The Business Consultancy Project

This report is a Business Consultancy Project for Dandelions Nursery School in London, UK. It covers the analysis of issues faced by the school and provides recommendations for improvement. The report includes tools like PEST analysis, SWOT analysis, and Stakeholders analysis.

The Business Consultancy
Project

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Summary......................................................................................................................................1
Analysis........................................................................................................................................1
Ideas for action.............................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Business is a said to an entity in which individuals work together to make addition to sell
commodities for earning profits (Harris, 2017.). Similarly, business consultancy is termed to a
profession that delivers expert advices for any problem against charging fee. The present report
is based on Dandelions Nursery School that is located at Chamberlayne Road, London, UK. The
report covers information about company, application of appropriate analysis tools along with
some recommendations to solve issues.
MAIN BODY
Summary
Dandelions Nursery School provides education facilities for early growing children
between age of 18 months to 4 years. The school is situated in one of the city of London, UK.
The vision of the school is to deliver high quality education for development of young children.
It is a cooperative nursery school that believes in flourishing children in fun, caring and creative
environment through play.
Analysis
Dandelions Nursery School is currently facing some issues such as non routine work, no
organisational structure, low motivation within staff members and many more. To find the
reasons for the issue, analysis tool are used (Holmes, 2018). Analysis tool are said to frameworks
that breaks a problem into smaller parts to find easier solutions in order to resolve the issues.
These tools are generally used to analyse all the internal and external issues. Various tools for
internal as well as external analysis are as follows:
PEST analysis:
To analyse external environment, PEST analysis is best. Herein, the tool is choose for
discovering, evaluation, arranging as well as tracking macro environmental factors which creates
issues at Dandelions Nursery School. The PEST analysis is as follows:
Political: As Dandelions Nursery School is play institution that is not affected much by
political factors. But when there are some new rules governed by political authorities of UK then
it impacts on great manner on working and operation's of the institute. For example, during
seasonal variations, political parties changes timings of school due to which children either come
early or late and that is the main reason for such issue of no proper timings.
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Economic: The economic factors do not have much impacts on working of Dandelions
Nursery School as is it self managed institution that works on their own rules. But some times,
the potentiality of parents for raising funds may impacts on operational activities. For instance,
when no funds are acquired from outsiders then there are chances in non payment of salary to
staff members and they gets unhappy and unsatisfied for the job due to which mismanagement
issue arises.
Social: There are various social factors that becomes reasons of issues or problems within
Dandelions Nursery School (Turner, 2014). For example, when local population changes, there
will be changes in authorities of organisation too. Changes in demographic preferences for the
education of young children may put pressure on existing manager due to which they leaves the
school and issues like changes within management team arises.
Technological: For Dandelions Nursery School, technology plays limited role only.
Technological factors like making children learn through e book readers and using software for
managing IT systems only can hamper activities of the institution.
SWOT analysis:
Analysing internal environment can only be done with SWOT analysis tool. Herein, the
choice for SWOT analysis is made for developing understanding about situations. It will help in
balancing internal strengths and weaknesses for favourable opportunities as well as threats faced
by Dandelions Nursery School. The SWOT analysis in context to selected institution is as
follows:
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threat
 Have friendly team
that supports
children to become
confident together
with brave
learners.
 History behind
successfully
opening school.
 Managers do
not support
staff members
views and
opinions
(Lewis, 2015).
 No proper
structure and
routine to
follow.
 Management can
involve staff
members views
for execute
activities on time.
 Planning
appropriate
structure to
motivate children
to learn new
 Changes
in
manage
ment.
 Activitie
s that
makes
teachers
confuse.
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 Dissatisfied
and confusing
staff.
things.
Stakeholders analysis
Stakeholders analysis is another tool that identifies system along with potential changes
in order to relate them with interest parties which are stakeholders. Herein, stakeholder analysis
tool is chosen so to assess attitudes of key people in context to Dandelions Nursery School. Te
stakeholders analysis is as follows:
High interest, high powers: These are generally the managers who holds powers of
decision making at Dandelions Nursery School. These people do not prefers to engage others in
decision making as thus, issues occurs at workplace.
High power, Low interest: In context to Dandelions Nursery School, government falls
under such stakeholder types. As government do not get involve in working of school due to
which the school set their timings as per their own wish and that results in issue of late coming
and early going of children.
Low power, low interest: These are those people who neither have interest nor have any
power on activities of school. Staff members of the school are part of such type (Slawinski and
Bansal, 2015.).
Low power, high interest: The child parent have low power but have high interest as
they are highly interested in the education of their children but do not have any power in decision
making of school. Due to this, school managers makes the decisions as per their own views and
that results in mismanagement.
Ideas for action
As per the outcomes of the analysis, Dandelions Nursery School must focus on the
weaknesses that they are facing such as low staff member involvement and no routine or
structure is followed. In order to overcome this, the entity must promote the company so that
they can get effective managers who can manage the staff involvements and routinised activities.
Further, the the company is recommended to involve parents also in the decision making so that
timings issue can be resolve as parents are strict in context to school timings. Other then this,
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when one manager is hired. The school owners can make agreement with them for at least 1 year
so that the issue of changes in manager can be resolved effectively.
CONCLUSION
As per the report, it can be concluded that analysing environment of business consultancy
firm is very important as it helps in identification of pertaining issues. The analysis tools that
appropriately fits in determining the issues are PEST framework for external analysis, SWOT
framework for internal analysis and Stakeholders tool to analyse involvement of internal and
external people playing roles within institution. In next stage, the company can perform activities
such as customer surveys to gain knowledge about perception of customers for the School.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
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Holmes, A., 2018. The Chameleon Consultant: Culturally Intelligent Consultancy: Culturally
Intelligent Consultancy. Routledge.
Lewis, H., 2015. Bids, tenders and proposals: winning business through best practice. Kogan
Page Publishers.
Slawinski, N. and Bansal, P., 2015. Short on time: Intertemporal tensions in business
sustainability. Organization Science. 26(2). pp.531-549.\
Witzel, M., 2015. Management consultancy. Routledge.
Turner, R., 2014. Gower handbook of project management (5th edn.) Farnham: Gower.
Wysocki, R. K., 2014. Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme (7th edn.)
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