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Section 4:
Reflective Account of development and achievement of learning goals during the module

You are required to reflect upon your experiences related to the identification, development and achievement of your learning goals during the module. In your reflective account try to capture the elements most pertinent to your learning and ensure you reflect upon the process of learning as well as highlighting achievements. You should also reflect upon how the work you have completed in relation to your action plans has contributed to your overall development and enabled you to complete other modules in year 1

You are to investigate and critique from an interview – online, or in a journal, or business publication or from E-corner: Stanford University’s Entrepreneurship Corner at: https://ecorner.stanford.edu/ the profile of an entrepreneur in 2016. What makes someone want to be an entrepreneur, and/or in emerging markets and/or BRICS rather than an employee or a professional? Using the principal findings from GEM in chapter 1, along with other sources your background research uncovers, your mission is to discover if the entrepreneur matches these personality attributes, if not, what in their personality or personal history lead them to become an entrepreneur.
Write a report detailing what you learned about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. What conclusions do you make? Has this interview impacted how you will approach your project? Your career.
Your final entrepreneurship report should be around 5-pages (1500 words +/- 10%). Use a business report format. List any research sources you used and include your questions and a summary of the answers you received in the appendix. (I don\’t include appendices in the page count.).

How important is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in contemporary Australia? Illustrate your answer with examples of programs and/or services (particularly since 2013) offer arguments for value (or not) and programming.

What it is to be entrepreneurial: definition, scope, domains of entrepreneurship, the key entrepreneurial skills, and their transferability to any career prospect;
The centrality of ‘opportunity’, the importance of ‘creativity’, and ‘innovation’ in the entrepreneurial process;
How to get the business started (in the UK context), and the stages involved in setting up a venture
The issues in business and scenario planning, and risks within any such plan;
The practical problems, challenges, and risks faced by an entrepreneur within a business ‘start-up’
Learning Outcomes: Skills and Attributes tested in this assignment:
Identify and analyse problems and recommend viable solutions;
Apply different approached to research and methods of enquiry related to aspects of enterprise and its context;
Apply standard IT packages to enhance presentations and produce business reports;
Classify, analyse and evaluate numerical data to seek solutions related to structured and unstructured problems;
Demonstrate the skills of critical interpretation;
Demonstrate time management skills and working to deadlines
Feedback /Marking criteria for this Assignment
Performance will be assessed using HBS Grading Criteria.

The report constitutes 100% of the final mark
The marking scheme:
Creativity of the approach (15 marks)
The depth of analysis and research (30 marks)
Critical evaluation: coherence of the arguments and statements, their justification and reasoning, application of the theory, and accurate interpretation of data and evidence (30 marks)
Presentation (15 marks)
Referencing (10 marks)

Guidance for improvement will be given in writing via StudyNet within 4 weeks. For further help, contact the teaching staff in the drop-in hours

Detailed Brief for Individual/Group Assessment
The title of the assignment: Business Plan
Purpose of the assessment: Based on the case develop a business plan for the company, addressing its major challenge. It should take into the account the type and the nature of the business, the information provided, secondary research, and theoretical knowledge about entrepreneurship.
Context: The business plan should follow all the conventions of real world business plans, for example, in terms of layout, length, content and structure.

Implied funding: the available amount raised (as per the case)

Approach/steps to follow:
Use the template provided (reports in any other format won’t be marked)
All the sections must be covered
Plan 1 year ahead (on a short-term basis)
Reference all the sources used in the report following precisely Harvard Referencing Style, adopted by the University (see: https://www.studynet2.herts.ac.uk/ptl/common/LIS.nsf/lis/busharvard)
Minimum use of 5 academic sources (books, journals, websites for Mintel reports, Keynote, etc) is required
All the tables, graphs, and charts should be numbered, named, and referred to in the text
Do NOT engage in primary research for this task (without Ethics Approval, a fail would be given)
Check grammar, use UK spelling and try to use PEEEL to structure your main paragraphs. Refer to CASE

NB: It is important to note that a business plan is based on secondary research. It is the research which underpins the assumptions that all business plans have. It is therefore expected all business plans to exhibit secondary research, for example, on social, economic or market trends, which have created the opportunity. A key component of the assessment is the quality of the secondary research. Students are unlikely to be able to produce a convincing business plan that is based on skimpy or non-existent research.
Students are not expected to carry out primary research.
Students are expected to:
Be creative in developing your arguments, and thorough in the planning;
Demonstrate extensive reading, and the ability to apply theoretical concepts from the reading and lectures;
Avoid plagiarism: copying out or repeating large chunks of texts from books or journals
Not make unsubstantiated assertions, references must back up the in-text statements

Prepare a report that covers all the areas detailed below. You should consider your situation as of the time that you complete the report, i.e., your current skills, knowledge and experience.
There are five separate parts to this refer assignment, all of which must be completed to pass.
Access Times Top 100 graduate employers website www.top100graduateemployers.com and find an advertised graduate role that you would be interested in applying for when you graduate. Research the company and the role and write a brief report that outlines the following:
The organisation’s sector – market, competitors, current financial situation, current trading situation
The role – main responsibilities and requirements, how the role fits within the organisation

Review your current competencies against the identified roles requirements and develop a personal SWOT to illustrate your areas of strength and areas where you have development requirements; where you see opportunities and where there may be threats to you becoming a suitable candidate for this role.

Construct a personal development plan (PDP) (making use of an appropriate table format) that details how you will develop the skill and competence in areas where you have identified that you are weak or require further development. This should cover the time until you graduate and beyond. Further detail can be provided in an appendix if required.

