You have recently been appointed by an investment company who wish to relaunch
Carillion under a new name after recently buying the business but they have concerns over
the problems that caused Carillion’s share price to fall. Your assignment is to write a
report on the business and what went wrong using project management concepts and
ideas: areas for discussion may include: the nature of projects and project organisational
structures; what has to be managed in pm and what was not done in this case; whether
Carillion has considered portfolio or program management and risk; why things have gone
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wrong and what could be done about this; who were or are the stakeholders and what
was their influence.