© 2013 Laureate Education, Inc. 1 Confidential & Proprietary Organisations and the Business Environment Final Project Guidelines Overview For your Final Project, you are strongly encouraged to select an organisation that is publicly traded, a government organisation or an organisation that is otherwise required by law to disclose its information. You must have, at a minimum, access to the following organisational information:  An organisational issue and scope of that issue  Sufficient detail to be able to provide two bullets of information for each of the following areas: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT analysis)  Political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental information required to perform a PESTLE analysis  Information on resource allocation (technology, people, finances) To aid in your selection, it is highly recommended that you submit the organisation you wish to select to your Faculty Member early in the course. In that submission, include the name of the organisation and provide as much information as possible about the organisation. The Faculty Member can then provide feedback on your selection and make recommendations. For your Final Project, you will act as a hired consultant to the organisation you selected. You will provide a Consulting Report to an executive in that organisation. You may select the Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Chief Executive Officer (CEO) or Chief Operating Officer (COO). You should make your selection based on your interests and the organisational information available to you. Throughout the module, you will participate in activities and complete assignments that will help prepare you to complete this Final Project. Many of the elements for your Consulting Report will first be submitted as Individual Assignments during the various units. You will have a chance to revise and improve them before submitting your Final Project, based on feedback from your peers and your Faculty Member. Use the instructions below to complete all required elements of your Final Project. To complete the Consulting Report, revise your Individual Assignment entries from Units 1-5 based on feedback from your Faculty Member and compile them into a single Microsoft Word document.© 2013 Laureate Education, Inc. 2 Confidential & Proprietary Your Final Project should include: Final Project Part 1: Consulting Report  Section 1: Organisational Issue (Unit 1) o An organisational issue you identified  Section 2: Internal Environmental Analysis (Unit 1) o A SWOT analysis of your selected organisation  Section 3: External Environmental Analysis (Unit 2) o A PESTLE analysis and additional external analysis of the organisation, with explanation of how external analysis can help you understand the organisational issue you identified  Section 4: Resource Allocation (Unit 3) o An explanation of how the identified organisational issue can be addressed through better resource allocation  Section 5: Change Management (Unit 4) o A proposed organisational change that could address the identified organisational issue, a discussion of change models that could be used to implement the change and an explanation of how to involve stakeholders in the change  Executive Summary (Unit 5) o Executive summary, focusing on the identified organisational issue Organise all of the above into a coherent report you could submit to a CIO, CTO, CEO or COO. Your final document should be approximately 5,000 words. Final Project Part 2: PPDP Update (not assessed)  Review and update your PPDP by adding at least one new goal connected to your learning in this module.© 2013 Laureate Education, Inc. 3 Confidential & Proprietary Additional Guidance The assessment criteria (rubric) for the Final Project, along with other module rubrics, can be accessed by clicking the Rubrics button at the top of the Course Navigator Module Home page. Please contact your Faculty Member if you have any additional questions about the Final Project. Assessment and Grading The Final Project accounts for 80% of your grade for this module. This 80% is further broken down as follows: Consulting Report (5,000 words):  Section 1: Organisational Issue (10%)  Section 2: Internal Environmental Analysis (20%)  Section 3: External Environmental Analysis (20%)  Section 4: Resource Allocation (10%)  Section 5: Change Management 20%)  Executive Summary (10%)  Writing Style and Presentation (10%) To complete your Final Project, do the following: 1. Please submit in one Word document the Executive Summary and Sections 1-5 to the Final Project Part 1 submission link in the Final Project area on the Module Menu. 2. Please submit the PPDP update to the Final Project Part 2 submission link in the Final Project area on the Module Menu.