Purpose:
This assignment will assess your ability to apply the skills and knowledge gained in class to real-world
business challenges, demonstrating your ability to deliver persuasive and research-backed
recommendations.
Assignment Overview: Business Consultant Report
For this assignment, you will assume the role of a Business Consultant for Starbucks Corporation
Your primary task is to conduct thorough research, interpret the findings, and provide actionable
recommendations to improve the organisation’s performance or address a specific business problem.
What does a Business Consultant do?
• A Business Consultant helps organisations identify challenges that prevent them from
reaching their business goals and develops strategies to overcome these obstacles.
• Business Consultants are experts who offer valuable advice, insights, and recommendations
to assist clients in achieving their objectives. They provide guidance on various aspects of
business to optimise performance and ensure long-term success.
• Business Analyst Consultants specialise in gathering and analysing data to provide solutions
that improve organisational performance. By conducting thorough research, they identify
ways for companies to enhance efficiency and operational effectiveness.
Assessment Structure
INTRODUCTION
Write 150 words, 1 paragraph, 150 words each. write in simple and basic English, UK
english and simple vocabulary. also be natural
In addition to setting the tone, this section addresses the main issues and problems that
require your expertise. Provide brief details about the problems and mention the approaches
and methods you’ll use to analyse and solve them.
CLIENT PROFILE
Write 150 words, 1 paragraph, 150 words each. write in simple and basic English, UK
english and simple vocabulary. also be natural
Cover information about your client in this section. This includes the basics like business
location, industry, specializations, size, past and current efforts, and other relevant
information.
SWOT ANALYSIS
Write 150 words. write in simple and basic English, UK english and simple vocabulary.
also be natural
List Strengths & Weaknesses (internal) and Opportunities & Threats (external) of your
company analysis, keeping the current market and competitive landscape in mind. Create a
table here.
Strengths
What resources can we deploy?
What are our advantages?
What's working well?
Weaknesses
What abilities are we lacking?
Where are we starting to struggle?
How can we overcome these?
Opportunities
Who might most value our strengths?
What trends work in our favour?
What prizes are within reach?
Threats
What headwinds do we face?
Who might challenge us?
What could go wrong?
RATIONALE FOR YOUR CHOSEN THEME
Write 150 words, 1 paragraph, 150 words each. write in simple and basic English, UK
english and simple vocabulary. also be natural
Present your rationale for the use the proposed theme below, providing supporting evidence
and data.
• Disruptive Technologies (Week 7)
ANALYSIS & APPLICATION
Write 1200 words, 6 paragraph, 200 words each and use some subheading for proper
structure. write in simple and basic English, UK english and simple vocabulary.
also be natural
Disruptive Technologies, demonstrating wider reading and research
LITERATURE:
You should show a deep engagement with the articles attached on this theme. By ‘deep’ I
mean: that you are demonstrating that you have clearly read beyond the information already
provided to you already – either by reading further into the provided sources, or conducting
your own literature searches. When you are using the articles attached within your work,
make sure that you go beyond using it just to describe a concept (e.g. what is open
innovation?) and ensure that you are using literature for analysis and evaluation work (e.g.
what were the benefits/issues of open innovation).
ANALYSIS
Provide Rich examples: You need to have an ‘appropriate’ amount of depth for your
example. You are expected to use the articles attached to find the examples, and explores
challenges as well as successes. However: remember that description should not take over the
narrative. Where marks come from is the analysis of starbuck’s approach, which will be a
result of you using theory to explain, unpack, question or critique what has happened, is
happening or will happen in practice – including key challenges.
EVALUATION
- A critical focus: No process is perfectly executed, and it is hoped that within your work you
do not present the organisations’ activities as a complete, flawless ‘ideal-type’ approach.
Indeed, the hallmark of innovative learning organisations is the ability to critically reflect on
activities to develop for the future. Therefore, whilst an element of your work will be spent
exploring the straightforward elements of the approach, analysis, evaluations, discussions and
conclusions should also draw on those elements that were more challenging, unexpected, less
effective and/or went less well. Here, you can utilise insights from the literature to suggest
alternatives.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Write 300 words, 2 paragraphs, 150 words each. write in simple and basic English, UK
english and simple vocabulary. also be natural
Recommendations should be very concrete, succinct “next steps” for the client. Think of
them as report takeaways — one-liners anyone can easily remember and retell to another
stakeholder. Specify the objectives and activities to be undertaken.
Your recommendations must aim to achieve at least one of the following objectives:
• Align with the organisation’s vision or strategic direction.
• Add value to the organisation’s products, services, or outcomes.
• Enhance organisational growth and success through optimising human capital.
Engage with current and potential new customers.
CONCLUSION
Write 100 words, 1 paragraph, 100 words each. write in simple and basic English, UK
english and simple vocabulary. also be natural
appropriately summarise the assignment – including signposting, scaffolding and an outline
of any overall general lessons.
