Victoria and Albert Museum: Operations, Stakeholders, and Issues

This report provides an overview of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), detailing its operations, objectives, and sustainability initiatives. It discusses the museum's governance structure, strategic expansions, and commitments to world-class visitor experiences. The report examines the museum's stakeholders, applying the power and interest theory to analyze their influence. Furthermore, it addresses current issues and the V&A's efforts to enhance its relevance and impact through digital design and financial diversification. The V&A's commitment to sustainability, including collaborations and green initiatives, is also highlighted, offering a comprehensive analysis of the museum's multifaceted operations and future plans.

Victoria And Albert Museum

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................3
Overview......................................................................................................................................3
Objectives and Trends.................................................................................................................3
Sustainability...............................................................................................................................4
How the Victoria And Albert Museum Operate?........................................................................5
Governance..................................................................................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
Stakeholders.................................................................................................................................6
Stakeholders Power and Interest Theory.....................................................................................6
Stakeholders Power and Interest..................................................................................................8
Current Issues..............................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Victoria And Albert Museum is situated in the London being the world largest museum of the
applied level of decorative design and arts as well as the sculptures and housing the permanent
collections over their object around the 2.27 million. It was been founded in the year 2852 along
with been named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. In this report there will be discussion
of the museum along with its objectivity and sustainability regarding its operation and cooperate
governance. In addition, report will have the discussion on their stakeholders of the Victoria And
Albert Museum along with discussing the current issues.
Task 1
Overview
Victoria And Albert Museum which is often abbreviated as the V&A situated in the London
have been named after the Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha. The museum has the foundation date of the year 1852 as the British governments have
the establishments of the Museum of Manufacturers in Marlborough House, St. James. In
addition to that the foundation stone have been laid by their queen victories in 1899 as the todays
state of art galleries. As the museum have the instantly termed to be involved in the collecting of
the public interpretations of the art and design the museum have their collection span of the
5000 years of the human creativity on their virtually every medium. This have been housed as
the one of the finest groups of the Victorian and modern buildings in Britain. In addition, to the
V&A organization structure is concerned the firm directors is considered to be the head of the
V&A museum have been currently held by the Tristram Hunt, who succeeded Martin Roth, who
died in August 2017, months after he announced he would resign in January. The museum have
the currently dealing with major 18 department divided in the different direction for the proper
working and attractiveness of the customer. The department are such as directorate departments
to handle the strategic priories extents to the Asian, conservative, development, estate,
information and services and many more.
Objectives and Trends
V&A have the plans for the strategic level of expansions in terms of the physicals and digital
level of reach in order to have the usage of there lens to deigns to the showcase ingenuity
along with sparking the imagination ad the making the collections increase in the accessible and
revenants orders.
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The firm have the mission to be recognized as the world leading museum of arts, designing and
performances.
The firm have the clear objectives
 To create the world class visitors and learning experiences across the V&A sites and
collection.
 To have the focus and deepen the relevance level of collections and ideas across the UK
 To have the increase the ingenuity and imagination.
 To have range of operation with the finances in the organization efficiency and
initiatives
 To give showcasing the best level of digital design along with delivering the outstanding
legal of digital experiences.
 To have the diversification and the increase the financial and commercial funding.
The firm have the major level of concern regarding their commitments to develop the core
activities as to increase the order of becoming the world largest and leading museum as such as
curatorship’s, conservation, research, collection management, learnings, talents management and
leadership.
As the understanding the consumer pattern in the museum have the creative level of displaying
the intricately design of the architecture, books. The fans are haven there facing dress as the
loves up in dressing as the Grimaldi the clown or an elegant Victorian.
As the level of consumer trends, the range of the family sun arts have been also advisable to
make the guidance’s to make the development of arts and the serving it across the ages.
There is the inclusion of the several events which are taking place in the museum occasionally
inclusion the various level of activities for the family.
