Demonstrate the following knowledge and understanding of entrepreneurship and leadership approaches, and the operation and leadership of a business organisation and be able to discern those approaches and styles
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Unit title & code |
Entrepreneurship and Leadership of Business Ventures BSS018-2 |
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Assignment number and title |
002 Individual Business Plan Report |
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Assessment type |
CW/RW |
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Weighting of assessment |
70% |
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Size or length of assessment |
4,200 |
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Unit learning outcomes |
1. Demonstrate the following knowledge and understanding of entrepreneurship and leadership approaches, and the operation and leadership of a business organisation and be able to discern those approaches and styles. 2. Demonstrate the skills and attributes required in the leadership, operation and management of entrepreneurial organisations and produce an innovative and viable business plan |
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What am I required to do in this assignment? |
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Identify a new start up business idea, research and evidence in a business plan the steps needed to take the idea and develop it into a viable business venture. Justify the idea by explaining the opportunity, demonstrate research and evidence of the market, analyse the industry, identify your product/service and your competitive advantage. Prepare competitor analysis and describe how you will deliver your products and services in an operating plan. Identify risks and mitigate them. Calculate start-up costs and justify the viability of your idea by linking, your marketing activity, your pricing strategy and cash flow requirements for the first year of trading. You must support all content of your plan with relevant evidence which will be added in the appendices. The report must be fully supported by references to theory and evidence your wider reading in this unit. The plan will be laid out in the format of a business plan. You can be creative and develop a ‘brand’ and use charts, images and graphs to highlight key elements of the report. The typical contents of a business plan would usually include: |
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What do I need to do to pass? (Threshold Expectations from UIF) |
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How do I produce high quality work that merits a good grade? |
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We will be filling this section in together in class on Click or tap to enter a date. make sure you have downloaded/printed out the Assignment Brief and bring it to the session with you. |
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How does assignment relate to what we are doing in scheduled sessions? |
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The assignment links directly to demonstrating your understanding through unit learning of how entrepreneurial traits and Leadership styles influence and add value to business organisations and how a business idea is created and developed. Each week the topics covered systematically build to help construct evidence for the completed business plan report. |
Unit: Entrepreneurship and Leadership of Business Ventures BSS018-2
You need to start answering from the first learning outcome: 1. Demonstrate the following knowledge and understanding of entrepreneurship and leadership approaches, and the operation and leadership of a business organisation and be able to discern those approaches and styles.