Strategic Analysis of SB Corporation: Project and Program Management

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of SB Corporation's business project and program management. It explores the company's strategic transformation initiatives, including the acquisition of WN and outsourcing strategies, and identifies key issues such as manufacturing outsourcing and its impact on the company. The report outlines the program scope and deliverables, emphasizing the importance of efficient project management and risk assessment. It also covers risk and issue management, addressing challenges related to software development, quality, transportation, and technological changes. Furthermore, the report examines the organizational structure, governance, and stakeholder management within SB, highlighting the need for effective communication and ethical practices to maintain goodwill and trust among shareholders and stakeholders. Finally, it discusses the importance of adapting to technological changes and the need for continuous improvement in project management techniques.

Business project and
programme management

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
PART 1............................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REEFRENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
In a corporate enterprise, the implementation of technology is growing exponentially, as
both businesses rely on incorporating new methods according to their workplace requirements.
The management of such organizations embraces new techniques and technology at their
corporate workplace, in contrast with their rivals, continues to achieve major strategic benefits in
the marketplace.This report highlights SB, a multinational manufacturing corporation
headquartered in Washington, USA. The company primarily provides its target market
consumers with a wide variety of hardware products.
In this report, main issues for strategic transformation program, identification of deliverables
and scope of program is discussed. In addition, assessment of the system, risk and problem
management plan and schedule strategy, and structure, policy and program management partners
and monitoring mechanisms for handling transition and procurement operations, and suppliers
management.
PART A
According to the case description, SB has a headquarters in Washington, USA, and is now
preparing to diversify its companies into digital and mobile platforms by pursuing a positive
growth policy. SB supplies its clients with a wide range of hardware. Fundamentally, you
prepare the production for the professional consumers of value-added tech products. The
organization is pursuing a policy focused on low cost drug distribution to the global consumer
base. Although SB's main mission objective is to have their future customers with fully
optimized service. SB has pushed exports to the Far East because it has lower labour rates to
produce low-cost goods including higher quality to maximize their profits (Briere, Oosterlinck
and Szafarz, 2015). Core transitions initiatives contribute to the dream execution are: WN
purchase, outsourcing assembly, digital technology and technological development. They
concentrate on taking about structural transition in order to gain huge demand, reduce cost,
successful long term growth etc.
Identification and critical analyse of key issues
Every enterprise needed to address issues and obstacles throughout the time frame to run
effective business operation at a world level. Company management creates a comprehensive
organizational approach to successfully address conflicts that arise by all method inside the

organization. As SB is a multinational development corporation that plans to expand its activities
in some other country in order to reach a wide audience as opposed to its rivals (Carvalho and
Rabechini Junior, 2015).Although they the face many problems the following are discussed in
below:
Acquisition of WN: SN has increasingly extended its company activities internationally both
through internal expansion and acquisition. As businesses are able to grow and succeed
throughout the market through their appropriate lower cost production techniques and
outsourcing throughout this competitive division. SN also offered to buy a vertically distributed
cell phone maker WN to consolidate and extend its market activities in Europe.From this
purchase SB will compete throughout the European market as contrast to its rivals. The above
factors must be handled successfully to achieve a high retention rate.The company's investigator
needs to investigate the correct position of business that aims to maximize productivity in the
desired time period (Cunningham, Salomone and Wielgus, 2015). The SB department will be
agile in order to deal with the company organization's complex circumstances. As well as this, if
the political situation is secure maybe at a low production cost they will fulfil the changing
consumer specifications.
Manufacturing outsourcing or in house: The business SB has expanded its industrial base
in Far East as a consequence of cost emphasis and support of established foreign operations, and
they have been met with quality problems so they intend to run in their own region. Often,
project management transition is not adequately matched with the business priorities because
they are unable to meet established goals within the timeline. If the price is not handled
successfully, SN will move its company to its home position where it will be able to sustain
product consistency and efficiently satisfy consumer demands (Gilbert and et. al.,
2015).Following all the evidence SN agreed to move activities from Far East and many
employees in the home country, for which the firm's credibility is in jeopardy, will be
unemployment as a result of this action.
Programme scope and deliverables for detailed analysis of product development project.
Each organization will check the business development project when negotiating with the
competitors in the global market. As the new growth strategy aims to win large market segments
and address the needs of potential consumers. SN is a worldwide manufacturing organization
that focuses the development of high quality low-cost machinery. An organization plans to finish

