Requisites: Pre-requisite: SOE11410 Data Analysis for Business Decision-making

The purpose of this module is to develop your ability to develop and implement a management report in the field of business management. Completing the management report will provide you with the opportunity to apply the knowledge, research skills, and analytical and conceptual tools that you have acquired while taking your taught modules. Your learning on this module is experiential and problem-based, with a focus upon you discovering, questioning, and critically reflecting upon a business problem. You are required to identify a business problem for one organisation, and to conduct an analysis of the organisation’s positioning in relation to that problem and to develop actionable recommendations to be presented to the executive board that are based on the findings from their analysis. You will be guided through the process in groups by experienced tutors, you will also be assigned to groups with other students that have chosen the same organisation.

Upon completion of this module you will be able to

LO1: Identify a business problem facing an organisation in the 21st century business environment.

LO2: Review a business problem by critically examining the relevant academic, grey and practitioner literature.

LO3: Critically assess the strategic position of an organisation as it relates to a business problem by applying appropriate analytical method/s

LO4: Identify, present, and evaluate data relevant for assessing an organisation’s positioning in relation to the problem and its capacity to respond to the problem