Business Project Management Plan: A Case Study of Wesfarmers in India

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Managing Successful Business Project

Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Globalisation...........................................................................................................................................3
Business environment..............................................................................................................................3
P1. Devise project aims and objectives for a chosen scenario.....................................................................4
Aim..........................................................................................................................................................4
Objectives................................................................................................................................................4
P2. Produce a project management plan that covers aspects of cost, scope, time, quality, communication,
risk, and resources.......................................................................................................................................5
P3. Produce a work breakdown structure and a Gantt chart to provide timeframes and stages for
completion...................................................................................................................................................7
Work breakdown structure......................................................................................................................7
Gantt chart...............................................................................................................................................7
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................9
References.................................................................................................................................................10

Introduction
The research will be analyzing the concept of globalisation by taking the example of India as a
developing nation open for globalisation and Wesfarmers a huge retail brand from Australia
trying to enter the Indian market.
Globalisation: This can be understood as expanding business structure and business operation
across international borders and developing social and revenue structure of the organisation. The
advantage in development in international relation and foreign exchange but the disadvantage is
to invade the tax invasion of the host country (Burlacu, et. al., 2018).
Business environment: This can be building factors of the new organisation in host business
i.e., India in this case.
External- The market is full of suppliers and potential distributions. This also includes income
groups that are of all economic structures.
Internal-The cost of labour is low, and the quantity is high. The polices well structured and open
for new business, but the preference is more to the internal business environment.

P1. Devise project aims and objectives for a chosen scenario.
Aim- To establish the impact of a multinational company on the business environment of the
host destination
Objectives
1. Plan a business development structure to penetrate new business environment.
2. Develop an internal and external business environment to deal with business resources.
3. Collect appropriate data and resources in order to deal with the changes.
4. Analyse the collected data as per requirements.
5. Interpret the data and determine all the issues related to the research.
6. The conclusion will be explaining the outcome of the research and the issues faced in the
research.
7. The recommendation will be to develop future strategies to deal with this issue.

P2. Produce a project management plan that covers aspects of cost, scope, time, quality,
communication, risk, and resources.
The scope of the project– It is a part of project planning in which the project makers includes
detailed goals of project, tasks, coast aspects and functions. This information is necessary for a
project planning method.
An aspect of quality- To ensure a good quality project the planners need to know about
customer’s requirement. If they have complete knowledge of customer requirement than it will e
easy for them to create an effective project planning.
An aspect of communication– The planners need to identify technologies and diversity for
reaching the series of stakeholders.
An aspect of risk– The most important risk in project management is poorly defined goals. If
the goal of the project is not clear then it will become hard for the management to identify the
project’s vision. The management needs to arrange a meeting for this and they need to use a
software planning strategy (Huemann, 2015)
Aspects of Resources time and costs
Resource Time Coast
Project manager 8 weeks real wages
Researcher 4 weeks 50 £
Data collector 5 weeks 30 £
Data clerk (data entry
specialist)
4 weeks 20 £

Computer 6 weeks 100 £
Office 5 weeks 150 £
Admin resources (pens, paper
etc)
5 weeks 100 £

P3. Produce a work breakdown structure and a Gantt chart to provide timeframes and
stages for completion.
Work breakdown structure–A work breakdown structure is a key project deliverable which
organises the entire teamwork into different sections. It usually defines the scope into
manageable chunks that a project team understands as each level of WBS defines further detail
(Mir and Pinnington, 2014).
Figure 1: work breakdown structure
Gantt chart–It is a visual view of tasks or activities scheduled over time. Gantt charts are also
useful for project planning as it represents what work has to be done in a specific way.
Following is a given Gantt for this project, such as –
Activities Week Week Week Week Week Week Week Week

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9
Preparation of
PID and scoping
of the project
Planning
Develop methods
of data collection
Collect
quantitative data
Collect
qualitative data
Data input and
transcribing
Analyse
quantitative data
Analyse
qualitative data
Interpret data

Draw
conclusions
Monitor and
control
implementation
of the project
Make
recommendations
Project closure
Reflection
Conclusion
From the report mentioned above, it gets concluded that globalisation has affected business
organisations and its operations directly and indirectly. There has stated, project aim and
objectives which signifies various aspects of global markets. A project management plan is also
developed to reach desired outcomes.

References
 Burlacu, S., Gutu, C. and Matei, F.O., 2018. Globalization–pros and
cons. Calitatea, 19(S1), pp.122-125.
 Huemann, M., and Silvius, A, J, G., 2015. Call for papers: International Journal of
Project Management. Call for papers: International Journal of Project Management.
 Mir, F.A. and Pinnington, A.H., 2014.Exploring the value of project management:
linking project management performance and project success. International journal of
project management, 32(2), pp.202-217.