1: Planning your Business Solutions Project
Aim: To consolidate previous learning and plan for the business solutions project

In the previous course, you will have created an eight-week timeline for your research project. We would like you to take some time now to review this schedule and further refine it based on the structure of this course.

Your Course Guide will indicate the weekly breakdown of work, and you should use this to help you allocate your time to different elements of your research and writing. Whilst you will be working largely independently to gather and analyse your data, the process will be supported by Action Learning Set meetings. This is an important element of this course that you must participate in fully to get the best learning experience.

This collaborative element will not only help you enhance and refine your project work, but will help you develop invaluable skills relating to long distance collaboration. We therefore advise you to plan your time effectively to enable you to prepare for and engage with these Action Learning Set meetings, to get the greatest benefit from the approach.

We would like you to create a detailed eight-week plan that outlines each element of your research project, indicating how you intend to schedule your time to complete the Summative Assessment by 12pm Friday of Week 8. Remember, you need to leave time to write up your research as well as to review and edit your work.

Share your plan in the Tutorial area for discussion with your tutor.