MBA Interim Project: Woolworths Group Expansion Plan

MBA Interim

Table of Contents
The project background and purpose...............................................................................................4
The project's stakeholders analysis .................................................................................................4
Project scope definition....................................................................................................................6
Project priorities...............................................................................................................................8
The project's organisation structure ..............................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

The project background and purpose
A project is defined as an activity to accomplish specific task in order to reach a particular
outcome. It is a set of inputs as well as outputs that are required to fulfil a particular form of goal.
In this process project vision, work, scope are included in order to stay allied towards project
activities in order to accomplish project target (Haag and Sandberg, 2020). It is formal and
documented version of planning which is being undertaken by an organisation to control and
execute project in a well defined manner. In order to accomplish project goals project
management is undertaken with the application of competencies of personals, skill set and
knowledge base.
Present report has been conducted on Woolworths, company operate their functioning in
retail industrial sector and is a leading Supermarket chain of organisation conducting their
functioning across the peripheries of Australia and New Zealand (Wetherell, 2020). It been
identified that company develop a project plan in which they are looking forward to expand their
manufacturing Woolworths Group in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. In this project plan
formative discussion has been made on contextual information in which importance of project
along with key stakeholders and their expectations are included (Hall, P., Marshall, S. and Lowe,
M., 2001). In addition to this project include project scope, project priorities and work
breakdown structure in an effective manner.
The project's stakeholders analysis
It has been identified that Woolworths Group conducts their functioning as a leading
Supermarket group in Australia. Organisation marked themselves among top companies in
Australian retail market, together with Coles and effectively maintains a duopolistic system.
Company offers wide range of product and services to customers with high quality and in
affordable price range. This has been evaluated that as to effectively facilitate organisational
growth as development Woolworths Group set a plan that have purpose of expansion of its
expansion of its manufacturing unit within Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. However it has
been evaluated that during the time period of expansion of manufacturing unit of the organisation
into Banbury, a major project setback occurred (Walters and Helman, 2020). This was
recognized to be “a sudden spike in raw material costs” in Banbury.
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