Project Assignment
Description
Your executive vice president (EVP) has decided to restructure six of the current business units into one sector structure. He has asked you to put together two deliverables for his team to review.
Part 1
You are to write an Executive Summary White Paper reflecting the benefits of the recommended change. Include the following in your white paper:
• Short introduction about the alignment between organizational structure and organizational strategy
• Productivity improvement analysis for each organizational structure option
• Potential cost of each organizational structure option
• Potential schedule for the merger
• Your recommendation and why
Part 2
For this part, you are to write a Change Proposal Paper of 2,500 words in which you reflect upon your recommendation from Part 1.
Your EVP is very excited to get started on the change plan for the business unit merger project that you recommended in your Executive Summary White Paper. Before he signs off on the launch date for the project, the EVP wants to see a proposed change plan. Each of the impacted six divisions have approximately 830 employees, and each are organized in the following functions:
• Project management
• Manufacturing operations
• Engineering
• Quality
• Information technology
• Human resources
• Accounting
• Public relations
• Procurement
He was very impressed with your ideas on a customer service organization and wants to include this new function in the new organization. The change plan should include the following:
• Assessments
• Examples of the return on investment (ROI)
• Training required
• Who will be involved in the full change planning
• Communication plan
• Places for potential economies of scale in the merger
• Action plan
• Schedule on the implementation of the new structure
He would also like to know what you need him and the other executive team members to do in support of this project.
What you learned about your client team in the previous change assignments is that they like to see charts with clear objective facts and the latest research in support of the ideas you are presenting in the documents that they review prior to the full team discussion. This is a critical project, so you will want to develop a standard list of questions to interview each of the seven executives to gather their input regarding this project. Be sure to build this diagnostic data collection into the overall project schedule.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.