Managing Successful Business Project: Vodafone's Multinational Impact

This report examines the impact of multinational companies on the business environment, focusing on Vodafone's project for launching a 5G scheme in Ireland. The report outlines project aims and objectives, including the role of multinational companies and ways for Vodafone to thrive. It details a comprehensive management plan encompassing costs, time, scope, quality, communication, resources, and risks. The report includes a work breakdown structure and a Gantt chart for project organization. Small-scale research applies qualitative and quantitative methods to gather data, followed by recommendations. The project considers Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and its impact on the telecommunications sector, particularly in the context of Vodafone's international operations. The report analyzes various aspects of the project management including cost, time, scope, quality and communication to successfully launch the project. The report also includes an analysis of the different risks and resources involved in the project.

MANAGING SUCCESSFUL
BUSINESS PROJECT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Establishing project aims and objectives...............................................................................3
P2 Establishing management plan .............................................................................................4
P3 Work breakdown structure and Gantt chart ..........................................................................7
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M1 ..............................................................................................................................................8
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................8
P4 Small-scale research by applying qualitative and quantitative research methods.................8
M2 ..............................................................................................................................................9
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................10
P5 Research and data using appropriate tools and techniques..................................................10
P6 Recommendation.................................................................................................................15
M3.............................................................................................................................................15
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................16
P7 Reflection.............................................................................................................................16
M4 ............................................................................................................................................17
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................17
REFRENCES ................................................................................................................................19
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TOPIC: “ Impact of multinational companies on business environment of the domestic
country”.
INTRODUCTION
The essential aspect of each and every business surrounds the effectual management of
the business performances. This is the fact that the multinationals regulating worldwide is highly
aimed at the aspect of streamlining as well as establishing the performances of accomplished
business in the most effectual manner (Aguiar and et. al., 2011). This is to accomplish their
target goals. In this current paper, the discussion may center on the factors of dynamic in
between function and processes of the venture. Vodafone is trying to launch their new 5G
scheme in the Ireland and it is going to launch the test sites in Dublin in order to expand their
business in foreign countries as well. Vodafone provides a huge range of communication plans
within the country with beneficial product schemes. As the telecommunication sector is labor-
rigorous, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) plays an essential role in the management of the
telecommunication companies. Vodafone is one of the international multi-distribution retail
brands of communication in UK; this assignment sheds light on the influence of CSR on their
business.
TASK 1
P1 Establishing project aims and objectives
Aim: “To identify the impact of multinational companies on business environment of the
domestic country”. A case on Vodafone.
Research Objectives:
 To identify role of multinational companies in changing business environment of
domestic country.
 To analyse the way multinational companies influence business environment of
Vodafone in UK.
 To determine various ways through which Vodafone can easily survive in the business
environment.
Research Questions:

 What are the role of multinational companies in changing business environment of
domestic country ?
 How to analyse the way multinational companies influence business environment of
Vodafone in UK ?
 How to determine various ways through which Vodafone can easily survive in the
business environment ?
P2 Establishing management plan
A project management plan assist project manager in order to accomplish the objectives
of the project in better way (Baron,2013). To prosperously succeed a project, the project
manager needs to have a plan for that project. The project management plan is explained as the
method of the way the management may control, monitor and execute the project. A project
management plan is official as well as developed ways in order to maintain a project.
Costs - In order to receive a project as well as to finish it, the project manager of
Vodafone needs to contemplate some essential factor of the project. In addition, the cost is the
most essential factor of the project. That is why; the project manager of Vodafone, it can be
contemplated the cost of the project. For Vodafone, it is required to identify cost for various
aspects on different functions which are related to business. Anticipation of estimated cost will
develop a effective business plan for the actual implementation of plan. With the help of enter in
new market, Vodafone can easily gain high income and profitability in order to smoothly run of
business functions and its operations. The total cost of this project can be distinguished in the
following ways:
 Direct costs: Travel expense, software license, raw materials, consultant fees and labour.
 Indirect costs: Telephone charge, company insurance, control administration and office
space.
The approximate cost required for this project management is the prime concern of the
project manager of Vodafone. That is why; it has been organized an approximate cost for the
project management.
Activities Cost (£) Time
Staff management 200 1st Month

