Integrity Management Project: Analyzing Challenges Faced by International Maritime College in Oman

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Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Aim of the report...................................................................................................................1
1.2 Organization profile...............................................................................................................2
1.3 Organizational structure.........................................................................................................3
1.4 Organizational strategy..........................................................................................................4
1.5 Analytical tool for approach..................................................................................................4
McKinsey’s 7S Framework.............................................................................................................4
Fishbone diagram.............................................................................................................................6
1.6 Problem Analysis.......................................................................................................................8
1.6.1 Functional Analysis............................................................................................................8
1.6.2 Integrated Analysis...........................................................................................................12
1.7 Recommendations................................................................................................................15
1.8 Execution Process................................................................................................................16
1.9 Summary..............................................................................................................................17
2. Problem/Issue Statement...........................................................................................................17
2.1- Outline of the problem.......................................................................................................17
2.2 LITERATURE REVIEW........................................................................................................18
2.2.1 Introduction.......................................................................................................................18
2.2.2 Recommendations from the literature review finding......................................................28

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3.0 REFLECTION.........................................................................................................................33
5.0 References................................................................................................................................41

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1. Executive summary
The maritime college is undergoing difficulties in completing ICT integrated project. The
assessed difficulties arise from their daily operations. The stakeholders are quite busy to create
time for the integration of ICT into the system. The paper therefore identifies the external and
internal factors that lead to such a menace. The barriers have been since created a critical
thinking, that has led into critical findings, recommendations and conclusion that if implemented
will lead to the profitability and increase of market value for the institution. The organization
profile explains how the institution is one of the best in the country. It also explains the need to
have ICT integrated due to the status of the school. The profile further explains what the college
offers in terms of faculty, proper practical training and values to the individual persons that pass
through the college. The profile further explains the value that the college adds to the economy
of the country. The structure shows how leadership roles of the institution are distributed from
the top most to the student. In brief it explains the value that each leadership position play in the
college. It explains their roles in helping to find a resolution towards the challenged faced by the
institution. This constitutes an in depth look into the problem. Factors that lead to its occurrence
are noted. The solution that could best found for the problem. Any ways that the problem could
be avoided. The possible models of handling the solution are also highlighted but not discussed
ineptly. Consists of the possible marketing strategies that show the effect of the college not
investing in the ICT integrated projects. The marketing also the various ways that the college use
to sell itself to the global market. It also explains how the college participates in charity activities
that help market the institution. Problem analysis entails a problem statement. The paper will
seek to answer the questions on the paper. The paper is to provide findings and recommendations
based on this problem. For the case the problem is; how to support ICT integrated projects in

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terms of financing and budgeting. The literature review provides an outline of previous journals
on how stakeholder from other colleges handled the same issue. The literature review also has
findings and recommendations based on each article. This forms a crucial part of the project as it
defines the action that will be taken by the organizational stakeholders in trying to solve the
problem. It forms the larger part of the project so that it is the basis of the actions that will be
taken in a way to solve the problem. The recommendation part of literature review is based on
the articles and the various perspective they take in implementing the two approaches proposed.
The tool for approach section explains the two approaches that were used in solving the
stalemate. The tool looks at both pestle analysis and McKinsey 7s framework. Determines the
advantage of using both, the disadvantages and the cost it takes to implement both. A functional
analysis is also given on how each approach will be used in the case of the maritime college.
This has helped determine suitability of each of the approaches. The recommendation section
contains the proposed way forward. It is based on the overall findings of both the literature
review and the suitability of the approaches chosen. It also gives reasons for the stakeholders
invest in the ICT integrated program. The reflection is used in identifying how the project has
created a change of mindset of the stakeholders. It gives the change of attitude that is expected
after going through the recommendations. This also helps in identifying the possible outcomes
when the company is related to other colleges as recovered from the literature review.

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1.0 Introduction
International Maritime College is a tertiary institution established in the year ,2005 24th April
owned by the government of Oman and STC group from Rotterdam in Netherlands and it offers
courses in maritime studies, logistics and process engineering. This college located in Oman is
faced with several challenges the major one being difficulties in handling Information
Technology (IT) due to overworking and poor or lack of motivation (Bryson 2018). I am going
to discuss different approaches to resolving this problem integrating my resolution on the
theories and techniques gotten from my class in creation of informed and appropriate solution.
This college was rated position thirty-five out of the fourth one universities in Oman according
to UniRank 2018 statistics in terms of academics (Chenhall, Hall and Smith 2016).
1.1 Aim of the report
As discussed earlier in the proposal, Maritime College is faced with various challenges in
their daily operation. One of the key issues being identified is the difficulty with handling the
Information Technology projects (Clark 2014). This is due to the reason that, stakeholders and
the labor force responsible for management of the IT projects are being stacked with various
never-ending list of matters such as jobs scheduling, organizing meeting and allocation of
budgets. Because of this it is difficult for them to generate innovative thinking in the process
rather than just going with the existing system (Coleridge 2017). Hence, it is important to
identity the various external and internal factors that should be effectively managed to overcome
the identified barriers since creative thinking occurs generally in rational and conscious frame of

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mind (Rothenberg,1990) because information technology influences the profitability and market
value of a firm in a country (Mithas & Rust, 2016).
1.2 Organization profile
International Maritime College in Oman is one of the leading and very prominent
educational institutes in the country. This college offers both bachelor and diploma degree to
their students (Coleridge 2017). The courses being offered by them are the maritime logistics and
process. The mission statement of the institute states that, they will provide high and top-quality
education related to the maritime and logistics industries along with providing proper practical
training to enhance the economy of the country (Imco.edu.om 2017). Their vision statement
states that, they aim to be the leader in their operating sector by providing the quality education
to their student and according to the need of the industry and fully equipped to deal with the
challenge in the industry. Moreover, their target is to provide skilled and trained man power to
the ever-increasing industry of maritime and logistics. They are operating in educational sector,
which is highly competitive in Oman (Deering and Lang 2017). This is due to the reason that,
educational sector of Oman is having good number of established players in the market along
with number of global institutes (Dehler and Welsh 2017). Their core institutional values are
professionalism, transparency, accountability, to be an exemplary ethically responsible
institution, provision of equal opportunity and promoting team spirit.

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1.3 Organizational structure
HE Dr. Abdullah Mohammed Al
Sarmi
(Chairman)
Mr. Hamed Jaber Al-Mahrooqi
(Vice Chairman)Mr. Frits Gronsveld
(Director)
Mr. Mustafa Ali
Suleiman
(Director)
Mr. Albert Bos
(Director)
Dr. Rashid
Mohammed Al
Kiyumi
(Director)
Eng. Said bin
Naser Al Saadi
(Director)
Eng. Harib
Abdullah Al Kitani
(Non-Executive
Director)
Dr. Abdul Karim
Sultan Al
Mughairi
(Non-Executive
Director)