; we will use learning
curve theory, best practices and other mechanisms to continuously look for continuous improvement in
our behavior, project activities and deliverables.
6. Conclusion
Christmas Land project is a very huge opportunity for the Salford City Council to promote the city and
attract the attention of stakeholders not only for the project but also for the future of the city. Christmas
is an event where people across the country tries their best to spend their vacations in best recreational
facilities with their family, thus it is best opportunity for businesses and bankers to invest on such projects.
Notwithstanding its benefits and future impacts on the city, the project does entail its own complexities
and risks that needs careful study when planning. High number of stakeholders with different objectives
each is a challenge for the project whereas the project objective should be narrowed down to mitigate
the risk of losing focus while it should encompass the expectations and objectives of stakeholders at the
same time. Hence the project’s success and failure highly depends on the identification and analysis of
stakeholders and selection of objective(s) for the project. Initial planning of the project needs careful and
concentration in that the scope of the project should be carefully defined in which the boundaries of the
project, activities associated in the project including the timeframe and any expected uncertainties of the
project should be considered.
When planning the project a detailed work breakdown structure should be defined so that activities with
same resources should not overlap each other. Dependencies of activities should be considered as well as
resource allocation and time boundaries for each activity should be defined. A professional quality control
mechanism should be defined for the project so that each activities performance are evaluated at several
stages to mitigate risk of low quality delivery of service. The project has its associated risks which should
be clearly defined and approaches to mitigate such risks should be considered beforehand.
After implementation of the project, the closure of the project is a very important phase where lessons
learned should be documented from the project for future success of projects. The city council can further
develop the project into a permanent recreational facility for the city residents where any festivals and
events can be conducted in the project environment. After reviewing the project performance of activities
can be identified and best practices can be listed that brought the project to success.
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