Janet Takes Charge
LaRae Henslee
Brookline College

Kemko Manufacturing is a manufacturing company that produces high quality appliances, and because of the reputation for such quality products its growth was tremendous throughout the 1900’s. While this of course was a good thing, it became a concerning thing because each new company was allowed to keep their own way of doing things thus, staying autonomous from corporate. By allowing this to happen it became a concern because each company had its own way of handling raw material procurement and inventory control (Kerzner, 2013, p. 1094). In turn, causing great confusion at corporate due to all purchase request over a set amount had to go through them for approval. This is where Janet comes in. Janet is a Director of Information Technology at Kemko and has over thirty years of experience in “IT”. In addition, great knowledge of how scope creep can be detrimental to a project. Due to concern of a very important project, senior management put Janet in charge to oversee this project personally. Corporate was afraid that, unless it established a standardized procurement and inventory control system across all of the plants, cash flow problems and loss of corporate control over inventory could take its toll in the near future (Kerzner, 2013, p. 1094). Janet set up an initial kickoff date for the project. In addition to the mandatory presence of all of her team members, she also demanded that each manufacturing plant assign at least one representative must be in attendance as well at the kickoff meeting (Kerzner, 2013, p. 1095). Janet’s lecture to the representatives in this meeting were correct. She put her foot down without caring if she made people mad or not. This is a good thing because without each plant representative taking responsibility for their own detailed requirement