Performance Evaluation: MBA641 AOC Partnership Project B Analysis

This document presents an evaluation of the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) partnership project, as part of the Strategic Project Management MBA641 course. The analysis focuses on the DeGrandis Sporting Goods' initiative to become the official supplier to the Australian Olympic team. The project's performance is assessed, considering its alignment with strategic goals and ethical standards, with a stakeholder theory perspective. A Project Performance Scorecard (PPS) snapshot is included, offering insights into the project's progress. The evaluation also provides conclusions regarding the project's success, highlighting the increase in sales value. Finally, recommendations are made, emphasizing the importance of creating a high-performing team and monitoring progress through accountability. The report draws upon references to support its claims.

AOC or Australian
Olympic Committee
Partnership:
PROJECT B

Introduction:
 The main objective of this project is related to DeGrandis Sporting
Goods. The organization has intended to turn into the official supplier
of sporting equipment to the Olympic team of Australia.
 Every primary stakeholder is found at the outset and then consulted.
Here, a comprehensive list of project perquisites is created on the basis
of the needs of the stakeholders.
 Besides, the project been running for six months over the scheduled
timeframe, all the additional project perquisites are met successfully.
 Here, the new partnership has been deployed, and the sales value are
determined to have risen through about three million dollars.

Project alignment related to strategic
goals with ethical standards
 Creating constant ethics and values to the culture of the Australian
Olympic Committee begins with efficient strategic planning.
 Here, the stakeholder theory is an effective point of beginning for
various ethical considerations like stakeholders like shareholders,
communities, governments, suppliers and customers affected through
the organizational process (Shenhar 2015).

Project Performance Scorecard
Snapshot
The dimension of Australian
Olympic Committee’s
project
Value of
score
Analysis
Stakeholders engagement 90% It is assumed that the commitment of the
stakeholders is at every project stages. It is also
assured that the expectations of stakeholders are
met. Here, the tools used are the negotiations
along with communications. Besides, one can
anticipate further issues and denote the concerns
across the project lifecycle.
Project process evaluation 95% It is performed perfectly across three main steps.
These are pre-project evaluation, current
evaluation and post-project evaluation.
Quality assessment 80% Here, the range of conformity towards the
predetermined standards and the criteria are
been successfully exemplified.

Conclusion
 The strategic project managers of the Australian Olympic Committee
has been concentrating on gaining outcomes of business.
 This operationally managed project is inclined towards getting much of
the activities of the finished.
 Through concentrating on developing the satisfaction of clients, that
beats the analyzing and completion and assessing the market data, the
strategic project managers have assured prolonged profitability and
success.

Recommendations
 Creating a high performing team
 Monitoring the performance and progress with the help of
accountability.

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