Implementation of the project 150 2nd Month
Creating drafts for the plan of
the projects
100 3rd Month
Understanding CSR valuation 300 4th Month
Total 750
Time - The project manager when structuring the plan for the project requires to
timeframe work related to the project growth life cycle (Clark,2013). The scheduling indulges
with the allotment of the resources to several tasks of the project in the mapped way. At the time
of preparing the schedule, the project manager requires to decide the duration, ending and
beginning for every activity of the project. For a business project, characteristic of time is
essential. Without the proper time, the project manager cannot attain success at the activities of
the project. That is why; the project manager of Vodafone, it has been organized the time in
order to begin as well as finish the project within the estimated time (Fitzgerald and et. al.,
2014). It has been organized the critical path of the project management. The project may be
succeeded within 4 months. It is required factor which help them in recognising time that are
helpful in performing each and every activity of the project effectively. In the context of
Vodafone, project need necessary time period in order to complete the work or tasks and this will
help them in completing different functions and activities in given framework.
Scope - To finish the project successfully, the manager of Vodafone needs to contemplate
the scope of the project. The scope of the project involves with some essential aspects such as
development, project designing, project planning, hypothesis testing of the project as well as
instigating some software and hardware which is essential for succeeding the project. Moreover,
side by side the succeeding of the project also contemplates the drawback of the project which is
dangerous for Vodafone project. Vodafone needs to avoid the transformations in taking new
plan, transforming the target market and planning. This is used to identify the major
opportunities which are related to project concept in future time period. It will help Vodafone
firm in order to enhance their business operations by giving different types of goods and this will
allow them to take benefits of required opportunities. For increasing their scope, they are
required to provide best quality based goods and services to their buyers effectively. The major
scope of this project is to examine and analyse different opportunities that are helpful in

preparing research project. The aspect that covers in this research is extent of content,
development, project designing, project planning, hypothesis testing of the project as well as
instigating some software and hardware. The aspects that is not covered in limitations of the
study, the specifications about the data, various theories and longer essays.
Quality - Vodafone is one of the international telecommunication brands in UK, which
contributes with various plan and recharge facilities with their exciting 5G networking speed
(Lai,2011). The project management delivers a successful plan as it is one of the best ways to
develop a strong relationship in between the business operations and its functions. The main
purpose of developing project which is provide best services and goods in order to render
requirement of various customers and maintain high standard of quality products. In the regard
of Vodafone, there are different aspects of cultural, economic and ethical factors of globalisation
that will help business in order to make improvement in quality based products as well as
functional process. The effective quality of respective organisation will assist business operations
in developing quality based goods and services and it will help in reaching with gaining
competitive advantages. The project managers can ensures their quality with its results and
outcomes as well as feedbacks acquired from users. Also, assure that product, services should
meet the consumers expectation.
Communication - It is the most important section of the project management for
Vodafone. The manager of the project needs to manage communication with the parties based on
this of the project on a regular basis. Vodafone will maintain a routine of monthly assembly. All
workers involving with the owners of the project and subgroup clients are engaged in the CC list
for presenting the assembly agendas and notes (Livingstone,2012). Moreover, the prime
stakeholders of the company will also be kept abreast of the working team with the aid of their
typical working team. That is why; the project manager of Vodafone needs to manage the
communication with their stakeholders and employees as well as the general members who are
incorporated within this project on a regular basis. Effective communication of staff members
will provide great advantages to the respective firm that assist in recognising loopholes that
impact on company success and growth. An effective communication and coordination can
easily lead towards finish the whole project in better manner. Respective company can
communicate with their partners through communication channels, social media,

telecommunication as well as information and communication technology. This will help them in
understand their requirements and needs regarding project.
Resources and risks – In current business environment, every project includes some
factors of risks that are related with outcome of plan. While developing and formulating project,
company manager required to analyse all the possible risks. In the context of Vodafone, they
should recognise different types of risks such as economical. The project manager of Vodafone
is liable to effectually intermediate the resources in the project as well as minimizes the
opportunities of the absence of resources and any wastage. Any sort of business project of a
company has some resources such as funds, labour, costs, materials and so on as well as risks.
These are helpful while conducting research project in appropriate manner and it will assist in
managing business services and functions. The project to receive competitive benefits with the
aid of receiving Corporate Social Responsibilities activities has some issues, resources and risks
even while introducing their new scheme in the other country (Lozano, Larivière and
Gingras,2012). The challenges of the project are the restriction of sufficient critical conditions,
volunteers, money and time of the national politics. In addition, resources of the project
management for Vodafone are the experience of the project manager, skilled manpower and the
positive attitudes of the project management and sufficient investment of the organization. That
is why; the project manager of Vodafone needs to assure that the project for launching 5G
scheme in Ireland may be succeeded within the estimated time as the project has sufficient
resources rather than the challenges at hand without facing any trouble in their host country, UK.
When project is undertaken so this will being responsibility of researcher in order to
organise and arrange essential resources that includes financial resources, technology and
methods that are required to carry out business performance effectively. With the assistance of
such resources, an organisation can easily gain higher position and this will assist in earning high
income or profitability in effective way.
P3 Work breakdown structure and Gantt chart
A work breakdown structure is the key project which organise and arrange their teams
work in manageable manner. This will refers as work breakdown structure as a deliverable
oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be implemented by project team. WBS define

