You are a consultant who has been hired to advise on best-practice for managing the various remote teams involved in developing the company’s products now and into the future. Using the cultural dimension models proposed by Trompenaars and Hofstede (or a combination of both) you are tasked with identifying five aspects of cultural difference that need to be taken into consideration in the planning phase of international projects.

*This task requires you to have a clear focus on the elements that comprise the Project Execution Plan (PEP) in international Project management and the potential for cross-cultural misunderstandings arising from misaligned cultural expectations in relation to each of those elements.