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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 / Strategy
2,467 words
Contemporary Issues in Business (BS729) — Reflective Portfolio: Case Trends, Stakeholder Perspectives and Management Frameworks
This Level 7 portfolio accumulates across a semester of case-based workshops and is submitted as a single document combining reflective writing with sustained critical discussion. The assessment rewards demonstrable personal development as much as analytical knowledge, so the writing is first-person where it needs to be and evidential throughout. The reflective component presents six workshop reflections, each no longer than 150 words and each structured through one of the established reflective models introduced in the module — Gibbs' Reflective Cycle, Kolb's Learning Cycle, Schön's framework or the ERA framework. These are not summaries of what the case was about. Each one identifies where the analysis could have been sharper, what was missed in the live discussion and why, what will be repeated and what will be done differently, with the emphasis falling on transferable learning about how business problems are diagnosed and decisions taken under uncertainty rather than on the particulars of any single case. The larger critical component works through three connected questions. The first examines how contemporary trends studied in the module affect businesses both positively and negatively, drawing on two specific cases but deliberately reaching beyond them to consider consequences across whole industries — the trend, not the company, is the unit of analysis. The second addresses why identifying stakeholders and understanding their perspectives is critical to sound decision-making, using one module case to demonstrate it. Competing interests are mapped explicitly, the power and legitimacy of each group considered, and stakeholder theory used to argue why a manager who weighs only shareholder interest arrives at a worse decision. The third question turns to the management tools and frameworks applied during the module, using two cases to show how a particular tool was selected, what it revealed that unstructured analysis would have missed, and equally where it fell short. This includes judgement about when each framework is and is not appropriate, since selecting the right tool for the problem is itself the skill being assessed. Harvard referencing is applied consistently across all sections, with academic sources supporting the theoretical claims and practitioner sources grounding the industry discussion. Portfolio items are collected through PebblePad across the semester and consolidated into one file for submission, the class participation element being tracked separately by the lecturer across the case discussion sessions.
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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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Business Management / Business Consultancy / Supply Chain Management
5,000 words
Digital Transformation for Sustainable Supply Chain Transparency at Unilever: Blockchain, IoT and AI
This MSc Business Consultancy Project requires students to undertake an evidence-based consultancy investigation addressing a strategically significant business problem within a selected organisation. The assessment is designed to replicate professional consultancy practice by requiring students to define a focused organisational challenge, critically analyse secondary evidence, apply relevant management frameworks, evaluate stakeholder implications and develop practical recommendations that create value for the client organisation. The final submission is a 5,000-word consultancy report, including a 500-word employability reflection. The reference project examines Unilever Plc and focuses on the challenge of improving transparency and traceability across its complex global supply chain. Particular attention is given to the potential application of Blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support real-time traceability, predictive analytics, ethical sourcing, operational efficiency and sustainability performance. The project considers how digital transformation could support Unilever's sustainability objectives while responding to growing regulatory, environmental and stakeholder pressures. The consultancy report requires a structured analysis consisting of an executive summary, introduction, company/client overview, clearly defined business problem and consultancy focus, and detailed stakeholder analysis. Students then undertake an extensive data analysis and framework application section using two or three relevant theoretical models alongside credible secondary evidence, industry reports, company data, tables, charts or Excel outputs. Findings should be interpreted critically and linked back to appropriate strategic or management frameworks while incorporating ethical and sustainability considerations. The project concludes with three prioritised, actionable and evidence-based recommendations, including consideration of implementation risks, barriers and anticipated benefits. Students must also critically reflect on the employability skills developed through the consultancy project, including research, analysis, problem-solving, project management, communication, professional behaviour, ethical awareness and future career development. All academic and professional evidence must be cited using the Harvard Referencing System, with emphasis on credible and current sources.
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