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A 6 page paper. The scenario in brief: Carl Conway has been appointed manager of the Operation Mexicano project for Linderman Industries. The company is opening a subsidiary in Mexico. Conway has a number of problems assembling his team, primarily from other managers. Even so, the project succeeds and the transition of the Mexican plant to come under Mexican management is accomplished within the expected time line. This paper discusses 5 questions: Was project management an appropriate approach? Why did Conway have trouble getting the people he wanted on the team? Would you expect people to be willing to join the team? Why did Conway take one problem to Linderman but not others? What should the company have done about team members? Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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the transition of the Mexican plant to come under Mexican management is accomplished within the expected time line (Reeser & Loper, 1978). The student is asked to respond to five
questions about the case. 1. Was adoption of project organization the appropriate approach to get the Mexican subsidiary started? Project management can be used for any project that has
more than one task involved (Stewart, 1995). Projects can be anything within the companys scope from changing the customer service operations to developing a new product to opening a subsidiary
in another country. The project management approach is appropriate because there is a beginning, which is the point at which Linderman hires Conway, a middle, which are the myriad of
tasks that must take place to set up the subsidiary under Mexican management, and an end, which is when the plant in Mexico is open and under Mexican management. .
Project management is really about managing change, more precisely, it is about managing the process of planning for a specific change (Stewart, 1995). There are numerous tools that are used
in project management, including a critical path which is calculated by establishing a target time for each component in the project plan, PERT, which is used to determine time estimates.
A key concept in project management is creating network diagrams using PERT/CPM (Program Evaluation and Review Technique/Critical Path Management). There are many advantages to using the project management concept, especially
for companies who are expanding. A well designed project with adequate time and resources allows the company to keep track of the multitude of diverse tasks required to complete the
project. The project approach identifies who is responsible, i.e., it identifies roles that each member of the project team will play as well as the roles others not on
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