Fri March 8th Session

The exercise in previous blog posting will be worked on and presented/discussed in class.

Next Exercise - in class - "summarize and present"

• what are the main findings?
• what are key learning points? in terms of:
• strategic alliance and partnership strategy
• project management 
• share and present this with others, so make concise and clear

LINK TO COMMON SHARED DOC  - place your main learning points here

Send by 17.00 today / latest Monday morning 9.00

ESL, a smaller equipment supplier transforming into a turnkey project contractor - 3
Gabrielle, Elodie, Marta

Purchasing Strategies in Turnkey Projects - 3
Andrei, Aymeric, Virgill

Risk Analysis - BOT projects in India - 3  Sylvain,  Damien, Laure, Romain

Management of large scale powerplant - East Asia  -
Constance, Alix, Justine

Dimensions of Distance in Project Network - case of Olkiluoto, turnkey powerplant in Finland - 2
Arnaud, Alice, Mathilde

Case-Semiconductor Manufacturing-Harvard  - 3
 Enriques, Gregoire, Agathe

Task Thursday March 7

For Thursday (March 7) - good to bring your computers with you!

We will work on this in class - using student computer room if you don't have your own computers.


PROJECTS FOR PAIRS / TABLE

Situation Turnkey Projects Jan 29

Good day everyone!

First of all, go to to this document and change your team name. You want to make a brand for yourself as you are the consultants going to analyze the cases.

Questions for the cases - these are the foundation of your case analysis. Always drive to identify problems and issues, analyze, and come up with some recommendations/alternatives for the organizations involved. Give reasons, and do your best analysis, there's no wrong answer here - go for it, apply yourselves!  Take some risks and dive into the numbers too.

Forget the Tiajin plastics case for now, as I think with the other other readings/exercises this will be too much. It is mainly a finance-related case, and financing is a huge part of turnkey projects, however we will focus on the strategic elements and the project management pieces themselves, and leave the finance on the back shelf a bit.

Class schedule with exercises will be announced soon as I am coordinating this with J-P Giboz and 'Strategic Alliances' as these two subjects are closely related.

Monday January 21

Material presented in class:
- links to videos and notes from class Mon Jan 21 (Collaborative Arrangements, material on Project Management and Turnkey projects)
- sourcing decisions - supplier-subsupplier (powerpoint)

Cases for in-depth analysis + report + presentation:

Taiwan High Speed Rail

Sydney Cross City Tunnel


The following case  I have decided to take out for now as I don't want you to be overloaded. I have some more appropriate tasks for you to do in conjunction with your Strategic Alliances course.

Other information on the exercises and in-depth cases to be announced soon.

Welcome!

Welcome to the Turnkey Projects course!

Turnkey is just one of several contractual modes of entry into a market. Sure, turnkey projects are done domestically, but let us focus on the international dimension.
Turnkey projects are also known as "build-operate-transfer" (BOT) projects (link), and Public-Public Partnerships (PPPs).

This course will not include much lecturing, so it is up to your efforts - the idea is for you to present your findings and analyze the cases at hand, sharing to the others your analysis. It requires some work from you over the next 6 weeks as we wrap things up March 6-8th, but remember with your effort we could likely finish this off without an exam :-)  The idea of this course will be to apply the principles you have learned over the past 5 years.

January 21 - kickoff
March 6th - student group exercises completed and ready for informal presentation and discussion
March 7th - student group case presentations and discussion
March 8th (last day of course)- student group case presentations and discussion

Evaluation will include participation in class, the case analyses, and likely 1 other exercise, all done in groups.
I reserve the right to keep an exam, but with this being your final year, I feel a good applied case study and exercise with in-class discussion will be enough for the evaluation.  The idea is you will learn from each other in this course and you will become the 'experts'.

I will reserve some of the class hours (allocated in March) for group coaching sessions if the groups want to meet me for guidance and coaching before the presentations. This would be good to do once you have all completed some milestones in your groupwork: for example  in the 11FEB-20FEB timeframe.