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Leading Through Digital Change
1,500 words
Digital Transformation Report and Poster
This assessment requires students to act as a Senior Digital Transformation Manager and produce a Digital Transformation Report and Poster for one selected sports retail organisation. The purpose of the assessment is to evaluate the organisation's current digital environment and recommend changes that can help it maintain competitive advantage and create business value in response to continuing digital change, changing consumer expectations, e-commerce growth, sustainability requirements, digital innovation and supply chain resilience. The assessment consists of three connected sections addressing digital transformation strategy, future digital trends and digital leadership. The first section requires students to critically review and propose an appropriate digital transformation strategic framework for their selected organisation. Students must select and apply one framework from McKinsey's 4Ds, BCG's 3 Stages, Gartner's 6 Steps or Cognizant's 4 Pillars. The framework should be applied to the chosen organisation rather than simply described. The analysis should also establish digital transformation objectives that support key business functions such as operations, ICT and marketing, with relevant examples and evidence from research used to strengthen the discussion. The second section requires the design of an A4 poster evaluating two disruptive technologies or techniques that are likely to influence the smartphone industry, employment and the labour market over the next five years. Potential technologies identified in the brief include Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, 5G connectivity, Internet of Things, robotics, drone delivery, blockchain, augmented reality and virtual reality. The poster should communicate the expected impact of the selected technologies using academic literature and real-life examples. The third section focuses on digital leadership. Students must analyse and propose two appropriate digital leadership styles that the selected organisation should develop to effectively manage and support digital transformation. Possible approaches include hyperaware agile leadership, ethical technology leadership, people-oriented leadership, agile leadership and Goleman's leadership styles. The recommendations should be supported by relevant theories, academic literature and real organisational examples. The assessment is aligned with three learning outcomes. These address the application of management and leadership strategies during digital change, critical assessment of the impact of digital change on markets, organisations and employees, and evaluation of the leadership attributes and skills required to manage organisations and people in digitally changing environments. The final submission must include a clear introduction and conclusion, demonstrate intellectual originality and critical analysis, use appropriate academic evidence and follow Harvard referencing. The report is limited to 1,500 words, excluding the A4 poster, and students must select only one of the specified sports retail organisations for their analysis. The selected organisation should be analysed consistently across the strategic framework, future technology and digital leadership sections.
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Digital Transformation / Management and Leadership
1,500 words
Leading Through Digital Change: Digital Transformation Strategy, Emerging Technologies and Leadership
This postgraduate assessment requires students to act as a Digital Transformation Consultant and evaluate how a selected organisation should respond to accelerating technological change. Students choose one organisation from the options provided in the brief and prepare a Digital Transformation Report and accompanying poster designed to recommend changes that can help the organisation maintain competitive advantage and create business value. Summative_Assessment_Leading_Th… The first section focuses on a Digital Transformation Strategic Framework. Students must critically review and apply one recognised framework, choosing from the McKinsey 4Ds, BCG 3 Stages, Gartner’s 6 Steps or Cognizant’s 4 Pillars. The analysis should identify appropriate digital-transformation objectives and explain how these can support business functions such as operations, ICT and marketing. Higher-level work is expected to move beyond description and critically evaluate recent digital initiatives and organisational challenges. Summative_Assessment_Leading_Th… The second component is an A4 poster examining future digital trends. Students must evaluate two disruptive technologies or techniques likely to influence the relevant industry, employment and the labour market over the next five years. Suggested technologies include artificial intelligence and machine learning, 5G connectivity, IoT, robotics, drone delivery, blockchain, augmented reality and virtual reality. Academic literature and real-world examples are expected to support the evaluation. Summative_Assessment_Leading_Th… The third section addresses Digital Leadership. Students analyse and recommend two leadership styles that could support organisational transformation. Relevant approaches may include hyperaware agile leadership, ethical-tech leadership, people-oriented leadership, agile leadership and Goleman’s leadership styles. The analysis should explain how leadership capabilities can support collaboration, organisational networks and people during digital change. Summative_Assessment_Leading_Th… The final submission should contain a clear introduction, conclusion and Harvard-referenced evidence, and must be written in the third person with professional academic presentation. Summative_Assessment_Leading_Th… Overview word count: approximately 330 words.
