1. Title: Podcast: The Political Butterfly Effect: Did Mr Blobby upend local politics in Lancashire? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0012scy
2. Aim: a reflective activity that makes significant contribution to the attainment of the unit’s learning outcome as well as form part of the MSc examination.
3. Objective: To demonstrate understanding of key concepts through practical application.
Background: The questions that form part 2 of this assignment relate to the appraisal of sustainable public commercial ventures, in/formal networks and decision-making. The prerequisite work required of students prior to the final assignment report submission draws heavily on your workbook, case study analysis during tutorial sessions, guided self-study and broad knowledge of the project management book of knowledge covered in semester one. Experience in running a virtual company in teams will be advantageous.
Answer these questions as part of the continuous final assessment for this unit.
Question 1: What is your assessment of the Council’s commercial motivation? (5 marks)
Question 2: Why did the project fail and state three (3) lessons identified? (10 Marks)
Question 3: Drawing on the lessons learned (in Q.2) and your knowledge of social value, what sustainable venture would you prescribe for Morecambe Council and why? (15 Marks)
Note: For this reflective report a maximum of 1000 words excluding figures and references is required.
You need to modify it again based on the feedback.
What does ‘Commercial’ Mean?
Procurement, Tendering and Contract Analysis
Lecture 2 [9 am – 12 pm]
10 February 2023
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Dr. Obuks Ejohwomu
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Management of Projects (MoP)
MOP60061
Faculty of EPS
Semester 1 2017/18
Recap from previously…
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Introduction to commercial management practices
Focus on decision-making as a core concept
Case studies
Feedback on in-class activity
BBC documentary:
Group discussion presentation
Assignment brief: Enginuity
Mike Fletcher’s slides
Teams to appoint team leads
Lecture 1…
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/11DIK7UexnXP-n3fk5SJe1hPLrO7mP7OkLoZpimwuONY/edit#heading=h.ncae5vgek0w8
In summary…
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Could be…
Buying a project
Buying Goods or Services for a project
Client
Could be…
Selling a project
Supplying Goods or Services for a project
Vendor
Social Value
Contract & Payments
Sell-Side
Buy-Side
Lead generation of
Win-Plans
Requirements Definition
Proposal Development
Bid Management
Negotiation
Project Marketing
Procurement strategy
Production of Requests
Appraisal criteria
Tendering Process
Downselect – Bid appraisal
Negotiation
Contract development
Award
Assign 1, 2
& 3
Assign 1 & 2
What does the commercial partner want?
How might they act?
What are the risks of this relationship?
How can we get the margin that we want?
How can we ge
Contemporary issues in Commercial
Management: Net-Zero/ Carbon Neutrality
ENGM 63012: Lecture 7
Speaker: Judy Too 17 March 2023
NET-ZERO/ CARBON NEUTRALITY CONCEPTS IN CM
At the end of this session you will be able to:
• Understand the concepts of net-zero and carbon neutrality.
• Apply these concepts in Assignment 3
• Apply these concepts in CM practice
Intended Learning Outcomes
2
3
? BSc. Environmental and Biosystems Engineering-
University of Nairobi, Kenya
? Assurance Associate – PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd
? MSc. Engineering Project Management – University of
Manchester:
? Dissertation: A resilient approach to modelling the supply
and demand of platelets in the UK BSC
? MCC: Route to handover, Lessons learnt from batch
procurement and dashboard reporting system
? PhD Management of Projects/ Infrastructure
Engineering (Dual PhD) – University of Manchester +
University of Melbourne: Standardising carbon neutrality
in delivery of complex projects
ABOUT MYSELF
SOCIAL VALUE AND THE NET-ZERO
TRANSITION
4
Source: (AECOM, 2022)
The five critical themes of Social Value are:
• Jobs: Promote local skills and employment
• Growth: Supporting growth of responsible
regional business
• Social: Healthier, safer and more resilient
communities
• Environment: Decarbonising and safeguarding our
world
• Innovation: Promoting social innovation
AIR POLLUTANTS
5 Source: (Zheleva, 2012)
Take the forms of dust, gas and Particulate Matter:
• PM10, PM2.5, PM1 (Ejohwomu et al., 2022)
• GHG (e.g. COX, CH4, NOX)
• SOX
CO2 is the most responsible for climate change (Onat
& Kucukvar, 2020).
