MANAGEMENT REPORT ON THE STRATEGIC SIGNIFICANT EVALUATION OF PROJECT GRIFFIN

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INSTRUCTIONS
The field study provides students with an opportunity to apply the fundamentals of Executive Project Management, and all other facets of the MBL programme in a systems

manner of thinking. The field study serves a dual purpose. Firstly, it describes and analyses the organisational set-up and its business environment, and secondly, it

looks at the typical project environment within the organisation, and the dynamics of managing a project at the strategic level.
Recommended approach
Select a project of strategic significance (100% completed or 75% completed) in an organisation of your choice. The evaluation of this chosen project must be done in

the following four phases:
Phase 1:
To assess the potential impacts on the project from the business environment surrounding the project
This requires using a wide variety of business techniques to identify and assess the potential impacts from the macro-, market and microenvironments on the project.
Phase 2:
To assess the strategic positioning of the project
within the organisation’s overall project pipeline of projects
within the organisation’s organogram, policies, systems and procedures
relative to competitors, supply/demand, protecting existing value, creating new value, et cetera

Phase 3:
To assess the project environment within the organisation and the dynamics of initiating the project efficiently at the strategic management level. Benchmark your

assessment against guidelines in your prescribed textbooks.
Phase 4:
To make recommendations to the board of your chosen organisation on each of the above phases to improve the effectiveness of supporting the project management

environment in the organisation.
Resources required for this field study
All the prescribed study material for Executive Project Management and all other relevant study material prescribed or recommended by the MBL programme.
A lecturer at the school who will be allocated to you to act as your academic mentor. You can expect the following from your mentor: guidance in terms of selecting a

project of strategic relevance, challenging your assumptions and integrity of data; guidance towards a holistic and balanced approach; and lastly, general management

inputs. The mentor will also act as your first examiner of the field study.
The goodwill and cooperation of your chosen organisation.

Outcome
You have to submit a 50-page management report, plus appendices.
Two bound copies must be given to the course administrator for marking.

Confidentiality
If confidentiality is expected of you from your chosen organisation, please contact the course administrator.
Some practical guidelines
Please select a project that is not classified as top secret — you do not wish to enter into a confidentiality nightmare!
Ensure that your chosen project is of strategic significance. A minimum capital value of +US$1 million may be used as a benchmark.
Your chosen project may either be “hard” (e.g. building a plant) or “soft” (e.g. doing a merger transaction). It may also be on the corporate, business or functional

levels of strategy implementation.
Secure the goodwill and interest of your contact person in your chosen organisation. Ideally, this person should become your in-house mentor!

What this field study is not
It’s not about the evaluation of a company.
It’s not about evaluating the “insides” of the project itself.
It’s not about supplying a consulting service to the organisation to solve its strategy, financial, leadership or value chain problems.
It’s not a one-dimensional evaluation of the project (e.g. not only a financial analysis of the project).
It’s not an assessment of any organisational issue or initiative that does not comply with the definition of a project.

Layout of the management report on the field study
The following generic layout will guide you towards applying a holistic approach:
Executive summary

Approach taken to do this field study — How was optimality assured?

Profiles of the chosen organisation and project.

Compliance assessment of the project to key definitions of a project.

Theory and practice of the assignment theme.

Issues under Phase 1.

Issues under Phase 2.

Issues under Phase 3.

Issues under Phase 4.

References

Appendices