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Leadership in a Digital Age
5,000 words
Advanced Practice Research Project – Reflective Individual Report and Poster Presentation
This assessment requires students to produce a 5,000-word individual business consultancy report based on a chosen organisation. The selected organisation may be a private company, a public organisation that is not government owned, or a non-governmental organisation. The chosen organisation acts as the client and the student takes the role of a consultant who investigates a current or potential business challenge, examines the resulting issues and develops recommendations that can provide strategic value to the organisation and its wider industry. The project requires students to formulate a business project that has strategic importance within a chosen area of management. The report should identify a specific organisational challenge and the issues resulting from that challenge, supported by recent evidence demonstrating that the challenge is ongoing, unresolved or likely to become significant in the future. The challenge should be connected to current affairs and emerging trends within the relevant industry and business environment. The report should also provide a consultant's perspective on why the challenge matters to the selected organisation. A clear purpose for the report must be established. This should explain why the selected challenge and issues are being investigated, how the research will benefit the client organisation and how the project relates to the chosen organisational specialisation area. The report should demonstrate an understanding of the importance of strategy in business and establish a clear connection between the identified problem, the research undertaken and the proposed solutions. Stakeholder analysis is a major component of the assessment. Students must identify relevant internal and external stakeholders, explain their relationship with the identified challenge and issues, and evaluate the impact of the research on these stakeholder groups. The analysis should consider stakeholder power and interest and demonstrate how the proposed project and its findings could affect different stakeholders. The main analytical section requires the use of secondary data, including both conceptual and numerical evidence. Students should critically evaluate relevant information using appropriate management frameworks and analytical approaches. The evidence should be used to investigate the challenge, understand its causes and consequences, and support the development of appropriate recommendations. The report should demonstrate critical thinking rather than simply describing information. The final section provides recommendations designed to resolve the identified challenge and resulting issues. Recommendations should be directly supported by the secondary-data analysis and critical evaluation and should be relevant and realistic for the selected organisation. The conclusion should return to the central challenge and explain how the purpose of the report has been addressed, while demonstrating the strategic value of the recommendations for the organisation and, where appropriate, the wider industry. The recommended structure consists of a declaration page, title page, contents, executive summary, introduction, challenge and issues, purpose of the report, stakeholder analysis, evaluation and analysis of secondary data, recommendations and conclusion, Harvard references and appendices where required. The suggested allocation is approximately 500 words for the executive summary, 300 for the introduction, 500 for the challenge and issues, 200 for the purpose, 600 for stakeholder impact, 2,000 for secondary-data evaluation and 900 for recommendations and conclusion. The total report length is 5,000 words, excluding the front cover, contents, bibliography and appendices.
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Business Project
5,000 words
Business Consultancy Project: Strategic Analysis of a Business Challenge
This assessment requires students to produce a 5,000-word individual business consultancy report based on a chosen organisation. The selected organisation may be a private company, a public organisation that is not government owned, or a non-governmental organisation. The chosen organisation acts as the client and the student takes the role of a consultant who investigates a current or potential business challenge, examines the resulting issues and develops recommendations that can provide strategic value to the organisation and its wider industry. The project requires students to formulate a business project that has strategic importance within a chosen area of management. The report should identify a specific organisational challenge and the issues resulting from that challenge, supported by recent evidence demonstrating that the challenge is ongoing, unresolved or likely to become significant in the future. The challenge should be connected to current affairs and emerging trends within the relevant industry and business environment. The report should also provide a consultant's perspective on why the challenge matters to the selected organisation. A clear purpose for the report must be established. This should explain why the selected challenge and issues are being investigated, how the research will benefit the client organisation and how the project relates to the chosen organisational specialisation area. The report should demonstrate an understanding of the importance of strategy in business and establish a clear connection between the identified problem, the research undertaken and the proposed solutions. Stakeholder analysis is a major component of the assessment. Students must identify relevant internal and external stakeholders, explain their relationship with the identified challenge and issues, and evaluate the impact of the research on these stakeholder groups. The analysis should consider stakeholder power and interest and demonstrate how the proposed project and its findings could affect different stakeholders. The main analytical section requires the use of secondary data, including both conceptual and numerical evidence. Students should critically evaluate relevant information using appropriate management frameworks and analytical approaches. The evidence should be used to investigate the challenge, understand its causes and consequences, and support the development of appropriate recommendations. The report should demonstrate critical thinking rather than simply describing information. The final section provides recommendations designed to resolve the identified challenge and resulting issues. Recommendations should be directly supported by the secondary-data analysis and critical evaluation and should be relevant and realistic for the selected organisation. The conclusion should return to the central challenge and explain how the purpose of the report has been addressed, while demonstrating the strategic value of the recommendations for the organisation and, where appropriate, the wider industry. The recommended structure consists of a declaration page, title page, contents, executive summary, introduction, challenge and issues, purpose of the report, stakeholder analysis, evaluation and analysis of secondary data, recommendations and conclusion, Harvard references and appendices where required. The suggested allocation is approximately 500 words for the executive summary, 300 for the introduction, 500 for the challenge and issues, 200 for the purpose, 600 for stakeholder impact, 2,000 for secondary-data evaluation and 900 for recommendations and conclusion. The total report length is 5,000 words, excluding the front cover, contents, bibliography and appendices.
