Performance Review Template for Research Project

The provided document is a performance review template for a research project. It includes sections such as 'What was the Project supposed to accomplish?', 'Did the project succeed in its aims?' , 'What things do you think worked well and why?', 'What problems emerged during the project and how were they tackled?', 'What did you learn from undertaking the project?', 'How would you rate your performance as a management consultant leading the project?', 'What strengths and weakness of your performance did you identify?'. The template also includes space for Supervisor comments and signature. It is likely used to assess the effectiveness of a research project, identify areas for improvement, and provide recommendations for future projects.

MANAGING A
SUCCESSFUL
BUSINESS PROJECT

TITLE
“To identify the challenges faced by organisation while creating and marketing of brand
new summer shoes during London fashion week”. A survey on Crockett & Jones.
INTRODUCTION
Globalisation is the procedure of transfer of the goods, services, and people across the
world. It is the proper combination of national and local economies into the global market
economy(What is Globalisation, 2018). Other, it is an effective process by which an organisation
can open up their business to other businesses or globalise their business in an effective manner.
In this report the selected association is the Crockett & Jones which is a shoe manufacturing
company which headquarters are situated in the England and Northampton. This company is
providing a rang of shoe under its brand name which helps to gain the competitive advantage.
For attracting more customers and selling their shoe they are participating in the event “London
fashion week”. In this project it will be understand that what is the aim and objectives of the
company and how they will achieve it by determining the cost, quality, resources, and time taken
of this project. Also, prepare WBS, Gantt Chart and understand that which research method is
suitable in the both quantitative and qualitative. At the end, the relevant recommendations and
conclusion are defined for better results of this project.
a) Draw purpose and objectives of the administration
Overview of the project
Crockett & Jones is a shoe manufacturing company which is established in 1879 by
Charley Jones and Sir James Crockett. This organization is famous for manufacturing the
Goodyear -welted footwear. They are producing shoe for both men and women which helps
them to cover a huge market place. They are constantly emerging in the produce a rang of shoe
and boots which is preferred choice of customers (Nohria, 2017).
Aim:
“To identify the challenges faced by organisation while creating and marketing of brand
new summer shoes during London fashion week”. A study on Crockett & Jones.
Objectives
 To identify ways through which company can easily create and market brand new
summer shoes.
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 To determine challenges faced by company while creating and marketing of summer
shoes during London fashion week(Doherty, Ashurst and Peppard, 2012). To analyse ways through which company can compete with big brand name.
Questions
 What are the ways through which company can easily create and market brand new
summer shoes?
 What are the challenges faced by company while creating and marketing of summer
shoes during London fashion week?
 What are the effective ways through which company can compete with big brand name?
b) Produce a project management plan by covering aspects of scope, time, communication, risk,
quality and resources.
PMP is generally prepare to complete all the activities of the investigation in the
organized way. In this, information is collecting to utilize the available resources by the
investigator in an effective manner. The leading perspective of this research is to compete the
product in the specific duration of time. Major in this will be emphasised on creating and
marketing a brand new summer shoe for a particular market. By making proper PMP researcher
will be able to implement different strategies for achievement of research objective. The various
aspects related to this plan are mentioned below-
Scope: Scope is concerned with the various kinds of opportunities which the researcher
has in dealing with a particular topic. The investigator has wide range of scope in utilizing the
resources in the best possible manner so that the available opportunities in the market can be
gain. best use of the available opportunities in the market. As with the help of this researcher will
be able to identify the challenges faced by Crockett & Jones for creating and marketing summer
shoes. After launching the summer shoes in the market organisation able to capture a big market
place. As by doing this needs and demands of customer's belonging from different age group will
be fulfilled in the best possible manner.
Risk: It is concerned with different kinds of uncertainness which can cause hurdle in the
attainment of research objective. There are different kinds of risk and uncertainty which can be
faced by researcher. These can include- lack of time, unavailability of adequate resources,etc.
These risk can lead to increase in mismanagement of plans and strategies made by the researcher
for achieving certain objectives. Launch of the summer shoes is also associated with different
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kinds of risk. This means organisation will face various kinds of risk and uncertainty in
achieving the target. These can include- change in need and demand of customer's, competition
level , etc.
Communication: Proper communication is essential for becoming successful in the
market. AS this project is based on the creating or marketing new summer shoes within the
London Fashion week. In this project manager is responsible for developing better
communication among team members so that they can easily attain success at market place. IN
context of project prospective, manager use different communication channel like social media,
emails and many more to communicate with team members. Whereas, research is consider as a
wide scope thus, researcher is responsible to use telephone, emails and many more.