the project in the next 2 years to build a tough environment for other industry players.SB
administration following organized method to plan and project management and reach the main
targets. By adopting this method an organization will growing the management and efficiency of
the firm's portfolios(Hornstein, 2015). With the help of this SB is willing to serve the
conventional hardware demand inside the global footprint that has been used as a good sign for a
firm. The business wants to substantially raise the efficiency of P3M like system, project
management, because it is actually at stage 2 and SN mangers aims to develop at level 3.
Estimating and scheduling approaches for the program.
Within their office, the organization SN applies organized system and project management
strategy and it directs their role at level 2 as per the present situation. In order to produce
successful and efficient performance against the high price of consumer devices, the
management of the business also needs to change at level 3. Throughout this situation, the three
key elements like market development, efficiency and project management were primarily
emphasized. Appropriate approaches including the capacity and necessary workers are required
to develop this template within the industry through level 2 to level 3.To improve the model
scale, SN mangers needs to improve on their techniques that are being efficient and extremely
aimed at providing higher quality products at such a reasonable cost (Kobayashi, Hara and Usui,
2017). In fact, SN's executive committee has to track and handle the political implications on a
daily basis so that an organization's operations and roles can be adjusted according to the
circumstance. In order to address new problems, employees will have to be educated and trained
effectively to adopt the pattern, and in a limited period they can quickly make improvements.
This is important for the company to evaluate the successful approaches and strategies for
addressing challenges.
Risk and issue management
SB technology offers its customers with a vast range of goods, like hardware and
applications. Company's key purpose is to have improved technology solutions that can help
people to solve technological challenges and management issues. Present organization's majority
compete internationally with the introduction of technical resources that enable management to
accomplish their mission adequately. The organization's current vision is to build modern
technology system which provides purchasers with quality software. However, the manager of
SB technologies faces possible challenges directly impacting on the programs and mission of the

company to accomplish the goal in a proper manner. Likewise, risk management has been
developed to successfully tackle the threats and their facets. The following is listed of some of
the key risks posed by SB technology:
Prioritization to build software: In today’s competitive world every business organization
has taken vision to achieve sustainable competitive advantage through which they can
maintain their position in market. For this purpose they need to focus on developing
effective software program. WN organization provides software in market place at low cost
thus all the market area of US is covered by this organization. Their low cost strategy helps
them to establish their empire within the US economy. Still some factors affect them
adversely. Company suffers from problems and issue in production and their operation due
to location and political factors of economy. For reduce risk of political factors manager
formulate strategies through which they can follow all the political guideline and rules , risk
management also solves the issue related to location of production , they change the
operations location, and set up it where organization can easily provides services to their
customers.
Issue related to quality: Business organization is also facing problem related to quality of
the software. Customers can purchase software as they will help them to compete their work
in easy manner but theses software have not capabilities to fulfil the work at prescribe time
period, thus customers demand decreases. SB technology decided to produce their software
at Far East it will help them to reducing their cost of production as well as customers also
get product they demand for. Risk management apply strategise related to effectively
manufacture software through which organization can overcome risk of quality (Flyvbjerg,
2017).
Risk of transportation: Management department of SB technology has been take decision
regarding change of their manufacturing base from Far East to USA, this decision will
negatively impact on employment rate of the organization. It will also affect on the goodwill
of the company. SB suffers from bearing high cost of transportation as well as they give
high amount of remuneration to heir implies, it will result in reducing of profit % of the
organization. In order to reduce the risk of transportation build strong relations with their
customers, they use effective promotional strategies to attract their customers; it will help
organization to done their work accordingly to their own way.

