Business Analysis Project: Understanding, Analysis, and Recommendations

1. Demonstrate understanding of business issues and decision making and analysis methods through the use of academic theories and concepts from a variety of disciplines.

2. Analyse and evaluate business issues across a variety of real business issues in order develop appropriate proposals for their resolution

What am I required to do in this assignment?

You may work in groups for developing this piece of the assessment, but the submission must be individual and distinctively different from other members’ submissions.

You will be presented with a real project. You are required to organise, structure, develop an analysis of this project using appropriate theory and make recommendations for the company.

You will work together to develop your project in the class environment. During the class sessions, you will work to improve your understanding of the project environment and identify issues and conduct meaningful analysis and develop recommendations for the company by applying appropriate frameworks.

The issues that you will have identified initially may change over the course of the project therefore attending all classes is essential.

You may use relevant appendices in support of your report. You are advised to limit your appendices. If the content is essential to the

report, include it in the main part.

Your report is aimed at the client (the company) and should be written in a good business report standard, including headings to structure

the report and applying tables and figures and formatting to enhance their report presentation.

What do I need to do to pass? (Threshold Expectations from UIF)

• Demonstrate an ability to organise and complete a project and produce reasonable solutions

How do I produce high quality work that merits a good grade?

We will be filling this section in together in class on Click or tap to enter a date. make sure you have downloaded/printed out the Assignment Brief and bring it to the session with you.

How does assignment relate to what we are doing in scheduled sessions?

Initially you will be working on a “dummy” project where you will develop an understanding of selecting and applying appropriate tools and frameworks, identifying potential sources of data, and using the data to perform analysis to develop recommendations.

How will my assignment be marked?

Your assignment will be marked according to the threshold expectations and the criteria on the following page.

You can use them to evaluate your own work and consider your grade before you submit.

Selection of frameworks is appropriate and clearly selected after comparison with alternatives. Frameworks are applied in the correct manner according to their design.

Some inconsistencies in presentation of material. Style inappropriate in places. Weakly expressed with mistakes in grammar and spelling. A reasonable attempt with several errors both in text and in the References section.

Selection of frameworks is entirely appropriate and clearly selected after comparison with alternatives. Selection shows understanding of their strengths and weaknesses and the application reflects this. Frameworks are applied in the correct manner according to their design and their usage leads to insight