Assignment 2B: Final Presentation Of Implementation Plan

Assignment details

In this unit, you have been working as a small group of consultants, and now it’s time to present your recommendations to the client. Using the key information from Assignment 2A: Recommendation report, in your teams, you are required to prepare a presentation to communicate your implementation plan to execute recommendation/s or solutions consciously and creatively to the industry partner meeting the following requirements.

Presentation overview

Your presentation should:

• Briefly outline the final recommendations of your group to address the client’s problem.Please note that recommendations need to be specific and action-oriented. Any changes to the recommendations made in the recommendation report submitted earlier are acceptable.
• Include a well-justified implementation plan covering the main recommendation/s. To this end, assume that the industry partner aims to execute your recommendations with immediate effect and prepare an implementation plan (i.e., implementation activities with a timeline and the person responsible for actions/activities) for this purpose.
• Include the schedulesof human, physical, and financial resource requirements needed to drive the implementation plan. Assumptions and sources of information to make required resource estimations need to be presented in the appendices of the presentation.
• Highlight the key risks(i.e., what could possibly go wrong) associated with your proposed implementation plan.
• Briefly outline contingency measuresand strategies to manage and mitigate the impact of each identified risk.

Presentation 

The team presentation will be live to your client, and each team member will be required to present a component. Your team will prepare the slides that relate to the presentation, and these will be submitted through Turnitin. The actual presentation will require each member of the team to present their component to the camera whilst referring to the relevant slides. Your team should endeavour to impress the client and focus on clarity of expression, well-articulated logic and holding the audience's interest. Note the following:

• Any detailed schedules/information (e.g., cost estimation schedules, P&L accounts) to support your implementation plan can be included in an appendix of your slide deck, appropriately. Alternatively, you can include appendices in an MS Word file, but please make sure you submit them along with the main slide deck.
• All consulting team members will deliver part of the presentation to the client, and attendance at the whole presentation session is compulsory for all unless other arrangements have been approved.
• This is an audiovisual presentation, so each member of the team must have a camera and a microphone.
• Do not read word for word from a script or your notes. You are presenting to a client, so you need to be engaging and interesting as you 'sell' your proposal.
• You will have plenty of opportunities to practice to ensure that you coordinate your presentation so it flows between topics and presenters.

All teams will present in one session using MS Teams. Your OLA will record this session.

Presentation media, format and length

• This presentation can be developed using any presentation-making platform that you are comfortable with, e.g. PowerPoint, Adobe Express, or Canva.
• The use of graphics, tables and figures together with explanatory text and clear syntheses of your ideas is highly encouraged and recommended.
• You are free to organise the content creatively and succinctly within the presentation.
• The emphasis should be on clarity of expression, holding the audience's interest, and well-articulated logic.
• The duration of the presentation will be a maximum of 15 minutes.
• Tables, figures, diagrams, and images you include in the presentation need to be clearly named and numbered (e.g., Table 1 – Comparison of marketing campaigns by competitors of ABC company; Figure 3 – Causes and effects of low sales growth at ABC company) and cited properly if they include sourced information [e.g., Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics (2015)].
• Any detailed schedules/information (e.g., cost estimation schedules, P&L accounts) to support your implementation plan can be included in an appendix of your slide deck, appropriately. Alternatively, you can include appendices in an MS Word file, but please make sure you submit them along with the main slide deck.

Research

Underpinning all your work is extensive research drawing on relevant sources. This includes but is not limited to industry reports; academic publications (textbooks, articles, working papers); government reports; news regalia and authoritative websites. You must cite, reference and support your claims using the APA referencing style. 

Please note: Given the format of this assessment, your group can use footnotes and/or endnotes to cite references in the body of your work, i.e. within the presentation slides, and then provide a full list of references in the final slide.