Assessment Report

I submitted on Monday my last graded Report, which dealt about a construction project.

To:                                                                 John Redforest (CEO of Leatty)                

From:                                                           Lennard Weiss (Representative of Leatty)

Date:                                                            12 December 2011

Subject:                                                     Suggestions for a strategy to rescue                                                                            the Shanghai construction project

Introduction

On 12 December, Joep Breurkens and Pascal Corée (Managers of Shanghai Works), Rick van der Werf and Lennard Weiss (Representatives of Leatty) held a meeting developing a strategy to rescue the Shanghai construction project. We need to develop a new strategy in order to push the construction progress catching up the time that was lost due to delays in previous working sections. We have agreed on the following plan of action to overcome our project problems and to avoid complications in upcoming future projects.

Improving information exchange and co-ordination of tasks

Firstly, we advise establishing an online bulletin board providing all project parties with the opportunity to exchange information and to co-ordinate their tasks.

Furthermore, we propose to show the work process in flow and Gantt charts illustrating the project life cycle in phases and sub-phases. All this will avoid co-ordination problems of tasks, which arose in the past. The responsibility lies with the IT Manager of Leatty.

Creating open team communication channels

Secondly, we have agreed on introducing daily gatherings directed by the construction managers with the whole working team on the building site to achieve better team communication. This will help preventing miscommunication on the spot and create a coordinated workflow. The responsibility lies with the project manager of Shanghai Works.

Achieving a good working morale and motivation

Thirdly, we recommend hiring more construction workers to take the pressure off the whole construction team. Moreover, we advise introducing an intrinsic and extrinsic reward system creating inducements to work goal-oriented to regain the morale and motivation of the construction workers. The responsibility lies with the project coordinator of Shanghai Works.

Suggestions to be considered in future

Finally, backup plans should be prepared for future projects in case subcontractors are not able to perform or deliver their goods or tasks, thus causing delays in our present project. Furthermore, a good communication with the local government would be considerable as we had problems with incoming goods due to road works, which could easily have been prevented.

Conclusion and recommendation

The consulting team realizes that implementing these recommendations will be necessary to regain our time schedule. Moreover we firmly believe that we can regain a good team communication as well as a good working morale and motivation through intrinsic and extrinsic reward systems.

We look forward to your reaction and we hope that these proposals will comply with your requirements.

Lennard Weiß

(Representative of Leatty)

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