What does an innovative digital workspace look like? - Project Management Plan

This project management plan focuses on workplace transformation using innovative digital technologies and their impact on business performance. The study aims to investigate the requirements of workplace transformation within UK retail companies, analyse the innovative digital technologies adopted by Next Plc for transforming the workplace, and evaluate the impact of workplace transformation over the business performance of Next Plc. The deliverables include a questionnaire, secondary sources, Gantt chart, and work breakdown structure. The project uses several research methods such as deductive approach, positivism philosophy, questionnaire, frequency distribution analysis, primary and secondary data collection methods, and more.

[Project Title]
What does an innovative digital workspace look like?
Project management plan
Executive Summary
Workplace transformation refers to the method which contributes in improving workforce
tools, skills and abilities for keep up with the constant changes in the business strategy of a
company. Companies are focusing to use digital transformation for aligning technology,
business procedures and employees for improving the operational efficiency along with
meeting organisational objectives (Meske and Junglas, 2021). Digital workplace
transformation is implemented in six significant steps such as: focusing on change
management, assessing current procedures, profiling the workforce, tailoring
transformation, prioritising employee experience, measuring the results and so on.
Therefore, the current study will be carrying out information about the requirement of
workplace transformation in the organisation (Micic and et. al., 2022). The study will
consider primary and secondary sources to collect and analyse data so that objectives could
be easily achieved. It also uses time framework chart along with work breakdown structure
for the systematic work.
Project Scope & Deliverables
Research topic
What does an innovative digital workspace look like?
Research aim
To investigate how does workplace transform using innovative digital technologies
and their impact over business performance. A study on Next Plc
Research objectives
 To understand the requirement of workplace transformation within UK retail
companies
 To analyse the several innovative digital technologies adopted by Next Plc for
transforming the workplace
 To evaluate the impact of workplace transformation over the business performance
of Next Plc
Research questions
 What are the requirements of workplace transformation within UK retail

companies?
 What are the several innovative digital technologies adopted by Next Plc for
transforming the workplace?
 What is the impact of workplace transformation over the business performance of
Next Plc?
Deliverables
It is defined as the result which is received through performing certain activities for
the completion of study. In the present project management plan, some of the deliverables
in the current study is questionnaire and the secondary sources. Questionnaire is the most
significant deliverable because it directly assists in reaching respondents for the collection
of raw content. On the other hand, another deliverable is secondary sources such as
journals, newspapers, books, articles and so on (Bauer and et. al., 2021). The other
significant deliverables included in the present project are: Gantt chart and work
breakdown structure. Gantt chart holds importance in the process of scheduling time. On
the other hand, WBS helps in dividing activities into smaller tasks.
Quality
Quality is the other aspect which is necessary to maintain in conducting study.
When quality of the project is maintained then it helps in the achievement of the pre-
defined objectives of the whole study. For the high quality work in the project, researcher
has dependent over primary as well as secondary sources. Primary method has facilitated in
the accumulation of raw data which give new insights about the proposed topic. On the
other hand, secondary method helps in finding research gap in existing conducted studies.
The collected primary and secondary information is evaluated with relevant method so that
unauthentic information can be easily removed from the project.
Project Schedule
Gantt chart
It is the time scheduling chart which helps in giving relevant time duration to each
activity. It provides the graphical representation of each activity so that researcher could
easily know what they need to complete in the provided duration of time (Bauer and
Scheim, 2019). The bar chart has two sections which are: in first section activities need to
be completed are included. On the other hand, another section includes the time duration
for completing the whole study. Therefore, this kind of chart has assisted in the

achievement of aim, objectives and questions.
Project Resources

Research methods
In the current study, investigator has used several types of research methods such as
deductive approach, positivism philosophy, questionnaire, frequency distribution analysis,
primary and secondary data collection methods and so on (Sileyew, 2019). These research
methods have assisted in the systematic accumulation of right type of information so that
objectives of the study can be easily attained.
Project Activities
Work breakdown structure
It is one of the techniques which helps in the division of activities into tiny tasks so
that objectives can be easily met. It is the technique through which an investigator focuses
over completing each activity systematically (Mohajan, 2018). It is mainly used when there
is presence of complicated activities and they need to be completed in a systematic way. It
generally includes the five level of work such as initiation, planning, execution, controlling
and closing-out. All these stages are directly linked with the completion of whole project. It
also gives graphical presentation of each activity systematically.
Risk and Issue Management Plan
Risk
While conducting a project, there is presence of certain type of risks. Sometimes
investigator has to experience the withdrawal of respondents from the investigation and
this can become barrier in the completion of whole study (Mishra and Alok, 2022). So,

researcher has also made plan B in which researcher will depend over secondary data
because they are easily assembled from journals, books, newspapers, publications etc.
Communication Management Plan
Communication resources
Communication is the aspect which holds great significance because it allows
passing of important information at right time to right people. For the completion of
present study, researcher communicates every important information to their selected
respondents so that they can understand the purpose of conducting the study (Djafar and et.
al., 2021). E-mail is used by researcher for timely communication of information to all
other team members as well as to the supervisor. For the systematic collection of insights
from respondents, investigator has used questionnaire to communicate with each
respondent about the selected research topic.

REFERENCES
Meske, C. and Junglas, I., 2021. Investigating the elicitation of employees’ support towards
digital workplace transformation. Behaviour & Information Technology, 40(11),
pp.1120-1136.
Micic and et. al., 2022. Defining the digital workplace: a systematic literature
review. Strategic Management-International Journal of Strategic Management and
Decision Support Systems in Strategic Management, 27(2).
Djafar and et. al., 2021. Qualitative and Quantitative Paradigm Constellation In Educational
Research Methodology. International Journal of Educational Research & Social
Sciences, 2(2), pp.339-345.
Mishra, S. B. and Alok, S., 2022. Handbook of research methodology.