Managing Successful Business Project

This report details a project focused on managing a successful business project for Margot Bakery, a small local bakery. The report uses Hilton Hotel as a case study, exploring the implementation of CSR activities to achieve sustainable objectives. It includes a project management plan, work breakdown structure, Gantt chart, and small-scale research using qualitative and quantitative methods. The research analyzes data on the relationship between CSR and competitive advantage, identifies challenges faced by small businesses, and offers suggestions for improvement. The report concludes by reflecting on the crucial value of research in achieving project aims and emphasizes the importance of teamwork, clear objectives, and effective communication for project success.

MANAGING
SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS
PROJECT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1. Devise aims and objectives for a chosen scenario...........................................................3
P2. Project management plan.................................................................................................4
P3. The Breakdown structure and Gantt chart........................................................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................9
P4. Small scale research by using various methods...............................................................9
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................11
P5. By using the Tools and Techniques Analysed the research data...................................11
P6. Appropriate suggestions.................................................................................................15
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................16
P7: Reflect crucial value for undertaking research to accomplished aims...........................16
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................17
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................18
APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................19
Log book...............................................................................................................................19

INTRODUCTION
The project assignment is all about managing successful business project is the simple
term which explain management of particular project and activity of an organisation to achieve
the goal and objectives by fixing the basic standard to the project (Achtenhagen, Melin and
Naldi, 2013). Also, managing the business project the company should considered various
relevant facts and images that estimate cost of total project by proper use of data and
information.
In this assignment, I will reference regarding to a company called Margot Bakery which
is a small organisation, a local bakery making delicious bread and beautiful cakes on site from
scratch for the neighbours. The fact that I choose Hilton Hotel is the willing of their work which
is giving me more motivation in my work too and in my life according with managing business
project. The potential in this company is very high as they have good reviews, products, quality,
warm stuff, putting their hart in what are they doing. Most of the production are organic
especially the eggs and the flour they are using to make the cakes and the bread.
The customers are truly happy with their products and they are trying very hard to
satisfied them in the best way they can. A manager or team leader has to draw breakdown
structure and Gantt chart to avoid mistakes and errors. In the context of this the manager needs to
make certain recommendation. However, in the final hand, without the steps that can guide,
projects should be able to sell outcomes. As for getting in the business planned scheme for sure
this goal won’t be possible.
TASK 1
P1. Devise aims and objectives for a chosen scenario.
Being a management consultant in a small size organisation is very important to process
very well the scheme and problems of our project plan. All external and internal factors are to be
taken into consideration to achieve the organisation motive by fulfilling the individual goals and
group goal as a whole (Cohen, 2010). As the small size projects is based on low budget because
of less funding or capital given to their projects although they require various indispensable
things to manage the project to get our objectives and achieve the aims. There is various target
of a project that require so many things at one time:
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 A project need a knowledge person who can perform all the activities and event of
project as per the plan set.
 Research methods can be used to take effective and attractive action from using data and
information to attain healthy outcome by achieving their objectives.
 Challenges and risk should be come across the project planning that has to be properly
manage and evaluated.
 Goal oriented strategies should be adopted by the manager to get best possible result.
 Make the employees motivated towards their goal to achieve the organisation mission
and maximise the productivity of the Hilton Hotel.
 Having all the resources, especially if we have the effective and efficient manners of
allotting right persons for proper exercise in the project will provide all the goods that
we need (Crane and Matten, 2016).
Topic: “Implementing CSR activities within organisations to meet sustainable objectives”
Aims: “To implement CSR activity in an organisation in order to attain sustainable objectives”.
Objectives:
 To determine the CSR plan in attaining upcoming sustainable objectives.
 To identify positive relationship among CSR in order to gain competitive advantage for
the company.
 To measure positive implication related with CSR on business performance.
 To evaluate different method for attaining better growth and future sustainability.
P2. Project management plan
As the manager has to plan effective management that includes various factors by
implement a project plan to achieve their goals and set targets by using all information’s that is
based on a good estimation of cost. All the factors in this project are scope, cost, time, quality,
risk, communication and resources. Manager having the own roles and responsibilities under the
project. Project management is about internal and external factors, implementing and planning
the scheme of the project.
As per the desire management plan these things must be considering while preparing plan for
a project or a small size business organisation:
 Cost: For any project cost play a dominant role in planning because as we know capital is
a very important for any business. Most of the objectives and tasks are mostly depending
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on the finance (De Visscher, 2016) so appropriate estimation of fund is to analysed
before planning any project.
Total forecasted budget
Particular 2017-18($)
Implementing technology cost 17000
Promotional expense 7000
Advertisement expense 5500
Catalogues 1800
Training charges 7500
Total cost 38800
 Scope: The project vision should be clear to every person are team so that organisation
must aware about the scope of project before selecting various resources to manage and
control the wastage and error by choosing right person and staffs. In order to get
complete the project, company need to adopt CSR activity successful in their business.
This will help them to attain predetermined time duration and objectives at the same point
of the time.
 Quality: As from my point of view quality means everything because people are looking
for the best products, quality and it helps in identify the product of the project, it’s the
sigma of the organisation to know the quality planning, staffing, control, coordinating for
