Assignment Brief
As part of the formal assessment for the programme you are required to submit a Business Analysis and Planning assessment. Refer to your Student Handbook for full details of the programme assessment scheme and general information on preparing and submitting assignments.
Learning Outcomes:
After completing the module, you should be able to:
1.Demonstrate a critical understanding of effective techniques of information preparation and presentation within a specific context.
2.Identify and implement a data collection strategy using a range of primary and secondary sources
3.Apply a complex range of techniques to analyse data
4.Utilise software as an aid to decision making and control
Graduate attributes:
Knowledge and understanding of chosen field. Possess a range of skills to operate within this sector, have a keen awareness of current developments in working practice being well positioned to respond to change.
Maximum word count:4000 words
Note that exceeding the word count by over 10% will result in a reduction in grade by the same percentage that the word count is exceeded. You must not include your name in your submission because Arden University operates anonymous marking, which means that markers should not be aware of the identity of the student. However, do not forget to include your STU number.
Assignment Task –
This assessment is worth 100% of the total marks for the module (LOs 1 –4)
Portfolio Task: Business Report
The ‘integrated working framework’ has been widely promoted within the healthcare sector for over two decades now. The background to the requirement for providers in the sector to collaborate has many benefits, including the need to save resources and also improve outcomes for service users.
As a senior manager working in the sector, think about aservice user-group within your organization where you work and consider the need to write a business plan, which will be presented to the senior management board of the organisation or Local Authority.
In the business plan, you are to provide and discuss a 5-year budget of a forward spending of £2Million pounds over the 5-year period.The idea ofunderstanding the need for a budget is to be able to achieve some savings around staff and services.
Guidance:
For your report, you may wish to consider covering the following:
1.You can make assumptions of the demand for services, for example, planning to deliver services in a care home of 50 vulnerable residents that are placed in services, receiving a weekly rental income of £1,200/week from ‘Social Services’.
2.What are the policy landmarks or examples of initiatives that promote ‘integrated working’?
3.The types and purposeof data is required for this business plan?
4.Why is it necessary to work with partners and stakeholders?
5.The advantage of ‘user engagement’ and how data can be used to evidence this. For example, think about how an organisationwill seek the ‘users/customer satisfaction’?
