Book Report/Review

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Scenario: You are employed in a medium sized construction firm ‘Coffee Construction Australia’ (see course brief) who deliver a broad range of civil projects including vital transport networks, water and resources infrastructure, railway embankments and dam construction; and major foundation and civil works for water treatment and desalination plants. Coffee Constructions Australia is an old style family based firm that has not embraced technology and the firm is having trouble managing the business and their projects. The Board of Directors has become very concerned about the firm’s reputation and future business opportunities.
You’re employed as the firm’s senior project director/manager .You have been tasked by the Jim Coffee (the firm’s chief construction executive) with investigating the ‘best practice’ information systems (IS) used to manage similar businesses. You are in the process of investigating various information systems when Jim Coffee (the firm’s chief construction executive and a member of the senior leadership team) says that he wants you to prepare a management report for the senior leadership team’s next meeting. Some members of the senior leadership team have expressed some concerns about moving away from their current business practices and processes.

please do A,B and C
“Write a management report explaining (with reference to the course brief):
(a) the business value proposition of using best practice information systems,
(b) how the information systems would support the various business functional areas, and
(c) how each information system would or could be used by the firm’s project managers in managing projects.

Remember the audience is the senior (executive) leadership team who are NOT technology literate so you should use appropriate business language and refrain from using project management, construction, or technical jargon.

With reference to the course brief, PMBoK 5th edition, and literature:
Clearly identifies the business value proposition for using best practice information systems, the functional business areas supported, how each information system can be used by the project managers, and the senior leadership team’s reluctance for change.

please use a peer reviewed articles as will

Structure and sequence are used effectively to help integrate ideas or support logical argument. Soundly structured throughout.

Coffee Constructions
Background:
Coffee Constructions is a Privately owned (family) Australian building and civil engineering business, it commenced operations in Melbourne in 1973 initially working from an office located above an antiques shop. Coffee Constructions holds fully certified builders licences in NSW, QLD, NT and ACT. Coffee Constructions early projects included boutique hotels, large residences, Primary Schools, a range of facilities for local councils, work for the CSIRO, and a waste water treatment plant. During the 1980s Coffee Constructions was awarded the contract to complete a regional Arts Centre. The centre contained a 490-seat theatre and a 220-seat performing arts space. The business experienced consistent growth during the 1980s with the awarding of several high profile contracts that enabled Coffee Constructions to consolidates position in established fields and branch into new sectors of the industry. The1990s saw Coffee Constructions continue to grow. Client relationships developed during the previous two decades were further strengthened with several major projects being carried out at a tier one University. The 1990s also saw the business expand its operations offshore into the pacific region with projects being completed in Western Samoa and in Papua New Guinea. As the 1990s closed out Coffee Constructions was completing a 50-bed psychiatric unit at the central Melbourne Hospital. Coffee Constructions entered the new millennium with 240 employees, a turnover of $295m.Works in regional Victoria continued to expand with construction of two regional District Hospitals and the Marine facility. Operations in New South Wales gained momentum with a large Construction Management contract being awarded by a University. This was shortly followed by a wide variety of projects including a new bookstore and, various contracts to construct facilities for the Federal and NSW Governments. A Queensland office was established in Brisbane in the early 2000s.Within the first few years of operation in Queensland, Coffee Constructions had successfully delivered two iconic projects for the Queensland Government. The financial
Year 2013 saw Coffee Constructions ‘turnover exceed $480 million. Coffee Constructions ‘expertise spans the construction industry spectrum, from smaller renovations to multi-million dollar projects. Over the past 4 decades the portfolio has included: education buildings, hospitals, healthcare, and industrial facilities, telecommunications and data centres, as well as infrastructure projects such as water and wastewater treatment plants, and transport networks. Scenario: You are employed in ‘Coffee Construction Australia’ who deliver a broad range of civil projects including vital transport networks, water and resources infrastructure, railway embankments and dam construction; and major foundation and civil works for water treatment and desalination plants. Coffee Constructions Australia is an old style family based firm that has not embraced technology and the firm is having trouble managing the volume of projects and the Board of Directors has become very concerned about the firm’s reputation and future business opportunities. The extent of technology employed by the firm consists of Microsoft Project and the Microsoft Office suite of products and email. You’re employed as a project director/manager