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Business Management / Consultancy / Strategic Management
5,000 words
Business Consultancy Project: Strategic Analysis, Stakeholder Evaluation and Evidence-Based Recommendations
This Business Consultancy Project assessment requires students to produce a professional 5,000-word consultancy report addressing a strategically important issue, challenge or problem facing a client organisation. The project must normally continue from the topic and client proposed in the earlier Consultancy Project Proposal, ensuring continuity between the proposal and final consultancy work. The assessment is designed to replicate professional consultancy practice through independent research, critical analysis and the development of actionable recommendations. Copy of Apr 25 Onwards brief_EE… Copy of Apr 25 Onwards brief_EE… The report begins with an Executive Summary, followed by an introduction and company/client overview. Students must define one clear business problem, establish the overall project aim and purpose, and specify the consultancy focus, which may relate to areas such as strategy, human resources, marketing or sustainability. The selected issue should be clearly connected to the organisation’s wider strategic and industry context. Copy of Apr 25 Onwards brief_EE… A dedicated Stakeholder Analysis section requires identification and evaluation of internal and external stakeholders. Students must assess stakeholder interests, influence, expectations, conflicts and power relationships, and are encouraged to apply a framework such as Mendelow’s Matrix. The purpose is to show how stakeholder dynamics influence the consultancy problem and the feasibility of proposed solutions. Copy of Apr 25 Onwards brief_EE… The largest section is Data Analysis and Framework Application, where students critically evaluate secondary evidence and apply two or three relevant management frameworks. Suitable approaches may include SWOT, PESTLE, Porter’s frameworks and the Balanced Scorecard. The analysis should incorporate credible company and industry evidence, Excel outputs, tables or charts where relevant, and connect patterns in the data to strategic, operational or HR implications. Ethical and sustainability considerations should be embedded where appropriate. Copy of Apr 25 Onwards brief_EE… The project concludes with three prioritised and evidence-based recommendations. Recommendations should be practical, justified, risk-aware and linked directly to the findings. Students must explain expected benefits and demonstrate how the proposed actions create strategic value for the client organisation. Copy of Apr 25 Onwards brief_EE… The final assessed section is a 500-word Employability Reflection covering skills developed through the project, application of theory to practice, professional behaviours, personal strengths and weaknesses, career relevance and specific future-development actions. Copy of Apr 25 Onwards brief_EE… Overall, the assessment integrates consultancy problem definition, stakeholder analysis, strategic frameworks, secondary-data interpretation, ethics, sustainability, recommendations and professional reflection within a Masters-level business project. The marking criteria reward criticality, current evidence, intellectual originality, professional consultancy thinking and accurate Harvard referencing. Copy of Apr 25 Onwards brief_EE… One important point: the brief states that the majority of references should come from sources published within the last 6–12 months, so the final project is expected to use very current company, industry and academic evidence. Copy of Apr 25 Onwards brief_EE…
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Business Management / Strategic Management
50,000 words
Starbucks Labour Relations and Unionisation: Strategic Business Consultancy Analysis
his Masters-level Business Project presents a strategic consultancy analysis of Starbucks, focusing on the company's ongoing labour-relations challenges, unionisation disputes and associated legal, operational and reputational implications. The project examines how employee relations and organised labour can develop from a human-resource concern into a wider strategic management issue affecting corporate governance, organisational performance, stakeholder trust and long-term brand value. The report follows the consultancy structure required by the Business Project assessment, beginning with identification of a current organisational challenge and the resulting issues affecting the client organisation. The official brief requires the selected challenge to be connected with current affairs, emerging industry trends and the organisation's wider business strategy. It also requires evaluation of both internal and external stakeholders and analysis using conceptual and numerical secondary data. In the completed project, Starbucks' labour dispute and unionisation environment are examined through several strategic-management frameworks. PESTLE analysis is used to assess political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental influences surrounding labour relations. SWOT analysis evaluates Starbucks' organisational strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, while Porter's Generic Strategies considers the relationship between differentiation, competitive positioning and labour-management practices. The project also applies stakeholder analysis to groups including senior leadership, employees, unions, regulators, customers, investors and other external stakeholders. A major part of the analysis considers stakeholder power, interest, legitimacy and urgency. The assessment brief specifically requires students to identify internal and external stakeholders, assess their power and interests, and evaluate how the investigated business challenge affects each stakeholder group. The project concludes with evidence-based strategic recommendations designed to improve labour relations, governance and organisational resilience. Recommendations include strengthening good-faith bargaining, developing more consistent labour-governance practices, improving workforce systems and employee participation, incorporating labour-relations indicators into ESG and corporate reporting, and adopting a coordinated legal and reputation-management strategy. Overall, the work demonstrates the application of strategic management, stakeholder analysis, corporate governance, HRM and secondary-data evaluation to a contemporary organisational challenge. The official assessment requires recommendations to arise directly from the critical analysis and to explain how they create strategic value for the client organisation and its wider industry. The completed submission itself is titled Business Project and focuses on Starbucks; its contents include the organisational challenge, purpose of the report, stakeholder impact, secondary-data evaluation, and recommendations and conclusion.
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