Opportunities Facing Harrison-Keyes Harrison - Term Paper

On the other hand, the strategic implementation occurs once the project is actually started. The challenges that a manager faces at this point are numerous, mainly due to the fact that while the strategic planning was a theoretical, probabilistic evaluation on things that had not occurred, the implementation phase will bring about real challenges, to which the manager must find solutions. The leader needs to be able to react to real-time event, many of which may be unexpected and not identified in the strategic planning phase.

Project management principles are important because they provide a theoretical background for implementing and planning a project, which could be helpful in terms of determining the success of a project. They will not provide a recipe for success, but will be a good starting point in the lifetime of a project.

3. If successful, the opportunities of implementing its new strategy are important. First of all, they will move away from traditional publishing, not necessarily in the sense of completely abandoning that trade, but more in the sense of diversifying the company's activity and moving it into a direction that is likely to bring growing profits over the next years. As the studies from the members of the company have shown, the market for publishing e-books is starting to form and to become extremely profitable.

The problems that the company is facing have received some potential solutions in the last meeting between the members of the team. The most important issue seems to be the conflict with some of the authors who don't believe that their rights will be protected with the launch of e-books. However, some members of the team have suggested that this can be countered with an approach that will ensure they are shown exactly which laws protect their rights. This type of non-conflict implementation might be successful, if at least some of the authors might decide to change their mind (other may then follow).

The implementation in the case of the other problems seem to be easier to solve, because the Indian company's services can simply be switched over to another company, while the software problems from within the company can simply be outsourced. The company needs to be concerned mainly with its core values: its writers. Tackling this and the opportunities from implementing the new strategy are…