Making recommendations in dissertation report (MBA) chapter 6: a note

Making recommendations in MBA dissertation report chapter 6: a note

Recommendations should be grouped into strategic, tactical and operational levels. They should be concrete. The following format is suggested for your reference:

Recommendation 1: with reference to discussion findings 2 [DF2] (xxx) and 3 (xxx) [DF3], the urgent management concern 4 (xxxx) [UMC4], and inspired by the successful business practice of ABC Ltd, it is recommended that (xxx, e.g, the top management team) adopt the XXX approach in the near future, as supported by (xxxx, e.g. the marketing team). It is estimated that this XXX approach will require about $xxxx investment.. This recommended approach is estimated to take XXX months to implement, and is able to generate XXX benefit. The recommendation is useful to address the management concern of XXX [re: UMC3 of the management-concerns diagram (Figure 1.1).    {note: UMC means urgent management concern}.

Note 1: this recommendation format adopts the chain of evidence practice (COEP), notably with the COEP pointers.

Note 2: when writing dissertation report, try to provide pointer labels next to the pointers, e.g., management concern 4 [on tight labour market on medical staff.] {pointer [pointer label]} for readers would have difficulties to comprehend sentences with lots of pointers without pointer labels.