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Concorde Casestudy Assignment
Concorde Casestudy Assignment
Submitted To-
Prof. Salma Ahmed
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Ans 1) The criteria for judging the success of a Project depends upon the
successful implementation of the following crucial factors in any project and the
following also answers, how many of these crucial factors were overlooked
during the implementation of the Concorde Project –
Hence, the major reason of failure of the Concorde were its negligence to
consider the external factors (fuel prices, economy, political scenario,
environmentalist opposition etc) and it’s overlooking of the fact whether there
was actually a need of a supersonic passenger aircraft in the market which led
to a Consensus Failure, which shook the major fundamentals of Project
Management which broadly are -
Hence these were some major attributes that were comprised during the
implementation of the Concorde project which determined its fate.
Ans 3) Though it was a joint agreement between the government of Great
Britain and France but it was soon met with a number of issues due to improper
implementation of basic rules of project management which were further
escalated when the new Labour government in Britain tried to scrap the project
but was reprimanded by the France, so that so it planned onto taking the Britain
into the international court of justice if it tried to stop the production with
aircrafts. But there could have been a number of other approaches that would
have made project a huge success, such as –