BC Project/Guidelines/Part1-BusinessProjectProposal-Guide.docx Business Project Proposal (Week 4, 6 points) Part 1 of 5: Course Project Rubric applies: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BDakLfwNDD55taILd8AzEYZdk20RWM7kAk2Ge7LyZvE/edit?usp=sharing) PROJECT OVERVIEW The 5-part Course Project contains the following assignments: Part 1: Project Proposal - Due Week 4 Part 2: Communications Plan - Due Week 4 Part 3: Partners Web Conference Presentation - Due Week 6 Part 4: Final Project Report - Due Week 7 Part 5: Final Project Presentation - Due Week 8 (Tues) Purpose of the Course Project: Solving a business problem for someone who is receptive to your recommendations is an excellent way to improve your professional effectiveness and get ahead. Learning how to identify problems and propose solutions will benefit you now and in the future. Part 1 of 5: The Project Proposal is your plan of what you propose to do for your Course Project. (Due Week 4) Directions for Part 1: 1. Choose a local business problem for which you can recommend solutions. The business problem should relate to your career path or interests if possible. Select a company or service organization that could use your help, including your own workplace. Search for inefficiencies, complaints, competitive threats, opportunities. How can you make a difference? 2. Review Shwom text, section 8.3, for how to write effective proposals. 3. Click this link to access the Project Proposal Template for this assignment. https://docs.google.com/document/d/14VZ7kwLKy53_4c-wtbhP1diy0XctSLbJEf2142m9n9U/edit?usp=sharing 4. Post your Google Docs link (Shared, Include Instructor with Editing Rights) into the textbox in your Angel Items Due folder. Required: Please reply to one peer in a considered 2-3 sentence response after your original post. Others’ posts will not be visible until you submit your original post. Thank you. BC Project/Guidelines/Part2-CommunicationsPlan-Guide.docx Communications Plan (Week 4, 7 points) Part 2 of 5: Course Project (Rubric applies: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BDakLfwNDD55taILd8AzEYZdk20RWM7kAk2Ge7LyZvE/edit?usp=sharing) COMPLETE PROJECT OVERVIEW The 5-part Course Project contains the following assignments: Part 1: Project Proposal - Due Week 4 Part 2: Communications Plan - Due Week 4 Part 3: Partners Web Conference Presentation - Due Week 6 Part 4: Final Project Report - Due Week 7 Part 5: Final Project Presentation - Due Week 8 (Tues) Purpose of the Course Project: Solving a business problem for someone who is receptive to your recommendations is an excellent way to improve your professional effectiveness and get ahead. Learning how to identify problems and propose solutions will benefit you now and in the future. Part 2 of 5: The Communications Plan is your plan for communicating during your project and presenting your final results. (Due Week 4) Directions for Part 2: 1. Plan whom you will talk with to gather information and receive ...

1. BC Project/Guidelines/Part1-BusinessProjectProposal-
Guide.docx
Business Project Proposal (Week 4, 6 points)
Part 1 of 5: Course Project
Rubric applies:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BDakLfwNDD55taILd8Az
EYZdk20RWM7kAk2Ge7LyZvE/edit?usp=sharing)
PROJECT OVERVIEW
The 5-part Course Project contains the following assignments:
Part 1: Project Proposal - Due Week 4
Part 2: Communications Plan - Due Week 4
Part 3: Partners Web Conference Presentation - Due Week 6
Part 4: Final Project Report - Due Week 7
Part 5: Final Project Presentation - Due Week 8 (Tues)
Purpose of the Course Project: Solving a business problem for
someone who is receptive to your recommendations is an
excellent way to improve your professional effectiveness and
get ahead. Learning how to identify problems and propose
solutions will benefit you now and in the future.
Part 1 of 5: The Project Proposal is your plan of what you
propose to do for your Course Project. (Due Week 4)
Directions for Part 1:
1. Choose a local business problem for which you can
recommend solutions. The business problem should relate to
your career path or interests if possible. Select a company or
service organization that could use your help, including your
own workplace. Search for inefficiencies, complaints,
competitive threats, opportunities. How can you make a

