Ecosystem Based Management

– Assignment on Ecosystem Based Management

Paper details Description The goal of the group assignment will be to assess the degree to which a company actually participates in a sustainable triple bottom line business practice. Students will be required to determine whether the application of triple bottom line principles in a particular business will allow for continued profitability. Why or why not? Does the business’s adoption of these principles affect customer behaviour, and if so, how does this contribute to the overall environmental impact of the business? The deliverables for this include both a formal academic paper (Deliverable I, worth 75% of the overall assignment grade) and a creative PowerPoint Pitch (Deliverable II, worth 25% of the overall assignment grade). Deliverable I: A Report worth 75% of the assignment grade. The first deliverable will be a formal academic paper, a report using APA style formatting, 15-20 pages in length. It will include a background on the industry, key business characteristics and processes of the selected company, and approach taken to applying selected aspects of TBL. An analysis and speculation are required for the impact of the shift to TBL for the company, its impact on local and global ecosystems, and how the concepts of people and planet impact on company profitability. The report will fully integrate its supporting documents for it (7-10 references, the majority from journal articles). Deliverable II: A PowerPoint Pitch worth 25% of the assignment grade. The second deliverable will be a more creative venture where you imagine your team must pitch your plan to the CEO of the company involved and so you must develop a slick, visually appealing, informative, and engaging package that gives a concise overview and spells out the highlights of your model. This package should be in the form of a PowerPoint slideshow with no more than 7 slides containing a variation on the “elevator pitch” and an assortment of media from text, photos, illustrations, graphs, even audio and video as suits the presentation and skills of the team. Remember that flashier is not necessarily better – the goal is to grab a CEO’s attention and quickly communicate your plan most effectively. Note that for this project you will not be required to actually make the pitch, but simply create the PowerPoint for it, and so it must stand on its own. Instructions Students will work in teams to select a major Canadian company working in a major industrial sector (agricultural, manufacturing, mining/oil extraction, energy, or transportation – to be identified by the Professor in Part 1 below). The team will apply the triple bottom line concept towards a review or hypothetical “makeover” of the company. In so doing they will need to do a careful case analysis of the company, including what it produces; the resources it uses; its impact on various ecosystems at both a local and global level; and not merely its manufacturing processes, but its distribution system, sales strategy, human resources, etc. The assignment will be developed over 4 parts as follows: Part 1: Due no later than 11:00 p.m. on Sunday of Unit 6 – Ungraded The professor assigns each student to a project team with key milestones to be delivered by the team each unit. Teams will select and submit their choice of company by unit’s end. Part 2: Due no later than 11:00 p.m. on Sunday of Unit 8 – Ungraded, but with feedback Teams will complete and submit a Learning Team Agreement (LTA). The LTA will identify individual group member responsibilities (including the team member responsible for submissions) and report on the primary sources they will use in their research of their company and the industry. Part 3: Due no later than 11:00 p.m. on Sunday of Unit 9 – Ungraded, but with feedback Students will work according to the LTA, meeting as necessary, to develop an outline to Deliverable I and identify references to be used in Deliverable I. Complete references and report outline will be submitted in Unit 9. Part 4: Due no later than 11:00 p.m. on Thursday of Unit 11 – Worth 25% of final grade Students will work according to the LTA, meeting as necessary, to expand and finalize the report for Deliverable I create the PowerPoint pitch Deliverable II. Final report (Deliverable I) and PowerPoint Pitch (Deliverable II) submitted. PowerPoint Pitch (Deliverable II) will also be posted to the final Discussion for the course. This is a group assignment about ecosystem-based management, and you will only be doing two portions of this assignment. The assignment is being written on BC’s Site C Dam project. The portions being addressed are as follows: 1. Integration 2. Boundries