Project Management Case Study: Analyzing Willowbrook School's Business

This case study analyzes Willowbrook School, a private school in the Midwest United States, focusing on its business profile, organizational model, and business processes. The school, offering preschool through 6th-grade curriculum and after-school care, faces challenges due to rising enrollment and increased demand for after-school programs. The study examines the school's organizational structure, including the roles of the Director, Principal, Vice Principal, Administrative Assistant, Teachers, and Financial Committee. It also presents a business process model and identifies the information needs of each role, highlighting the need for an information system to manage enrollment, administrative tasks, and student records. The assignment concludes with a bibliography of relevant sources.

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Case Study- Willowbrook School
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Task 1:
1. Business profile of Willowbrook School
Business Information:
Name of the business: Willowbrook School
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General activities of business
Willowbrook is one of the private owned schools in the Midwest United states. The
School offers curriculum for preschool students up to 6th grade. It is identified that the school
also provides after-school care on the school premises. The facility of after-school care is not
only provided to the students of Willowbrook but also to the students of other schools located in
that particular area.
Curriculum:
The curriculum of the Willowbrook School is provided below:
 Helps in providing preschool curriculum up to 6th grade
 Provides after school care to the students
Scope of Work
The Willowbrook School is experiencing rise in the number of enrolment applications for
different types of programs. It is found that enhance number of enrolments increases the demand

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Director (Victoria Owens)
Principal (Kathy Galliard)
Vice Principal (Susan Brown)
Administrative assistant (Michelle
Madrid
Full time teachers
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Part time teachers Financial
committee
for after school care which generally helps in creating high workload for the organization.
Therefore the organization wants to develop an information system.
Expected activities:
The expected activities include:
 To manage the enhanced number of enrolments for the after-school care
 To hire full time administrative position for handling the workload
 To implement the information system for managing the work pressure and for resolving
redundancy
 To plan for the information that is required for the Willowbrook School
2. Organizational model for Willowbrook School
The organizational model for the Willowbrook School is provided below:

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Figure 1: Organizational model
(Source: Created by Author)
3. Business process model
The business process model for the Willowbrook School is provided below.
Figure 2: Business process model
(Source: Created by Author)
4. Examples of information or report that each person requires
The below table highlighted the business support system that is needed by each of the
person.

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Report Person (Position)
Victoria mainly requires report on
administrative activities as per the mission,
vision as well as policies of the school. The
director also needs information about
education staffs as well as about their payroll,
finances as well as human resource function.
Director
The principal request report on academic as
well as curriculum for meeting educational
standards of the school.
Principal
The vice principal requires report about the
after-school program. Information about the
entire request for drop in care is also handled
by the vice president.
Vice-Principal
The administrative assistant requires report
about the monthly bills, record payments as
well as bank deposits. In addition to this, they
require information student records.
Administrative Assistant
They need report about the student
performance as well as about student details.
Full time teachers
They require report about the student who are
engaged with the program of after-school care.
Part time teachers
They generally assist in examining financial Financial Committee

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reports and helps in handling as well as
approving funds.