Change Control

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Change Control
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Introduction
Change control is considered to be the process of systematic approaches that could be
used for managing all the necessary changes which would be made to a system or any
products. The main purpose of the approach would be ensuring that there are no unnecessary
changes made without proper documentation of the change (Harrison and Lock 2017). The
change control also ensures that there are no unnecessary disruption of the any services
provided and resources at the work are used efficiently. The following report would be
analyzing a system of change of control at Robert L. Frank Construction Company. The
change control approach would be significantly applied on the organization based on the
Lewis Project. In the report, there would be identification of processes that were involved
while submitting the request for dealing with changes necessary at the organization, critical
analysis of changes required for impacting the scopes, time, cost and quality of the Lewis
Project, satisfying each change request and discussing any risks associated with the options.
Discussion
Robert L. Frank Construction Company was an engineering sector and construction
firm which used serve at sectors like petrochemical plant, iron and steel plant, mining
organizations and food processing industries from their corporate headquarters located at
Chicago, Illinois. The organization had their establishment around the globe and had their
sectors in many sectors. Services like engineering, purchasing, expenditure, construction and
consultant used to be provided by the organization. The company was established by Robert
L. Frank in the year of 1947 and by the end of 1960, the company have fully established their
achievements by making major expansion in the sector of construction of many steel and iron
plants at the United States of America. For having a better future, the organization merge
their enterprise with Wilson Engineering Company. It was estimated that there have

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organization had a contracts of more than 2500 projects and a valuation of $1 billion.
However, the organization faced many issue regarding their hierarchy, budgets and revenue
over the Lewis Project, which made the organization suffer from financial loss due to over
budgeting.
While analyzing the Lewis Project, it was seen that the budget which was estimated to
be the initial cost of the project, it have been overshoot hugely. At Robert L. Frank
Construction Company, the department of purchasing were headed by Frank’s one of the
most trusted employee and one of the most experienced, Bill Hall. Purchasing upper
management was considered to dissatisfy, thus, there have been delay in purchasing
necessary kind of inventories (Hornstein 2015). For this, early start was necessary for Lewis
Project due to lack of proper float in scheduling and field early start date. Henceforth, it was
necessary for making some changes in the control at the organization.
It is required for requesting a change in any organization, if some abnormality is
noticed with the previous or currently applied systematic approach of business conduction. In
case of Robert L. Frank Construction Company, the same process have been followed up
(Nicholas and Steyn 2017). While making a request for the change of control at the
organization, formal process of change for the purchasing depart were followed. The request
for change initiation and control were standardized and was regarding to the matters of
management review. First line of the process was to inform those individuals that have
applied for the change. A form was forwarded to those personals named change of control
form (Li et al. 2016). The form consist of details which ever needed to be filled, where
reasons had to be provided regarding their request for change of control.
After analysis of the Lewis Project which was undertaken by Robert L. Frank
Construction Company, it could be put forward that the change request was made in the