Assessment guidelines

Please read the case study of Alpha Electronics and complete the following relevant 2 tasks below.

Case study: Alpha Electronics

Assume that you work as a project manager for Alpha Electronics, an Information Services firm based in Cyprus, founded 5 years ago, aiming toward the study, design, and implementation of high quality business solutions in infrastructure, IT, networks, and telecommunications. Alpha Electronics has grown significantly and is evolving into a fully integrated company of informatics and telecommunications, with possibilities for software development, implementation of ERP systems, implementation and support of large projects, IT and telecommunications, and information security by offering products and services domestically, and abroad.

Task A:

The founder and chief executive officer of the company have tasked you with authoring a project plan focusing on change management as the current structure of the company as a start-up does not support its current scope, operation, or potential.

Task B:

You are also asked to separately develop corporate social responsibility and internationalization as strategic elements of the company. In doing so, you have to take into consideration some internal and external influences. An international IT Services company from the United States is providing the seed funding to support this project.

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Guide Provided by Lecturer

This assignment consists of two 2 parts

Part 1:

You are required to author (Produce) a Change Management Plan

This part should integrate a Project Plan and Change Management

A. The Project Plan:

a. A defined WBS consisting of Phases, activities, and tasks relating to the change management

b. Resources (Human resources) required for the Change

c. Schedule for the change management activities or tasks

d. List of Assumptions and Constraints

B. The Change Management:

This section of your work should consist of the following:

a. Change management process (Activities of the change management in the company)

b. Change management Roles (the human resources in the change process)

c. Change Management documents (Change request form and Change register).

Apply the change management above to each strategy in PART 2. Hence, consider each strategy as a project in the company requiring a change management process for its successful implementation.

Part 2

a. Understand the concept of CSR and use it to propose a strategy in the said company

b. Understand the concept of internationalization and propose how it can be used as a strategy in the said company.

c. Understand the concept of stakeholder management and use it to propose a strategy in the said company

d. Understand the concept of ethics and use it to propose a strategy in the said company

e. Do not forget to include the US company in the internationalization strategy.

f. The internal and external influences can be viewed as the issues while the strategies can be viewed as potential solutions for addressing the issues.

NOTE:

The majority of references should come from primary sources (e.g. journal articles, conference papers, reports, etc.), although you can also utilize area-specific textbooks. You must ensure that you use the Harvard style of referencing.

Your assignment should be structured as follows Section/aspect Content to cover Marks available Introduction 15 marks Overview of the topie and general background 250 words information. Main alm and scope of the essay. Topics included in the discussion and the essay's main argument/thesis Main Body 60 marks 1300 words Task A: 40/60 marks The founder and chief executive officer of the company have tasked you with authoring a project plan focusing on change management as the current structure of the company as a start-up does not suppart its current scope, operation, or potential. Task B: You are also asked to separately develop corporate soclal responsibility and Internationalization as strategle elements of the company. In doing so, you have to take into consideration some Internal and external influences. An International 1T Services company from the United States is providing the seed funding to support this praject. In completing the above two tasks, please note the below assessment criteria: 1. A critical reflection of the key points of the discussion with reference to theory covering the different phases of the project strategy in the context of change management with a focus on ethics-CSR, internationalization, and stakeholder management is needed. Understanding and application of theories. Correct use of terminology. Relevance of examples and scenarios. Conclusion 15 marks A comprehensive recap of what was 250 words mentioned in the main body of the essay. Formatting and . High-quality presentation of the material that 10 marks Referencing conforms to principles of academic writing and contains minimal errors in sentence construction, grammar and punctuation. . A logical structure was followed. . The essay follows appropriate academic conventions and standards conventions regarding in-text citations and references. . At least ten appropriate academic references were used for the discussion and the critical evaluation of the essay's inquiries. Total: 2000 words 100 marks