the scope into manageable chunks which a project team can understand each level of work
breakdown structure and it will provides further definition and details.
Gantt chart
A Gantt chart is represented as horizontal bar chart which is developed as a production
control tool in 1917 by Henry L. Gantt, an American engineer and social scientist. This is
constructed with horizontal axis representing the total time duration project which broke down
into increments. This is mainly used in project management, one of the most important and
useful ways of demonstrating activities and functions in better manner. In this, each activity is
representing as bar, the position and length of bar reflects start date, duration and end date of the
activity.

M1
The project management plan has 5 phases of the activity. That is why; the project
manager of Vodafone needs to divide the entire activity into 5 various steps. That is why; the
manager of Vodafone needs to take an approach to break down the entire work
(Nambisan,2013). As per the plan of the project, the 5 phases of work may be succeeded within
the time specified. In case, the assigned activities can be succeeded within the time then the
project may be an accomplished one for the organization. That is why; the project activities have
been done with the aid of Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). That is why; the project manager
of Vodafone, it has been organized the time in order to begin as well as finish the project within
the estimated time. That is why; it has been organized the critical path of the project
management. The project may be succeeded within a week or 7 days.
TASK 2
P4 Small-scale research by applying qualitative and quantitative research methods
The aim of the project is to search out new market part outside the United Kingdom. The
organization is trying to receive into the new market (Purcell, Buchanan and Friedrich,2013).
That is why; the project manager of Vodafone may find out the feasible as well as the best
process of research in order to search as well as evaluate the proper market for Vodafone. In fact,
as a part of the project of Vodafone, it has been decided that in order to utilize the qualitative and
quantitative process of research. That is why; the market research of Vodafone is provided in the
following:
 Qualitative research work - The qualitative research is received to understand the
insight of the people and customers. A proper qualitative research assists the project

manager to know what the consumers of the organization think regarding the
organization (Schaefer and et. al., 2014). That is why; the project manager of Vodafone
has organized some questions in order to receive the insights of the consumers. The
project manager has set out some questions to be responded by the non-customers and the
customers of the organization. The question is as follows:
1. To what extent, does the Corporate Social Responsibility have put impact on the business
of the telecommunication company in UK?
 Quantitative research work - The quantitative research can be completed utilizing
various processes such as focus group, questionnaire, survey, observation and many
others (Selwyn, 2012). That is why; in order to do quantitative research work for
Vodafone company, the project manager needs to have received the survey proves for the
research work. That is why; the manager needs to prepare a survey questionnaire related
to the 100 respondents who have been selected random especially the customer and non-
customers of Vodafone with the help of Liket scale:
 Do you think the multinational organizations job creation practices impact on the
business environment of the UK?
 Do you think local community activities(CSR) can act as a beneficial strategy to acquire
profit and financial sustainability?
 Do you think this local community activities(CSR) program may promote the
organization?
 Does suggestion strongly enhance the business development for a clothing company?
 Do you think the local community activities(CSR) program may receive a huge response
from the common people?
M2
 Accuracy - The quantitative and qualitative research methods are accurate for the
research work, as it will help to understand the customers and managers requirements and
advantages with the framing of Corporate Social Responsibility in New Look Company
(Sevillano-García and Vázquez-Cano,2015).
 Reliability - However, these research methods are relevant to that of the research work,
because it is vital to know the viewpoint of the customers and how the marketing

department of New Look is getting influenced by the Corporate Social Responsibility
management in the business and whether it is gaining profit or not.
TASK 3
P5 Research and data using appropriate tools and techniques
QUESTIONNAIRE
Q1. Do you think in multinational organizations, job creation practices impact on the
business environment of the UK?
 Agree
 Disagree
Q2. Does Vodafone company easily survive in the domestic business environment ?
 Yes
 No
Q3. Do you think Vodafone firm can gaining higher growth and development level ?
 Agree
 Disagree
Q4. What are the various ways through which Vodafone company can easily survive in
the business environment ?
 Effective communication
 Making connection with clients
Q5. Can Vodafone assist in gaining high attention of desired customers towards goods and
services ?
 Yes
 No
Q6. Do you have suggestion regarding impact of multinational companies on business
environment of the domestic country.
Theme 1: Multinational organizations influence the business environment of the UK
Q1. Do you think multinational
organizations influence the business
environment of the UK?
Frequency