Your Task

You are a consultant who has been employed to advise on the effective implementation of strategic changes. You are required to produce the following for the case study provided below:

Part A: Analysis – Business Process Models and strategy analysis

In this section, you should develop

1. A series of at least two Business Process Models, which capture the existing and your proposed business processes. The models should follow the BPMN notation shown in the lecture slides. You can utilize Microsoft Visio, Word, PowerPoint, or appropriate alternatives to create the models.

2. Strategic analysis: You should use at least one recognized analysis technique such as SWOT, PESTLE, etc

Part B: Open Source Software Comparison Table

In this section, you should conduct research into a suitable software solution. You should decide on the set of characteristics that you will use to evaluate the software and your research should consider 4-5 alternatives in detail. This section should be presented as a table.

Part C: Report

In this section, you should write a report which provides an overview of the current situation together with a roadmap outlining how the proposed changes to the business can be achieved for the benefit of the business. This should draw on your analysis in Part A, include your recommendation for software in Part B, and provide recommendations for ensuring that the strategy is effectively implemented, including consideration of the challenges ahead.

This section should follow standard report structure:

Title Page – Contents – Introduction – Main Section – Conclusions and Recommendations – References.

You should use appropriate theories, frameworks, models, that we have covered in the module, to inform and justify your recommendations.

Part D: Reflection on your contribution to the online discussion

In this section you should submit a 250-word reflective summary, accompanied by your own self-assessment of your contribution to the online elements throughout the module, using the table labeled ‘Reflection Self-Assessment Pro format in Appendix A (copy and paste it into your assignment document). The reflective report should include your detailed reflection on your learning process of theories, frameworks, models that we covered in the module, supported with evidence (pasted URLs) from the online discussion forum.

Using the Discussion Boards

The Blackboard module site has been set up with discussion boards for you to explore the assignment/share your ideas and findings of group activities. It is recommended that you use these to:

§ Share papers and articles that you have found on relevant topics (remember to include links/references / pdfs if you do this!)

§ Discuss the changes to the ways of working – i.e. discuss what processes will change and explore how these might work in practice. You might also consider the changing information needs of the business

§ Discuss and share examples of Open Source software that could be of use.

§ Present the practice/outcomes/discussion of group activities outside class.

Please don’t be shy of using the discussion board – the purpose is to give you the experience of using collaborative technologies.