Challenges Faced by Alpha Consultancy in the Education Industry

This report discusses the challenges faced by Alpha Consultancy, a business consultancy firm, in the education industry. It provides an overview of the client, Regent Group London, and the specific problems they are facing. The report also analyzes important areas for market segmentation and presents the top three issues with their justifications. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of addressing these challenges to achieve sustainability in the industry.

Report

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Overview of client and summarise of problems.....................................................................3
Analysing and presenting important areas for presenting and dividing the market area.......5
Top three issue with their justification...................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
The term business consultant refers to the professional services that are analysed by the
businesses for generating effective and creative solutions that leads business for developing
efficient plans that match with desired goals of organisation. The main role of business
consultant is to guide the clients by providing recommendation for accomplishing there goals in
effective and efficient manner. This report is written from perspective of Alpha consultancy
limited that provides support and guidance to school and university by providing solutions to
their specific problems (Bennun and et. al., 2018). Moreover, this report highlights on the clients
problems and by using research method organisation divide problems into different parts. In the
last, issue which are faced by management will rank to select top three.
MAIN BODY
Overview of client and summarise of problems
Alpha consulting are the most effective individuals that leads management to implement
effective recommendation. Regent group London is the existing client that is providing or
offering their services in educational industry. In the present scenario, Regent group offer their
services at large level that manage and owns schools, learning centre and colleges from several
years. The regent group was established in the year 2000 with motive of providing their services
in educational industry. The business was established by offering programmes that provide
tuition classes for students. After this in the year 2004, Regent expand its business into childcare
by opening regent nursery and in present scenario, management operates its branches. Further,
group also start to operate its business into high educational areas through offering diploma and
qualification courses.
This also generates various problems for organisation which is impacting on goals and
objectives of management. Counselling services, educational degree, ineffective management of
target audience and less training staff etc. are major problems and challenges that are faced by
top authorities of regent group (Hakanen, 2014). Change in external market due to rapid
expansion of business is the major problem that is faced by management. This result private as
well as public both organisation are performing their work in business industry. The another
problem which is faced by management relates with the changes in learning centre. It refers

group is managing business under different areas which are nursery, school, college and institute
due to which it is complex to recognise the main learning centre. So it is mandatory for
organisation to offer right services for dividing them into effective manner in order to
differentiate their learning institute (Debortoli, Müller and vom Brocke, 2014). Further, to
understand all changes management implement PESTLE analysis for performing all task with
the motive of gaining top position in market which is mention as follow:
 Political- From the perspective of UK government they are flexible and implement
modest rules and regulations due to which operations and functions of organisation are
not impacted. But to modifications in educational industry Regent group face challenges
to deliver their services with full potential.
 Economical- Due to the Brexit decisions there are various challenges faced by
management which impact on monetary value of management. Example- the change in
the cost of resources provided which is related with books, staff, technology is impacting
on organisational goals.
 Social- The term social aspect relates with society that is a mandatory aspect for
organisation as there are various challenges faced by management due to local
population. Language barrier is the major issue that is impacting on organisational
operations and functions.
 Technical- From recent year technology is involved among all functions that leads
organisation to perform their work within minimum time period. This also refers
technology is improving all operational and functional productivity to achieve desired
outcomes. Example- Online and digital classes are drastic modification in education
industry.
 Legal- laws, legislations, rules etc. perform an essential role for the organisation that
leads management to perform all work in ethical manner (Kindl and Casais, 2019). Risk
that is related with change in legislation of education field. It also make changes in
legislation child protection act and opening of educational hours.
 Environmental- The utilisation of paper, parking layout, transportation services etc.
relates with environment. This also refers that there are various changes are implemented
due to which regent group face complexity because management concern to increase
number of collages which is a concerned issue related with the environment safety.

Analysing and presenting important areas for presenting and dividing the market area
In the present scenario, there are various task and operations performed by management that
is enhancing market area but also challenges which impact on operations of company. This
section undertakes different area which is influencing management to manage and control there
work areas. It also refers that with the changes in business environment regent college concern
that business houses are accomplishing better results by performing operations by analysing
research activities. Competitors, target customers and market are three aspects that relates with
external environment in management. Research perform an essential role for each organisation
that is leading company to achieve long term results that concern management to complete their
work within positive manner. Target audience, market research and competitors plays an
important role for dividing the work in effective manner (Korkmaz, 2015). In context of Regent
collage market research is leading educational institute to ensure educational centre that engage
more local individuals in the institute for performing organisational work as it generates brand
image by assuring better results to process the inclusion that process results which are
implementing proper market research that serve primary target market. Competitors plays an
important role that is leading business such as private areas for ensuring better results as it is
complex to gain better results. Bright young things, Stanmore college etc. are generating
competing challenge for organisation. It also defines that organisation is generating problems
due to impacted market area.
 The competition factor is directly impacting on operations and functions of company due
to which market area of organisation is impacted. With the increasing competition in
market it is identified that there are several challenges faced by business which is
impacting on learning centre around the area. With the complex in organisation
management defines that it impact on functions as per its area.
 Target audience is impacting on organisation and targeted all groups area that defines
need for exploring current learning opportunities. This also defines modern learning area
is impacted on learning methods as well as marketing team. It is also management
authority college re-launching their strategies that promote college towards a specific
area. With main responsibility team formulates which effective strategy in market.
 Market research define line educational centre by Regent college that ensure wide range
with engagement of the local that partner with local schools. This is also increasing work

areas that defines management areas to work as per colleges and nursery. In the present
scenario, market scenario also identified all those areas which concern to work with high
skills. Example- Management select all those area that aware management for dealing
work with expectations that relates with market aspects.
Market research, target audience and competitors aspects leads organisation to select and
implement those expectations which generates bridge between desired outcomes and goals of
organisation (Lăzăroiu, 2015). Example- Social media technique assist Alpha consultancy to
work with in accurate research manner.
Top three issue with their justification
Management play an important role among educational industry but it is complex for business
houses to deal with challenges. Moreover, educational institute face different challenge from
internal aspects as well as external market conditions. This refers that it is mandatory for
management to implement strategy that leads company to solve problems and leads them to gain
top position in market. In the present scenario, challenges are ranked by Alpha consultancy on
some specific basis. Training of staff is ranked first that is impacting on organisational goal as
employees are not able to match work with desired result. Another challenge which is faced by
management relates with educational policy because it is major issue for Regret policy because
of local population and work strategy. The last challenge which is ranked at three relates with
external environment because it is beyond the control for organisation and it is also impacting on
internal management of organisation.
CONCLUSION
From the summarise report it is analysed that educational industry is too dynamic so it is
essential for management to complete all task and operations according to current market
conditions and environment. Therefore, business consultancy are leading business management
to analyse all problems and also monitor them to provide recommendation for accomplishing
organisational goals by overcoming from current challenges and issue. With resolving all current
challenges management is able to achieve sustainability in industry and market.

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