Company: Johnson & Johnson Singapore Pte Ltd Using MS Project 2013 Come up with a real organisation that you believe needs improvement and suggest 3 improvements that should be made The seminars...

Company: Johnson & Johnson Singapore Pte Ltd Using MS Project 2013 Come up with a real organisation that you believe needs improvement and suggest 3 improvements that should be made The seminars follow the format of the report as follows: 1. Choose and organisation that you are familiar with - Briefly introduce the organisation and the products and services it provides 2. Investigate your choice of organisation to evaluate how it is currently performing and identify three operational areas that require changes - Start off by briefly introducing your chosen organisation and explaining what three changes you have identified and why you believe the changes should be made 3. From the changes that you have identified, select one change that you want to make - Review the information on project / investment appraisal and identify what method / criteria can be used to do this. At least 4 academic references are required to underpin this information review - From the review choose the project / investment appraisal criteria and evaluation method(s) that are appropriate for your changes and the organisations - Evaluate all the three proposed changes using the same evaluation methods / criteria and from your analysis choose the change that you will plan to implement 4. Decide upon the approach you will take to manage and implement the change by putting forward a case for using both Radical Change and Continuous Improvement as the means for delivering the required improvements for the organisation, identifying the benefits and disadvantages of using each method - Review the information on Radical Change vs Continuous Improvement and identify what criteria you could use to identify which improvement method should be used. At least 4 academic references are required to underpin this information review - From the review, choose the criteria that are relevant for your change and organisation - Evaluate your chosen change using the evaluation criteria and recommend your choice of improvement method(s) giving reason to your choice – Radical change, Continuous improvement or both and why? 5. Produce a draft Project plan using MS Project identifying all tasks, timescales, dependencies and resources that are required to implement the change - Outline the factors that you will consider when constructing your project plan and apply them to create an initial draft project plan for your chosen change, using MS Project 2013 - Explain the major phases of your draft project plan and provide details of the costs and timescales as calculated by MS Project 2013. (full costing and resource capacity planning must be done using MS Project 2013 and this must be evident within your report) 6. Identify the potential risks to the successful implementation of your Project Plan and what you would do to mitigate these risks - Review the information on Risk Management within projects and identify what criteria you can use to identify barriers and risks and what evaluation method(s) could be used. At least 4 academic reference are required to underpin this information review - From the review, choose the risk criteria that are relevant for your change and the organisation and an appropriate evaluation method - Explain what alterations you have had to make to your draft project plan to mitigate the identified risks to overcome them 7. Produce a final detailed Project Plan using MS Project 2013, taking account of changes you have had to make as a result of your risk analysis, including an analysis of the impact of your proposed change on the organisation, identifying the cost, benefits and timescales as calculated by MS Project 2013 8. In the project plan you need to look out for students understanding the difference between the duration of a task and the work effort associated with as task as these are normally different. The project plans need to be fully costed and capacity planned – the MS project tutorial explains how to do this and the costs associated with the resources should look reasonable