Project Management at Deep Blue Seaways - 880 Words

Project Management at Deep Blue Seaways Deep Blue Seaways (a UK based company) currently outsources all its IT works to a number of leading consultancies. Your firm, Supreme Financial Solutions, have just won a  £3 million contract from Deep Blue Seaways that will require you – the Project Manager – to execute. You are pretty certain from your experience with Deep Blue Seaways that this project is seriously underfunded by possibly as much as  £1 million. You are to replace their outdated finance systems with your company’s renowned Finance Wizard product, a system that processes all financial information, and produces an infinite array of management information reports that have been proved to improve strategic decision making in†¦show more content†¦Your project will require a lot of assistance from the Deep Blue Seaways IT department in terms of providing adequate servers, installing your software on their machines and so on. You are also aware that they have many priorities and are seriously understaffed. Morale is this team is very low. The Senior Executive has said that it is imperative that this system enables them to save on staff numbers within the Finance areas, but you have been told that if asked about job losses that you are to say that there are no plans to cut numbers either in HQ Finance or within the various Divisions. Other issues that you need to address are how the divisions are going to standardise their information so that your system receives their data in a consistent format. It is suggested that you should determine which of the 4 Divisions follows â€Å"best practice† and use their data formats. Project Management Questions 1. Decide on a set of appropriate actions (minimum of 2 per stakeholder group) that you can take to maximise the chances of the following stakeholder groups actively participating in your project: Divisional Finance staff, HQ Finance staff and the I.T. team. For each action that you suggest ensure that you consider both the potential positive and negative sides of your approach. (6 marks) 2. Comment on the statement that â€Å"that if asked about job lossesShow MoreRelatedOrganisation Study of Acc Cement14377 Words   |  58 PagesNAGARAJUN GOUDA Register Number: 09SBCMA053 Under the guidance of Mr. M.A.SURESH KUMAR Administrative Management College 18th KM BANNERGHATTA ROAD BANGALORE-560083 DECLARATION BY THE STUDENT This is to state that the training of report titled An organizational study on Associated Cement Company limited is based on the original work carried out by me under the supervisor of my project guide: MR.M.A SURESH KUMAR towards the partial fulfilment of requirement for the MBA programme of the BangaloreRead MoreIntroduction to Materials Management169665 Words   |  679 PagesFrom the Library of Girro From the Library of Girro@qq.com Introduction to Materials Management SIXTH EDITION From the Library of Girro J. R. Tony Arnold, P.E., CFPIM, CIRM Fleming College, Emeritus Stephen N. Chapman, Ph.D., CFPIM North Carolina State University Lloyd M. Clive, P.E., CFPIM Fleming College Upper Saddle River, New Jersey Columbus, Ohio From the Library of Girro@qq.com From the Library of Girro Editor in Chief: Vernon R. Anthony Acquisitions Editor: