Project Plan: Starting a Retail Business in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

This project plan outlines the development of a retail business in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The plan includes an executive summary, industry background, mission statement, and key performance indicators. It establishes performance goals, evaluates project processes, and details personnel roles, resource allocation, and a comprehensive budget for both initial setup and five years of operation. The project breakdown, communication plan, work breakdown structure, project schedule (with Gantt chart and milestones), and risk management plan are also included. The project aims to provide quality goods and services at affordable prices, with an initial budget of approximately $153,240 and a revenue target of $110,000 to $198,000 annually for the first five years. The plan also incorporates a closure evaluation report and supporting research through an annotated bibliography.

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project name: Starting a retail business in Cambodia
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Executive Summary
The paper mainly focuses on a project development plan for starting a retail business in
Cambodia. The retail business will be located in the area of Phnom Penh as it is highly
located. The main aim of the business is to provide proper quality of goods as well as services
at an affordable price. The new business that is initiated generally requires 6 month with the
budget of around $153,240 in order to complete the project successfully. It is identified that
the paper reflects on the performance goals of the organization and it is found that if the
annual revenue for next five years would be around $110,000 to $198,000, then the
performance of the company is would be considered successful. In addition to this,
communication plans as well as risk management plan are also elaborated in this paper in
order to minimize project related issues.

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Table of Contents
1. Industry/company background, mission statement as well as key performance indicator....3
1.1 Background......................................................................................................................3
1.2 Mission statement.............................................................................................................3
1.3 Key performance indicator...............................................................................................3
2. Establish performance goals..................................................................................................4
2.1 Establish performance goals............................................................................................4
2.2 Evaluation point for the new business implementation and for next five years of
operation.................................................................................................................................5
3. Outline the project process and evaluate projects..................................................................7
4. Personnel................................................................................................................................8
5. Plan basic resource allocation..............................................................................................10
6. Project budget.......................................................................................................................11
6.1 Project budget for the new business...............................................................................11
6.2 Project budget for annual operations for five years.......................................................12
7. Project purpose breakdown..................................................................................................14
8. Communication plan............................................................................................................15
9. Work breakdown Structure..................................................................................................18
10. Project schedule.................................................................................................................18
10.1 Schedule.......................................................................................................................18
10.2 Gantt chart....................................................................................................................21

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10.3 Milestone......................................................................................................................22
11. Risk management plan.......................................................................................................22
12. Design and prepare closure evaluation reports..................................................................24
13. Supporting research in the form of annotated bibliography...............................................24
14. Final deliverable outline.....................................................................................................25
Bibliography.............................................................................................................................26

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1. Industry/company background, mission statement as well as key
performance indicator
1.1 Background
The paper mainly focuses on a development plan for starting a new retail business in
Cambodia. It is identified that the retail business will be started in Phnom Penh, Cambodia as
Phnom Penh is one of the most populated areas in Cambodia. The retail business mainly aims
to provide proper quality products at a reasonable price to the customers.
1.2 Mission statement
The mission statement for the new business is to save the money of the people so that
they can be able to live better.
1.3 Key performance indicator
The key performance indicator for the newly started retail business is illustrated
below:
Profit: Profit is considered as one of the most important performance indicator. In
order to analyze the performance of the organization, it is very much necessary to calculate
net profit margin so that the success of the organization can be easily measured.
Customer satisfaction: If the customers of the retail business will be happy then they
will use the service of the organization. Therefore, in order to measure the performance of the
business it is very much necessary to measure CSR including percentage of customers as well
as satisfaction scores.

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Number of loyal customers: The number of loyal customers also measures the
performance of the retail business, the organization have. If the organization is able to gain
high number of customers they the performance of the business can be analyzed quite easily.
Cost of goods sold: By properly tallying all the production cost for the entire product
that the company sells will be helpful in getting an idea about the mark-up of the product and
actual cost margin.
2. Establish performance goals
2.1 Establish performance goals
The performance goals of the retail business are provided below:
Encouraging initiative: It is very much important to seek proper ways in order to
assume responsibilities beyond the job description so that the organization operations will be
performed well.
Improving communication: It is very much important to anticipate what the
managers of the project want to know for providing proper information. It is identified that
proper communication is very much important for the success of the organization,
Boosting customer service: The customer service of the organization must be
discovered from time to time in order to identify the challenges that are associated with
customer service.
Nurture diversity: It is very much important to appreciate the unique skills,
perspectives as well as experience that are bought by each of the member of the organization
for nurturing diversity.