Quality management: It is very much essential for researcher to make plans for
effectively managing the quality of research. The major motive is to compete the product within
limited period of time by maintaining its quality. The project perspective of the organisation is to
offer better quality of product to customer's, so that the business can get benefit in compare to
their competitors. With the help of primary and secondary data researcher can maintain quality
of their gathered information which will helps them to complete this research effectively with
appropriate information. In this focus will be emphasised on collecting relevant data form
different sources, so that appropriate quality is maintained in effective manner.
Cost: It is concerned with total amount incurred or used in the researcher in completing
the research. The actual cost used in this research will be high because different tools and
techniques will be used for gathering and analysing data. By setting budget researcher will be
able to reduce the chances of unnecessary wastage of cost and financial resources will be used in
the efficient manner. The researcher will require 95000 pounds for completing the research and
also for drawing appropriate conclusions. The project perspective is organisation will focus on
implementing strategies for the effective use of financial resources. As by doing this
management of organisation will be able to save unnecessary wastage of cost.
Time-frame: In order to complete the research activities such as determination of aims
objectives, application of strategies researched required minimum time period of 3 months.
Whereas for completing this whole project in an appropriate manner company needs at-least 3.5
months.
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Resources: The succession of the research project is depend on the availability of the
resources because without proper resources researcher will not be able attain its goals. For
succeeding in the summer shoe researcher needs various resources like access to internet,
appropriate data, funds, manpower, and many more. These resources are useful for both the
researcher as well as company because it will them to get success in the market place and
successfully completing this research. For designing and manufacturing of shoes organisation
will require different kinds of resources. These can include- raw materials, human resources,
other facilities, etc.
c) Design a Gantt chart and Work breakdown structure
Gantt chart: It is horizontal bar chart which is generally used in project management for
showing all the organisational activities. This chart is used by researcher to do proper planning,
coordinating and tracking all the researching activities. By making this project manager able to
operate their activities in a proper way. so they able to achieve the research goals and
objectives(Florén and Frishammar, 2012).
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WBS: It is used by the researcher to divide the multi step project so they will be able to
done their researching activities effectively and speedily. The main purpose of using this
structure is to simplify the whole project so the goals and objectives of the research can
accomplish easily.
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Conduct research by qualitative and quantitative approach.
For succeeding in the researching activities, researcher needs to adopt appropriate data
collection in order to gather informative data(Thamhain, 2013). There are defined below about
the different methods of data collection:
Qualitative approach: It is primarily research method in which an organisation focus on
the collect data by understanding the human behaviour and also focusing on what their customers
wants from them rather than why they want. In this method data can be collect by the individual
interviews and participant observation(Lambert and Enz, 2012). This will help them to attain
more attention of their customers so that they can enhance the growth of the organisation.
Quantitative approach: This method is use by the researcher to gather the data in form
of facts and figures. For collecting the appropriate data in this approach researcher can various
methods like online surveys, telephone interviews, website interceptors etc.
In the Crockett & Jones researcher will use the qualitative method as it will help them to
collect effective data and information.
Data Collection Methods
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 Primary Data- It is collected by a researcher from first-hand sources. For collecting
primary data researcher can use questionnaire, surveys, panel interviews etc. This method
helps them to collect correct and appropriate data which helps them to achieve their goals
effectively.
 Secondary data- These are the data which has been already collect by some other
investigator. The main purpose of using this method by researcher if they have the issue
of time then this method is more suitable as the information related to the project is
already available. They can collect this information by Online journals, websites,
newspapers etc.
Sampling Size- This refers to the number of individual sample which are taken from the
whole population for collecting the appropriate information for this research. With the help of
probability sampling, 30 customers are taken for determining the informative information(Chang
and Wills, 2013). This means in this research respondents of the investigator will be customers
of the organisation. So in this data will be gathered from potential customers of Crockett &
Jones.
Theme 1: launching of new product
Q1) Are you aware about launching of new product? Frequency
 Yes 25
 No 5
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Interpretation: It has been be understand from above given graph that 25 respondents
are aware about the launching of new product while remaining 5 respondents have not the
knowledge about the launching of new product(Larson and Chang, 2016).
Theme 2: Marketing strategies adopted by Crockett & Jones
Q2) What are the marketing strategies adopted by Crockett & Jones to get
the competitive advantage?
Frequency
 Social media marketing 10
 Direct selling 5
 Paid media advertisement 5
 By taking sponsorship 10
8
Yes No
0
5
10
15
20
25
25
5
Frequency

