Today, I helped Brandon find a Gantt chart template to use in his project management final paper. We spent time organizing the different tasks, deadlines, and calendar within the program for Brandon's chosen program: a Dunkin Donuts Remodel.
Brandon took me through the final results of the Glo-Bus project - they came in 2nd overall. He showed me how he employed what he learned about strategy, marketing, operations, finance, human resources, ethics, and corporate compliance. During the project, he used the best-cost provider strategy.
We talked about Brandon's plans for the future, what he wants to do and what he wants to accomplish. We discussed Dunkin Donuts product strategy, sales analysis for certain products, court cases against DD, and looked at the franchisee list and who was doing what and why. We talked about the purchase of Panera Bread by JAB Holdings.
We worked on his weekly discussion involving reading several articles on isixsigma.com and reporting on the applications of Six Sigma techniques to several companies and discuss some of the drawbacks from implementing it.
We talked about the outcome of last week's Glo-Bus competition. They came in 2nd place for the week and 2nd place overall. We discussed and he changed the parameters for earnings per share, sales, cash on hand, debt to equity ratio, return on equity, pricing, credit rating, marketing, advertising, dealer discounts, special offers, brand awareness, operating expenses, purchase of robots, laying off people, paying people more, labor costs, base wages, investing in work stations, etc.
Today, Brandon continued to work on the Gantt chart for his project, a remodel of a Dunkin Donuts restaurant. We also researched and took notes for the last section of required project components including: the net project value, the cost estimates, the risks, project classification and priority management strategy.
