STRATEGIES
ASSESSMENTS Semester 1 2016
Assignment One 50% weighting
Part 1 - Group Project 100 Marks, 35% weighting Due
Date Week 6, 6 April, 2016
Hard copy required.
Part 2 Individual Assessment Reflective Analysis 50
Marks, 15% Due Week 8, 20 April 2016. Hard Copy
required.
PART 1 GROUP PROJECT DUE 6 APRIL, 2016
Instructions
A New Zealand company will be used for this course the company will
be identified by the lecturer.
1. Executive Summary
3 Marks
15
10
23
TOTAL
100 Marks
2
view?
Did everyone in the group have a chance to put forward their point of
If not what action did you take to try to resolve the issue? How was
agreement reached over a point of contention?
4 Marks
3 Do you think that suggestions put forward by you would have resulted in a
better outcome? Provide your rationale.
4 Marks
4 If you were asked to bring a small group of people together for a project,
what points would you consider about the people selected to provide a
good operational team that could produce an effective outcome this?
4 Marks
5 How did the theoretical aspects of the course assist you with the
development of the assignment and the preparing of the company
strategy?
12 Marks
6 Submit a copy of each of 3 articles selected from the Herald Business
News or NZBusiness Magazine and critically evaluate the articles. Ensure
the date of each article and who it was written by is provided. Write about
150 words on each article
12 Marks
7
50
Executive Summary
Marks
Introduction
3 Marks
(a) Identify the issues you should/would like to discuss with the other
functional areas as they may affect how you will develop your
functional strategy. Indicate why prior knowledge of them is important
to the preparation of the functional strategy.
10 Marks
(b) Prepare Plan to evaluate and set control measures for your functional
area
12 Marks
(c) Prepare objectives to identify the outcomes of the functional activities.
12 Marks
4
Conclusions
8 Marks
7.
Recommendations
8 Marks
Total 100
Marks
Length: 2,500 +/- 250 words. This excludes bibliography and appendices.
Search for 4 YouTube videos that relate to your major specific area
taking a functional approach to preparing a strategy to meet the
requirements of the proposed company strategy prepared in
Assignment 1. Critique each one individually.
a. Do a comparison of the 4 YouTube videos.
12
Marks
b. Select 1 of the 4 videos that you regard as being most valuable to
you, indicate why you selected that particular video.
4 Marks
Reflect on your learning during the semester and your major courses
taken over the duration of your study, e.g. do you feel confident in your
learning to prepare a functional strategy and planning the
implementation stage in a work situation? Do you think that if you had
done more in depth reading about strategy and your functional courses
that your understanding and value gained would have not only assisted
you to do better in your studies but also provided a greater ability to
understand and assess businesses and opportunities in the work place.
14 Marks
Total
Marks
50