A-705 implementation schedule

Executive Summary

Tesla Motors Inc. is a rising technology firm within the automobile world that has great opportunity for business expansion. In relation to entrepreneurship this company is looking at expansion of its market share both at the fronts of technology and automobile development. It is important that this company chooses its entrepreneurship choice wisely in order to survive in this highly competitive industry. Particularly, for this paper focus will be on business expansion of Tesla Motors Inc. as a automobile technology firm in maintaining its unique competitive advantage within the industry. Competition is on the rise in automobile technology but Tesla Inc. has great competitive advantage through its energy efficient and environmental friendly innovations.

The lean operations and usage of physical and technological resources are the company plans that Tesla is going to implement this project at the lowest cost possible. Tesla also prepares to employ proficient staff for improving technology side and continue environmental sustainability.

Implementation Schedule

In order to succeed in its goals and objectives, Tesla motors plans to implement a plan that will lay out what is to be done, in what order and temporarily by whom. Auer, Mayrhofer and Sihn (2012) have outlined that the vehicle manufacturing plan is important since it helps to discover major challenges in the production process for the vehicles. Additionally, for Tesla Motors, planning will ensure that the project goals and objectives are achieved in a timely manner. Tesla plans to have an organization structure that will ensure that the plan is followed sequentially in a cost effective way.

The first stage of the implementation plan will be to design the budget for the project. The company has assigned this duty to the accounting department and will be spearheaded by the vice president of the accounting department. The budget will lay out in detail all the costs that will be involved in the acquisition of the resources named above, as well as any other costs that will be covered in the due course of the implementation process. Secondly, relying upon the planned number of vehicles that are planned for phase one production, the sales and marketing tem will draft a marketing plan that will ensure that the vehicles produced are effectively marketed. The sales and marketing department lead by the vice president of the sales and marketing department will then determine the expected demand for the vehicles manufactured, and design marketing strategies for the vehicles before the vehicles arrive at the market place.

This will then be followed by generation of a production plan and sequencing of the production activities. The human resource vice president will then be informed of these plans and the required skills for each stage of the value chain. Following this, the hiring process will then commence, upon which the various personnel will be recruited by the human resource department. This will be followed by the production process, which will take off three months after the budget is approved. This will allow time for acquisition of the required for the production process. Production will be led by the vice president of the department to whom the other employees and supervisors will report. Concurrently, the administration will be set up to coordinate the departments and ensure that every employee in the organization is in synchrony with everyone else.

Company and Key Personnel Roles, Responsibilities, and Qualifications

For any successful project, a great implementation team is necessary. Actually, the team has to be not only have adequate knowledge of the field they are dealing in, but also sensitive. Apart from that, the team has to be quite sensitive to any changing business requirements as well as a good communication strategy and problem-solving skills. Therefore, for any successful implementation team, it has to have the following members.

To begin with is the project sponsor; basically, a project sponsor is that individual who requested the project (Gammie, 2015). A project sponsor usually have the following responsibilities: appointing the project manager, initiating as well as monitoring the project, controlling costs, overseeing the development of the project plan, committing resources as well as establishing the given project parameters.

Secondly, we have the team leader or rather the project manager, this is usually the individual who is usually responsible for the daily contact of themembers of the implementation team in each and every project stage. They usually have the following responsibilities: assigning tasks to the project team members, coordinating the resources to the project, enhancing communication among the team members as well as managing the project personnel and building a project team. There is also an implementation service manager, the very docket that I lie in my team. The main purpose of this individual is act as not only the project liaison, but also try to understand as well as interpret the various requirements by the end user and later on accommodate all these by simply coming up with a viable approach to the problem posed. Their responsibilities include: solving high end issues, working together with the end user so as to establish the project plan as well as overseeing implementation resources. There is also the technical support that helps the rest with the ongoing operational issues (Gammie, 2015).