Business Report
Requirements:
A minimum of 4 credible sources
MLA citation method
Page length of Intro./Body/Conclusion—5-7 pages (this includes charts and graphs)
Businesses use reports to inform them before making important decisions. Like any academic report, they
rely on evidence from reliable sources. For this module, you will be researching a current trend in
business and making recommendations on your findings. Businesses will have different ways of creating
these reports, but for our purposes, the report will include the following parts:
Front Matter
Title page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Executive Summary
Main Body
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Introduction—provides scope of research, can be one paragraph to a full page
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Body—this will be broken up by subheads and may include visuals; this includes details
of how this was investigated and the general findings of the trend
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Conclusions—pulls together the results of the research
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Recommendations—these can be combined with the conclusion sections, but will provide
the course of action the company should take to keep up with trend
List of References—Works Cited
For this report, you will :
choose an industry or company that you are interested in learning more about.
choose one of the following trends that will be affecting business in the upcoming years.
You will investigate both the company and trend and come up with recommendations for this company
based on your findings. You will need to narrow your topic appropriately.
TOPIC:
Many companies increase their workers performance by using augmented intelligence. This is a
combination of people and machines to increase productivity. For example, when a flight is delayed, IBM’s
Watson alerts flight attendants and lets them know which passengers might miss a connecting flight and
gives the attendants instructions to then help the passengers. The company that you work for has asked you
to investigate how augmented intelligence could benefit the company. Investigate the topic and create a
report and recommendations based on your research. (YOU CAN COME UP WITH THE TYPE OF COMPANY, IT CAN BE FABRICATED OR EVEN AN ACTUAL COMPANY, WHICHEVER YOU PREFER)
