Description
Buckinghamshire
New University
Assignment Brief Academic Year 2024-25
Module code: BM562
Module Title : Consulting in Practice
Module Leader: Robert Kowalschek
Assignment No. and type: CW1 Group Portfolio
Assessment Weighting: 80 % of module mark
Submission Date: 7th February 2025
Assignment task
You are to submit one portfolio of evidence for the whole team, which demonstrates the management of your client project.
The team portfolio will demonstrate the management of your real client project (so it must be real company that you are getting in touch with) and includes below submissions:
- Business communications skills, such as emails between your team and the client
- Final client report, which includes a summary of the solutions proposed, and an indication of the measurement of success of those solutions.
The evidence you must include is prescribed by the separate proformas, see document entitled BM562 Proformas for CW1 Portfolio 2024-25
➢ You must provide supporting evidence as far as possible for each section.
➢ All contributing students’ names and student ID numbers must be on the front cover.
➢ One of the sections is the final Client Report which should be 2,500 words long +/- 10% and use line and a half spacing. You must ensure that your Client receives a copy of this. 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
All team members must participate in the development of the portfolio.
As 20% of the mark for this coursework will come from the client’s rating for each individual, final marks may vary between team members.
The other 80% of the marks, 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
This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes:
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.
Practicalities: Referencing, presenting and submitting your work.
Please see your programme handbook for information on the standard referencing style, presentational requirements and process for submitting your work.
The final report should be 2,500 words long +/- 10% and use line and a half spacing and clear font.
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 the portfolio and the final report should be professionally written and presented.
Please reference your work using the Harvard 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 ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Copies are available via the university library.
The Cite them Right database can be accessed via the Library and Learning Resources page on BlackBoard – A to Z of Database list.
Please note the use of a cover sheet is required for this assignment to include, title of the report and word count.
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