Learning outcomes:
1. Understand how organisations deliver their strategic objectives through projects.
2. Understand the different approaches to project design and the situations where these approaches are more (or less) relevant.
3. Examine rationales behind variation in project management owing to organisational factors – within sectors /across sectors.
4. Be able to evaluate situation and need contingencies that impact organisational strategy and consequences of the same for project management.
Task 1: Project Selection (LO1)
Review the corporate website of your chosen organisation, examine its strategic goals and directions and based on this research, explain and justify the type of projects that the chosen organisation should embark on. This should be followed by a critical justification of a suitable project screening and selection method to be
adopted.
Please note, to approach this task you need to conduct a thorough analysis the company of your chosen scenario and give them general recommendations on how to select projects. You do not need to focus on the specific project presented in the article.
Task 2: The Organisational Context (LO2)
This part of the report focuses on the specific project presented in your chosen scenario (from the article). Based on your previous discussion of the company’s strategic goals and directions, critical discuss how, in your opinion, the project is linked to company’s strategic choice (you should use relevant frameworks or theoretical models to support your discussion). Following this, recommend and critically justify a suitable organisational structure that the organisation should adopt to improve the likelihood of project success.
Task 3: Project Governance (LO3)
This part of the report should provide advice on governance of projects in the organisation. You should recommend a suitable project governance framework that can support and improve project execution for your scenario project. You should also critique some of the implementation issues that you see for the organisation pursuing this goal.
Task 4: Managing and Leading Change (LO4)
Evaluate the role of leadership in the successful delivery of the project of your selected scenario. Then advice the company of your chosen scenario about how change management can be incorporated into the project in a structured manner, and how manage resistance to change. Support your arguments with academic literature and references to other similar real projects.
Please refer to the marking criteria (below) for a breakdown of how the tasks will be marked.