Discussion 1: Adding New Resources to Your Project
• In order to deliver the project ahead of schedule, you have been granted permission to add more resources to the team. Your Project Sponsor has worked out a deal to add an outside firm (partner) to your team. They have very little understanding of your project and you don't have a lot of time to educate them on the project's specifics. Describe how you plan to incorporate them as members of your project as well as how to get them up to speed on your project.
Discussion 2: Project Structure
• You are working with your Project Sponsor to decide on the optimal project management structure for an upcoming complex project that will involve over 100 members. The sponsor believes that a dedicated project team structure will not work. He has the same concerns about this structure that the author has noted. You are confident that this structure or a matrix structure will work for the project. Describe how you will reassure the sponsor that either structure will work.
Discussion 3: What's Next?
• Visit the PMBOK Guides & Standards information that is provided by PMI. Excluding the Project Management Body of Knowledge PMBOK Guide, select a reference guide that would be most valuable to you in your professional career and explain why.
• After posting your response, respond to at least one of your classmates on their selection and rationale.
Discussion 4: Review the CIBC Mellon: Managing a Cross-Border Joint Venture Case Study
• Compare and contrast strategic controls and financial controls. Provide specific examples of how each may be used to best serve a corporation.
• As a strategic leader, determine if you would feel ethically responsible for developing your firm's human capital and state why. Discuss whether or not you believe your position is consistent with the majority or minority of today's strategic leaders.
Discussion 5: "Innovation Applied"
Analyze the different approaches to innovation discussed in this chapter to determine which approach you think would be the greatest value to the greatest number of organizations. Explain your rationale.
Create one innovative approach that is not discussed in the textbook for increasing the amount of innovation within a large company.
Describe this approach in detail and explain how companies could benefit from it. Be sure to respond to at least one other student.
Discussion 6: "Summation"
• Create a metaphor or analogy that captures the essence of the major lessons learned in the BBA program (e.g., business administration is like . . .).
• Discuss the single most interesting or surprising thing you learned in the BBA program, as well as what made it so.
The response should include a reference list. Double-space, using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.