desire result. It is the role and duty of business manager to make better quality of their
activities that will be provide maximum benefits to them. Manager need to conduct
effective market research to examine preferences of audience, market trends, planning
and policies of competitors etc (Crawford and Nahmias, 2010).
 Time: The most important for any project is to complete it on time without making any
delay for future, it help to bring best result to Hilton Hotel. In the mentioned company
critical path method is needed to be taken into account. This will be providing specific
timeframe that a project is taken to get completed.
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 Communication: There should be proper communication between all the level of the
department. The project manager all interact with every person about their work
performance and management (Hertog, Jong, 2010). Through proper focus given on
generating more reliable outcomes it is vital for the company to always implement CSR
activity by communicating with media, internet and many other resources.
 Resources: Proper allocation of resources should be organised by the manager to attain
the objectives. They are valuable for the Hilton Hotel growth and help in increasing
productivity also.
P3. The Breakdown structure and Gantt chart
The breakdown structure: It is the project management system as an activity of the task
is divided into small units. It will help to easy the work load of every project manager and the
employees. They feel motivated in calculating the cost and maximising the productivity of the
company. The most important things of the breakdown structure are to organise the team
members to work into directed section or units (Hull and et. al., 2011). Also, it helps to guide the
stuff in a better way and providing a great structure in Gantt Chart. It consists of various data,
product and services which are related to the cost estimation of our projects. As per the demand
of project terms and condition work breakdown structure is being deigned to achieve the
objectives of the Hilton Hotel.
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A situation of work breakdown in the business of this project is introducing stylish
projects and for that, the entire work is categorised as various department as per their
requirement.
Under this first steps are collect fund from various sources.
 Equity.
 Preferences shareholder
 loan from bank
 Debentures.
Second stage is combines the activities
 Financial department – fund manager-accounts manager- treasury officer.
 Marketing department -promotion -advertisement-sales manager -retailer - wholesaler
 HR department -manager- recruitment-selection - scrutiny of candidates
Gantt Chart: It is very common used in the administration for UK businesses and that is,
as we know, they always would like to verify the time what they need for every product of the
bakery production and then to be sold to the customer using Gantt Chart (Eckerson, 2010). Also,
this thing is more like the scheme chart as using activities and events on a plan scale with exactly
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the time they need. It is a combination of various activities performed during the project duration
(Giesen and et. al., 2010). The duration of each unit is estimate by using the Gantt chart.
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The above used image indicate that all the activity is with their time duration is being allotted
time is completed that is indicated with blue colour and the one which is white is not completed
work under the allotted time duration (Keller, Parameswara and Jacob, 2011).
As the project is comprising of various plan and activities for the manager they need to
have a proper monitoring system which will help to control the project. Each project must have a
good value estimation of costs showing the goals and objectives as is requested in the project.
According to Kindström, 2010 every project management process must analyse various
process and procedure in completing the requirement of project to overcome the mistakes, apart
from this various related research method can be used to collect exact and accurate information
for making useful decision regarding the project.
TASK 2
P4. Small scale research by using various methods.
For verifying the proper research regarding small scale business, we need to have a good
knowledge by using qualitative and quantitative methods (Kowalkowski, Kindström and
Brehmer, 2011). The data collection is gather from by filling questionnaires from the people:
Name: Email:
Age: Contact No:
Gender:
Q1. Do you know if any relationship that exist between competitive benefits and CSR
activities?
1. Yes
2. No
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Can't say
Q2. Do you agree to implement the CSR activities as primary role of small scale organisation?
l Agree
l Disagree
l No comment
Q3. Which is the problem faced by small scale organisation?
1. Regarding customer satisfaction
2. Health and social care
3. Exploitation of right
4. Employment
Q4. Who is more reliable for plan execution regarding CSR activities?
 HR Administrative
 Top management
 Manager and supervisor
Q5. Is this beneficial for the small-scale businesses?
1. Yes
2. No
3. Neutral
Qualitative methods are the proper tool for analysing the quality data and information in
literature review and making blue print for the organisation with effective result by applying
good research (Kumar, Petersen and Leone, 2013).
Interpretation: under this quantitative method of research by using appropriate
information about the Corporate social responsibility (CSR) by using primary data this will help
to get first time feedback from the responded. From the collected information primary source, we
have already seen that most of the people are in the favour of following the CSR activity has to
be taken as important part of the Hilton Hotel as small scale unit. From this try to provide
accurate and reliable data and information so that company would be able to take decision on
that basis (Mathur, Mathur and Kenyon, 2012).
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TASK 3
P5. By using the Tools and Techniques Analysed the research data
On the basis of above research done on small scale business project we have decided to
complete the research by proper findings and suggestion regarding the project activity for the
business that whether they are doing any kind of CSR activity. If they provide positive response,
then it will help to generate maximum output as profit that should be utilised in development of
the society. As we know in some cases, data is like a calculating form and that is to control and
to check the products that have been discussed as a decision of the business in the future for the
growth or not of the project.
Here we can find various tools and techniques which are available in our knowledge:
 Regression Analysis: It is made as a way of saying the relationship between one or more
variety of analysis. Under this independent variable are bring desire outcome for the
company.
 Trend Analysis: It is said to be technical methods that identify the position of the
inventory in the future and fast growth potential (Matos and Silvestre, 2013).
Research philosophy: Under this, it is essential for Hilton Hotel to make appropriate
decision in order to present the research more reliable.
Data collection: In this particular research work they need to use various data collection
sources which can help in examine the performance Hilton Hotel during the time. Mainly two
sources are best accountable such as primary and secondary. But primary sources are more
reliable as they are fresh and free from any biases.
Data analysis:
Theme 1: Essential use of CSR for the society.
Q1: Is it necessary for the society deal with CSR activities? Frequency
YES 65
NO 35
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