Can you help me understand this Management question?
Case Study 5.2: California’s High-Speed Rail Project
- Assess the benefits and drawbacks of the high-speed rail project. In your opinion, do benefits outweigh drawbacks, or vice versa? Why? Justify your answer.
- What are the implications of starting a project based on tenuous projections that may or may not come true 10 years from now?
- Could you justify the California high-speed rail project from the perspective of a massive public works initiative? In other words, what other factors enter into the decision of whether to pursue a high-speed rail project? Why are they important?
Case Study 6.1: Columbus Instruments
- What are the implications of CIC’s approach to staffing project teams? Is the company using project teams as training grounds for talented fast-trackers, or as dumping grounds for poor performers?
- How would you advise the CEO to correct the problem? Where would you start?
- Discuss how issues of organizational structure and power played a role in the manner in which project management declined in effectiveness at CIC.
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