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Global Business Strategy
2,500 words
Global Business Strategy – Strategic Analysis of a Global Company
This assessment is an individual portfolio for the Global Business Strategy module. The assignment requires students to conduct a comprehensive strategic analysis of a named global company that is facing a significant business problem and to develop strategic options that can support the organisation's sustainable growth and future success. The selected company can be from any industry and may be a large or small global organisation. Students must identify a company that has experienced significant challenges during the past five years or is currently facing strategic difficulties. These may include loss of market position, inability to gain or regain market share, operational challenges, or declining revenues and profits. The assessment requires students to investigate the company's strategic purpose, vision, mission and objectives before examining the internal and external global business environment that may have contributed to its challenges. Relevant strategic theories and models should be applied to support the analysis. The portfolio is developed progressively across the semester. The first stage focuses on selecting the global company, identifying its key problem and analysing the internal and external business environment. The second stage examines sustainable business strategies, diversification and competitive advantage through a resource audit, together with an appropriate model for supporting global business growth. Students must also propose an appropriate mode and strategy for entering an international market in which the selected company does not currently operate. The third stage focuses on strategic change, leadership and governance. Students are expected to demonstrate an understanding of effective leadership styles, the role of leadership in strategic change, good governance and the importance of ethics in international business. Practical examples should be used to demonstrate how leadership, governance and ethical considerations can contribute to business growth. The fourth stage addresses good strategy execution and evaluation. Students must justify how the proposed strategy can be effectively implemented using available organisational resources and process management tools that support continuous improvement. The analysis should lead to strategic recommendations and an evaluation of how the proposed strategies could affect the company's future performance and competitiveness in the global market. After completing the individual portfolio tasks, students must prepare a summary report of approximately 1,000–1,500 words. This report should synthesise the key learning and insights gained from each task and demonstrate how the different strategic concepts have been applied to the selected organisation. The final e-portfolio is compiled as a single academic report in PebblePad and submitted as a PDF through Turnitin. The overall report should be approximately 2,500 words ±10%, excluding references and appendices, and sources should be cited using the ULBS Harvard referencing style.
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Business Ethics
2,500 words
Success Through Business Ethics – Ethical Analysis of an FMCG Brand
This assessment is an individual written report for the Success Through Business Ethics module. The assignment requires students to critically examine ethical issues and challenges within a Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) brand and evaluate how ethical theories, decision-making approaches and leadership practices can be applied to understand unethical business behaviour. The report has a total word limit of 2,500 words and accounts for 100% of the assessment. Students are required to select an FMCG brand that has been involved in unethical practices between 2000 and 2025. The selected brand may originate or operate anywhere in the world and may still be operating or may have ceased operations. Students must ensure that sufficient information is available about the organisation and its external environment before selecting the company. The report begins with an introduction explaining the nature of business ethics and introducing the selected FMCG brand and the unethical business practices associated with it. The main analysis requires students to select three normative ethical theories, explain their key principles and critically evaluate whether the company's behaviour adhered to or violated those principles. Students must use this analysis to explain why the identified business practices can be considered unethical. A second analytical section requires students to choose either ethical decision-making or social accounting. The selected concept must be explained and then critically applied to the unethical practices of the chosen FMCG brand. A further analysis focuses on the leadership style of the company's leadership team. Students must explain the principles of the leadership style, consider its positive and negative aspects, and analyse how the leaders responded to the unethical business practices. The report concludes by summarising the key findings from the analysis and providing two important recommendations for the selected brand. The recommendations should be directly relevant to the unethical practices identified and should be justified using evidence and findings from the report. Where a selected company has ceased operating, recommendations should still be provided on the assumption that the brand is operating. The assessment develops students' ability to apply ethical frameworks to business decision-making, understand ethical decision-making and corporate social responsibility, align ethics and values with business contexts, analyse ethical challenges in business strategies and operations, and evaluate moral dilemmas using economic, legal and ethical considerations. The report must use Harvard referencing for in-text citations and the reference list, with the reference list organised alphabetically.
