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HI6008 Business Research Project - Holmes Institute

Assessment - Research Project Development (including Topic, Problem Statement, Research Question), with Team Charter Appendix (Presentation may be requested)

Assessment Title - Topic Development

Purpose:
This unit aims to give you an opportunity to combine many facets of your acquired MBA skills into the production of a high-quality research project. Your tutor will LEAD and FACILITATE you through the process, week by week. The learning will be progressive, so for best results you will need to be listening to the weekly lectures as well as in contact with your tutor during the interactive tutorials.

Assignment 1 - the Topic Development - is to ensure you have given sufficient thought to the topic you are choosing to base your research project on. The following 3 example topics are to illustrate that your topic must be differentiated from others by means of the following: the actual business activity/problem that it relates to; and/or the economic sector or industry or company that you are focusing on; and/or the country or region that you base it on and/or whether it is about the current time or the short-term future:
1. Outsourcing supply of ............ (materials / processes) from .......... (country/region) for the .......... (industry/company name) in ........... (country/region)

2. Benefits of ............... (club/society/network) membership in promoting business collaboration between members of the ............. (industry) in .............. (country/region)

3. The current (or future) uses of ........... (e.g. Big Data / Robotic Process Automation / Artificial Intelligence) in ................. (types of transactions) in the ................... (industry) in .................... (country/region)

Those are just examples. Please develop your own unique topic that can hold your interest for the full 12 weeks. Do NOT request approval for your topic or expect your tutor to allocate you a topic.

Refer to the detailed assignment instruction for your Topic Development (assignment 1), in which you are required to develop your topic to ensure that it has relevance as a business-related problem and has a specific Research Question that you intend to try and resolve.

The following topics are specifically disallowed this trimester:
- Online Learning
- Covid/Corona Virus/SARS/Swine Flu/Ebola Pandemic
- Endangered wild-life

You will ideally work within a group consisting of 2 or 3 class-mates (the maximum size of an assignment group in this unit is 3 persons). Your respective contributions in this first assignment (as well as assignments 2 and 3) will be governed by your assignment group's Team Charter, which is an appendix you will submit at the same time as your Topic Development. The Team Charter appendix must indicate what roles will be undertaken by each member of the team. If you are working SOLO, the team charter appendix is NOT required.

Assignment Structure

Your Topic Development Report should be in accordance with the following structure:
1. Official Cover Sheet
2. Say why this topic interests your team
3. Discuss your team's initial search for relevant literature and show that it has provided you with a good contextual understanding of the topic and its associated business-related problem(s)
4. Define the Research Problem that your team intends to address (as you see it, so far)
5. Propose at least ONE research question that your team will be seeking to answer through your research project (additional questions may be defined as you progress with this unit)
6. Append a Team Charter (unless working Solo) and include the student numbers and names of your team members.

1. Explain the team's agreed goals and timeline for completion (Due dates, meetings, milestones, deliverables from individuals)

2. Who will be responsible for each activity?

3. What particular team-roles will each member contribute to the team?

4. What are your team's expectations regarding meeting attendance (being on time, leaving early, missing meetings, etc.)?

5. What process will team members follow if they have an emergency and cannot attend a team meeting or complete their individual work promised to the team (deliverable)?

6. What are your team's expectations regarding the quality of team members' preparation for team meetings?

7. What are your team's expectations regarding team members' ideas, interactions with the team, cooperation, attitudes, and team-member contributions in general?

8. How will your team ensure that members contribute as expected to the team and that the team performs as expected?

9. How will you collectively manage members whose performance is below expectations?

Attachment:- Topic Development.rar