Interpretation: As per the above mentioned graph it can be described that out of the 30
respondents 10 are supporting in social media marketing, 5 respondents are giving preferences to
direct selling, 5 respondents are in favour of paid media advertisement, and remaining 10
communicators are supporting in the taking sponsorship which helps them to get the competitive
advantage.(Cheung and Kajewski, 2012).
Theme: Type of shoes you want to purchase
Q3) Which type of shoes you want to purchase? Frequency
 Monk shoes 5
 Summer shoes 12
 Winter shoes 8
 Sports shoes 7
9
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
5 5
10
Frequency

Interpretation: According to the above chart it can be understand that 5 communicators
are prefer to purchase the monk shoes and the highest ratio of 12 respondents who want to
purchase the summer shoes(Gustafson, 2012). From the remaining respondents 8 respondents are
ready to purchase the winter shoes and 7 answerer prefer to purchase sports shoes.
Theme: You prefer to buy shoes from Crockett & Jones
Q4) Why do you prefer to buy shoes from Crockett & Jones? Frequency
 Quality 10
 Price 5
 Durability 10
 Trend 5
10
Monk shoes Summer shoes Winter shoes Sports shoes
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
5
12
8
7
Frequency

Interpretation: From the above Chart, it can be understand that 10 respondents says that
the reason behind they are purchasing the summer shoes because of their high quality, 5
respondents define the reason of price, 10 answerer are says that the durability of the summer
shoe are best, and the remaining 5 respondents purchase summer shoe of Crockett & Jones
because of the trend(Hacklin, Klang and Baschera, 2013).
Theme: The targeted customers of summer shoes launched by Crockett & Jones
Q5) What do you think who are the targeted customers of Crockett &
Jones?
Frequency
 Teenagers 15
 Old age 5
 All generation 10
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Quality Price Durability Trend
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
5
10
5
Frequency

Interpretation: The above given graph states that out of the 30 respondents 15
respondents are says that the Crockett & Jones are launching summer shoe for teenagers and 5
answerer says they are launching for old age people(Kaiser and et. al., 2015). Other10
respondents states that they are targeted to the all type of people.
Theme: A new product helps the company to compete their competitors
Q6) Will develop a new product helps the company to compete their
competitors at global level?
Frequency
 Yes 15
 No 5
 Might be 6
 Anything can be done 4
12
Teenagers Old age All generation
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16 15
5
10
Frequency

Interpretation: The above defined chart has clearly shown that 15 answerers are in the
favour of create a new product for competing the competitors rather than 5 communicators are
not in the favour of developing a new product. Else, 6 respondents says that by developing a new
product they might be succeed or not and remaining 4 respondents are not sure about that
company will be succeed or not by developing a new product.(Antony and Sohal, 2012).
Theme: Satisfaction towards specific product create and market by Crockett & Jones
Q7) Are you quenched with the products and services offered by Crockett
& Jones?
Frequency
 Yes 20
 No 10
13
Yes No Might be Anything can be done
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16 15
5
6
4
Frequency

