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Task 1 of 3 – Business presentation (AC1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2 & 2.3)
Instructions:
Individually prepare a presentation critically evaluating the strategic plans of an organisation of your
choice and propose strategic options. Your presentation is to be made to the board of directors and you
should:
- Introduce your selected organisation, and evaluate its vision, mission and values statements with
recommendations for any revisions you deemappropriate. - Critically evaluate the organisations key headline data including, but not limited to, trends in
financial performance, share price (where applicable) market share, profitability and major
competitors. - Define the organisation’s industry and explore the critical macro-environment forces that
influenceit. - Critically analyse the organisation’s competitive position in thatindustry.
- Present a SWOT table (or equivalent) and critically evaluate the organisations current
strategicposition.
Delivery:
▪ 1x PowerPoint Presentation
▪ 1x Executive Summary (circa 400words)
Submission:
▪ 1x PowerPoint PresentationSlides
▪ 1x Executive Summary (circa 400words)
Referencing:
● Each PowerPoint must reflect any supporting Harvard stylecitations.
● A comprehensive Harvard style reference list must be included at the end of thepresentation.
Task 2 of 3 – Essay (AC3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1. 5.2 & 5.3)
Instructions:
Following your presentation, you should now prepare a new strategic plan: - Critically evaluate the relationship between the organisation’s, corporate, business and
operational strategies - Apply strategic models and tools to recommend strategic options for theorganisation
- Evaluate critical success factors/assumptions that underpin the strategic options you’ve
developed - Recommend and justify a strategic option and accompanying businessobjectives
- Identify change factors by completing a force field analysis for your selectedorganisation
- Identify the change agents and propose a suitable structure for the implementation of theplan
- Create a resourced implementation plan for the strategy, with a justified timeline for
implementation - Describe the potential risks during theimplementation
Delivery and submission:
▪ 1x Portfolio with your force field analysis, structure, implementation plan, success indicators and
potential (circa 2500 words)
Referencing:
● Each section must reflect any supporting Harvard stylecitations.
● A comprehensive Harvard style reference list must be included at the end of thework.
Task 3 of 3 – Reflective Essay (AC 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.3, 4.4, )
Instructions:
Critical evaluate the usefulness of change models such as Lewin, McKinsey 7s and Kotter for the
selected organisation and recommend a specific model to support the strategic option identified in Task 3.
You should also explain how you could be a change agent and identify the leadership and change agent
skills you would need to display in order to make changes successful.
Delivery and submission:
▪ 1x Essay (circa 600words)
Referencing:
● Each section must reflect any supporting Harvard stylecitations.
● A comprehensive Harvard style reference list must be included at the end of thework.
Evidence to be submitted:
PowerPoint Presentation – (1000 words equivalent).
Executive summary – 400 words.
Portfolio – 2500 words. Reflective
Essay – 600 words.