Course: Business Research for Decision Making
Discussion
This week chat was very interesting, makes me think of how careful we all have to be when doing research on our IP, the term "provenance" and "questionable Provenance, was the discussion. so when I do my project I will be very careful where i get my information for:
Abstract (includes Executive Summary)
company Introduction (includes)
- information of SEC form 10 k
- proxy statement
External stakeholder analysis (includes)
- industry
- competitors
- vendors
- government
- communities
Internal stakeholders analysis (include)
- shareholders
- board of directors
- management
- employees
SWOT analysis (include)
- competitive advantage
- qualitative elements
- quantitative elements
- summary
- conclusion
References
Discussion
The process for conducting the research and discovering the results as well as complete the project for the unit 5 project deliverable for one of the Fortune 500 Company will begin with a topic and purpose statement with research questions and a literature or text search. Having a purpose statement focusing on the topic and the outcome with details will allow readers a chance to know the plans of the report from beginning to end. Research questions are important focusing on the topic using words like; why, what and how and more this method is known as the qualitative and quantitative or a mixed method. Basically, lessening research options by numbering is a must to stay on track.
The text search basically require one to look over information from the research from the topic and purpose and research questions using citations for information received for the study using a text map showing connections and relationships of the text elements while closing any openings. Nonetheless, features on the measurements and breakdown will consist of questions and suggestions from creditable sources that will legalize the information using APA style.
Identifying the reporting format will show:
- Introduction
- Text review
- Plan
- Data collection
- Analysis procedures
- Ethics
- Results
- Recommendations
- Reference