This is a chance to practice making a difference in an organisation and involves a submitting a report on a case of your choice. It must propose an improvement to operations in a real organisation. It will be graded on its Practicality, Performance and Persuasiveness. See the assignment brief below for details of the assignment and marking criteria: The Basics Submit a written proposal This will propose an operational improvement for a real organisation You have to use Operations Management tools Make it compelling. The Brief-A lot of Operations and Project Management is about making things better; finding better ways to deliver the same products, or finding ways of making products better. An important skill within industry is being able to identify operations improvements and then propose those improvements in the right way. The right way is the way that encourages people to understand and adopt your ideas. This is a chance for you to develop that skill. Your brief is to make things better; propose an improvement in the operations management of an organisation. It can make things cheaper, quicker, improved, more flexible or dependable. It can involve goods, services or both. It can be anorganisation you work for, you have worked for, you have seen or even one you have researched out of interest. The vitalthing is you need to have sufficient information to do the following: Find a problem or an opportunity for improvement. Use appropriate Operations and Project Management tools to develop your proposal. Analyse what is happening, what is needed and what could be better. Use the tools to show how things can be improved. Develop your proposal into a complete plan; what should be done, why, how and when. Present it well; 1. Create a written proposal that includes all of the relevant details that you need to clearly explain what you are recommending.2 2. Create a clear summary to help inform readers to be enthusiastic about your proposal; a summary should make a reader interested about the topic and explain the key parts of the proposal. Your work You should include a brief outline of your chosen organisation and the products/services to which your initiative relates. You should present your initiative for change, describing what, how, why and when it could be implemented. You will support your initiative using analysis including operations and project management tools. You will need some data and you will need to explain how you gathered it, what assumptions you have made and any other data you would like before implementation. .Guidelines A reminder of a standard report format is provided via Minerva. I believe a summary is critical as it gives people away into the report but for this assignment there is no fixed structure. To score higher marks I am looking for you to use your judgement to structure your proposal so that it is compelling reading. There is a limit of 2,500 words equivalent but only write up to this limit if you have valuable content. There is no penalty for short proposals and well-written more concise proposals are likely to gain more marks for persuasion. Use appendices for extra information. Reference all data and work you have used using the Harvard format Additional Info -This is designed to help but its not essential FAQsHow do I choose a problem?- Pick something you understand; you will need data so look for companies where there is data available. This will generally be somewhere you have seen.- Pick something small. Dont try and recommend changing all of Volkswagens operations to make higher quality cars. You could, for example suggest a small change to the way one dealership works.- Pick something where theres room for improvement. You dont need to change things radically, but you must be able to show how change will make it better. Dont report on how efficient Apples logistics are, suggest a way delivery to the end users in the UK could be better.- To find a problem, look around you. Look at the things in your world. If you cant find anything, look further; visit organisations, talk with your friends and family. Start early and keep going until you have an idea