Introduction
In June 1994, Airbus announced its plan to develop its own very large airliner, designated the A3XX (Bowen, 1994). Airbus refined its plan, focusing on a 15–20% reduction in working expenses over the existing Boeing 747-400 (Harrison, 1996). To begin with, Airbus entered commercial service in October 2007 with Singapore Airlines. By December 2013, Airbus has received 304 firm orders and delivered 123 aircrafts (Airbus, 2014b). The Emirates has the most A380s on firm order - 140 in total (Topham, 2013).
The objectives of Airbus Company are to create a consortium of existing companies (France, Germany, Spain, UK). Transform this company into advanced association fit for contending and capable of competing with American companies. The significant structural sections of the A380 are built in France, Germany, Spain, and United Kingdom (Moralws, 2006). Suppliers (General Electric (America), Rolls-Royce (UK), United Technologies (America) provides their components (Babka, 2006).
This report aims to give the reflection about my group work. This report also provides an analysis and evaluation of “Why project fails in Airbus – A380” which might impact the company policies and performance. Also evaluate the impact of classical mistakes in such failure on the company from my group work. This report not only shows analysis and evaluation of the advantages of “Why projects fail in A380”, but also shows the advantages of working in a group; however, the problems occurred will be mentioned.
Finally, the paper is briefly about the benefits that I have drawn from the Understanding Business and Management Research Methods module and group process.
Benefits from group work
Working in a group also has many benefits because multiple brains are better than one. It provides a great opportunity to see how other work, and I can learn from their work processes because each member has different ideas, skills and knowledge. Group work also provides me a good chance to collaborate with others and experience challenging work. Much of group’s work can be completed individually but face-to-face meeting are also useful for ensuring that everyone is on the same page. For this reason, our group has a meeting at least once a week. We also created a group page on Facebook for share materials, and other files that related to our assignment. Files can be shared between group members and instantaneously updated, even if all members are working at the same time in different places.
Background
The Airbus A380 project undertaking experienced serious coordination administration issues, or ‘Integration Disintegration’. In 2006, when preassembled packs containing hundreds of miles of cabin wiring were delivered from a Germany factory to assembly line in France (Langon), workers discovered that the bundles, harnesses, didn’t fit appropriately into the plane (Caron, 2006).
Assembly slowed to a near-standstill, as workers attempted to pull the bundles apart and re-thread...
