This final seminar week you will prepare an End-of-Seminar Project.

The EOSP provides an opportunity for you to demonstrate integration of your knowledge of financial and operational management.

You will each develop a plan that integrates effective financial and operational decision making to successfully meet a managerial challenge and improve the performance of your enterprise.

The faculty hopes that the application to your own enterprise will be both motivating and ideally, of practical value to you at work. Previous students in other MBA courses have reported that their EOSPs have been approved for actual implementation at work.

Individual Assignment (End-of-Seminar Project) (8%)

Each student is to

• Identify an important managerial challenge facing his or her work or other organization.
• Develop a plan that integrates effective financial and operational decision making to successfully meet this challenge and improve organizational performance, in a succinct report that includes an executive summary.

More Information:

What is a succinct report? Could it be 10 pages or less? One reads that IBM decision papers are limited to that length, and we all recall the single-sheet Ringo Sho approach to important decisions at Toyota.

As to overall plan format, I-B-C (http://polaris.umuc.edu/~jstewart/StewartWebSite/writingt.htm) is, recommended for your consideration.

A results-filled executive summary (ES) should lead off the plan. This link is to “How to Write an Executive Summary” in Course Resources. You may also benefit from a review of the files in Course Resources specific to Writing Guidelines and the files showing proper APA citations.

Your individual paper must be posted in your assignment folder by the due date. Remember that there are NO EXTENSIONS of this final due date.