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Building project management within financial institutions, a comparative assessment

The expenditure by financial institutions in South Africa on building projects could conservatively be estimated to total in the region of a billion rand per annum. It is surprising, given the amount of money being spent that there is currently no co-operation between the various financial institutions in the field of building project management. The research in this study found that most financial institutions were not taking into account all the costs and benefits when undertaking a project. When a project is undertaken in this manner, the viability analysis would not be a true reflection of the project being undertaken. The areas which were not taken into account when undertaking a project were the indirect project costs, which included costs like the project management staff themselves. An exception to this was First National Bank Metropolitan Delivery. They followed an outsourcing strategy in terms of their building project management function and the cost of this was known and added into the project cost. In terms of the benefits, this study found that the financial institutions do not take the intangible benefits into account. They do not consider the long term benefits which will be derived as a result of the implementation of a project. Arriving at a model which takes into account these factors, would provide material for a Doctorate thesis.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:nmmu/vital:10893
Date January 2002
CreatorsVan Tonder, Anthony David
PublisherPort Elizabeth Technikon, Faculty of Management
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis, Masters, MBA
Format108, ca. 40 leaves, pdf
RightsNelson Mandela Metropolitan University

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