Expected Contents of Group Report:

ExpectedContentsofGroupReport:

• Introduction – organization background, description of the business problem,
justification of selection, etc.
• Literature review – summary of the findings from 6 peer-reviewed articles that are
related to your problem.
? Synopsis – description of the method used to collect the journal articles,
such as databases, searching and filtering criteria, etc.
? Strengths – analysis of the strengths of the articles with respect to the
organisation’s evaluation criteria (e.g., things from the articles that you
can borrow for your analysis).
? Weaknesses – analysis of the weaknesses of the articles with respect
to the evaluation criteria (e.g., things from the articles that do not fit well
with your problem as well as those that you should improve for your
analysis).
? Summary of Literature Review – Summary of the identified strengths
and weaknesses.
• Methodology – description and illustration of the business analytical approaches
for the problem.
• Implementation – formulation of the problem by using different business analytical
approaches, application of Excel Solver Add-in, Excel Analysis ToolPak, and/or
Analytic Solver Basic for Excel.
• Discussions and Conclusions – suggestions for courses of action to the selected
company as well as the evaluation of the business analytical approaches.
• References
• Appendices – including the minutes/notes of meetings.
3. Marking Criteria:
Criteria Possible Mark
Identification and description of the problem to be analysed 3
Summary of literature review 3