Final Presentation Guidelines

GB 459 Final Case Analysis Presentation Instructions and Guidelines Part 5 of your group case analysis is a 20 minute group oral presentation. This semester the presentation will be recorded using the Blackboard Collaborate tool integrated in to our course web site. If you attended the Glo-bus orientation, you have already participated in a Collaborate session and have your computer set up with the right Java and other settings. If you did not attend a Glo-bus orientation via Collaborate, go to the Collaborate tutorials folder posted on the Course web site to find out how to make sure your computer has the right settings and to get started in Collaborate. Each group has a Collaborate room set up for its use and you will want to use that for your group work and to practice making several recordings prior to this graded presentation being due at the end of the semester. There are also instructions for recordings in the Collaborate tutorials folder. If you experience technical issues with Collaborate, the help link is: http://support.blackboardcollaborate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=8336 Guidelines for Presentation Because your time will be limited (20 minutes in all), your final presentation should focus primarily on your recommendations, and should not contain the full analysis that normally goes into the paper write-up. Think of yourselves as a consulting team giving a presentation to your Company’s executive team and you want to make the best case for the recommendations and rationale for them as you can in only 20 minutes. Here are some tips and instructions: • You should not simply read your complete case study paper into your recording. Aside from taking far too long, it would be incredibly boring. The art of making presentations is quite different from the craft of writing papers. You should not approach them in the same manner. • Start your presentation by giving me a quick summary of your focal company: a very quick review what they do and more on