Benefits And Cost Reduction : Project Selection

The development of a Shared Governance Educational Program to educate unit-level council chairs has a proposed budget of $14,855.73. This figure is based on the assembly of an Interprofessional Team to lead the initiate and planning stages of the program. The team is based on key individuals hourly such as: the workshop coordinator, the Chief Nursing Officer, Magnet Coordinator, chairs of the hospital-wide councils, nurse educators, a business analyst, and Director of Patient Relations. These human resources were budgeted by their hourly wage based on the number of hours they would be in planning meetings. The educational program was held within the organization in various computer labs, library, conference and classrooms. There was no cost associated with using this space. Supplies needed for the project were for handouts given during each presentation i.e. computer paper for PowerPoint presentation and folders were budgeted.

The first project proposal is Match My Doll Clothing line expansion consisted of expanding matching doll and child’s clothing and accessories. The second project proposal is Design Your Own Doll by creating customizable “one of a kind” doll features through the company’s website. The project selection criteria would base on quantitative and qualitative analysis. The quantitative analysis would base on the evaluation of discounting cash flow forecasts to determining the Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), and the Payback period of each proposed project. The qualitative analysis would include the potential project value of the company’s overall strategy, innovation, key project risks, and the project interdependencies to the whole company.

The paper is divided into three sections, the first of which will establish a timeline of events. This project background will serve as a case study for the analysis in the following section that will be structured such that each of the previously mentioned facets will be independently analyzed and contrasted with project management principles. Finally the paper will conclude with a summary of the analysis and recommendations based on

In the current business environment, the demand for project managers is ever growing. In short, project management is a provisional project constrained by time, cost and scope (A guide to the project management body of knowledge, 2013). Between the immense organization, optimization, and communication assets skilled project management brings to a project, it is easy to see why project management is a booming field of study. Furthermore, project management can be both financially and personally rewarding when long term milestones and goals come to fruition.

The purpose of this analysis is to compare and contrast two projects in terms of Project Management, Quantitative Analysis and Economics while illustrating the

In current scenario mainly the following types of models are in use to select project which will fit to the organization strategy

Piper Industries Corp. wants to make a decision on the appropriate project to invest in based on three recommendations. First, Juniper is an enhancement of a current widget being offered by the company, while Palomino is a new line of widget products including enhancements using existing technology, and Stargazer is a production of completely new widgets, which research and development have already started on. The company assigned our team to analyze the three projects and make recommendations on which project the company should invest in. The recommendation must include our description of the five phases of the project and the key deliverables (project completion date and cost) for each project (University of Phoenix, 2013).

A company the size of the Global Infrastructure Group has many options when considering a project selection process. Any project taken on by the company must align with its goal and corporate strategy. Morris and Jamieson (2004) and Dey (2006) argue that project portfolio management is a “bridge between strategy and operation” and enables organizations to transform the organization's vision into realities or successfully implement their corporate strategies (Khalili-Damghani & Tavana, 2014). In project selection, the company’s senior managers must establish strategic intent. Strategic intent will contain the company’s objectives and should result in a strategy map. Goals should be clear, realistic and measurable. Goals should also have an end state e.g. President Kennedy established a goal of landing a man on the moon within a decade. The Global Infrastructure Group’s senior managers should be leading by establishing a clear strategy and obtainable goals to get all projects focused on meeting these goals by aligning to the organization’s strategy. Once strategy and goals are defined, those involved in the project selection process should consider how the proposed project will align with the goals and strategy. Factors they should consider

A company needs to create a series of programs to differentiate their product from those from its competitors and to appropriately price the product to achieve the maximum demand, in order to set up the dynamics of its competitive strategy (David, 2007). The competitive strategy of a company is also expected to offer better products or services to its customers, at a reasonable cost. Due to the mass influence of the external environmental on the customers’ preference, it is vital for the company to develop an available competitive strategy to be able to solve a series of problems, and ultimately to improve the company’s performance. Those problems include: how to differentiate its products or service from competitors, how to create market segments to maximize demands, and how to offer a wider range of products or services to better meet the customers’ needs at more acceptable costs (David, 2007).

According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, there are over 400 electrocutions in the United States each year, and of those about 100 are children. In 2011, an estimated 21,300 reported U.S. non-confined home structure fires involving electrical distribution or lighting equipment resulted in 295 civilian deaths, 840 civilian injuries, and $822 million in direct property damage. These numbers are very alarming as no child nor home deserve to be harmed, especially from a cause that can be prevented. These statistics and our desire to eliminate electrical problems as a whole is what drove us to developing our product, Socket Stop.

In pursuing my professional goal (what goal?) as one of the minority nurse educators and scholars specialized in curriculum and instruction, I enrolled in one of the excellent doctoral programs at the University of Arkansas. I have completed my course work and passed my comprehensive examination in fall 2015. Coming from a low-income Asian immigrant family and being the first in my family to attend and graduate from college and without debt, my family, friends, dissertation committee, and employer have been providing moral support for me to complete my doctoral program. My friends, colleagues, and supervisors attest my diligent and commitment in my achieving my professional goal. However, I have encountered financial challenges in completing

Without the ability to rank the projects based off of cash flows solely, we had to use some analytical criteria as a capital budgeting analyst to provide some thorough support and reasoning for how we ranked the four best projects. In this case we are only using quantitative considerations that we deem to be relevant and no other project characteristics are deciding factors in our selection of the best four projects. When coming up with our calculations to rank

Question 1. What project selection method described in the chapter will ABI probably employ for this proposal? Answer According to the description, the project selection method is profitability of numeric model. We might see the points from the business strategy 1) Bid only on good margin products that have the potential for maintaining their margins over a long term. 2) Pursue only new products. 3) Utilize the most advanced technology in new projects. “ project champion” approach to innovation and creativity. no more than 480 employees. 4) Foster the

All of the 11 projects are primarily ranked based on quantitative measurements. We have to also take into consideration of other quantitative aspects like length of the project, initial investment and anticipated payback period. Moreover, this

The process of deciding and which project should be priority based on business requirements and goals could be a very difficult decision. Since, every project in the company holds importance but because there is a budget which is funded the departments have to select those project priorities to maximize their budgets and fulfill business goals