Kaplan University business students transform assignment into report recommending project management best practices to improve efficiencies at inundated U.S. food banks.
Kaplan University has released a report called “Project Management Toolkit: Building Food Bank Efficiencies and Best Practices” that is the culmination of an assignment in which online graduate students of the School of Business Administration and Management analyzed the operations of several food banks across the U.S. From this course work, they developed recommendations to improve competencies for food collection and distribution this holiday season.
Overall, the students found that food banks are serving growing numbers of people in their communities with shrinking resources. While the sophistication of food bank operations varied based on their size and resources, students observed that the food banks could improve their efficiencies with the implementation of the project management tools.
According to “The Project Management Toolkit,” some best practices recommended encompass money, labor and time-saving strategies, including:
> Utilize worksheet templates like those provided with this report to map costs, scope, project durations and activities to serve more people with shrinking resources;