DeGrandis Running Shoes Project 2022

1. Project A – DeGrandis Running Shoes
Introduction:
Here, customers like the latest design of shoes. These are seen to be outselling their
competitive international brands. Here, sales have enhanced the revenues of the organization by
about five million dollars. Further, the editor of the shoe reviewer over the Internet of Shoe News
has provided the rating of five out of five-star rating.
Commentary on the project alignment having strategic goals with ethical standards:
Feedback is consistent:
Managers of DeGrandis constantly providing feedbacks are helpful to place the staffs
concentrated to the performances. Here, feedback acts as a reminder. Employees can be caught
up to their regular activities without that and can lose sight of the wider scenario (Andersson and
Chapman 2017).
Activities are suitably allocated:
Staffs are able to understand every role in projects. For helping to perform that, one can
utilize DeGrandis can utilize visuals for explaining their overall strategy and the way every role
can advance towards the aims (Kerzner 2019). Few of the platforms of project goal tracking can
be done at real time and presented in charts and the graphs. This demonstrates the group and
individual progress.
All the individuals are recognized:
For DeGrandis, engagement is important is helping to keep the business developing and
reach the vision. As the staffs are never identified, they can lose track of the purpose.

Nonetheless, in contrast, as the wins are found to be celebrated, the staffs need to win much more
(Harris 2017).
PPS or Project Performance Scorecard Snapshot:
The above-balanced scorecard is helpful to assist the management by measuring various
critical factors of success. As in the project of DeGrandis the financial ad non-financial are
assessed, the re-engineering and forming operational planning has turned simpler for every
stakeholder (Romero 2018).
Conclusions:
Nevertheless, all the people are thrilled with the results of the project. Here, the board of
directors are seen to be unhappy regarding the fact the project team never consulted regarding
the Chinese firm chose for supplying and manufacturing shoes. As the directors are aware that
the supplier from China has used the child labour in the factor they are able never to have the
approved supply agreement. This is due to the engaging partners depending on the labour of
children that s banned under the code of conduct of DeGrandi’s code of conduct. Here, the
consultants are been managed through the regional managers at every city.
Recommendations:
It must be a good idea for DeGrandis to consider the strategic alignment with the projects
and programs and the ultimate outcomes projected. Here, the executives need the effort of other
people. They should be effectively communicating with the project managers programs and
sponsors regarding what they intend to perform (Papke-Shields and Boyer-Wright 2017).

Project B - AOC or Australian Olympic Committee Partnership:
Introduction:
The project is seen as the resourcing success till it came out that the sponsor one of the
members of the senior executive team of DeGrandis has paid huge ranking AOC incentive which
is the incentive payment for approving the partnership. Here, the press learned of that bribe and
the event turned to be a scandal of public. The sporting goods of DeGrandis have been suffering
reputational harms as the code of conduct of the business expressively prohibited the bribe
payment for generating business. Here, extensive marketing campaign has been developed
mainly for promoting as the partnership is cancelled since this can draw the attention for the
bribery scandal.
Project alignment related to strategic goals with ethical standards:
In this case, the code of ethics and the officers of ethics has been a smart structural
inclusion towards strategic planning assuring organizational alignment with the values (Kaiser,
El Arbi and Ahlemann 2015). Australian Olympic Committee has been providing every
managers and employee with training and the confidential system of ethical reporting. These
have been primary elements to create effective ethical culture.
Project Performance Scorecard Snapshot:
The balanced scorecard is useful to communicate what Australian Olympic Committee
has been trying to perform. It is useful to align with daily tasks that every person must perform
with the strategy (Archibald 2017). Besides, it is helpful to prioritize services, products and
projects. Further, one can monitor and measure progress for strategic targets.
Conclusions:

Apart from concentrating on the short term outcomes, like meeting the deadlines and
functioning under budget, the Australian Olympic Committee’s strategic project managers have
view-points of long term. Here, they assure that the goals of the project are aligned to the
strategic objectives and mission of the company.
Recommendations:
Australian Olympic Committee must focus on the high expertise team helping to define
the suitable strategies and alignments to the projects and programs. Besides, the meetings are
vital to connecting the focus at the phase in performing some activities. This involves managing
people, following procedures and communicating the data with every stakeholder, team members
and sponsors (Ugonna, Matipa and Shah 2018).
3. Project C – Ladybird Sporting Apparel:
Introduction:
This has led to the fact that the clients consider the clothing rage of Ladybird be inferior
in customer and quality complaints to rise the outcome. DeGrandis Sporting Goods is found to
stop ordering of the latest stock from the Ladybird because of ineffective sales and rise in a
number of client dissatisfaction.
Project Performance Scorecard Snapshot:
The project manager needs the multifaceted measure for gauging the performance at
baseline and then track the development. The balanced scorecard is developed for assisting the
management by calculating various complex success elements. As the non-economic and

economic metrics are assessed, the re-engineering and forming operational tasks turned to be
simpler for every type of stakeholders (Abushova, Burova and Suloeva 2016).
Conclusions:
Under the present day’s changing world scenario, Ladybird can formulate and perform
the strategy for meeting new issues, developing service deliveries and aligning the staffs to
mission and vision, making project alignments and tasks to strategy and provide value for
stakeholders and customers.
Recommendations:
Risks can be always there to be involved in projects. As Ladybird is aware of those from
the beginning, they are able to control and assure that effective issues never occur. Besides, the
project managers are able to have the pans of contingency in place and consider preventive
measures and steps with corrective measures (Ansoff et al. 2018). Further, the project manager
of Ladybird must keep their project on track. Though changes can occur every time, it is been
vital to analyse the amount of change happening prior to impacting the deliverables and deadline.
The creep of scope commonly changes as there are extra inclusions to the project that is never
been revised as per needs (Jebrin 2018).

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