Assignment Sample on Case Studies in Project Management
Introduction
The study focuses on the critical analysis of the case studies using the comparison criteria. The study sheds light on the teamwork management on the group for the study as well as explores the approaches adopted for learning. Determining and exploring the overall contribution to the study. The study aims the comparison between the following case studies as Innovate UK, Home for Innovation and Ideas, QR codes ease project information access for the graham and why new names are piling into offsite housing. The study explores the recommendation based on the case study.
2. Content
The detailed comparison between the various case studies can be categorized based on the similarity and differences.
Innovate UK
The company Innovate UK is part of the UK Research and Innovation, however, it is a non-departmental public body that is funded by the UK government. The company drives economic growth and productivity for supporting the businesses, however, the organisation develops and determines the potential ideas and even the world-class research base is included. As cited by Barata et al. (2017), Innovate UK’s responsibilities for the company is strongly focused on the business and drives for growth while working with various companies helping them to de-risk as well as support and enable innovation. The firm connects the partners, investors and customers from the businesses for turning their ideas into successful services and products for business growth. The organisation funds the research and businesses as well as drives the business investments into development and research. The firm even supports businesses across value chains, economic sectors and the UK regions.
The company worked so far on the company’s investment with around 2.5 billion pounds for helping the businesses across the country for innovation, with funding from various organisations with a total value of projects beyond 4.3 billion pounds. The company has helped more than 8500 companies and created more than 70,000 jobs opportunities for individuals as well as holds value with 4.3 billion pounds in the UK’s economy. According to the view of Kesidou and Demirel (2019), in 2018 the company became part of the UK Research and innovation. The delivery plan for the company is to support the businesses and to develop commercialise and ideas for the new technologies. However, the previous year’s delivery plan was about funding and connecting the businesses for developing new processes, products and services for the markets. The company’s approach is towards diversity and inclusion for launching the women for the innovation awards. Being a part of the UK research, the company developed the strategic vision for diversity, equality and inclusion for their partners within the councils.
An industrial strategy for the fund:
The budget allocation to Innovate UK for their traditional responsive mode remained stagnated, for supporting the UK government’s innovation agenda. As stated by Fitzgibbon (2019), the company invested funds in cutting edge technologies in order the creating jobs opportunities and increasing the living standards for individuals. The Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund was administered by the company in areas such as robotics and artificial intelligence, self-driving vehicles, satellites and space technologies and healthcare and medicine. The drives towards bringing the world-leading research together with an ambition for the business and unlocking the industries and markets for the future. The primary three areas received funds from the companies and governments for the development of the technologies for the manufacturing of medicine which helps the patients to speed up for the new treatments and drugs as well as building strength on the exportation for the UK’s biopharmaceutical sectors.
Research and developments
The increase in the investments helped the company to intense less or more lines on the research and development of the businesses. As narrated by McAdam et al. (2017), the reports for the business investment based on the R&D was just 1% in the UK’s GDP and around half the rate was in Germany, however, the strategic challenge plan helped the company in the situation.
Scotland Innovation centre
The company launched the innovation centre programme associated with the Highlands and Islands Enterprise and Scottish Enterprise for transformational support between the businesses and universities. The company aims for enhancing entrepreneurship and innovation across the economic sectors of Scotland as well as creating jobs to increase the growth of the economy. The company backed from the industries and drew the research expertise for the relevant sector to work on the opportunities and problems identified by the industries. As cited by Mathew et al. (2018), the company added value through industrial studentships, secondments, shared access to equipment and space for collaborative work. However, they support training and skills for the next generation’s development towards knowledge and research. Funding for the innovative centres The company has committed more than 120 million pounds to the innovation centre programme to support the university infrastructure. However, innovation centres expected the levering investments for the public funding and industries.
Innovative centre strategy
The innovative centre responded to the global trends which were emerging such as diseases, ageing population and increased cost pressures on healthcare in Scotland. The company helped to achieve through the competitive environment and creation of the dynamic robust capability in the business attracting the key skills, investments and talents. However, the strategies for the company are business environment, sustainable production, internationalisation and commercialisation. As stated by Sena and Hall (2017), the updated strategy of innovative centres influences the business with researchers, investors and healthcare professionals for economic growth.
The eight innovation centres that exist in Scotland are currently which are highly competitive in the research environment with the attitudes towards the collaboration with the academic for the improvement, catalysed parts for the centres. As cited by Hernandez et al. (2017), one of the centre successes in securing large scale collaboration with the business partners including the urban big data centres many more companies.
Research pooling partners
The research pooling helps to encourage the researchers across the educational centres for their responses and research for increasing global competition.
Similarity
The similarity between both companies is innovation as the companies are innovation-oriented. The companies fund innovation and ideas for creating job opportunities and growth in the business. However, the companies are separated by their ideas for investing.
Differences
The company’s motivation is similar but the areas of focus are different such as Innovate UK mainly focuses on the technological project and focuses on business to establish the business ideas for growth and contribution towards the business. According to the view of Chapleo et al. (2018), the Scotland innovation centre focuses on entrepreneurship with the help of innovations.