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Leading Through Digital Change
2,500 words
Leading Through Digital Change (CW1)
The Leading Through Digital Change (CW1) assessment is a summative coursework assignment for MSc Management programmes at BPP University Business School. The assessment accounts for 100% of the module marks, with a minimum of 50% required to pass. Students must submit the assessment through Turnitin and follow the Harvard Referencing System. The coursework consists of a 1,500-word business report together with an A4-size poster. The assessment requires the student to act as a Digital Transformation Consultant responsible for coordinating technology expertise within an organisation. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) requires a Digital Transformation Report and Poster that evaluate and recommend changes designed to maintain competitive advantage and create business value. Students must select one organisation from the options provided in the assessment brief: Tata Motors, Meezan Bank Limited, Hulu, or Puma SE. Part 1 addresses the Digital Transformation Strategic Framework and is linked to Learning Outcome 1. The student must critically review and propose one appropriate digital transformation framework for the selected organisation. The brief specifies that one framework should be used from McKinsey 4Ds, BCG 3 Stages, Gartner's 6 Steps or Cognizant's 4 Pillars. The section should also include digital transformation objectives supporting areas such as operations, ICT and marketing. Part 2 addresses Future Digital Trends and Learning Outcome 2. Students must design a poster evaluating two disruptive technologies or techniques likely to affect the smartphone industry, employment and the labour market over the next five years. Suggested technologies include Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, 5G Connectivity, Internet of Things, Robotics, Drone Delivery, Blockchain, and Augmented or Virtual Reality. Academic literature and real-life examples should support the discussion. Part 3 addresses Digital Leadership Recommendations and Learning Outcome 3. Students must analyse and propose two appropriate digital leadership styles that the selected organisation should develop to effectively manage and support digital transformation. The brief identifies possible approaches including hyperaware agile leadership, ethical-tech leadership, people-oriented leadership, agile leadership and Goleman's six leadership styles, while allowing other relevant approaches. The required report structure includes the BPP University administration cover sheet, table of contents, list of abbreviations where appropriate, introduction, Part 1, Part 2 (Poster), Part 3, conclusion, references and appendix where required. The main business report is limited to 1,500 words, while the poster has no separate word limit but must fit on A4 paper. The report must be written in the third person, use professional formatting, include page numbers, correctly label tables and figures, and use Harvard in-text citations and references. The marking criteria emphasise critical evaluation rather than simple description. Higher performance requires evidence of extensive personal research, critical analysis of digital transformation frameworks, emerging technologies and leadership approaches, supported by academic literature and real-world examples. The rubric also expects strong links between the organisation's technological challenges, transformation objectives, disruptive technologies and proposed leadership approaches.
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Leadership and Change
3,000 words
Leadership and Change – Reflective Learning Portfolio
This 3,000-word coursework is a reflective learning portfolio focused on leadership, organisational change and reflective practice. The assessment is worth 100% of the module mark and is structured into four individual components. It is designed to assess leadership capabilities such as strategic thinking, emotional intelligence, communication, adaptability, team building, ethical decision-making and change management, while encouraging students to connect leadership theories and self-assessment tools with their own development. Component 1 focuses on individual leadership style and requires students to provide the results of the Fastest MBTI Test and critically reflect on what the outcome means in relation to their preferred leadership style. Students are expected to connect their MBTI results with leadership approaches covered in the module, including the Situated Leadership model. This component represents 20% of the assessment and has a suggested length of 600 words. Component 2 examines team roles. Students must present evidence from their Team Roles Test, identify their preferred team role and explain why it suits them. They must then identify two other Belbin team roles that would be important when building a team and explain their relevance. Connections can also be made between the Team Roles Test, Belbin’s framework and the results of the Conflict Management questionnaire. This component contributes 20% and has a suggested length of 600 words. Component 3 requires students to develop an individual organisational change plan in response to a fictional case study in which ARU is considering the adoption of AI to mark student coursework assignments and examinations. The plan evaluates change enablers and barriers, stakeholder involvement, ethical considerations and resource constraints. Students then develop an implementation strategy using a suitable change-management framework such as Lewin’s Change Model or Kotter’s 8-Step Model, including stakeholder engagement, communication, resistance management and strategies for sustaining change. This component represents 30% and has a suggested length of 900 words. Component 4 is a 900-word reflective account of what students learned about leadership while working as part of a team to design the organisational change plan. The reflection considers how leadership emerged, team collaboration, missing or required roles, conflict management and personal development. Students may structure the reflection using Kolb’s Reflective Learning Cycle or Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle and support their discussion with theories such as transformational, situational and distributed leadership, as well as Belbin’s team-role framework. Overall, the learning outcomes require students to critically reflect on their leadership style, evaluate classical and contemporary leadership theories, understand organisational change processes and develop evidence-based change strategies. The assessment also emphasises reflective practice and personal leadership development through experiential learning in a group setting.
