Reference no: EM133643439
Organisational Transformation
Group Assessment - Client Led Presentation and Report
As a ‘small management consultancy firm', your task is to advise your Client's organisation what managerial and organisational changes they must make to significantly improve their performance and also advise your Client how to best implement these changes successfully.
Each small management consultancy firm will normally consist of 4 or 5 students with the groups formed during the first week of tutorials. This simulates your future graduate employment experiences.
Possible Client Organisations
- M&S
- Thames Water
- Volkswagen
- Meta
- Aramco
You are required to select one of the Client organisations, who have been chosen since either their recent performance or reputationare failing to match the expectations of their stakeholders during a period of rapid change in their wider environment.
You are expected to produce a recorded Presentation of your Client Report to the 'Client organisations' senior management (15 Minutes).
In the presentation, the consultancy team should cover the following:
- Analyse the business, its organisational structure, resources, competitors and business environment, using tools such as Porter's 5 Forces PESTLE and SWOT.
- Make recommendations about possible organisational and managerial changes, in order to improve the performance and reputation of the chosen organisation.
- Indicate what approach to change management would be the most appropriate to follow, and how you would proceed to address the identified changes.
Your presentation must be informed by relevant theory and supported by a wide variety of research evidence that justifies your recommendations.
You are expected to use up to 10 references, including sources used in the module (e.g., the Managing Change textbook).
Advice on how to present your ideas in a professional setting is available on Aula. More guidanceon this assessment will be offered in tutorials. The UWS library contains a wide range of books and journal articles on the management consultancy process.
Besides the presentation, the team must also complete a document on teamwork, in which team members must outline the key points of each meeting, and reflect on their experience (see appendix A for template).
Although this document is not assessed, not submitting the document on teamwork will result in a penalisation of 10 percentage points for all team members.
The possibility of dismissal from your group exists if any group member fails to deliver an equitable contribution. This follows standard HR process involving the group minuting and documenting group each meeting, collecting evidence of lack of contribution, presenting their case to Module Moderator and Coordinator who then contact the individual student for their viewpoint, before any final decision is made.