Sustainability
Sustainability have been the crucial aspect of the Victoria And Albert Museum which tends to
be the part of priory form the year 2005 as the firm tends to have the continuous level of
progressions in manner of reduction the environmental impacts and the leaders in the particular
sectors. As the initiative, the museum has the celebration of the exhibitions FOOD: Bigger than
the Plate with the ongoing level of commitments to the sustainability. The firm have the
development of the collaboration with the Recycle the mushroom firm which have the usage of
the east level of coffee grounds to have the growth of the delicious oyster mushrooms. On the
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other hand, the firm have another level of initiative for the recruiting there green champions as
the voluntary teams of the inclusion in term of the enthusiasm staff to have the promotions and
advocating the environmental thinking and actions across V&A organization. The firm is
working behind there back of house initiative to have the implementing the green efficiencies in
the such as energy consumption, carbon emissions and waste management.
On the other hand, the smaller level of initiates as the small steps taken by company as clothes
swap to the market of the earth day in years 2018. The free cycle networks with the unwanted
exhibition build parts to offers to another museums, charities, festivals and schools.
The removal of the personal office binds and moving the centralized and recycling point as to
have the encouraging the correct disposal. In the July 2018 as fashioned from the nature won the
creative green awards for the best creative programming
How the Victoria And Albert Museum Operate?
Future plan of the firm is considered to be ambitious as the programmed of development which
is more level of transforming the firm. The best level of contemporary designs are term to be
creating there new level of existing galleries and visitors facilities along with revealing and
restoring the beauty. In the past 15 years, here have been 85% more level of museum places have
been terraformed along with improving the access ad allowing the collections in more elegantly
and intelligent displayed. The grant funds have the support the purchase their wide range of
material for the permanent collection of the non-nationality funded organization in England and
Wales. His have the manages by the V&A as the granting the budget as the following of many
acquisitions. There is more level of the government commitments in order to have the greater
level of transparency in terms of public information’s in terms of the funding agreements ,
annual review, collection level of policies and along with the strategies of equality and diversity
in significant manner.
Governance
Good level of corporate governance have the entailing the posit of the different objectives by the
board and the management which is representing the insert of the company and it respective
stakeholders with the inclusion o the fictive level of monitoring and efficient usage of
resources. Most of the companies have the high level of corporate governances as it have the
clear level of needs to make proper demonstration of the food level of corporate citizen through
the environmental awareness, ethical behaviour, and sound corporate governance practices.
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As the current level the director of the Victoria And Albert Museum is the Tristram hunt who is
the fellow the royals historicise societies. In addition to that’s the Tim reeve is the Deputy
Director & Chief Operating Officer form 2013 by tasking the strategic and operation overview of
the all activities which are taken in the museum. He is also considered responsible for the V&A's
commercial and digital activities, exhibitions, Future Plan, finance and resources, marketing and
communications, security and visitor experience. Moving next to that Dr Antonia Boström,
Director of Collections, Alex Stitt, Director of Commercial, Digital & Exhibitions, Jane Lawson,
Director of Development, Sophie Brendel, Director of Audiences, Dr Helen Charman FRSA,
Director of Learning and National Programmes, Judy Roberts, Head of Human Resources and Dr
Pip Simpson, Director of Design, Estate & Future Plan
TASK 2
Stakeholders
The stakeholder of the company is considered to be the merely the level of investors actions for
determining the outcomes for the business decision. The stakeholders don’t have the equity level
of shareholders as the employees have the stakes to the company success and the incentive for
the production of the success. This have the most important or the level of primary stakeholders
such as the owns, staff and customers as they have the voting the out of directors as rennin
business badly. The stakeholder of the museum such as the customer, the interest groups
continuances and the institution which are merely tried to be nee affected there plans and presto
of the Victoria And Albert Museum.
Stakeholders Power and Interest Theory
The power and interest matrix have been the simple tools which have the helping the firm to
make the proper level of categorise for the project level of stockholders with the level of
increasing power and interest in the projects. This will help the company to have the proper
focus of the key level of stakeholders who can have proper breaking of the projects as this will
be helps in masking the stakeholder prioritization.
