MBA 705 Milestone Five Guidelines and Rubric

MBA 705 Milestone Five Guidelines and Rubric
Overview: For the capstone assessment, you will create a business implementation plan and audiovisual presentation for the product, service, or idea you have
been developing throughout your MBA coursework.
In Milestone Five, you will submit the assumptions and contingency planning, in which you will clearly explain the assumptions you have made in creating your
business implementation plan, any factors that may affect those assumptions or the success of the project, and how you have planned for those contingencies.
At a minimum, you should discuss any cross-cultural, economic, and geopolitical factors that may impact the business environment and concept; how you will
ensure that the project operates in a legally and ethically compliant environment, including relevant laws, regulations, or patents or permits that may need to be
obtained; plans for incorporating stakeholder and customer diversity into planning and implementation of the concept; and the role corporate social
responsibility will play in the implementation of you concept.
Critical Elements:
ï‚· Explain the assumptions you have made in creating your business implementation plan, including a discussion of any factors that may affect the
assumptions or success of the project, and how you have planned for those contingencies.
ï‚· Discuss any cross-cultural, economic, and geopolitical factors that may impact the business environment and concept.
ï‚· Explain how you will ensure that the project operates in a legally and ethically compliant environment, including relevant laws, regulations, or patents or
permits that may need to be obtained.
ï‚· Outline plans for incorporating stakeholder and customer diversity into planning and implementation of the concept.
ï‚· Discuss the role that corporate social responsibility will play in the implementation of your concept.
Guidelines for Submission: Your draft must contain all of the elements listed above. It should be 5 to 8 pages in length (excluding the title page, references, and
appendices) using 12-point Times New Roman font, with one-inch margins. You may include summary pictures, charts, graphs, or other explanatory diagrams as
needed to successfully explain the concept and implementation, but should use appendices for detailed supporting documentation. Your paper should follow
APA guidelines. You must include at least 5 scholarly sources. Cite your sources within the text of your paper and on the reference page.
Instructor Feedback: This activity uses an integrated rubric in Blackboard. Students can view instructor feedback in the Grade Center. For more information,
review these instructions.
Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Not Proficient (0%) Value
Main Elements Includes most of the main elements Does not include any of the main elements 15
Critical Thinking Provides logical conclusions and defends with
examples
Does not provide logical conclusions 15
Assumptions Explains the assumptions behind the plan and
includes a discussion of any factors that may
affect the assumptions or success of the
project and contingency planning
Does not explain the assumptions behind the
plan and include discussion of any factors that
may affect the assumptions or success of the
project
12
Cross-Cultural, Economic,
and Geopolitical Factors
Discusses cross-cultural, economic, and
geopolitical factors that may impact the
business environment and concept
Does not discuss cross-cultural, economic, and
geopolitical factors that may impact the
business environment and concept
12
Legally and Ethically
Compliant Environment
Explains how the project will operate in a
legally and ethically compliant environment,
including relevant laws, regulations, or patents
or permits that may need to be obtained
Does not explain how the project will operate
in a legally and ethically compliant
environment, including relevant laws,
regulations, or patents or permits that may
need to be obtained
12
Stakeholder and Customer
Diversity
Outlines plans for incorporating stakeholder
and customer diversity into planning and
implementation of the concept
Does not outline plans for incorporating
stakeholder and customer diversity into
planning and implementation of the concept
12
Corporate Social
Responsibility
Discusses the role corporate social
responsibility will play in the implementation
of the concept
Does not discuss the role corporate social
responsibility will play in the implementation
of the concept
12
Articulation of Response Submission does not have critical errors
related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax,
or organization that prevent understanding of
ideas
Submission has critical errors related to
citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or
organization that prevent understanding of
ideas
10
Total 100%