ProjectPlantoinitiateFreelancefirm_Walton.docx

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.

Being retired service member, I intend to initiate an online project where I will be offering online services to companies and budding entrepreneurs on areas such as creation of marketing plans, business plans, business proposals and related areas. I decided to focus on this project because there is a wide market gap in the field. Most managers do not have time to create new proposals, write plans and often go for Internet to find assistance. In most of the online forums, it is not uncommon to find a person looking for someone who can carry out and write a business plan or a grant essay. In order to implement project, I will first create a website where my potential clients can post their orders. I will then train employees who will be responsible for completing the orders posted as per the instructions. I will also have to create a head office where I will work as an overall manager to supervise the payment and completion of orders. Venturing into this project will enable me fill the market gap and also get more profits.

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