A project management consultant is a multidisciplinary consulting firm with great abilities and understanding in a specific area to assist an organizations improving one’s process of project management with providing solutions that are both effective and cost-efficient.
Project management has the most basic functions and is needed in almost any type of business organization;
• Coordinating work activities.
• Efficiency and effectiveness.
• Planning and developing plans.
• Leading people by giving motivation.
• Monitoring actual performance.
• Organizing tasks to be done.
• Staffing by allocating people to their expertise.
By having these functions in the business; the growth of company grew, more profitability, more productivity which results
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• Due to its very nature, a private limited company is deemed to be a separate legal entity from its owners, including the fact that the company will exist beyond the life of its members ensuring the security for employees
Disadvantages
• The setting up and running of a private limited company is decidedly more time consuming, more several legal constraints and procedures, which must be observed and these consistently involve both cost and expensive management
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It helps to coordinate activities to accomplish goals, and it’s vital in socialization, decision-making, problem-solving and change-management processes. Communication is the basis for individuals and groups to make sense of their organization, what it is and what it means. It can also help motivate, build trust and create shared identity; providing a way for individuals to express emotions and remember accomplishments.
In a business environment, communication is very important part of working. Managers must be able to communicate with employees and employees must be able to communicate with managers in order to have a lucrative business. The structure of an organization provides communication in four distinct directions: downward, upward, horizontal, and diagonal, for internal communication and grapewine, for external communication. These directions establish the framework within which communication in an organization takes place.
Upward
- working with working staff to set up strategies, models and frameworks. - Setting client administration measures & assuring that the current standards satisfy the customers & helps retaining them. • Coordinating with the workers themselves can help effectively in setting appropriate models for the procedures & systems because they are the ones who interact directly with raw materials and producing the products, so they would know better if anything in manufacturing needs improvement or so. • It is important to satisfy the current customers in different possible ways in order to retain them which eventually leads in attracting more customers as well.
Performance objectives? Strategies? Action Steps for
How do they make sure that the services they provide are effective? How sure they that the staff members are are satisfied working in the company? If not what is being to make sure that the performance of the staff members improves? Concerning the organization is the financial company stable and at some point will it go through bankruptcy. What are they doing to make sure that the customers will keep coming back?
INTRODUCTION The application of information, expertise, tools, and procedures to project activities to meet the project requirements is known as project management (PMBOK 2008). Alternatively, project management is the process in which projects are well-defined, planned, supervised, organized and conveyed such that the agreed features and requirements are fulfilled (APM BOK 2006). Success of IT projects is very much dependent on providing the anticipated product at the projected time, within budget, its desired performance levels, acknowledged by the client, offering at least the minimum agreed functionality i.e. meeting customer satisfaction, and delivering the promised benefits (Dalcher and Brodie, 2007).
Understand organisational structures 1.1 Explain the differences between the private sector, public sector and voluntary sector In the business world there is three main sectors that separate different organisations they are: The private or commercial sector, the public sector and Voluntary or not-for-profit sector. The Public sector aims for goals other than profit but are not operated by the authorities on the other hand the Private and Commercial sectors main aim is to make profit and is the crucial difference between an organisation flourishing and an organisation being liquidated. Unlike the Private and Commercial sector that are funded by either an owner or shareholders the Public sector is funded entirely by the government.
Every project manager potentially faces countless mistakes that affect projects, cause delays and, in some cases, contribute to complete project failure. Here are a few common mistakes in project management and how to avoid them: 1. Employing a Project Manager Lacking Experience Knowledge of running status meetings, developing a project plan, managing risks and issues, and dealing with stakeholders is crucial to the successful outcome of the project. Solution:
Communication occurs in everyday life. We talk to our friends, family, and peers, but it becomes essential for a team. Communication is the building block to improvement. Jon Gordon stated in the book, The Hard Hat, “ Communication builds trust, trust generates commitment. Commitment fosters teamwork, and teamwork delivers results.
UMESH MISRA MKT 6301 HARLEY DAVIDSON 1. A description of what you believe to be the key issue(s)/challenge(s) facing this organisation and justification. Marketing issues/challenges: • One of the marketing issues faced by Harley Davidson was, should they continue to sponsor posse rider or not. Crafting Posse ride in such a way that the company can capitalize on its success and its profit making potential.
M.W. Cummin describes the word communication “process of conveying message (fact, ideas, attitudes and opinions) from one person to another so that they are understood”. [1] Communication in business: For businesses to be successful it is very important that communication must be effective. Effective communication
I believe that good communication will be as a business professional to play a key role in your success. no matter how grand or technology, you are in other areas. Communication skills also give us in the job market is an important competitive advantage. communication skills can help companies in many ways: building important community market more closely; dialogue, influence ideas and trends; increase productivity and shorter solve the problem within the time; to achieve better financial results and higher returns to investors; early warning of potential problems; make better decisions; creates attractive promotional information; and increase employee engagement. To make your communication efforts as effective as possible, to focus on their actual, real, simple, clear, convincing.
High degree of responsiveness of between various functional head and CEO. 2. Inter department decision making is smooth i.e. the functional heads can make decision based on other functions smoothly. 3. Centralized controlling system.
The principle reason that motivated me to pursue the MSc Project Management course is the appeal and challenge Project Managers experience in delivering assignments they undertake in their career. The qualification, indeed, lead to very smart and modern careers for graduates who love challenges, creativity, leadership and success. As a graduate of Mathematics, I have cultivated these features in my student life. Now, for my master level of study, I would like to take my chance of attaining formal skills in the area of project management. From my research, I see that Project Management is the application of skills, knowledge and techniques to meet the objectives of a project and stake holder’s expectations.
I. Introduction: The communication is a process which allows people to express their thoughts, feeling and ideas, it occurs between two or more people and it 's an effective way to show our needs, demands, and requests. The communication can consist on various modes like speech, visuals, sign, written forms, behaviour or even cartoons & flyers. Communication is basically divided into three steps, starting with the Arrangement of message and ideas in mind of sender and then Packaging or Encoding the same message or idea and delivering it to the receiver through a particular channel the receiver will then decode and interpret the message and send a feedback to the sender.
TASK 1.1 Importance of operation management Operations management (OM) is the business function responsible for managing the process of creation of goods and services. It involves planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling all the resources needed to produce a company’s goods and services. Because operations management is a management function, it involves managing people, equipment, technology, information, and all the other resources needed in the production of goods and services. Operations management is the central core function of every company. This is true regardless of the size of the company, the industry it is in, whether it is manufacturing or service, or is for-profit or not-for-profit.
With an array of new challenges and responsibilities to tackle, inexperienced managers often need suitable training to understand their roles and responsibilities. This course will train managers in critical skills required for planning, supervising, and communicating effectively. For a manager to reach out to the employees efficiently, it is vital to be aware of the various channels of communication. This course will guide you through the various barriers to effective communication and suggest solutions to overcome them.