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Business Ethics / Corporate Social Responsibility
2,500 words
Success Through Business Ethics (BS846) — Individual Report: Ethical Failure in an FMCG Brand, Moral Philosophy, Decision-Making and Leadership Response
This Level 7 individual report examines a real fast-moving consumer goods brand that was found to have engaged in unethical business practices between 2000 and 2023, and works through why the failure happened rather than simply recounting what occurred. The brand is selected on the basis that sufficient documented evidence exists about both the company and its external environment — regulatory findings, investigative journalism, financial disclosures and NGO reporting — so that every analytical claim can be supported rather than assumed. The introduction establishes what business ethics means as an academic field, drawing on recognised sources, before introducing the chosen brand and setting out concisely what the unethical practices were, when they came to light and who was harmed. The first and largest analytical section applies three moral philosophical bases from the module to the case. Each is used as a lens rather than described in isolation: the utilitarian calculation the company appears to have made and where its accounting of harm was deficient, the duty-based obligations to consumers, workers or communities that were breached regardless of outcome, and the character and organisational culture questions that virtue ethics raises about how such decisions became normal internally. The evaluation is genuinely critical — it identifies where the company's conduct could be partially defended under one framework while failing badly under another, which is where the analytical marks sit. The second section takes one of the two theoretical approaches offered and applies it in depth. Where ethical decision-making is chosen, the report traces the sequence of judgements that produced the outcome, examining awareness, intent, organisational pressure and the moral intensity of the issue. Where social accounting is chosen, it assesses what the company disclosed about its social and environmental impact against what was actually occurring, and what that gap reveals about the purpose its reporting served. The third section evaluates leadership. It characterises the prevailing leadership style from the evidence and then focuses on the response once the practices were exposed — whether leaders denied, deflected, settled quietly or accepted accountability — supported by tables, figures and quoted material showing the consequences in share price, revenue, regulatory penalties and documented social or environmental harm. Three concrete recommendations follow, each derived directly from a failure identified in the preceding analysis and justified specifically for this brand rather than offered as generic good practice, with a short conclusion drawing the sections together. Harvard referencing is applied in text and in an alphabetised reference list.
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Management / Digital Transformation and Leadership
1,500 words
Leading Through Digital Change: Digital Transformation Report and Future Technology Poster
This Masters-level assessment for the Leading Through Digital Change module examines how organisations can respond strategically and effectively to rapid technological and digital transformation. Students take the role of a Digital Transformation Manager for one selected international organisation and prepare a professional Digital Transformation Report accompanied by an A4 digital poster. The purpose is to evaluate the organisation's current digital context and recommend changes that can strengthen competitive advantage and create sustainable business value. The first component requires critical evaluation and recommendation of one appropriate digital transformation strategic framework. Students may apply frameworks such as the McKinsey 4Ds, BCG Three Stages, Gartner's Six Steps or Cognizant's Four Pillars. The analysis should establish clear digital transformation objectives relevant to organisational functions such as operations, ICT and marketing, while using organisational evidence, academic research and practical examples to justify the proposed strategic direction. The second component is an academic poster evaluating two disruptive technologies or techniques expected to affect the chosen organisation, its industry, employment and the labour market over the next five years. Potential technologies include Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, 5G connectivity, the Internet of Things, robotics, drone delivery, blockchain, augmented reality and virtual reality. The poster should combine academic literature with real-world examples to demonstrate the likely opportunities, challenges and wider organisational implications of technological disruption. The final component focuses on digital leadership. Students analyse and recommend two suitable leadership approaches for managing and supporting digital transformation. Relevant approaches may include agile leadership, ethical-tech leadership, people-oriented leadership, hyperaware agile leadership and Goleman's leadership styles. Overall, the assessment integrates digital strategy, innovation, emerging technologies and leadership. The wider module also covers digital transformation strategies, data-driven decision-making, leadership in the digital age, artificial intelligence in contemporary business, digital risk management and planning for the future. Reference style: Harvard. Main report word limit: 1,500 words. Poster: A4 size with no specified word count.
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