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Fostering leadership: It is very much important to discover the issues as well as
challenges that the team members of the organization face in performing the highest levels by
fostering leadership.
2.2 Evaluation point for the new business implementation and for next five years of
operation
Implementation timeframe to get the business up and running
The retail organization will generally need minimum 6 months in order to implement
and run the business successfully within Cambodia. The entire timeframe for business
implementation is provided in the table below:
Task Name Duration
Developing project plan for starting a retail
business in Cambodia
180 days
Creating a business plan 34 days
Market analysis 8 days
Analysis of the competitors 7 days
Setting project goals 4 days
Financial analysis for the project 6 days
Defining structure of the company 5 days
Signing partnership contract 4 days
Selecting place for the organization 92 days
Getting license 17 days
Proper research on business area 12 days
Taking rent for the place 5 days

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Renovating the place 22 days
Looking for the project suppliers 7 days
Buying furniture’s 6 days
Creating database system 13 days
Visiting different commercial inspector 10 days
Training for running and promoting the
business
48 days
Hiring required staff 7 days
Training the staff 15 days
Creating social media pages and website 12 days
Getting a press release about the opening of
the store
13 days
Opening day 1 day
Project review 6 days
Stakeholder's sign off 3 days
Documentation 2 days
Project closure 1 day
Annual revenue for next five years
The annual revenue of the retail business mainly depends on the number of sales. It is
assumed that for the next five years of operation, the retail business must earn revenue of
around $110,000 to $198,000. If the organization is able to achieve proper amount of revenue

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during its five years of operation then the performance of the company is considered to be
successful.
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100,000
150,000
200,000
250,000
Expected annual revenue during
five years of operation
Annual revenue
Profit objectives
The objectives of the project include:
 To provide proper quality of products at a reasonable price
 To earn an annual revenue of around $500,000 to $1, 0000 during the first five
years of operation
 To expand the business of the organization
3. Outline the project process and evaluate projects
The key processes of project management mainly include:
Phase management: It is quite necessary to ensure that the conditions for a particular
phase are completed before starting the next phase of the project. In order to do so within the
project, it is very much necessary to understand the deliverables of the project.
Plan: It is necessary to perform high level of planning within the entire project in the
initiation phase. It is also necessary to make sure that the project have right people, resources

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as well as methodologies in order to support the tools so that project will be delivered on
proper time and budget.
Control: It is quite essential to control the scope, cost as well as issues of the project
in order to manage benefits, risks as well as time of the project effectively. It is quite
necessary to create proper reports that illustrate the entire progress of the project accurately.
Team management: As a project manager, it is necessary to manage the project work
properly. It is identified that working on a project generally requires proper set of approaches
as well as skills which must be utilized in order to manage the project team properly.
Communication: Proper communication strategies must be used in order to
communicate with team members as well as with other stakeholders of the organization. It is
identified that inadequate communication generally creates frequent problems within the
project which generally requires considerable attention for properly communicating.
Integration: It is very much necessary to understand the impact of the project on
various business functions.
4. Personnel
The personnel who are mainly involved to implement as well as run the new business
are generally elaborated below:
Stakeholders Responsibilities
Project manager A project manager is the person who is
mainly responsible of planning, managing,
executing the entire project in order to
execute the entire project within the

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estimated budget and time.
Project planner The project planners are the person who
mainly engages in juggling schedules and for
changing the goals of the project. In addition
to this, they also take the responsibility of
monitoring as well as analyzing the
effectiveness of the tools by utilizing
qualitative or quantitative tools.
Financial manager Financial managers are the person who
mainly engages in maintains the financial
health of the organization by producing
different types of financial reports, direct
investment activities as well as plans for long
term financial goals.
Developer Developers are the person who is mainly
responsible of designing, testing as well as
maintaining various types of software related
programs for the application that is needed.
Human resource manager They mainly engage in managing as well
delegating responsibilities which mainly
include recruitment, performance, training,
development as well as HR policy
implementation.
Trainer They generally play a significant role in
making the companies much more

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competitive in order to develop the skills of
the workplace. They help in accelerating the
organizational change by developing proper
skills that the company requires in order to
maintain appropriate performance within the
business.
Designer They involves in preparing as well
modifying designs in order to make the
application as per the project requirements as
well as needs. Design generally includes
design details, specifications, design
calculations and drawing.
5. Plan basic resource allocation
The resource allocation plan is provided in the table below:
Resource
Name Type Materia
l Label
Initial
s
Grou
p
Max
.
Unit
s
Std. Rate Ovt.
Rate
Cost/
Use
Accrue
At
Base
Calenda
r
Project
manager Work P 100
% $50.00/hr $0.00/
hr $0.00 Prorate
d Standard
Project
planner Work P 100
% $45.00/hr $0.00/
hr $0.00 Prorate
d Standard
Financial
manager Work F 100
% $40.00/hr $0.00/
hr $0.00 Prorate
d Standard
Developer Work D 100
% $40.00/hr $0.00/
hr $0.00 Prorate
d Standard
Human
resource
manager
Work H 100
% $35.00/hr $0.00/
hr $0.00 Prorate
d Standard
Trainer Work T 100
% $35.00/hr $0.00/
hr $0.00 Prorate
d Standard
Designer Work D 100 $40.00/hr $0.00/ $0.00 Prorate Standard