Management of diversity of software technology: The company perform their operations at
large level, thus they need to deal with issue related to diversity of software, management
department of the SB organization face issue rated to diversity as they need to maintain ratio
of work between software and hardware . For cut throat t the problem of diversity
management department needs o work according to the polices and framework build by
them.
Change in technology: In today’s dynamic works ,customers preference, changes within
seconds thus to maintain position in market place organization needs to accept the change and
present new innovation to retain their customers. SB organization been suffers from this issue
due to changes of policies, strategies and launch of new software by rival industry , they also
change their set up. To overcome this risk, the management department needs to set consultancy
firm which will help organization to give guideline and provides suggestion regarding market as
well as give guideline regarding new software through which SG organization will be able to
maintain their position.
Programme management organisation, governance and stakeholders
Organization structure formulated in a way which will help in communicating all the
necessary information to each stage of organization , it will help in achieving of organization
objective. At present the SB organizations functional organization structure in which
management department hire employers on the basis of their skills, each individual get position
on the basis of their capabilities. The company ca n also apply matrix organization structure
within their business entity. By applying this structure the efficiency level goes high as
employees get liable to update their stage to production as well as functional manager of the
hierarchy. This strategy also help b work accordingly ethical manner by the organization (GUO ,
SHI and CHEN, 2015).
SB formulated their manufacturing basis within their Far East as this country provides them low
cost of manufacturing software and hardware, here production cost is low, but it will adversely
impacted on wealth of software here ethical polices and governance rules has been applied and
maintain by the workforces moreover customers issue related to quality of the product. This
management department if SB take decision to move their production house from Far East to
USA but this decision will impacted on the peoples work within the organisational Far East they
get unemployed and it will negatively effect on reputation of the SB organization. To resolve this

issues management department must hold meeting and provide necessary information to their
stakeholders and shareholder they also give suggestion fro to overcome this problem, it ill help in
maintain goodwill and trust among shareholder regarding the organization as well as decision
taken in the mating are concern with shareholders thus reputation the organization does not go
down.
Programme control method for managing the transformation.
For managing transformation it is essential for business organizations to formulate
strategies related with program control. In these type of strategies planning and controlling of
various program has been included. Managers adopt thus method for achieving effective result ,
it will also useful in controlling cost , reduce risk and manufacturing desired products and service
for business organization. During the acquisition agreement with WN organization it is essential;
for SB to calculate cost of entire acquisition, so that SB can easily achieve sustainable
competitive advantage within the market place. For controlling program, portfolio management,
vendor management, schedule analysis methods has been applied. Organization benefit that they
have effective software technology which will easily attract the entire market place of USA. SB
organization able to a chive the milestone in marketplace by achieving their goals. It is positive
by changing of business plans , the company change their software projects adopt new
technology which will help in manufacturing of products at low cost as well as they get able to
attract and retain their customers by providing software at low cost and high quality of service.
The company will be able to interface with mobile technology by use bespoke software which
have limited edition and only available for their specific customers (Vukomanović, Young, and
Huynink, 2016).SB limited needs to implement protect management approaches in order to
effectively increase performance of their orgsnixaztion.P3M programme will help in increasing
project performance capabilities of to organization by level to level 3 . By using all these
strategies the organization will be able to achieve their desired goal within the in next 2 years.
All these tools are useful to attain goal of the SB organization through which they can earn ore
profit and minimize risk return.
Contracting and supplier management.
Procuring can be defined as collection of all the resource after analysing all the available
resource so that organization will choose right option of material at low cost. This process
consist more work from human resource of the organizations whatever it was qualitative or

