Business Consulting

Presentations will take place during previous week (week no 9)

Identify TWO which seem to be most interesting and which your group is capable of carrying out. Your job is then to pitch for these two projects. This is competitive and requires a fully polished and carefully rehearsed sales pitch, if you are to be successful in winning the business for one of your chosen projects.

YOU MUST NOT CONTACT ANY CLIENT AT THIS STAGE

Your pitch needs to be a maximum 20 minutes long. If it is any longer, you will be cut off by the markers.

The overall aim of the presentation is to persuade us that you would be the best team to meet the needs of the respective clients.

The presentation should be structured as follows:

Introduce the team members by name

State the two projects you are pitching for, then

For Project A

Explore the client’s business problem and briefly set it in context (target audience, competition, market)

Demonstrate the fit between the client’s requirements and the combined skills, expertise and experience of the team, giving specific examples.

For Project B

As above.

Explore the client’s business problem and briefly set it in context (target audience, competition, market)

Demonstrate the fit between the client’s requirements and the combined skills, expertise and experience of the team, giving specific examples.

IMPORTANT:

It will be useful to apply techniques and ideas introduced in classes, for mapping skills against client needs. The main thing to ensure is that you make clear links between what you have to offer and what the client needs.

You are not required to solve the client’s problems or offer solutions at this stage.

Minutes of team meetings should be kept and although these do not need to be submitted, Chris and Suzanne may request to see them to help investigate equal participation.

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Your work will be marked as a group and all members will receive the same mark, unless there is clear evidence of a difference in contribution. Please see the separate ‘Group Work Policy Statement’.

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