Case Study
Submitted to:
Sir Francis Arroyo
Submitted by:
Rizalina Bernardo
Jezza Bautista
OM106-B
STEP 1:
WHAT ARE THE KEY ISSUES OR PROBLEMS OF THE CASE?
Situational Problem
Samantha Morrison has a problem but it is clearly not her ability or capability to deliver a good performance because of background experience on numerous earned work opportunities. Where she is a very passionately active from her youth and college days that she constantly promote herself involve in various activities, projects and gained job experience on elaborate skill tasks which qualifies her to the employee position in the Toronto Sun promoting department. She feels pressure on taking on a big project.
The problem does not rely on her qualifying skills as a project manager. It was never questionable but it relies on the preparation of a timeline and task schedule ahead on impending due date which require step by step procedure on the delicate situation to pursue and minimal mistakes on scheduling in order there will be no set back on the parade day. The project was not originally hers but her colleague who failed to make progress on the assigned task. Which Larissa Presso, the director of promotion for the Toronto Sun and Morrison's boss, made a decision that Morrison intervene and take over.
Key Issue of the Case Problem
So the first key issue in the case is the desired outcome of the project that is the parade float to be constructed in which it is to push through with the planning where Toronto Sun is a major sponsor in the Scotia bank Caribana Festival. As stated in the case that it was imperatively crucial for the Toronto Sun to have a float in the parade because of the already paid sponsorship and all the other major sponsors form other company would also have a parade. So the float is an urgently important to Toronto Sun.
Also the second key issue is the impending time slot limit of 8 weeks challenge to get it the entire necessary