Develop a one-minute written ‘elevator’ pitch, which you would present to recruiters for this organisation outlining how you meet their requirements and why they should recruit you for this role

Prepare a STAR example that demonstrates your competence in Team Working. You can make use of information from the team working assignment within this module as necessary to support your demonstration of competence in this area. This should be submitted as an appendix to your report.

Total word count for this assignment would not normally be above 1500 words (not including appendices). You will need to present your information in a business appropriate report format.
Submission Requirements.
You will be required to submit a copy of your full assignment to the correct assignment tab on the Module StudyNet site. You must submit this as one MsWord document, (ie doc or docx). You must name your document as follows:
Your name: Student Number: EE4 (e.g., John Smith 1234567 EE4)
Failure to follow any of the above instruction will result in a penalty of -5% for each instance from your assignment mark

Find a recent news report that includes a reference to the Consumer Price Index. Briefly describe in a summary how the Consumer Price Index is important in the story.
Your summary should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts as well as provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your summary should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Include Chapter 2 Statistical Reasoning by Bennett, Briggs, and Triola 2014 as one of the references

Exam Question:

‘Much of everyday life seems obvious, natural and inevitable. When we look closer, however, we can see the ways in which everyday life reflects power and inequality, the operation of ideology, and the process of socialisation.’

Respond to this claim in relation to the three topics of work, health, and racism. Address each of these topics in a separate paragraph, applying the above concepts. Your answer must reflect your engagement with both the lectures, and the relevant essential readings.

Exam Instructions:

All answers must be expressed ENTIRELY in your own words. Theorists/authors should be acknowledged (ie ‘Scott argues that ….’) but do not use direct quotes or close paraphrasing from either the readings or the lectures. You must express your ideas in your own words in order to demonstrate your understanding of the material. This is not a suggestion – it is a requirement.

Your answer must be 750 words in length. Each topic will be marked separately and each topic is equal in marks, so you should devote approximately 250 words to each topic.

You do not have to apply each concept to each topic. However, you should address each of these concepts in the course of your complete exam answer.

No additional research is required – you should refer only to the essential readings and lectures.

Your exam answer will be checked for originality through turnitin.

Double space your exam answer.

Do not cut and paste or retype the exam question into your answer.

DUE: 9am Sunday 29th May.

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7. Unit 9 Quiz

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African American Literature Keith Gilyard and Anissa Wardi Pearson Education, Inc. 2004 ISBN-13: 978-0321113412 Read in Chapter 8 : pg799 – 815

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Utilizing the ideas presented in class and in the book Good to Great, your assignment is to prepare a
4-6 page strategic plan (12 pt. font, line spacing 1.0 or 1.5) for your target organization that will accomplish its strategic intent within the next 5 years. This may build on the first two written assignments, or you can choose a different organization and set of management priorities. If you stay with the same organization, your plan must expand on the initiatives already proposed in the earlier assignments. All plans should contain these four elements:

A. Begin with a summary statement that describes in both qualitative and quantitative terms your vision for the end state position of your organization (e.g., size, profitability, market share, rank, geographic coverage, product scope, etc.), using a time horizon of five years.

B. Describe the hedgehog concept around which you will build your successful strategy. State it in a single sentence, printed in bold. Be sure it answers the three questions posed by Collins.

C. Identify the specific pillars or management initiatives in your strategy for getting there. Explain how you intend to implement these planks, with staffing requirements, calls for action, use of cross functional teams, target dates and budget considerations. For example, your pillars might be:
· Offer new product lines or services
· Attack new distribution channels
· Reach new domestic or international markets
· Extend geographic coverage
· Strengthen core competencies
· Develop new or expanded resources
· Apply technology accelerators
· Tighten cost structure

D. Establish key performance goals so it will be clear whether or not the plan has been achieved. Cite the most single critical “economic denominator” for measuring the company’s progress.

The target audience for this plan should be the company’s management team and/or board of directors. Avoid jargon and make all technical issues understandable to the non-technical people on your board and within the management team. Assume that the organization’s directors are sophisticated executives who want any proposals backed up with facts and analysis, not unsupported claims and puffery. Put this plan in a form where you would be proud to submit it to the CEO of the subject company. If the plan is targeted at your current employer, you may even want to do that. It can’t hurt, and they could decide to implement your ideas.

Students will prepare a ONE page (single sided) analysis of the case that includes the case issues, analysis, and recommendations.
DO NOT plagiarize from the case. You should not be copying or paraphrasing from the case.

Issues: （ The issues must be came up from the case）

Start each case submission by identifying which issues you plan on tackling in your case analysis. Often the major issues of the case are explicitly stated at the beginning or end of the case. ì Select 3– 4 issues to focus on. ì The issues should be marketing focused (see the list will be posted). Phrase each issue in the form of a question that needs to be answered.

Make sure the issues is phrased as a question.
Make sure the issues are marketing focused.

Analysis:
Please DO NOT simply regurgitate the facts of the cases.
Organization your analysis around each issue.
Support your points with evidence from the case
While generic analysis, such as SWOT and environmental analysis, can be useful, given the space constraints you needs to focus strictly on the issues.

Recommendations:
The final part of each submission will be the recommendations section.
Here is where you “answer” the questions you posited in the issues section!
Your recommendations should resolve the issues and should make sense given your analysis.
Its should all flow and fit together.
Be specific in your recommendations. It should be clear what the protagonist should do.

PS: The paper should be write like:
Issues: 1………
2………
3……….

Analysis: Analysis for issues 1:…………….
Analysis for issues 2……………..
Analysis for issues 3……………….

Recommendation: ………………………………
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