BM562 Project Portfolio 2021-22: Client-co Productivity Project

This BM562 project portfolio addresses the issue of low employee productivity at Client-co, a manufacturing company in the UK. The project begins by exploring and agreeing on the client's brief, highlighting the problems of low productivity and poor employee performance. The client aims to improve productivity by 15% within two months. The portfolio details the company's background, its competition, and the challenges it faces, including communication delays and high employee turnover. The consultancy firm suggests training and development as a key solution. The project plan outlines tasks, deadlines, and responsibilities. Meeting minutes document discussions on training, technology adoption, and issue identification. The final report emphasizes the problem statement, research methodologies (primary and secondary), and proposed solutions, including simplified strategies, productivity apps, continuous improvement, and a focus on organizational culture. The ultimate goal is to enhance employee productivity, increase sales, and improve Client-co's market share.

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Client Project Brief
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Exploration and agreement of the brief from first meeting with client
Date: 02/03/2022
Present: 6 persons
Absent: 4 persons
What is the problem(s) or issue that the client needs to address?
As Client-co is facing problem of low employee's productivity at workplace.
Therefore, Consultancy team has discussed with their client about some issues that the Client-
co should effort to address quickly:
 Low productivity of organization
 Poor performance of employees
Why is s/he focusing on this problem?
Client-co is aimed to improve their productivity in order to enhance their sales in
market and also want to establish themselves as good player within respective industry.
Therefore, considered firm want to be a leading company in their field. Their goal is to
enhance their productivity by around 15% in next 2 month.
Further background information about the company/competitors/customers etc,
relevant to the problem
Client-co is manufacturing company situated in London, UK. It provide services at
various location. It is one of the leading manufacturing company in London that dedicated
towards providing good quality product to customers. Further more, respective company target
all type of the customers (Ikeuchi and et. al., 2022). Client-co is facing a tough competition
with its competitors in existing market. Various competitors often impose a strict competition
to Client-co company and therefore, put a pressure for increasing the product quality and also
facilitate offered to the customers. Currently, Client-co is facing another major problems that is
low level of the workforce's productivity that lead to a disorganization among employees who
get fail to complete the given task. The communication between workers is delay, and given
deadline end up lost. It also creating a conflict among employees at workplace, due to which
there is high employees turnover. To resolve this issues, Client-co has contact with a
consultancy firm that give and advice to respective company. As per the consultancy firm
Client-co need to give training to its employees that hamper employee's productivity.
Key deliverables/What would be a ‘successful’ outcome for the client, by the end of the
project?
The company's issues will be resulted, Client-co will get a positive result that include,
increasing productivity level, enhance sales and revenue that help respective company to earn
a great market share within market place (Charlesraj and Shri, 2022). A successful outcome
for the customer in this project, which is Client-co, would be a strategy or process that can
enhance the employee productivity of respective firm in UK marketplace, and eventually,
bring more employees with effective skills.

Concerns/limitations raised by the client (e.g. costs, client availability)
There are various kind of the constraints that has created the obstacles for Client-co,
team climbers to attain company's predetermined objectives. Some of the issues that
company has faced at the time of project execution are mentioned below:
Primary limitation of the client is cost in which it required to solve their problem with 15000
pounds. The issue of budget often create hinder the way for researching the objective of
project as various activities like data gathering, data analysis etc, require huge amount of the
wealth. If company cannot keep up with speedy cost increase, project scope will likely shrink
and quality will also suffer. Another limitation of Client-co is time as they want to overcome
from this problem within a limited time period. Furthermore, finding out issues of Client-co
and determining an appropriate solution require much time for researchers.
Concerns raised by the consulting team
Certain of the concern which have been raised by consulting company of this project is
that, budget of given project is low. As time is very limited for this project, consulting team,
that is group climbers, think that enough time should be given to them so that they can collect
and analyses the data regarding problem the Client-co is facing for resolving them
accordingly. Main concern raised is to selects best alternative between two different options in
order to increase the employee’s productivity that include training and development and use of
latest technology (Miller and et. al., 2022).
What actions were agreed and what are the deadlines for these?
In this, the agreed action is that the Client-co use latest productivity app or technology.
For this the company need to educate employee that how to use these technologies and make
aware them about utilization of technical resources in order to increase their work productivity.
Next client meeting date (or schedule of dates).
5th April, 2021.
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Project plan
Note: Although you do not need to create a full Gantt chart, you still need to show
clearly which tasks are to be undertaken, by when and by whom.
Two updates on the original project plan should be inserted in your portfolio too.

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Partnership agreement
Partnership agreement
It is hereby agreed between Client-co organization and the consultancy firm that this
agreement will be mechanically be expired on accomplishing purpose of this. Aim of this
statement is to enhance work productivity of employees in Client-co' by 15 June 2022 within
cost of around 15000 Pounds.
Any breach of this agreement will held the party accountable for any penalty of 20000
Pounds and aggrieved party will get amount of penalty within 10 days from date of the
breach.

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Minutes of team, client and supervisor meetings
It is fine to develop your own templates, but the minimum information required is;
Minutes of (Team/Client/Supervisor) Meeting (state which it is)
Date : 5th April, 2022
Present: 7
Absent: 3
Minutes of last meeting
Are these accepted as a correct record?
YES
Agenda
1 Provide training and development to employees.
2 Uses productivity app to enhance employee’s effectiveness level.
3 Identifying issues that lead low productivity in organization
4 Identify benefits or result form the facilitate training and development
For each agenda item:
Key points
 Investment in research and development department will facilitate effective utilization of the
resources used in productivity.
 Training and development make aware employees about new technologies that increase their
work effectiveness.
Actions agreed and deadlines
 Company will uses some productivity app that help them to improve their productivity level.
 Client-co will provide training and development to its employees that make enable them to
work with more effectiveness.
Any other business
N.A
Date of next meeting
5th may, 2022.
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BM562 CW1 Project Portfolio 2021-22
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