Eden Project
1. Why is the company succeeding or failing?
2. Discuss the company’s value chain activities
Answer.
Another major issue of Eden project is quality of human resource management.
Defining the requirement and the job description is more complicated when the
recruitment process takes place. To main the site with desire quality output,
Eden requires the professional skill and experience employees.
The
quality of IT infrastructure is an important step forward in Eden projects
continuing development and maintenance. With the
existing system, information is carried by a sophisticated British Telecom voice
data network, which also handles Thousands of phone calls from the public and
connects the several hundred extensions on the site. On a busy day, it’s around
12,000 visitors. Eden project to ensure they have a good day out so the
communication channels need to be clear.
A
critical success factor was finance procurement strategic planning, engineering
and site construction tends to work within business time plans and schedules
plants do not! Plants respond to growing seasons, and it became critical to closely,
manage the landscape and Biome construction program with that of plant growing
seasons. With no home, on time, for the horticultural program, several million
pounds in plant investment would die. Timing was critical, as many species were
being shipped to watering lane and the Bodelva site from all parts of the
world.
Our
commitment to local sourcing is at the very heart of how we approach our
procurement, supporting the key aspects of sustainability and sharing success
in our local community. The Eden Project is a major consumer of goods and
services in the Cornish economy, spending more than £10 million a year with
local businesses. Since opening our doors in March 2001, we’ve had dealings
with over 3,000 suppliers. We are proud that 77 per cent of our catering
supplies are currently sourced in Cornwall and some 46 per cent of all our
other supplies come through local businesses.
Eden
can add value: music, theatre, big build (educational building), the edge,
scientific conferences, and dance, infrastructure inbound/outbound to increase
the value.
3. How does the company manage its knowledge based
assets?
4. How are
the company’s different business functions working together in a business
process?
5. Would you consider your company a lean running organization?
6. What is their management’s philosophy?
6. How does the company treat its employees and how
does the company manage knowledge assets.
7. Recommendations.
No more than 5 pages.
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