Kerzner Offie Equpment Research

Kerzner Offie Equpment Research

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Kerzner Office Equipment Research

Kerzner Office Equipment Research
Kerzner Office Equipment (Kerzner) specializes in the manufacturing and sales of high-end office furniture and equipment. The company is located in Charleston, South Carolina and employs 1,100 employees. For the second year in a row, Kerzner was selected by the Charleston Post and Courier as one of the 10 best local firms to work for in the state. They are far from where they were a year ago, when they lost 25% of their workforce due to the recession.   The newly appointed CEO Justin Tubbs, allowed the company’s employees to participate and redesign operations around the concept of self managing teams. Doing well with innovations, Kerzner has become the industry leader in ergonomic furniture.
Mr. Tubbs has entrusted Amber Briggs, to bring together a team to celebrate the success of Kerzner since the dreary days of the lay-offs. She was assigned 14 individuals, a $150,000 budget, and 10 weeks to make the formal presentation to top management. (Gray & Larson, 2006)
This paper will use benchmarking techniques to assist Mrs. Briggs on how to manage and lead a team project. This paper will (A) identify key course concepts, (B) compare, and contrast the practices of each company as related to those concepts.  
Key Course Concepts
Need for Leadership in Project Management
When it comes to project management, project managers need to be aware of the Aslan Phenomenon; or, the following of an obsolete rule. Roger von Oech created the Aslan Phenomenon based on the following principles (Saladis, 2004):
1. We make rules based on reasons that make a lot of sense.
2. We follow these rules.
3. Time passes and things change.
4. The original reasons for the generation of these rules no longer exist, but because these rules are still in place, we continue to follow them.
Project managers can not fall in the trap of “it has to be done...