Project Management for Crawford Healthcare Company

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Project Management
Crawford Healthcare Company

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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Company Introduction.................................................................................................................................4
Project Objective and Characteristics..........................................................................................................4
Project objective......................................................................................................................................4
Project Characteristics.............................................................................................................................4
Project Life Cycle of this project..................................................................................................................6
Project Metrics............................................................................................................................................7
Project Leadership Qualities........................................................................................................................7
Project Management Tools.........................................................................................................................9
Common Reasons for project failure.........................................................................................................10
Impact of Project Failures on the Stakeholders of the project..............................................................10
Project Risks..............................................................................................................................................11
Manage Project Risks in Company.........................................................................................................11
Risk Managing Comparison between Health Industry and Crawford Healthcare Company..................12
Success Factors..........................................................................................................................................12
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................13
References.................................................................................................................................................15
Appendix...................................................................................................................................................17
Lists of Figure
Figure 1: Gantt chart of the project................................................................................................16
Figure 2: Project Life Cycle..........................................................................................................17

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Figure 3: Milestone Checklist........................................................................................................17
Figure 4: Product Breakdown Structure (PBS).............................................................................18
Figure 5: PERT Chart....................................................................................................................19

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Introduction
The main objective of this project is to develop new health services and open new office at the
new location. With the help of this project, Crawford Healthcare Company can manage quality
of services and product. Project management helps to manage the company project activities and
different resources within a given time. This can be done through project management tools like
Network diagram and Gantt chart. The aim of this report is to construct the new office set up for
Crawford Healthcare and to provide the new services. However, the company has been working
in the UK health care industry which was established in 2009.
The report divides into two sections, one analyzes the project objectives and to gather the
different information on project activities. Meanwhile, another section demonstrates the project
planning and life cycle of the project. This can be done through a work breakdown structure
(WBS) and Gantt chart. This report also focuses on the different types of information that are
required while delivering the final project such as project metrics, project management, and
leadership tools. This report also discusses the different types of project risks and success factors
for the project.
The health sector has vast opportunities from the future perspective in the small and medium-
sized enterprises because different types of new skin diseases are affecting the skin in adverse
manner. Therefore, different types of new services and solutions can be created according to
patient needs and gain the good profits.
Crawford Healthcare Company has been working in the UK health care industry which was
established in 2009 and company was started with three individuals. The company deals in
health care products like wound care, skin care, and dermatology products. Meanwhile, the

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company also delivers innovative treatments to their patients such as repair and care of the skin.
Crawford Healthcare Company made a profit of £25.2 million in 2017 (Real business, 2018).

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Academic Literature Review
According to authors, Kozlowski and Matejun (2016), the project management’s characteristics
are utilized by the small and medium-sized enterprises to reduce the cost of present products and
these SME enterprises are launching new services and product’s facilities. The project
management’s characteristics (Operational management and Strategy management) should be
implemented on the basis of the possibilities and individual needs of specific SME enterprises.
The each phase of project life cycle should be implemented on the basis of comparative nature of
the small and medium-sized enterprises. On the other hand, Matejun identified the importance of
the project deliverable that should be implemented in the proper manner in the small and
medium-sized enterprises. In contrast, Kozlowski also stated that goals and vision of SME
should be linked to its new services and products. The arrangement and project planning phase is
utilizing to select the team members in the small and medium-sized enterprises. The project
evaluation and completion is utilizing to evaluate the different types of issues in the new services
and products of SME enterprises. Therefore, it can be said that the project management’s
characteristics are playing critical role to enhance the productivity and services of SME
enterprises.
According to Author, Brustbauer (2016), risk management is also another factor to complete the
project on time in the project management, so each and every small and medium-sized enterprise
should use the proper risk management technique to eliminate the different types of issues in the
business. The implementation of risk management approach is affecting the operational and
strategy management of small and medium-sized enterprises. With the help of risk management,
SME enterprises can easily identify the different types of issues and eliminate the effect of these
issues. In contrast, Brustbauer also stated that the SME enterprises can implement either passive