HI6008 Business Research Project Assessment 1

HI6008 Assignment 1 Specifications

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)

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

1. 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 

Do NOT use any of these in any form. If you do your assignment will be non-compliant and will be marked as a 0.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.