Assignment: Adopting Workplace Innovation
Assignment: Adopting Workplace Innovation
In professional settings, an internal proposal argues for adopting workplace innovation or amending current practice. Though the requirements can be described in different ways, the global structure of proposals is virtually always the same: Problem to Solution. You must first define a significant problem and then explain a feasible solution. Another very important requirement is that you establish the significance of the problem and the benefits associated with the solution. Completing a proposal means assessing current options, providing criteria for choosing a solution, making a specific recommendation, proposing an implementation schedule, and creating an evaluation plan that measures success of the project. The first part of that, you may recognize, is what you began in the research report. Here is some additional information to consider when choosing your app: 1) If your app already exists, follow the details of the assignment attached above. 2) If your app exists but needs modifications, include in your report exactly which modifications need to be made, how you expect them to look and work, and how you will request from the software manufacturer to make those modifications. This information is integrated into the details of the assignment as described in the attachment. 3) If an appropriate app does not exist, you will need to imagine one. You must include a mock-up drawing or visualization of the app and its screens. You can imagine that the organization′s IT team will develop it, or you can research software companies to make it and include your recommendation on that within the recommendation for the app itself. Suggestions for success: Write your executive summary last since it summarizes the whole project. To make different page numbers (some as Roman numerals and others as Arabic numerals), don′t choose automatic page numbering. Just open the header and format the page numbers manually. Use parts of your research report in the recommendation section, if applicable. It′s normal (and efficient) to reuse what has been written when you′re building onto previous information like this series of assignments. In some fields, it is necessary to acknowledge this (which is why the instructions include a statement to put in your paper if you do reuse parts of the report), while in others it is not necessary for documents produced in-house. This is one of those things you′ll have to learn once you′re in your profession. When in doubt, ask a professional or your supervisor; you don′t want to commit self-plagiarism.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
