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Strategic Management
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Specific
o Be specific in targeting an objective
Measurable
o Establish a measurable indicator of progress
Assignable
o Make the objective assignable to one person for completion
Realistic
o State what can realistically be done with available resources
Time related
o State when the objective can be achieved; that is, duration
Classification of projects
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Selection criteria
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Financial criteria
o Payback, net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR)
Payback Model
o Measures the time the project will take to recover the project
investment
o Uses more desirable shorter paybacks
o Emphasizes cash flows, a key factor is business
o Payback period (years) = Est. project cost / Annual savings
o Limitations
Ignores the time value of money
Assumes cash inflows for the investment period
Does not consider profitability
Net Present Value model
Bread-and-butter Projects
o Involve evolutionary improvements to current products and
services
o Easy to accomplish
Pearls
o Low risk development projects with high commercial payoffs
o Represent revolutionary commercial opportunities using proven
technical advances
Oysters
o High risk, high value projects
o Involve technological breakthroughs with high commercial
payoffs
White Elephants
o Projects that showed promise at one time but are no longer
viable