ESSAY
Project Plan for an Online Consultancy Freelance Firm
Andre Walton
BUS375: Project Managment
Professor Stieber William
Feb. 03, 2019
Introduction
Starting an online consultancy freelance firm is one of the noblest projects in the current time. Freelancers have begun to become more and more people's choices. It has changed the monopoly of a certain group of elites or professionals in a traditional era for a certain market or field. They have reorganized and structured the resources and channels of the world (Porter and Heppelmann, 2014). And the community, so that goods, services, information can be one-to-one correspondence according to the needs and supply configuration, thus optimizing the efficiency between resources and supply.
Project goals
1. To create and market the freelance website aggressively.
2. To always manage employees and motivate them appropriately.
Project objectives
1. To fill the existing market gap by providing freelance services to hundreds of busy managers and entrepreneurs
2. To generate profit and expand the client base
Project structure
The project structure will be designed such that there will be three major departments. Since everything will be done online, I will take the role of overall manager. My roles will include managing the payments, supervising the management and execution of the orders and ensuring that the website is maintained. There will be also a department related to the customer service. This will comprise three to four employees who will be on standby such that any client with any form of inquiry can be attended to on time. The support team will also facilitate the allocation of orders to the writers team. The third department will be represented by the writers team. The department will be in charge of execution of the orders. The last department will be the quality assurance department. The role of the department would be to go through completed orders and ascertain whether they meet the instructions asked by the client. The figure below summarizes the structure of the proposed project.
Stakeholders
1. Customers
Customers stands out as the key stakeholders in the proposed project. The main customers will comprise the government agencies, non-governmental organizations, companies and individual investors. Current research reveals that most companies outsource consultancy services. It can be seen that the current Internet platform connection effect is making more and more people in different fields stand out. The platform gathers professional individuals, professional individuals gather fans, and individuals bring their own traffic fans to form brands and produce professional content docking enterprises and Consumers (Porter and Heppelmann, 2014). In his famous "Crowdsourcing", Jeff Howe, a senior editor of Wired magazine in the United States, pointed out that elites or professionals at different levels in various fields have occupied the right to speak and decide in the industry. However, in the Internet age, everyone can control the right to speak by means of the open and sharing characteristics between platforms, so this part of people began to compete for or even deprive the monopoly of traditional professional fields, making the field a crowdsourcing model (Hills, 2012). In other words, businesses that are monopolized by a group in various fields will be relied on by many individuals to export their own professional content and skills and occupy a large number of fans, forming a unique voice and subverting these traditional organizations. Many areas of the world. It will no longer be monopolized or controlled by the original group of people.
2. Marketers
Another crucial stakeholder will be marketing agencies. In order to bring more traffic to the site, it is important to have marketing agency to help in marketing of the website. The marketing agency will be responsible in aspects such as blog writing, SEO, social media advertisement and other marketing needs related to the website.
3. Employees
The success of the project will depend on the dedication and effort by employees. Having employees with diverse skills and areas of specialization will increase the number of projects and orders and hence increase the profits. Employees therefore represent the backbone for success of the project.
References
Porter, M. E and Heppelmann, J. E. (2014). How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from: https://hbr.org/2014/11/how-smart-connected-products-are-transforming-competition
Hills, C. W. L. (2012). International Business: Competing in the Global Market Place. 9th ed. England: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Overall manager
Support team department
Writers department
Quality assurance department