quantitative. For choosing the right supplier which proved raw material to the organization at
low price and give high quality of material, management department of SB needs to analysis the
product their require they formulate policies through which they can easily identify, quality,
quality and maximum rate of material that can able to be afford . Government perspective also
useful for the organization as , government supplier provide goods and raw material at low cost.
The company also learn from their past experience thus hey need to build strong building of
work for this purpose they hire consultancy which proved them correct guideline regarding work.
It is essential for company through the consultancy firm they can focus ob their London work
and formulate policies through which they can cover up large marked of Europe. Thus it is
compulsory the management department f the SB organization to choose correct consultancy
firm through which they can easily take decision regarding their manufacturing units. Collection
of funds of finance from various source through which the can earn maximum benefits and
minimize rate of risks Also consultancy firm give them direction regarding their work and
guideline for chosen correct space of manufacturing profits Consultancy firm provide direction
related to follow ethical guidelines as well it will help them to work according to customers
preference. Consultancy firm help fill management department of SB organization as they give
suggestion regarding changing policies in market place through which management department
can able to take decision regarding changing of product. These are also help in provides direction
regarding innovation of product so they can able be attract the customers (Brookes, Butler Dey
and Clark, 2014).
PART B
Comparison of advantages and disadvantages of programme management technique
The SB Company requires structures in order to enable to schedule, track and execute
activities in a well-organized manner and produce the necessary performance. SB may use two
systems, Agile and Waterfall, in order to help execute the system. Agile technology is better
suited to developing and leading the task processes because it systematically focuses on
developing small parts for project operations. However, have many principles and behaviours
that can build stability, cooperation and confidence among the participants of their team.

Furthermore, the benefits of Agile are that because it tends to promote high customer loyalty by
successfully providing applications to prospective clients resulting in development and SB
technology business creation (Veckie and Veckie, 2015). Meanwhile, the drawbacks of Agile
were that the resources required executing the application development process, because it is
complicated or impossible to calculate.Secondly, the waterfall management cycle structure,
which breaks up the whole project operations in a sequential phase with all stages cantered on
the previous one and allows efficiently carrying out tasks. The benefits of the waterfall system
are additionally that this really helps to define the tools and instruments needed for mission
success at the outset of projects that remain consistent during their research (Akwetey, 2015).It
also helps to preserve the comprehensive documents contributing to systematic and successful
plan completion. However at the starting step of the method, waterfall model of project
management system becomes less versatile due to the basic specifications of projects being pre-
determined. Such style of pattern or methodology often included specific laws and guidelines to
track the operations and achieve them within such a defined timeframe.
Critically justify the framework and analyse
Throughout this case scenario, agile project management practice methodology is selected
within SB application context. As this will support the company in developing more technical
systems for its clients so they will draw vast numbers of consumers who will support the SB
technologies in promoting successful distributed business structure and higher loyalty rewards
levels will be obtained. As that also allows creating improved applications that gives their clients
appropriate solutions, and the company's SB technologies will successfully meet their goals.The
business is closely linked to SB because it works with hardware products and wants creative as
well as special approaches to its consumers.
Reflect by clear recommendations
As a statement on the use of the Agile method for the SB development project management
process, it has impact on the result of project activity. SB technologies may use an agile method
in project planning to further create an efficient product solution that can draw additional clients
or consumers. In order to finish its project operations effectively and after a set time frame, there
are also particular suggestions for the SB innovation. The following are:
1. The organization will have to choose a recruitment company in England to find an
appropriate and open place to complete research work efficiently and effectively.

2. Correct communication mechanisms in the work place should be built within the SB
development organization so all workers can collaborate and connect efficiently with one
another.
3. SB development involves recruiting or attracting individuals with a range of experience
and expertise so that innovative technical technologies can be implemented easily and
staffs proposes viable suggestions for successful technologies.
CONCLUSION
In the end of the report, it has been concluded that holding on a competitive market position
for a longer period company requires developing modern methods in their working operation
which mainly develop faster results. As these strategies aim business to acquire opportunities and
cope effectively with all the risks that can arise on the business when capturing opportunities.
Therefore, managers of SB must establish innovative and successful strategies so that the nation's
client base is not reduced. The management of SB has developed a specific tactical strategy for
addressing these problems or mitigating the effect of these difficulties which involves some
commodity, size, place and promotional strategies to support the position in the market.

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