Interpretation: In the above chart it has been clearly shown that from out of the 30
respondents 20 communicators states that they are satisfied towards product create and market
by Crockett & Jones. Other 10 respondents says that they are not satisfied with the product create
and market by Crockett & Jones.
Theme: Challenges faced by the Crockett & Jones while launching of new summer shoes
Q8) What challenges faced by the Crockett & Jones while launching of
new summer shoes at global level?
Frequency
 Communication variances 6
 Culture differences 8
 Government rules and regulations 10
 Lack of knowledge about customers needs 6
14
Yes No
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
8
Frequency

Interpretation: The above given graph described that the 6 respondents says that
communication variance is the problem which is faced by the while launching of new summer
shoes at global level, 8 respondents says that they are facing problem of cultural differences, 10
respondents states that they have to face the problem of government rules and regulations and
remaining 6 communicators says the reason behind facing the problem while launching a new
product at global level is lack of knowledge about customers needs(Basu, 2014).
d) Findings and draw conclusion
As per the above given file it can be understand that it is very much crucial for the
organisation to make strategies as per the situation of global market. As by doing this goals and
objectives can be easily achieved in an earliest period of time. This can be done with the help of
project management plan,as this plan will guide the organisation is make using the available
resources in the best possible manner. Information can be collected from primary and secondary
sources, as by doing this better conclusions to the research topic can be made. With the help of
WBS complicated task of the project can be completed with less errors and mistakes.
15
0
2
4
6
8
10
6
8
10
6
Frequency

