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Group Project Assignment Saudi Electronic University College of Administrative and Financial Sciences E-Commerce Department Student Name: Student ID: Course Title: E-Business Strategies and Course Code: ECOM421 Business Models Academic Year/ Semester: 2023-24/First Semester CRN: Instructor Name: Student Grade: 1|Page Grade Level: Saudi Electronic University College of Administrative and Financial Sciences ECOM421 – E-Business Strategies & Business Models Group Project Assignment Academic Year 2023/2024, Semester (1) Submission Part 1 Saturday, 30th September 2023 (End of Week 5) 15 Marks Part 2 Saturday, 11th November 2023 (Week 11) 15 Marks Part 3 Saturday, 11th November 2023 (Week 11) 10 Marks Total Marks: 40 2|Page Questions You have just graduated from Saudi Electronic University and have been selected by a company as a Project Intern for six months’ probation period. Your Marketing Manager has invited you for coffee and during your interaction with him, you come to know that your company wants you to support it in growing the business. Your Marketing Manager has told you to prepare a project report and design a power-point presentation based on certain parameters. The company will decide whether to offer you a full-time opportunity or not based on our quality of work, efforts, and creative thinking. Kindly do this assignment with great dedication. The purpose of this assignment is to help students in learning how to apply skills and knowledge in planning, managing, and nurturing a business by implementing an appropriate strategy. Students are expected to understand the ongoing recent developments in the marketplace and be able to employ various concepts of this course deliberately to boost the businesses of the company where they are working/or will work. This assignment is divided into three parts and students are suggested to submit each of them as per the stated due date. Students are suggested to create a group of 3-5 students in each group to complete this group project and join any one of the below groups considering that all members of your group have been selected by the company stated in front of each group number. Group 1: McDonald Group 2: Jawwy Telecom Group 3: LuLu Hypermarket Group 4: Souq.com Group 5: Samsung Group 6: Jahez Group 7: Almarai Group 8: Careem Group 9: ARAMCO Note: Kindly make ensure that your group members have joined a single group only. Join your group on or before the end of Week 2. 3|Page Group Project Assignment Part 1 Submission: End of Week 5 (Saturday, 30th September 2023) Marks: 15 1. Company Profile (3 Marks). Brief descriptions of the company such as About the company, Products & Services, Vision and Mission statement, and Organizational structure 2. Business Canvas Model of the company (3 Marks). Design a business canvas model of the company and explain each element of it by writing at least 2-3 lines for each. 3. SWOT Analysis of the company (2 Marks). Do the SWOT analysis of the company and explain each by writing at least 2-3 lines for each. 4. Core competencies of the company (2 Marks). Write the core competencies of the company. 5. Types of Business Models (2 Marks). Discuss the types of business models (B2B, B2C, C2C, Social Commerce, Local Commerce, and M-Commerce) adopted by the company. 6. Challenges faced by the company during the COVID-19 pandemic (3 Marks). List out the key challenges faced by the company during the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss their impact on the company. 4|Page Group Project Assignment Part 2 Submission: End of Week 11 (Saturday, 11th November 2023) Marks: 15 7. Porter’s Five Forces Analysis of the company (3 Marks). Do Porter’s Five Forces Analysis of the company. 8. Compare the business strategy of the company with one of its competitors (3 Marks). Select any one competitor of the company and do a comparison of their business strategies. 9. Suggestions to the company to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic (3 Marks). As a Project Intern, suggest your suggestions to the company to overcome the challenges created due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 10. Design a business plan for the company (3 Marks). As a Project Intern, design a business plan/business strategy to help the company in increasing its revenue either by suggesting the company to starting a new business unit or by launching a new product or services. 11. Learnings from this project (2 Marks). Write any five key learnings after finishing this project. References (1 Mark). Write all the sources using the APA style of referencing. In case of a wrong referencing style, your group will lose 1 mark. Learn how to refer a website, article, and such sources. 5|Page Group Project Assignment Part 3: Group Presentation submission & Group Presentation Submission: End of Week 11 (Saturday, 11th November 2023) Marks: 10 Make a power-point presentation for your Group Project Assignment based on Part 1 and Part 2 work mentioning all the stated contents and upload it on Blackboard. For preparing the powerpoint presentation, there must be a minimum of 10 slides in the presentation with a good background design, readable font size, and style with the appropriate color. The presentation must have the following format: ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ First slide: Group members’ name and Student id & Group Project Assignment Number Porter’s Five Forces Analysis of the company Business strategies comparison with one of its competitor Suggestions to the company to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic Business plan for the company Learnings from this project References Note: Group Project Assignment Part 3 (10 Marks = 5 Marks for Group Presentation submission & 5 Marks for Group Presentation in the class i.e. Virtual/F2F) Presentation schedule: 03rd to 06th December 2023 (Week-14) Group Assignment Guidelines (use this as a checklist before your submission) 6|Page This is a group assignment in which each group should have members between 3 to 5 students. Any one member from each group will submit assignment over Blackboard within the stated due date. Please make ensure that you have enrolled yourself in a single group only. Kindly read the below instructions: S. No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 • • • 8 General Instructions Plagiarism is a serious offence. Any kind of plagiarism will result in a mark of 0. Say No to Plagiarism. There should be no any plagiarism. Do not copy your answers neither from other students’ answer nor from internet. In case of you have visited any website for your understanding, write the sources of website/article under Reference. Include the cover page with all information required. In case of not using or not filling cover page, 1 mark will be deducted. Put a table of contents before the answer page. The use of In-text citations in case of using others’ work. Ensure that you follow the APA style in your project and references. Your assignment length should be between 500 to 1000 words in total. Proofread your work for spelling, grammar and punctuation. Your file should be saved as Word doc (No submission in PDF format) Example: Your Group Number_ECOM421_Assignment Number .doc Your Group Number_ECOM421_Assignment Number.doc Your Group Number_ECOM421_Assignment Number.pptx Formatting style elements Use 1.5 line spacing with adjusting to all paragraphs (alignment). Use the footer function to insert the page number. Use black color for your answers. Gentle reminder: As per the marking policy available on your blackboard, a deduction of 20% will be applied due to the below reasons: • Late submission • Poor structure of the assignment/If the word count is not correct, or if the assignment has multiple spelling, grammar, or punctuation issues. • Plagiarism is strictly prohibited and in case of copying answer either from internet or from any existing or previous students’ submission will attract 00/15 i.e. Zero marks. • Kindly check plagiarism before submitting the assignment. “Plagiarism is Injurious to Good Grades.” Good Luck! Answers 7|Page Table of Contents Group Project Assignment Part 1 S. No. Contents Page Number 1 Company Profile 2 Business Canvas Model 3 SWOT Analysis 4 Core competencies 5 Types of Business Models 6 Challenges faced by the company during the COVID-19 pandemic 8|Page
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