Assignment 1: Sustainable Business Plan Presentation

Task requirements

Assignment 1 will be in the form of a presentation of a sustainable business plan. You are required to produce a Power Point presentation which will pitch the business proposition to a panel of business experts who will ask questions to ascertain viability of your business proposition.
Your proposal could be a product or service based business in any sector and will need to include the following:
1. Motivation for choice of business
2. The process you went through to generate this business idea
3. Feasibility studies conducted
4. Details of the product/service to be offered
5. Potential market opportunities
6. Attractiveness of the industry
7. Vision for your business
Students are to use wider range of resources from peer reviewed academic journals as well as books and other academic databases such as Mintel, EBSCOhost, ProQuest etc.
This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes: Module code and title:
BM564 Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Module leader:
Sidrah Mahboob
Assignment No. and type:
PR1: Presentation Assessment weighting:
40% Submission time and date:
Thursday 11th November 2021 before 2pm on LSST Connect via Turnitin
In-class presentations to take place in week beginning:
8th November 2021 Target feedback time and date:
3 weeks after submission deadline
LO 3
Plan the development of a business and pitch the proposition to potential investors and/or interested stakeholders.
Task requirements
? Use Times New Roman font size 11 with 1.5 line spacing.
? Insert page numbers at the bottom of each page
? You must have a cover sheet with your student ID, Name and word count
Referencing and research requirements
Please reference your work according to the Harvard referencing style as defined in Cite Them Right Online (http://www.citethemrightonline.com). This information is also available in book form: Pears, R. and Shields, G. (2016) Cite them right: the essential reference guide. 10th edn. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Copies are available via the university library.
There are also documents on Harvard referencing on VLE which students can read.
Students must use acceptable academic sources including peer-reviewed journal articles, Books, Company websites etc.
How your work will be assessed
Your work will be assessed on the extent to which it demonstrates your achievement of the stated learning outcomes for this assignment (see above) and against other key criteria, as defined in the University’s institutional grading descriptors. If it is appropriate to the format of your assignment and your subject area, a proportion of your marks will also depend upon your use of academic referencing conventions.
This assignment will be marked according to the grading descriptors for Level 6
The marking grid at the bottom has details of how your work will be assessed
Submission details
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? Please also note that work that is submitted up to 10 working days beyond the submission date will be considered a late submission. Late submissions will be marked and the actual mark recorded, but will be capped at the pass mark (typically 40%), provided that the work is of a passing standard. Work submitted after this period will not be marked and will be treated as a non-submission