N1503 MANAGING PROJECTS AND TECHNOLOGIES

You must answer ALL questions.

1. You work for a small UK-based company of 12 employees and you plan to provide new top of the range laptops to all employees to facilitate home-working, along with new CRM software for managing customer leads and relationships and making teamworking and collaboration more effective. The deadline for the project is November 2021. Listing a minimum of 7 and a maximin of 10 work packages, develop a Gantt chart for this project.

[40 marks]

2. Focus on the use of robotics in businesses. Use 400 words (+/- 10%) to:

(a) Briefly explain this business technology (imagine you are explaining it to your line manager who is unfamiliar with this technology). Include a clear example.

(b) Name the key advantages of using this technology.

(c) Name the key disadvantages of using this technology.

[30 marks]

3. In 400 words (+/- 10%), explain the pros and cons of functional, projectized and matrix organisational structure for project management.

[30 marks]