International Projects – project management

International Projects – project management

Project Management
Table of Contents
Introducción..........................................................................................................................................2
Lessons Learned – Airbus A380............................................................................................................2
Lessons Learned – Boeing 787 Dreamliner...........................................................................................4
Key Learnings for MAC’s Growth Ambition Project............................................................................5
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................6
Reference...............................................................................................................................................8
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Project Management
Introduction
MAC or Murasaki Aircraft Corporation is an aircraft manufacturing company based in Japan
and is quite new in this business. Their parent company is MHI or Murasaki Heavy Industries
who owns nearly 64% of the shares. The rest of the company is owned by Mitsubishi and
Toyota Corporation who each own 10% of the stake in the company. A minor part of the
share is also own by another two Japanese company known as Sumitomo Corporation as well
as Mitsui & Co. The company is currently in the business of producing Jets for regional
requirements. However, Lisanne, who is the CEO of MAC is hoping to expand the business
line. Another set of business activity typically include the passenger jets that are medium
sized. This would increase the line of business to another level.
Boeing 787 Dreamliner as well as Airbus A380 are another two projects of international
origin based in similar field which can also impart the needed managerial knowledge to
Lisanne and the team. This is because, there were several good and bad decisions and
activities that took place in these two projects and the same can be learning source for the
team at MAC.
The report presented below would cover both positive and negative aspects of the given two
projects and the main learnings arising out of it for MAC.
Lessons Learned – Airbus A380
Airbus is a jet manufacturing company that was founded in 1970. Its main aim was the
manufacturing of advanced as well as modern Aircrafts as well as the upgradation of existing
production capabilities. Airbus employs over 57,000 employees at the moment. Their A380
line of Aircraft is among the largest projects that they’ve undertaken and it was initiated
during the year 2000. The main goal of the project being manufacturing of a super-jumbo Jet
that is capable of carrying over 850 passengers as well as crew. The initial launch date was
set as 2002 (BBC, 2012).
Simultaneously, it was also decided that an additional set of re-structuring would be
performed internally in terms of their employees that would ensure the re-location of several
of their top-level management from various sites to a common site. It was envisioned that this
kind of process will eventually result in reduction of various conflicts that plagues them
leading to an improvement in effective management (Dvir, Sadeh and Malach-Pines, 2006).
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