BAE4LDP Discovery Project Assessment Brief

Assessment Brief 

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For this report, you must choose a social or environmental issue within an area that you are familiar with. You must have some data on the size of this issue and underlying causes of the issue. For example, you may choose fly-tipping as an environmental issue in Enfield (fly-tipping is the illegal dumping of household or 

For this report, you must choose a social or environmental issue within an area that you are familiar with. You must have some data on the size of this issue and underlying causes of the issue. For example, you may choose fly-tipping as an environmental issue in Enfield (fly-tipping is the illegal dumping of household or commercial waste on land or in water. The waste is usually dumped to avoid disposal costs and can be hazardous to the environment and public as well as causing an area to look run down). You may choose the same issue and area that you worked on in your teams, on the module. However, please note, you must paraphrase any information that may have been [previously submitted, for example, on a PowerPoint presentation. 

You must submit a report of approximately 2000 words (plus or minus 10%). 

To complete this coursework, you must complete ALL of the following tasks: (please refer to the Assessment Criteria and Weighting table, at the end of this document, for more detail on expectations)

• Write a short introduction, outlining the aims of the report.

• State the size of the social or environmental issue identified in the community that you chose and explain some of the underlying causes of this issue.

• Show that you have used an ideas generation technique such as Reverse Thinking, SCAMPER Model or Thought Showers, etc, to come up with at least four appropriate business solutions to this problem.

• State what an Idea Evaluation Matrix is, and how it can be used to evaluate ideas. Evaluate three of your solutions, identified in task 3, using your own Idea Evaluation Matrix, with at least four criteria for evaluation. 

• Explain how your chosen solution (the one that scored highest from your Idea Evaluation Matrix) could be used to make money by completing a Social Blueprint Business Design Framework to support your explanation.
• Explain how a Gantt Chart can be used to complete a project and place a screenshot of your completed Gantt Chart for this module to illustrate your answer. 

• Define coaching and explain how it can be used to enable successful team development. 

• Write a short conclusion explaining your key learning from this module as identified in your report.