University of Maine at Augusta Operations Consulting Presentation

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Business Finance

Purpose of Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is for students to learn how to develop an operations consulting proposal.

Resources

Operations and Supply Chain Management, Ch. 25; Microsoft®PowerPoint®

Assignment Steps

Choose a business in the media having difficulties with its operating model or one which is struggling in your community.

Evaluate how all or some of the items from the Operations Consulting Tool Kit in Operations and Supply Chain Management could help this business get back on track.

Determine the resources and data you will need to deploy an operations consulting engagement with this business.

Develop a business case including financial benefits on how operations consulting can have a positive impact on the business.

Develop a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft®PowerPoint® presentation of an operations consulting engagement proposal to the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the target firm.

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

Each slide needs to have a detailed notes in the notes area. Use In-Text citations according to references used in the notes only.

Each slide needs to have bullet point contents with short sentences. But explain in details in the notes area.

Use chart, graphs, tables as visual contents.

List all references used in the reference slide.