2. difference?
2. Review Shwom text, section 8.3, for how to write effective
proposals.
3. Click this link to access the Project Proposal Template for
this assignment.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14VZ7kwLKy53_4c-
wtbhP1diy0XctSLbJEf2142m9n9U/edit?usp=sharing
4. Post your Google Docs link (Shared, Include Instructor with
Editing Rights) into the textbox in your Angel Items Due folder.
Required: Please reply to one peer in a considered 2-3 sentence
response after your original post. Others’ posts will not be
visible until you submit your original post. Thank you.
BC Project/Guidelines/Part2-CommunicationsPlan-Guide.docx
Communications Plan (Week 4, 7 points)
Part 2 of 5: Course Project
(Rubric applies:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BDakLfwNDD55taILd8Az
EYZdk20RWM7kAk2Ge7LyZvE/edit?usp=sharing)
COMPLETE PROJECT OVERVIEW
The 5-part Course Project contains the following assignments:
Part 1: Project Proposal - Due Week 4
Part 2: Communications Plan - Due Week 4
Part 3: Partners Web Conference Presentation - Due Week 6
Part 4: Final Project Report - Due Week 7
Part 5: Final Project Presentation - Due Week 8 (Tues)
Purpose of the Course Project: Solving a business problem for
someone who is receptive to your recommendations is an
excellent way to improve your professional effectiveness and

3. get ahead. Learning how to identify problems and propose
solutions will benefit you now and in the future.
Part 2 of 5: The Communications Plan is your plan for
communicating during your project and presenting your final
results. (Due Week 4)
Directions for Part 2:
1. Plan whom you will talk with to gather information and
receive feedback as you work on the project. Place the
information in a table like the one below. Consider who should
be involved and when, such as gaining project approval, people
you’ll need to consult . Consider how you will address the
needs and interests of the contact (audience). In this phase, take
no more than 10 minutes of a manager’s or leader’s time.
Contact
Title
Contact Info
When to contact
Contact’s needs/
Interests
Purpose in contacting/what you hope to learn

4. 2. Plan how you will deliver your final written report and
presentation. In two brief paragraphs, address the following:
· describe who will receive your written report. What will be
important to these receivers, and how will you ensure that your
report addresses these needs?
· describe the audience who will attend your final presentation.
What will be important to these receivers, and how will you
ensure that your report addresses these needs?
(review section 2.4 and 3.1 of your Shwom text).
Paste your work in the submission textbox in Angel.
Please reply to one peer in a well-considered 2-3 sentence

5. response.
BC Project/Guidelines/Part3-PresentationDraftonProject-
Guide.docx
Partners Web Conference - Draft Presentation on Project (Week
6, 8 points)
Part 3 of 5: Course Project
(Rubric
applies:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BDakLfwNDD55t
aILd8AzEYZdk20RWM7kAk2Ge7LyZvE/edit?usp=sharing)
COMPLETE PROJECT OVERVIEW
The 5-part Course Project contains the following assignments:
Part 1: Project Proposal - Due Week 4
Part 2: Communications Plan - Due Week 4
Part 3: Partners Web Conference Presentation - Due Week 6
Part 4: Final Project Report - Due Week 7
Part 5: Final Project Presentation - Due Week 8 (Tues)
Purpose of the Course Project: Solving a business problem for
someone who is receptive to your recommendations is an
excellent way to improve your professional effectiveness and
get ahead. Learning how to identify problems and propose
solutions will benefit you now and in the future.
Part 3 of 5: The Partners Web Conference - Draft Presentation
will allow you to present your draft slide presentation and
receive feedback from your peers.
Directions for Part 3:
Note: Your instructor should have assigned you to a “Partners
Group.”
1. Set up sharing forum. You and your partners group can use
the team link in Angel Communication Email to communicate.

