The objective of this week’s topic is to make sure you have a broad understanding of commercial planning and commercial projects.
Try to ask yourself the questions that were posed in this week’s lecture:
1. What is a Commercial Planning?
2. What is a Commercial Project?
3. What role does Commercial Planning and Commercial Project Management have in the project, program, and a portfolio hierarchy?
4. Are there any essential keys for success between the participants of large-scale projects?
In the Wikipedia article and the other readings for the Channel Tunnel (Chunnel); Project try to explain:
5. How much negotiation would have occurred during the project?
6. Who would the negotiation have been between?
7. Would successful negotiation have mitigated any of the subsequent outcomes?
8. What would have been required to undertake successful negotiation between the parties?
Then in the Peña-Mora F., and Tamaki T. paper about the Effect of Delivery Systems on Collaborative Negotiations for Large-Scale Infrastructure Projects, try to explain:
9. Do cultural dimensions of the participants impact on the Collaborative Negotiation Methodology?
10. Does the type of Contract impact on the subsequent Negotiation?
What is your overall conclusion of the paper?