e) Present and produce your project in an appropriate manner for the intended audience
I am happy that I have received the opportunity to do research on the interesting topic.
This research helps me in enhancing my understanding on the globalisation. By doing this
project I am able to know about the manufacturing company research and how the company can
success in the new product launching. In addition to this, This enables me to determine my
strength and weaknesses. With the help of this research I am able to increase by ability on
different aspect like literature review, data analysis, time management, data interpretation etc.
These skills helps me to accomplish my research project in an appropriate manner. Although
while doing research activities I have to face various issues or conflicts like lack of capital,
insufficient time period, unethical behaviour of respondents etc.
For effectively conducting this research I have used questionnaire which helps to collect
informative data and also I have use various methodologies like research approach, research
strategy, primary and secondary method of data collection, quantitative research etc. All these
helps me to find about the detailed and accurate information about the market situation regarding
to launch a new product in the market. The major objective of the research was achieved by the
researcher. As effective strategies were formed for launching and creating the new product in the
market. This was done after analysing and identifying the various challenges in the effective
manner.
f) Recommendations for data and research analysis
While undertaking this project, it can be recommend to the project manager that if they
want to attract various customers in their summer shoe then they should adopt various activities
which will help them to attain more customer attention and get succeed in the marketplace. There
are defined various points on which researcher should focus are as follow:
 As per the above table it can be say that most of the respondents are said that they are
preferred the shoe of Crockett & Jones because of their quality and durability so the
company should focus on the increase the quality of their products rather than the price.
 The above table states that most of the respondents says that company is more focus on
the demand and needs of teenager. In order to increase their customer base and brand
value they should focus on the development of shoes for all type of people which will
helps attain more profitability and sustainability in the marketplace.
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g) The success of the project and its usefulness in supporting organisational performance
Covered in Appendix
Reflection undertaken in order to achieve goals.
Competency How I have improved in this
area.
What results do I get by
improving this skills in
future.
Communication skills By attending various big
events, seminars and
participating in various shows
and also by watching the
online inspiring videos, can
improve the communication
skills.
By enhancing skills I will be
able to easily communicate
with within the organisation
and also effectively convey my
ideas and opinion so that the
work will be done in the proper
way in the organisation.
Technical skills By Enrolling in the technical
classes, seminars, learn
multiple software applications,
and volunteer on technical
projects(DeFillippi, 2015).
It will assist to proper
utilization of the technical
resources so I will be able to
decrease overall production
cost, save the time, and
increase the productivity.
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Appendix I
Project Logbook for the chosen
organisation:
Name of the learner: Name of the Supervisor:
Project Title: Date:
Update of weekly research/ tasks achieved
(Account for a minimum of six weeks with
dates) What have you completed? Did you fulfil Task requirements?
 Are you on track and within deadlines
set?
 Did you need to make any changes to
your project management plan?
Comments
I have done research, to analyse the conflicts
faced by Crockett & Jones while creating and
marketing of brand new summer shoes during
London fashion week
Yes
3.06.19 Effectively and efficiently
presenting research proposal – I was on right
direction.
10.06.19 Defined all the aims and objectives
17.06.19 Collecting secondary data and
resources - Yes I have completed activity on
right time.
24.06.19 Research Methods – I was on right
track.
01.07.19 Data Collection – Yes I have done
my work on deadlines.
08.07.19 Collection and assessment –
fulfilled on time.
15.07.19 Project completion- Yes was on
right track.
Yes, I am on the right track
No
Any risks and / or issues identified?
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 Did you identify risks/issues with a
lack of skills required for undertaking
research tasks?
 Did you identify any additional
risks/issues that have an impact on the
project management plan?
Yes, In this research I have face some issues
like communication in other countries
people.
No
Problems encountered
 What barriers did you face?
 How did you overcome them?
Barriers which I have faced in completing
this file are mentioned below:
Week 1: Issue is searching right research
topic.
Week 2: Conflicts occurring in team while
making decisions.
Week 3: Determining resources for
accomplishing the objectives
Week 4: Lack of sufficient budget
Week 5: Cutural environment
Improvement techniques-
In Week 1: With the help of a proper trainer,
I will choose an appropriate research subject.
In Week 2: By selecting a proper leadership
style I will create healthy environment in the
organisation.
In Week 3: I grip information from books,
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magazines and newspapers.
In Week 4: I utilize social sites for collecting
people reviews and preferences.
In Week 5: I have done all the effors to
maintain genuineness of project work.
New Ideas and change of project direction No, there is no new ideas and changes.
What Have I learnt about myself this week? How did I feel when I had to deal with
tasks/problems? Did I find it useful to complete the
tasks? How well have I performed? What did
I contribute? What can I improve on next week?
 How might this learning apply in the
future?
I feel confident as I have effective interaction
skills.
Yes.
I have greatly contributed in this project
according to the expectation.
Continuously working on my weaknesses.
I will perform in a better way in future
projects.
Tasks planned for next week Which tasks are priority?
 Have you set aside sufficient time for
completion?
Gathered proper data is my first duty. By
completing the project according to the pre
determined time.
Project plan status to date (on, ahead, behind)
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Supervisor comments to address
Signature of the Supervisor and date:
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APPENDIX II
Template for Performance Review to be attached
with the report by the learner:
 What was the Project supposed to accomplish?
This project is on the thesis of “To identify the challenges faced by organisation while creating
and marketing of brand new summer shoes during London fashion week”. A study on
Crockett & Jones”.
 Did the project succeed in its aims/ how do you know? Specifically, please outline any
evaluation and assessment undertaken.
Yes, by getting the proper support of research team mated i done my work effectively. I
have highlighted various aspects which are related to the globalisation and which will
assist the organisation to accomplsih its objective of summer shoes launch. Also, having
proper understanding and skills helps me to determine the resources in order to
accomplish the aims and targets.
 What things do you think worked well and why? Evaluate all aspects of the project?
In this project working with a team and better answer from the communicators helps
me to complete my work on time with best effeciency. This will assist me to gather
information on the research topic.
 What problems emerged during the project and how were they tackled? Was there
timely identification of issues and resolution during the project process?
The problem which are occurred such as hesitation of people while giving their feedbacks and
reviews which I tackled by giving them security to their confidential data. Moreover the lack
of time and resources crea6tes me problem to collect proper data and information and doing
research activities.
 What did you learn from undertaking the project?
With the effective team work and appropriate communication skills an organisation
can achieve their goals and objectives easily.
 How would you rate your performance as a management consultant leading the
project?
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8/10
 What strengths and weakness of your performance did you identify?
The best strengths of mine are confidence and leadership talent while the weakness of
mine presntation skills which creates big issue in this research.
 How will this inform and support your continuous professional development?
This can be determined while interacting with various type of people who are selected
under sampling. I have decided top work on my weakness to done my work
appropriately by attending proper training session and development programs.
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