6. You should also set up in advance one of the following for
holding a group presentation session: Google+ hangout, group
Skype, or Webex. Schedule about 2 hours at a time that is
agreeable to most/all of you.
2. Create draft slide presentation. This is a draft version of your
final project slide presentation, so you may want to visit the
Week 7 / 8 Folder to see the requirements. Your draft slides
will be presented to your Partners Group for their feedback
during your Web Conference.
Suggested slides (feel free to add or modify as appropriate)
1. Title Page
2. Overview
3. Introduction
4. The Opportunity
a. The Current Situation
b. Key Success Factors
c. Analysis of Alternatives
d. Strategic Option
5. Benefits and Risks of Strategic Option
a. Benefits
b. Risks
6. Final Recommendation/Call to Action
7. Highlighted References
3. Hold meeting via web-conferencing. Present your slides and
explain your project to partners group and receive/provide
feedback to the partners. Take turns presenting and giving
feedback. You will need to share your screen to share your
PowerPoint.
4. Prepare report of session: Your report should contain the
following:
a. Summary of what you presented
b. What feedback you received and what feedback was most
useful
c. What feedback you shared with your partners
5. Paste your paragraphs directly into the Angel submission

7. textbox.
Required: Please reply to one peer in a considered 2-3 sentence
response after your original post. Others’ posts will not be
visible until you submit your original post. Thank you.
If you want to use YouTube/Google Hangout Screen Share for
your web conference, here are the instructions, followed by a
link to a helpful video if you have not used Google Hangout
Screen Share in the past:
1. Log into Google and click the "Upload" button in YouTube.
2. Click "Broadcast."
3. Name your "Hangout." (You might need to install the
Hangouts plugin if you haven't already.)
4. Click "Start Hangout On Air" or "Join." (You might need to
verify your account the first time you Join.)
5. Click the green upper-left button that is an arrow for
screenshare.
6. Select your screen to share.
7. Click the button at the bottom, "Start broadcast."
8. Here is an instructional video that might
help:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvpFsmcfz1k
Recommended presentation format: appear on camera before
and after sharing your desktop to present slides.
FAQs:
Q: What should I do if I don't hear back from my group? Can I
meet without them?
A: If you are not getting the replies you need, pick a day/time,
email and let your group know that you need to know by the end
of the day Tuesday (or Wednesday at the latest) if the time
works for them, or you are going to schedule it anyway. Then
schedule the web conference and send them the link and time
and say you hope they can make it. You don't need to have

8. everyone in your group attend, and you can also split your
group in half for this assignment if you need to. The important
thing is that you must communicate with each other!
Q: Can we just chat for our group online meeting?
A: No. You need to have a live, synchronous, group web
conference with screen-share and voice. You can use
YouTube/Google Hangout, or WebEx.
Q: What are we presenting and how do you use WebEx?
A: You are presenting your draft final project PowerPoint
within 5-6 min for 2 minutes of feedback from your group. If
you decide to use WebEx, these videos may help, and there are
many more on YouTube:
Here ishow to use WebEx.
Here ishow to use WebEx screen-share.
BC Project/Guidelines/Part4FinalFormalProjectReport-
Guide.docx
Final Project Report (15 - 20+ pages, 50 pts, due in Week 7)
Part 4 of 5: Course Project
(Rubric
applies:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BDakLfwNDD55t
aILd8AzEYZdk20RWM7kAk2Ge7LyZvE/edit?usp=sharing)
COMPLETE PROJECT OVERVIEW
The 5-part Course Project contains the following assignments:
Part 1: Project Proposal - Due Week 4
Part 2: Communications Plan - Due Week 4
Part 3: Partners Web Conference Presentation - Due Week 6
Part 4: Final Project Report - Due Week 7
Part 5: Final Project Presentation - Due Week 8 (Tues)
Purpose of the Course Project: Solving a business problem for

9. someone who is receptive to your recommendations is an
excellent way to improve your professional effectiveness and
get ahead. Learning how to identify problems and propose
solutions will benefit you now and in the future.
Part 4 of 5: The Final Project Report should conform to your
text’s Ch.9 guidelines of how to write a formal report. Note that
the format is quite different from an academic paper. (spacing,
graphics, each section begins new page, etc)
Directions for Part 4:
1. Consider how best to present your findings on this
opportunity for the organization, the viable alternatives, the
benefits and risks, and your strategic recommendations.
2. Follow this basic outline for the Formal Project Report. Refer
to Ch.9 for a more detailed guide and expectations for the
Formal Report (see Groupon example).
1. Title Page
2. Table of Contents
3. Executive Summary
4. Introduction
5. The Opportunity
a. The Current Situation
b. Key Success Factors
c. Analysis of Alternatives
d. Strategic
Solution
Option
6. Benefits and Risks of Strategic