PAssignment Questions Assignment Questions Assignment Brief This project will constitute a phase of your firm's annual operating plan for generating revenues and competitive advantage. Assignment Background Identify a business issue/problem, or opportunity as below: As pressure increases to meet climate targets by nations & corporations, and on the use of fossil fuels, your firm has taken a strategic move to reduce the amount of CO2 they produce & decrease use of fossil fuels and have turned to electric (solar) battery usage, as it is cleaner, via the acquisition of a number of smaller solar battery firms, making it a first mover in its sector. You have just started working for a company in a sector relevant to your area of study, and have joined a project team that will analyse the business and identify a short-term project to meet the opportunity or issue identified. To inform the market & customers of its newly acquired, first mover, status. You & your team have been tasked with an international short-term project, with a duration of 3 months. You need to scope & propose an international business short-term project via a business report detailing the resources needed to produce this project. Other teams have also been asked to put together a report along the same lines and the best one will be selected by senior management before implementation begins. Your project will be a marketing/PR campaign. Your objective is to communicate with your customers & internal stakeholders, to tell them about your new capabilities & with a view to decreasing costs over the next three years. This will be a part of the firm’s overall strategy to meet the overall business needs of achieving increased cost efficiencies, market share and competitive advantage. You, as a project group, will need to analyse your organisation’s current situation to establish a project that will help your company gain competitive advantage with a measurable outcome, showing the financial & non-financial benefits of this investment. The initial project should focus on the firm’s North American & UK bases. PRMA6049 Project and Risk Management Summer 2018 Coursework Brief GSM LONDON Page 4 of 14 Your company’s Details: Name: SOLO/G PLC Company snapshot Ranking in Fortune 500 Headquarters: London (European HQ), & California (North American HQ) Operations: Operates in 17 countries & territories around the world. Employees: 37,500 Profit (2015 – 2016 Financial Year): $82.6 million Last year’s energy operating bill: $8.5 million (total for both HQ’s) As you will be recommending the project the dates must be in the future. The final report should be presented in the style of a formal report addressing your senior management team. Use business English and write in the third person e.g. “It is recommended that…” not, “I think we should do this…” Ensure your tasks are clearly signposted for the examiner by using good formatting, headings, and titles that relate to the assignment question. PRMA6049 Project and Risk Management Summer 2018 Coursework Brief GSM LONDON Page 5 of 14 Assignment Task Your task is to write a 6,000-word business Report detailing the resources needed to deliver this project. Other teams have also been asked to put together a report along the same lines and the best one will be selected by senior management before implementation begins. In order to convince your CEO, your team will have to create “a well thought-out plan, including defined measures of success” (Source: 18th Annual Global CEO Survey findings. Explore the data at www.pwc.com/ceosurvey) You, as a project group, will need to critically analyse your organisation’s current situation, utilising and evaluate appropriate academic models, theories and frameworks to establish a project that will help your company gain competitive advantage with a measurable outcome. As you will be recommending the project the dates must be in the future. The final report should be presented in the style of a formal Report addressing your senior management team. Use business English and write in the third person e.g. “It is recommended that…” not, “I think we should do this…” Ensure your tasks are clearly signposted by using good formatting, headings, and titles that relate to the assignment question. You will need to support your answers throughout with robust research & examples/benchmarks/best practice from a wide range industries or companies. End of Assignment Briefroject Managment