Acorn Case Essay

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Q 1 - What are the strengths of acorn? 1. The commercial product line. 2. Having a government contracts with huge funding. 3. Accessibility of resources to keep the company growing sufficiently. 4. Recognizing the duties of the project directors, which allow more lenience in the workflow. 5. Rising of the interface between the marketing department and the program offices after the marketing department held the most responsibility for the proposals in the past. 6. Opening a marketing department in each division to increase the investment in R&D to compensate for the production shortage in the future government contracts. 7. Competences technical skills Q 2 – What are the weaknesses of Acorn? The weak points in Acorn are in: 1. Project management in the company is still new and less developed than the competitorsf1. 2. Functional and project managers conflict. 3. After the finishing the contract with the government they have to look for a new one. Q 3 – What are your recommendations? To develop the project management in the company: 1. Provide training courses and workshops for the projects’ employees. 2. Hire experienced project officers and directors. 3. More flexibility and support from the executive management to the project management, and acceptance of the change in the way of doing work in the company. 4. More communication between the functional and project managers. 5. Hiring new talented employees or outsourcing some of the projects that need talents not available in the company. 6. Set unified standards for the employees’ evaluation. 7. All key decision makers should participate in the decision-making. 8. Strategic planning should set upfront. Q 4 (a) – Why was project management so slow in getting off the ground? * Apparently the executive management in the

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