The Government of Ghana and Korean Construction firm STX, officially signed a formal agreement for the construction of 30,000 affordable housing units for Ghana’s security services on 15th December, 2010. However, 2 years into the project phase, Government announced that the project had failed at its implementation stage due to boardroom wrangling between the Ghanaian and Korean partners.
a. From your understanding of what project environment is, identify the various project stakeholder groupings on a project like the STX affordable housing project and analyse how each affects the project outcomes? (20 marks)
b. Which of the stakeholder (s) groups would you blame for the failure of the STX housing project and why? (10 marks)
c. What type of project risk can you identify in the case study above, and how can it mitigated in future projects. (10 marks)"