This have the working there right people which have the usage of opinion along with the input
the gains level of agreements which will helps the company gains there more out to the
resources. As per the staying the touch have the implication in term of the right decision s in
order to have the maintains the relationship along with gathering there proper level of feedbacks ,
tips and ideas which are sharing form other to have the air level of influence in perfect manner.
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in have been celery suggested to have the usage of the Mendelow matrix as the tool which have
been used as the organization to the considered the attitude the stakeholders as to the starting of
the projects along with setting the significant level of objectives.
How the Mendelow matrix tends o have the working as power and interest are the two important
aspect as he formed one have the ability for the group to make the significant persuasions as ,
induces and crunch other which the following certain level of courses. On the other hand the
latter one have the knowing the extent to which interest can make the influence in analysing the
stakeholders in more sophisticated way.
The matrix has the distribution of the four respective quadrants as the
Minimal efforts
These are the one who are not interest in the firm or do not have the much level of power as this
have the decision masking with lower level of impacts. The firm tends to have no level of
wastage in the resources by taking these stakeholder goals of the potential response in to the
significant account.
Keep informed
There are one who are having the high interest but less level of powered as they are important
the company as they may work as seeking the additional power to influences the running of
the organization. These are the grouped which are nice to haves but is not necessarily essential
so the volunteers have high interest but less power.
Keeping stratified
This basically have the higher level of ability to influences but currently ask the less level of
inters in the organizations. This is considered to have the important to have themes as there
interest as the level of disaffection can result in the negative impacts in the company policy in
perfect manner.
Key players
This will bending to the stakeholder who have the high level of power who are having the high
level of influences along with being highly motivates in order to have the expressing the own
level of interest . This have the early involvements along with patriations in the way of way their
goals can be integrated with organizational goals ensuring their support.
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Stakeholders Power and Interest
stakeholders interest
directors or chief
financial officer
will have the proper determination of budgets
held of the
education and
communities
will have the working if the education programmes an try to make the
proper implications.
funding bodies this will have the providence of there preserving and developing the
digital collections by ensuring the clear level of success. authority and
the intermediaries.
users to have the palsying the interactive parts in the way of digit
collections.
researchers have the collection regular bias
archivist will have the preserving , managing and use of the digital
collections .
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Current Issues
Today the role of museums in supporting the democracy’s having the strike to be more vital
that’s it have been for the generations. In addition to that’s around the world, the post war tenets
of the liberal democracies are crumbling along its falling in the institutions along with free
media, business, universities, faith bodies and he civil society to have the preserving the
ecology of the civic life. The threat are multiples a growing as highlighting the challenges to te
modern representative government have posed the growing militancy of the identify politics.
There is the highly level of focus on the emotional case of gender, sexuality, ethnicity and
nationhood as the drivers of political and personal identity.
This have been increasingly the zero sums approach to the discourses and deliberations as it
feels to have identify on cost of other. In addition to that’s country have their geopolitical
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landscape of the divided polities and emboldened autocracies. There is the need to have the clear
debate colonised culture form the museums. This have the exampling of the complicates and the
challenging socials cultural issues. The museum could have their generating the healthy level of
discussions over the helping of exhibitions an public programmes in order to have the inclusive
approach .
CONCLUSION
From the above file , it can be interpreted as Victoria And Albert Museum is situated in the
London being the world largest museum been named after the Queen Victoria and her husband,
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The museum have the currently dealing with major 18
department divided in the different direction for the proper working and attractiveness of the
customer. The firm have the major level of concern regarding their commitments to develop the
core activities as to increase the order of becoming the world largest and leading museum as such
as curatorship’s, conservation, research, collection management, learnings, talents management
and leadership. The best level of contemporary designs are term to be creating there new level of
existing galleries and visitors facilities along with revealing and restoring the beauty. I
the Mendelow matrix tends o have the working as power and interest are the two important
aspect as he formed one have the ability for the group to make the significant persuasions
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