QR codes ease project
The project rollout across the constructional project for the simplified access for the improved and information on the handover sequence of spaces and rooms. The QR codes help to determine the project information with the data capturing tool. The construction project for the ranges of sectors such as healthcare and residential. However, the systems access to the information such as floor plans, snags and quality of the construction as well as can be upgraded using the cameras and tablets keypads. The large project can be divided into small and manageable project phases using the technology. As stated by Kuhlmann and Rip (2018), digital construction helps to navigate through the rooms effectively and efficiently with the help of the QR code system. The tools access the relevant information for the construction about the material used on the project and the numbers of rooms as well as all relevant information for the site team. The technology helps to find the information in an efficient way enabling the handovers of rooms and areas even for improved collaboration. The application includes the scanners for the QR codes, workflows and the process which was developed by the digital construction team. The technology or the systems as well as the QR codes require continuous training and support for the project. As narrated by Gagliardi et al. (2019), the code systems technologies range from the Weavers Quay project applied by Graham was completed. The application was incorporated for the construction daily managing the on-site quality workflows which helped to close out the snags. However, the application was more than the traditional ways of construction and resulted in a more efficient handover of rooms.
Piling into offsite housing
The stelling properties pioneers the developer’s Hampshire high tech factory can produce 600 beds in a year. The company invested in high tech factories which can produce beds for the hotels, private residential and student accommodation. As cited by Picard (2017), the company uses the construction management company for overviewing the process as well as packages the activities. The modules were designed and use the template for manufacturing as the offsite construction leads to digitalisation.
Mod Pods solution
The general building firm is based on the new modular housing operation which developed the product and the city got its Mod Pod. As narrated by Trifilova and Sergeeva (2018), the insulted lightweight steel modules, craned to the place and complete with the furniture as well as help the tenants to move. The council approved the project for the next 12 months and the company set up the larger factories for increasing their production and securing the contract.
Swedish expertise
The plan for the building housing and for the development of the sites in the areas where visible for the low housing. Delivering a high quality of construction and design marks the level of services as part of the buying process. Additionally, company intended the social media harnessing to sell homes while involving purchasers for the construction process. According to the view of Zanello and Sergeeva (2018), the design was adapted to the UK’s market for growth in the business and the market.
Project Etopia
The entrepreneurs disrupted the housing markets as it was backed by the hedge fund which took four weeks to construct homes using the novel panel building systems. The smart schools’ systems use highly insulated panels. As narrated by Barksfield and Shah (2019), the project claims to be the modular home’s specialist by creating turnkey properties by affordability, combining passive design, intelligent cooling systems and smart home technology. The demonstration houses were built in the innovation park and completed eco houses for the commuter village
The case focuses on the housing contraction by the various companies with innovation rather than the traditional method for building houses. However, the duration for building houses are different from each other. The comparing Graham housing contraction used the QR codes for efficiency and efficient contraction as well as maintained by the application results efficient from the traditional house building. As cited by Tomaszewski et al. (2019), the case study of various builders is different as the construction of houses are different with different strategies in their minds for the building compact and low-cost housing for the peoples.
3. Reflection
I started the study in a group and with the help of the group team management explored the study. I followed basic principles while in the group such as communication, delegation, efficiency, ideas and support. The prime aspect of teamwork is communication as effective communication involves consistent updating of information. However, being a good communicator in the group helped a lot during the study and while being a good listener. I managed to be patient during the study as the study was confusing and mind blocking. However, teamwork can be archived with the help of the proper delegation towards the objective. As cited by Scuotto et al. (2018), understanding the strengths and weaknesses of every member is essential for balance. Additionally, the benefit of this teamwork enhances my skills and knowledge on management and being an effective leader for the group. First of all, I identified all the aspects related to this study and allocated tasks to the members of these groups according to their strength and weakness.
Being efficient was important for this study, which I was lacking but with the help of the team member, I managed myself. The group was aware of my capabilities; hence they helped me with their guidance and managed the workload accordingly. Creative thinking and brainstorming sessions for the study only got possible with the help of my teammates. The study was very challenging and with the support of my team members, it was possible to explore the various sides of the case study. As narrated by Dorado et al. (2019), during the study the group leaks their productivity but with help of motivation, the productivity increased to explore the study. The approaches which I adopted for learning were the five elements for learning such thinking skills, communication skills, social skills, self-management skills and research skills. Thinking skills helped to analyse the critical thinking of this study with creativity and innovation.
The element helps me and my group to develop a critical understanding and enhance the thinking skills, however, with the transfer element I and my team members shared individual creative thoughts for the better possible thinking. The communication skills also help me to understand and enhance the skills to convenience my teammates for decision making. Social skills helped me to get socialised with the team members easily without any team issues as well as it helped me and my team to complete the study with the deadline. The self-management skill helped me to organise the key elements of the study for the detailed analysis for comparison. As cited by Vidmar (2021), the research skills help me cite the study and to find valuable information for the study. The skill also helped my teammates to find the key elements for the research work in the study. My contribution to the team was managing the team being the team leader for this study. I was able to key find the comparison of various study cases and help the team to list it down.
4. Recommendation
The construction project using the QR codes is a great idea but the effectiveness and efficiency are less than the cost of maintenance as the training of the employee are more costly. However, the duration is also high even using the technology it must be less for the completion of the project. As narrated by Fiano et al. (2018), the various builders are different from each other as per their innovation for the building housing; however, the houses are not sustainable for the market. The companies for the housing are start-ups and expertises are less, hence huge projects for the builders must be considered as per their expertise.
5. Conclusion
The study sheds light on the case study with innovation-oriented funding for the business and educational centres to create the entrepreneur for the next generation market. The study explores the case study comparison between various builders for housing innovation. The case studies are mainly based on innovation-oriented companies, entrepreneurs or societies. The study explores the elements and approaches for teamwork group management as team collaboration with each member. The study helped to enhance the skills based on teamwork for effective and efficient completion. The study explored the recommendation based on the different case study for the betterment of the companies.
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