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Global Project Management Assignment -

For your final project in this course, you are required to produce a report to company executives. Details of what your paper should contain and how it should be structured are below.

The Scenario -

You have been hired as the Senior Global Project Manager by the Timm Coconut Transnational Motor Corporation to manage their newly created Project Management Office.

You are in charge of their first international expansion of their automobile sales to Johannesburg, South Africa.

The company wants to start exporting and selling their cars and trucks from America to Johannesburg, South Africa, 12 months from today. Following that, in 24 to 36 months, they plan to start manufacturing their cars and trucks in Johannesburg, South Africa for African, Australian, and Indian markets.

You are tasked by the executives to send them a proposal on the viability of this vision using the guidelines noted below.

The deliverable for the assignment is a document suitable for executive consumption in the home organization.

Qualities of completeness and succinctness are highly prized, as they are in all good business writing.

Recommended Format - Following is a recommended format for the project. The project should include the following:

1. Cover Page

2. Executive Summary

3. Organizational Vision and Mission (estimate 1/2 page)

4. Overall Strategy (est. 1/2 page)

• Generic strategies and modes of entry
• Source of sustainable competitive advantage

5. Analysis

External Environment (Risks: Opportunities and Threats) (est. 1+ page)

-Global business environment (risks)

• Legal & contractual / Ethical / Trade barriers
• Technological / Intellectual property
• Social / cultural & religious / political
• Economic / business / financial
• Industry environment (immediate competition)

Internal environment (competencies: strengths and weaknesses) (est. 1+ page)

• Audit of: Project management best practices, methodology, maturity
• distinctive competencies and capabilities
• Organizational factors - Culture, formal structure

Summary of internal strengths and weaknesses v. external opportunities and threats (SWOT) (est. 1/2 page)

• Gap analysis

6. Enterprise-Wide Project Management Strategy

Subcontracts, partnerships, networks, other interdependent structures

Project management organization (est. 2 pages)

• Roles and functions (centralized and standardized)
• Sponsorship and executive champions

Project Portfolio (est. 1 page per project; 2 or 4 projects)

• Strategic linkages to mission and other projects
• Cost: Funding, ROI, NPV, Payback (general discussion)
• Scope
• Schedule

7. Summary and Conclusion (est. 1/2 pages)

8. References