ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS

Assessment Interim Report

Assessment code: 010
Academic Year: 2020/2021
Trimester: 2
Module Title: Operational and Project Management
Module Code: MOD003345
Level: 6
Module Leader:
Weighting: 40%
Word Limit: 2,500
This excludes bibliography and other items listed in rule 6.75 of the
Academic Regulations:
http://web.anglia.ac.uk/anet/academic/public/academic_regs.pdf

Assessed Learning 3 Knowledge and Understanding:

Outcomes: Obtain an understanding of the problems faced by operations
managers and the techniques currently available to help solve
these problems;
4 Intellectual, practical, affective and transferable skills:
Understand the basic concepts of operations management as they pertain to
products and processes and develop problem solving skills for operational
management decision making.

Submission Deadline: This assignment must be submitted by no later than 14:00pm on

Monday, 17th May 2021.

WRITING YOUR ASSIGNMENT:

 This assignment must be completed individually.

 You must use the Harvard referencing system.
 Your work must indicate the number of words you have used. Written assignments must not exceed the
specified maximum number of words. When a written assignment is marked, the excessive use of words
beyond the word limit is reflected in the academic judgement of the piece of work which results in a lower
mark being awarded for the piece of work (regulation 6.74).
 Assignment submissions are to be made anonymously. Do not write your name anywhere on your work.
 Write your student ID number at the top of every page.
 Where the assignment comprises more than one task, all tasks must be submitted in a single document.
 You must number all pages.

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SUBMITTING YOUR ASSIGNMENT:
In order to achieve full marks, you must submit your work before the deadline. Work that is submitted late – up
to five working days after the published submission deadline - will be accepted and marked. However, the
element of the module’s assessment to which the work contributes will be capped with a maximum mark of
40%.

Work cannot be submitted if the period of 5 working days after the deadline has passed (unless there is an
approved extension). Failure to submit within the relevant period will mean that you have failed the assessment.

Requests for short-term extensions will only be considered in the case of illness or other cause considered valid
by the iCentre Adviser. Please contact iCentre@lca.anglia.ac.uk. A request must normally be received and
agreed by the iCentre Adviser in writing at least 24 hours prior to the deadline. See rules 6.56-6.65:
http://web.anglia.ac.uk/anet/academic/public/academic_regs.pdf

Mitigation: The deadline for submission of mitigation in relation to this assignment is no later than five working
days after the submission date of this work. Please contact iCentre@lca.anglia.ac.uk
See rules 6.103 – 6.132: http://web.anglia.ac.uk/anet/academic/public/academic_regs.pdf

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ASSIGNMENT QUESTION

This coursework assignment takes the form of an integrated management report. The report
focusses on a set of operational and project management scenarios contained within an
integrated case study.

The case study provides both an overview of the scenario and the specific consultancy tasks /
issues that the student is required to review, analyse and draw conclusions from or make
recommendations about.

For this interim assignment, students are required to attempt ANY THREE of the
consultancy tasks 1 to 4 inclusive, contained within the scenario.

Each task will be marked out of 10, plus a further mark out of 10 for the overall quality and
professionalism of the submitted report document.

Maximum mark: 40 out of 40 (which will be converted into a percentage mark).

For the purposes of the scenario, you are to assume that you are a junior consulting team
member employed by a management consultancy business. The data and questions in the
scenario are to enable you to prepare a draft management report for review by your senior
management before being sent onwards to the client.

Your submission should take the form of a high quality consultancy report document. You
may create your own corporate identity for the consultancy firm (name, logotype, brand style
etc.) and use it to create your report.

It is suggested that the report should follow the following broad structure:

 Cover page
 Executive summary
 Table of contents
 Introduction
 Main body – perhaps with “chapters” for each question
 References (if applicable)
 Appendices (if applicable)

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