Developing Stage
Carrying out your investigation
执行调查
This section covers the Developing stage of your investigation. This involves meeting the brief you have developed by carrying out your plan.
Like the Planning stage, you have to write up your findings from the Developing stage of your investigation. Your report should be 2,500–3,500 words and should contain four main sections:
Section 1:
How the issue affects your chosen organisation or
organisations/customers
调研课题是如何影响你所选择的组织或组织/客户
and
Section 2 :
Analysis of the primary and secondary sources of information and data collected
分析收集的一手及二手信息和数据
In this part, you should explain how the issue you have investigated affects the organisation or organisations/customers you have studied. You are required to make reference to the data that you have collected and it is therefore likely that you will incorporate the data analysis within this section.
You must justify your explanation by making explicit reference to:
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both primary and secondary data that you have collected and analysed
and
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concepts you have covered in the mandatory, or financial services related optional, units of the group award
For example, if your investigation sets out to identify advantages and disadvantages of something, then this section of your report will summarise the advantages and disadvantages that you have found during your investigation. For each one, you should explain why it is an advantage or disadvantage. You should support your explanation in three ways:
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with data (for example, positive responses to a survey)
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by reference to relevant concepts that you have studied in the mandatory units as part of the group award (for example, something may be an advantage because it is consistent with the predictions of a theory or with research evidence)
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your explanation should be consistent with the objectives created in the Planning stage
You may find it helpful to present some of your data in appendices and refer to them in the main body of you report. Appendices do not count towards the overall word limit.
Section 3:
An assessment of the implications
对影响的评估
In this part, you should assess the implications for your organisation(s) of the effects you have discussed in the first part (Stage 1 and 2) of your report. You must focus on the impact upon customers. The possible implications will vary from project to project, and may involve some speculation, but where possible should be grounded in specific evidence.
Section 4:
Conclusions from your investigation
调查结论
In this final section of your report, you should summarise the conclusions you have drawn from your assessment in Section 3 on the previous page. You must make sure of two things:
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your conclusions and recommendations follow directly from your investigation
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your conclusions and recommendations are directly related to the needs of customers
One way to present this section is to list your conclusions and recommendations and show how each follows from your investigation and, where appropriate, how it relates to the needs of customers.
Presenting your report
报告呈现
Your report must be presented in a format suitable for a business report.