The Maldives National University

MNU Business School

Group Assignment

BUS 301

Business Entrepreneurship

Semester 2 - 2015

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1. Introduction

This subject addresses the concepts, skills and knowledge needed in creating and

building new business ventures. The subject is taught from a practitioner’s perspective.

2. Expected Learning Outcomes

The purpose of the assignment is to find out how well the students are able to

Understand the concepts and context of building new businesses, their

relevance and application to organisations in today’s economy.

Understand the formulation and application of new business strategies for

start-ups, new ventures, and achieving innovation in existing established

organisations.

Understand the development of the necessary skills to formulate a strategy for

a new venture.

understand and critically analyze business plans in theory as well as apply

their knowledge in practice in applying in actual business situations

3. Content

Students are required to conduct in depth research and gather sufficient data for

the assignment.

Task:

Choose an existing business in the Maldives. For this business do a gap analysis

relating to a theoretical business plan. In your analysis,

a. identify whether a business plan was compiled or not

b. Find out what are the components that you think should be included in a

business plan and compare this plan with the business that you have chosen to

do the gap analysis.

You may use information gathered from your lectures and from existing

literature, to do this.

c. Discuss the possible ways in which the level of performance may be

attributed to the presence or absence of a business plan in your chosen

business.

d. Recommendations

e. Conclusions

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The length of the assignment should be between 2500 - 3000 words.

Source materials should be correctly identified and referenced using APA

Referencing l Style.

4. Assessment

This assignment will be evaluated on multiple factors, including

a) clear and direct response to the assignment task;

b) Justification of the important factors you have chosen for the business plan

and how well you could present the “gap analysis”, between the

theoretical plan you have chosen and the actual business plan of the

business.

c) demonstrated ability to apply the course concepts and frameworks in your

analysis;

d) critical evaluation and effective insights into the gap analysis;

e) The level of detail and depth of study

f) Logical sequencing of ideas

g) Effective communication including language and grammar

h) Effective recommendations

i) Logical conclusion(s)

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5. Marking guide

Marks will be allocated as follows, and awarded taking into account, the points

discussed in Assessment.

Component Marks

Introduction 10

Theoretical business plan 10

Gap Analysis 30

Possible ways in which the level of performance may be attributed

to the presence or absence of a business plan in your chosen

business.

15

Recommendations 15

Conclusion 10

Referencing 10

6. Policy on Late Assignments

The deadline for the assignment is 2.00 pm on 18th October 2015. It must be

professionally presented (i.e., word processed, stapled, spell-checked, etc) and

submitted in soft and hard-copy form. A soft copy may be emailed to the lecturer.

Except where an extension has been granted on medical or compassionate grounds,

deadlines for all material submitted for assessment must be adhered to strictly. The

penalty for late submission of items for assessments is 5% of the maximum mark

awarded, for each day late.

If for any valid reason a student will not be able to turn assignments in on time s/he

has to make special arrangements with the lecturer. In such cases the lecturer should

be notified of any requests for extensions before and NOT after the due date. No

consideration will be given to requests that come after the due date.

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7. Plagiarism

Plagiarism and cheating are serious offences and will be severely dealt with.

Plagiarism involves using the work of another person and presenting it as one’s own.

Encouraging or assisting another person to commit plagiarism is a form of improper

collusion and is also unacceptable.

Any of the following acts constitutes plagiarism unless the source of each quotation or

piece of borrowed material is clearly acknowledged:

1. Copying out part(s) of any document or audio-visual material (including

computer – based materials);

2. Using or extracting another person’s concepts, experimental results, or

conclusions;

3. Summarizing another person’s work;

4. In an assignment where there was collaborative preparatory work, submitting

substantially the same final version as another student whether in whole or in

part.

Thanks You and Good Luck