Doing my BA Hons Business & Management at college..

Two assignments due in next tuesday 29th November..

3000 word essay for Markets & Customers, task is to create marketing strategy for an organisation that I can gather data about products, services and markets
Problem is, my organisation I work for, sells to other businesses as a supplier of assembled parts, so I am struggling here. I am considering using another larger business that interacts with the general public, like Tesco?

1500 word dissertation research proposal about a business topic of MY CHOICE.
Problem: No idea what to do, lecturer suggests something with existing research already available..

I haven't started both assignments due to holidays/procrastinating/being lazy. Now I am in panic mode.

I have a meeting with lecturer about dissertation proposal tomorrow at 4.30 and he wants to see my existing work so we can talk about that. Problem is I have NO CLUE what to write !!!

SHIT

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IM in my last month of my Hypnotherapy qualification -- because im left it so long
ive got 1 week to do a 24,000 word dissertation
fuking ridiculous its like writing a book -- im doing on addictions - its currently monday and its to be in for saturday plus ive got my full time job, a date tonight and wed

so because of the ridiculousness of it i am going to use the dark side of the force
ive found a little thng online called google books --its loads of free books you can read online but cant download-- so now ive also found a tool to download those books
sweet thing is google search engines dont list the txt of the books-- so i plan on stealing huge parts of relative books and using that as my dissertation!

you cant make an omlette with cracking a few heads..erm i mean eggs


ps come to me for hypnotherapy, i wont secretly masturbate you while you are in trance..honest

Wow. 24000 words. Shit the bed. Have you started it yet?

My actual dissertation has to be 12000 words, due in July 2012.. and I'm stuck on the shitty proposal for it..

I think my dissertation is going to be..
“How expanding businesses can manage organisational culture changes”

cos I just have no fucking clue.

What tool you using to rip google books?

My advice for this would be to look at home your business can make the most of market growth as a supplier to whatever markets you supply, you can also look at maximising seasonal fluctuations so that you don't see volume drop-offs i.e. when I worked in photographics goods on the printing side of things we would sell shedloads of products around certain holidays, christmas, valentines, mother's and fathers days but then the machines would sit idle, but because we were geared for high-volume we could offer outrageously competitive pricing on normal print such as books, magazine, flyers and business cards during season troughs.


Your institution library should keep upto the last 4-5years of dissertations. Have a look through them for inspiration and then shoose something you are either
a) really passionate about or
b) know shitloads about and have/can get information readily

Good luck

getting asigned/picking a good lecturer for your dissertation/main project helps alot. My dissertation was borderline off topic for my course but my lecturer was enthusiastic because it was something he was interested in but had never learn't. hence he always wanted feedback and guided me on whats best to include.Which helped alot.

saying that i've assumed you get a choice of lecture for your dissertation/project we had a list of lectures there speciality and available places

My dissertation supervisor is the course tutor, Bill. This wasn't optional.. I have a meeting with him tomorrow evening at 4.30pm and he wants to see my current work (hardly started it) and it is due in next Tuesday.

My markets & customers assignment... my workplace manufactures micro-D connectors, accessories, and wiring systems for use in aircraft/rail/ships etc.. basically anything that needs connectorising we will make.. but we supply into other businesses as opposed to the public, so this is baffling the shit out of me...
Need to do:
a marketing strategy for an organisation, including:
identification of products/services/industries concerned
analysis of the markets in which these products/services are offered, their contemporary development and the impact of relevant economic changes
an appreciation of relevant marketing strategies and their customer focus
clear recommendations about marketing tools that should be used to achieve desired market share

Clueless...

Hand this in:

Assignment

Interesting.


Peace,

kowalski

* Research.

Look up organisational behaviour (spelt organizational behavior on American web sites, which will be the most hits and focus on corporate culture sections)


* Think.

Before you think of how to manage the problems, you need to speculate on what the problems could be!

Hence, think of what problems expanding businesses could face from organisational culture changes.


An example of thinking is to ask yourself... As an non-founder employee, how would you feel if you were in a five-person start-up and used to have lots of freedom to run your working day as you saw fit, and used to be effectively your own manager as your boss ran the small business and was always away in meetings... then over the course of the following two years - thanks to successful rounds of VC funding and recruiting - the place ended up with fifty employees?

In this hypothetical scenario, how would you now feel having:
(A) a "line manager" for the first time in that company - a lack of [perceived?] visibility from no longer working directly for the founder? You being told "what to do"?
(B) more defined tasks and timescales, more constrained, more pressured focus on hitting VC-enforced revenue targets - less autonomous freedom due to the bureaucracy and increased management focus...?
(C) product is now more mature -- a perception of less chance for you to add as much innovation and creativity...? You used to chat about your ideas directly to the founder, now you seldom see him!
(D) perhaps everyone now has to wear a suit and tie to work, as the old-school VC company doesn't like "unprofessional" looking staff in T-shirts and sandals
(E) they even now have HR reviews! How corporate!

The above covers organic expansion.

Think also of the impact of expansion by acquisition upon the existing corporate culture, as each firm has its own unique way of doing things. If you add company A with company B, what could be the cultural fallouts?

Thankyou Rebus..

My meeting is today at 4.30pm with my "supervisor".. will show him my progress..

Then I have tonight, wednesday, thursday, friday, sunday, monday and tuesday to finish both assignments