CLIMATE CHANGE: HOW DO WE KNOW?
6
Source: (climate.nasa.gov, 2022)
DISTRIBUTION OF CO2 BY COUNTRY (2020)
Note(s): Worldwide; 2020; Based on total emissions of 34,807 million metric tons of carbon dioxide
Source(s): Global Carbon Project (Global Carbon Atlas); Expert(s) (Friedlingstein et al. (2021)); ID 271748
30.64%
13.53%
7.02%
4.53%
2.96%
2.14% 1.85% 1.79% 1.71% 1.69% 1.53% 1.34% 1.29% 1.12% 1.12% 1.02%
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20%
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• Total emissions: 34,807
million metric tons of
carbon dioxide
• The world’s top five
largest pollute
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Buying and selling strategies and
tactics
Lecture 5
3 March 2023
ENGM 63012
Dr. Obuks Ejohwomu
[email protected]
Combining the strengths of UMIST and
The Victoria University of Manchester
Intended learning outcomes
Recap from Lecture 4:
• Evolution of the SV framework.
• Making sense of SV framework.
• Challenges of applying SV framework.
At the end of this session, you’ll be able to:
• Apply the concept of project success to CM practice.
• To analysis bids in relation to measures of project success.
• Examine the underlying economic and organizational
reasons why suppliers fail to adopt, and adapt to, greener
and safer production practices.
• The Huawei Case Study.
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Core Concept
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Project Success
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Project Success
Objective
measures
Subjective
measures
The Fourth Constraint
J Pinto
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Some data from last
week’s lecture
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Combining the strengths of UMIST and
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What things would ensure SV is universally
created successfully?
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Feedback: Draft contract
from lecture 3
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Combining the strengths of UMIST and
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How buyers and sellers
position themselves in the
supply chain?
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Social Value –Buying and Selling
key considerations
The role of Social Value in procurement,
contracts, and delivery
Agenda:
• Social value over time
• Key influences in SV in 2023
• Social Value in procurement
• Social Value in Policy/ legislation
• Social Value in Delivery
• Social Value Measurement
• Cross sector working
• Interdependencies
• Takeaway task
• Further reading references
• Q&A
SOCIAL VALUE OVER TIME
Social Value TIMELINE
How did we get here?
1800s
1900s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2023+
Philanthrocapitalism –
Please sir can I have
some more?
The business of
benevolence – large
scale distribution of
wealth
Trust you –
acknowledgement of
the triple bottom line
(TBL)
Prove it – Data
management,
exploration and
analysis
Show me –
Environmental and
social accounting
Tell me –
Contextualising the
TBL – what are you
specifically doing?
What are the 8 key SV influences in
2023?
Procurement practice
Social Value questions are asked and
answered, sometimes weighted in
scoring, sometimes assessed
qualitatively and sometimes
quantitatively.
Policy/ standards/ legislation
Central Government, Local Government,
Professional Bodies and Standards
organisations (ESG/ B Corp/ GRI) create
rules for Social Value
Measurement and reporting
Proof of performance is sometimes
required, measurement routes are
dictated or left open and reports made
accessible to varying degrees
Delivery
Commitments made in procurement are
sometimes ‘policed’ and delivered.
Where this does happen successfully,
‘best practice’ is created
Social Value ‘businesses’
Within the measurement market, profit
making businesses are on the rise,
particularly for measurement, offering
procurers an easy solution to scoring SV
responses
Cross over with
Environmental and EDI
Biodiversity, circular economy and
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion all cross
over with SV, so how are we making
distinctions between these?
Wellbeing
Wellbeing has been brought to the
forefront of SV, digital inequalities have
been highlighted, and a focus back into
workplaces regarding ‘how’ a business is
run (governance), has occurred.
Modern Methods of
Construction
MMC influences are growing, as more
inve
