BM562 Consulting in Practice CW1 Group Portfolio Assignment Brief 2024-2025 | BNU

BM562 Assignment Task

As a management consultant employed by a respectable consulting company, as your client has inquired to evaluate a variety of useful business data and information sources to ensure the project is delivered. Provide the client with creative solutions to their problems along with suggestions for measuring and assessing those solutions.

You must complete the all the required task of the group portfolio with evidences. Please note, you are required to use the projects provided in the relevant folder on the VLE. 

In order to demonstrate that your team managed the project for your client, you must submit a single portfolio of proof

Assignment Tasks: (Client Report)

TASK ONE

Critical Analysis of Secondary Business Research Sources for Client

In this analysis, you must evaluate a range of secondary business research sources to understand their relevance and application to the business challenge faced by the organisation. The aim is to use secondary sources to gather insights including market size-growth rate, target audience and competitor analysis.

TASK TWO

Provide the client with creative solutions to their challenges along with recommendations for evaluating and assessing the outcomes. Develop a comprehensive outline plan for implementing the chosen solution over the next 6 months. Detail key steps, resources required, stakeholder engagement strategies, assumption of Budget and a timeline.

IMPORTANT EVIDENCE:

You must provide supporting evidence as far as possible for each section: 

Including Detailed Project Plan with monthly updates, Signed Partnership Agreement between team, Minutes of all team meetings, Minutes of all supervisor meetings, Showcase evidence (Photos, blog, video etc), CLIENT REFERENCE form (This is worth 10% of the final mark of this submission), Group log of portfolio contributions.  

NOTE: All contributing students’ names and student ID numbers must be on the front cover.

One of the sections is the final Client Report. This should be 2,500 words long +/- 10% and use line and a half spacing.

The list of references will not be included in the word count. There is no designated word count for the other elements of the portfolio, however these should still be professionally and carefully written and presented.

WORKING IN GROUPS (2-4 Members)

Every team member needs to be involved in the portfolio's development. 

The client's assessment of each team member will account for 20% of the overall grade for this class, therefore team members' scores may differ.  As regards the other 80%, your work will be marked as a group and all members will receive the same mark, unless there is clear evidence of a difference in contribution.

Please see the separate ‘Group Work Policy Statement’ for more information  If you are registered with the Disability and Inclusion Services or have a disability, please contact your module leader to discuss how your reasonable adjustments will be applied to this assignment

Module learning outcomes of BM562:

LO1: Apply an evaluative approach to a range of practical business data, and sources of information for delivery of the project.

LO2: Perform efficiently and effectively as a collaborative member of a working group and as an added value contributor to the organisation which is assigned to the students.

LO3: Deliver innovative solutions to the client’s problems together with recommendations for measuring and evaluating those solutions.

LO4: Demonstrate effective business communication skills