SMALL BUSINESS CONSULTING REPORT

Professor Boje's Class

Fall, 2000

Camino Real School - graciously gave written permission to put this on the web as a guide for future students to use.  We also want to thank the report writers

Lori Guthrie, Marketing & Management

Jessica Macklin, Marketing & Management

Sue Ann Vega, Accounting

 

Please consult http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/sbc/sbc.html for Study Guides on this material

This is a Sample - Please do not copy it (points will be deducted -  Write your own stuff -- use this as an example)

A few items could not be made into web pages (We substituted items from another report to give you an idea). Thanks David and Lisa

Contents

COVER 

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY and History Section ............. 4

INTRODUCTION (from a different report)

PRESS RELEASE ..................5

STATEMENT OF WORK ................7

MISSION STATEMENT (see last page of section) ................9

If your client needs a mission statement

SWOT NARRATIVE ..................10

EXAMPLE OF A SWOT CHART (from different report)

ROOT CAUSE CHART .................13 (another example). 

EXAMPLE OF ROOT CAUSE NARRATIVE (from different report)

HIDDEN COST ANALYSIS ................14

RESULTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ...............16

VALUE ADDED ANALYSIS - needs to includes narrative (this is only the chart)....................... 21

In addition you will need several forms from your student manual

 

Advice -- Know your assignments schedule

Review Your Mid-term Check List

Final Check List

Get to Know the SEAM Page (Press on center and each leaf). 

Root Cause Categories being used by other students


TABLE OF CONTENTS

as it appeared in the written version of report

 

SECTION PAGE #

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY………………………………………………. 3

PRESS RELEASE………………………………………………………... 4

INTRODUCTIONS…………………………………………………. 5

HISTORY………………………………………………………

STATEMENT OF WORK…………………………………………………... 6-8

MISSION STATEMENT…………………………………………………… 9

SWOT ANALYSIS……………………………………………………... 10

SWOT NARRATIVE…………………………………………… 11-13

ROOT CAUSE CHART ANALYSIS…………………………………………………... 14

CRITICAL ROOT CAUSE CHART ANALYSIS……………………………………… 15

STORY CHART NARRATIVE………………………………………………………… 16

HIDDEN COST ANALYSIS…………………………………………………………… 17

INVESTIGATIVE RESULTS…………………………………………………………... 18

RECOMMENDATIONS……………………………………….. 19-22

UNIVERSITY FLOW CHART…………………………………………………………. 23

TENTATIVE CLASS SCHEDULE AND ROTATIONS………………………………. 24

TENTATIVE ROTATION CALENDARS………………………………………….. 25-34