Criteria Unacceptable Requires Further Development Satisfactory Good Very Good Exemplary 1. Executive Summary (Weight 5) No Exec Summary or very poor attempt. (Range 0-‐-‐-‐1.4) Does not summarise the main points in the report. (Range 1.5-‐-‐-‐2.4) Some attempt at summarising the main points, but misses important information or contains unimportant information. (Range 2.5-‐-‐-‐2.9) Good summary of the main findings, with only a little extra or missing information. (Range 3.0-‐-‐-‐3.4) Clearly summaries the important results in the report. (Range 3.5-‐-‐-‐3.9) Excellent summary of key findings and recommendation(s). Clearly presented with concise and fluent wording. (Range 4.0-‐-‐-‐5) 1. Score 0.7 2.0 2.7 3.2 3.7 4.5 2. Introduction (Weight 5) No Introduction or very poor attempt. (Range 0-‐-‐-‐1.4) Does not introduce the situation adequately (Range 1.5-‐-‐-‐2.4) Passable description but does not set the scene adequately for the next section (Range 2.5-‐-‐-‐2.9) Good description of the conditions which prepare the reader for the analysis following (Range 3.0-‐-‐-‐3.4) Very insightful description leading smoothly into the problem analysis (Range 3.5-‐-‐-‐3.9) Use of industry literature to set the broader industry level scene as well (Range 4.0-‐-‐-‐5) 2. Score 0.7 2.0 2.7 3.2 3.7 4.5 3. Problem analysis (Weight 20) Demonstrates no ability to clearly and succinctly define the operations challenge or identify relevant contextual factors. (Range 0-‐-‐-‐5.9) Demonstrates a limited ability to clearly and succinctly define the selected operations challenge, including identifying relevant contextual factors. (Range 6-‐-‐-‐9.9) Demonstrates a satisfactory ability to construct a clear and succinct statement about the operations challenge with some evidence of relevant contextual factors and reference to relevant literature. (Range 10-‐-‐-‐11.9) Demonstrates a good ability to independently define a clear and succinct problem(s) with evidence of relevant contextual factors and reference to relevant literature. (Range 12.0-‐-‐-‐13.9) Demonstrates a very good ability to independently and expertly define a clear and succinct problem(s) with evidence of relevant contextual factors and well-‐integrated literature references. (Range 14-‐-‐-‐15.9) Demonstrates an exceedingly high ability to expertly construct a clear, succinct and insightful statement about a problem(s) with evidence of all relevant contextual factors and numerous well-‐integrated literature and references. (Range 16.0-‐-‐-‐20.0) 3. Score 3 7.5 11 13 15 18 4. Current Performance Analysis (Weight 20) No evidence of comparative benchmarks. No logical examination of the operations requirements to solve the challenge. (Range 0 -‐-‐-‐5.09) Examination of feasible benchmarks is partially lacking. Incomplete consideration of appropriate operational requirements and techniques to solve the challenge. (Range 6-‐-‐-‐9.9) Some consideration of .