Opportunities of Exploring Innovation by Joint-Venture Organisations in the UK

This research aims to investigate the opportunities of exploring innovation by joint-venture organisations to improve quality of life in the UK, with a case study of the impact of globalisation. It outlines the aims and objectives, produces a project management plan, and conducts small-scale research using qualitative and quantitative research methods.

The opportunities of exploring
innovation by the joint- venture
organisations to improve quality
of life in the UK.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Outlines the aims and objectives............................................................................................3
P2 Produce project management plan..........................................................................................4
P3 Work breakdown structure and Gantt chart to provide time-frame and stages for
completion...................................................................................................................................5
P4 small-scale research by applying qualitative and quantitative research methods.................7
P 5 research and data using appropriate tools and techniques.....................................................8
P6 Recommendations................................................................................................................13
P7 Reflection.............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

Topic- To investigate the opportunities of exploring innovation by the joint- venture
organisations to improve quality of life in the UK. A case study of the impact of Globalisation.
INTRODUCTION
Joint venture termed out as key to effective innovation as this bring advancement to
upgrading product and service with respect to technology. It is defined business preparation in
which two or more than two enterprise shares the ownership, expense, return of investment,
governance etc. (Boer and Gertsen, 2017) Therefore, join venture occurs when two businesses
based on two or more countries forms partnership. Additionally, globalisation of business and
firms are growing at fast manner through international joint venture in terms to take the
advancement of opportunity in the world market.
The present research is based on to investigate the opportunities of exploring innovation
by join venture enterprise to improve quality of life in UK. However, study will be based on
business activities of Tesco. It is global leading brand that is engaged in retail services of grocery
items.
Furthermore, study will cover as to outline the aims and objectives on the basis of chosen
topic. Also, creation of project plan will be framed by undertaking required action to accomplish
the project. Lastly, reflection will be conducted in terms to evaluate the success of project and to
determine the usefulness in supporting organisational performance.
TASK 1
P1 Outlines the aims and objectives.
The present research is based on topic as to investigate the opportunities to explore
innovation by joint ventures to improve the quality of life within United Kingdom. Globalisation
of businesses and firms are rapidly enhancing particularly through international joint ventures in
terms to take advancement of opportunities in world market. Therefore, the enhancement in
mergers and joint ventures assist in terms to allowing access to bigger market and this is
associated with various cost advancement (Galbraith and McGowan, 2017).
However, this can be stated that globalisation bring both positive and negative impact on
working of the enterprise. Hence, globalisation enables the enterprise to raise the intensity of
research and development, innovation and capital in their output. Thus, aims and objectives will
be outlined as-:
Aim-

To investigate the opportunities of exploring innovation by the joint- venture
organisations to improve quality of life in the UK. A case study of the impact of Globalisation.
Objectives-
 To identify the impact of globalisation on joint ventures.
 To determine the significance of innovation on join ventures organisations.
 To analyse the affect of joint ventures on firm performance.
 To determine the suggestive measures that enhance innovation by creating join ventures
organisation to gain advancement of low cost.
P2 Produce project management plan.
Project management plan termed out as document that can be used in order to
communicate and detail information relate with research activities. This is use to define each
phase of project. However, project management plan will be inclusive of activities as are-;
Project scope- This is termed out as the part of project planning that is inclusive of the
determining and documenting the list of specific goals, deadlines and ultimate cost (Grayson
and Hodges, 2017). The present research is based on topic as to undertake the opportunities that
explore innovation by creating join ventures organization.
Project cost is considered to be the totals amount of fund which is needed to have proper
accomplishments of the work which have consistency of both direct and indirect cost. These are
the cost which are considered to be any expenditures which is having proper level of estimations
along the Monterey level of obligation which have estimated to be incurred in time of
completion's of the project. The project cost will be around. 200 sterling pound which is being
required t have effective composition of the projects.
Project Time- It is management which have the references to have overall projected level of
management which have maintenance of proper analysing of time period which is being required
to have proper completion of project. There is requirement of 8 weeks to properly work tin
project.
Project Quality is term to be the ability to have the proper performance which makes the
outcome more level of efficient and accurate at respective level (Lee and Trimi, 2018). The
quantity of the project will have the tended purposes in order to meet up the objectivist at certain
level .

Project Communication- the success of projects will have effective communication's as in
effective communication's will have in proper maximization to success and minimization of risk
at effective way. The researcher should have the suitability of purpose to have maintained in
quality.
Project risk are considered to be events will have not occurred as the planned along with
unplanned events which can have consideration over negativism impacts on the project. The
project should have proper identification of events in more successful manner along with
unknown are foreseen. The risk can be such as loss of data, theft and many more.
Project resources are the capitals, financial one, materialism and goods which are required to
have the successful level of execution in order to have effective comparison of the projects. The
resource required are such as work material and cost along with human resources and equipment
to have appropriates completion's of task which are associated (Natalicchio and Albino, 2017).
P3 Work breakdown structure and Gantt chart to provide time-frame and stages for completion.
Work break down structure can be described as breaking of one task into sub parts to complete
the entire project within stipulated period of time. This is the hierarchical process that
decompose the entire project in a manner so that each activity can be completed on time and
issue of delay do not take place. WBS helps in make proper plan for completion of project and
complete it with desire quality. When each activity is subdivided then researcher can allocate
cost or funds to each unit in significant manner and the entire research project can be completed
within allotted budget as well (Zwetsloot and Bezemer, 2017) . If scholar has prepared well
designed WBS then it would be better in analysing progress of each activity in significant
manner. This project will be divided into several sections: first topic will be selected and aim
will be framed. After that data will be collected and research methods will be selected that may
help in answering research questions in significant manner. Once it is done then data analyses is
done and at the end final research outcome are presented.

Gantt chart is the most essential part of research project, it clearly describes schedule of
entire project and show in the vertical lines. It looks like bar chart on which schedule of project
is presented. Start and finish date of the research project can be shown on this Gantt chart easily
and scholar can evaluate the progress (Taylor Buck and While, 2017). Gantt chart shows the
dependency of one task on other , this reflects that how delay in one activity can affect entire
research project hence it is very important for the project manager of researcher that to monitor
progress closely so that issues can be resolved on time.
Week 1 W2 W3 W4 W5 W6 W7
Initiation
Selection of topic
Framing aim and
objectives
Planning
Selecting
research methods
Conducting
literature review

execution
Data analyses
Outcome
representation
Final closure
P4 small-scale research by applying qualitative and quantitative research methods
Research Methodology-
Research philosophy-
This method helps the researcher to get the insight and knowledge by observing the
sources and taking out actual facts from that. This method is considered slightly difficult as
compared to others because this model involves many differences which created difficulties for
the researcher. This model is based on observations on quantifiable data.
Research Design-
This aspect is a plan which is designed generally which answers each question after
conducting research. There are two ways to conduct a research that is qualitative and
quantitative. Various methods of research and strategies are also included in this research which
is linked with the collection and analysis of data. For this report researcher had taken qualitative
method so that new and other areas can be explored which helps to cover all the information
related with the topic (Vindrola-Padros and Fulop, 2017). Answers which are realized with the
help of this research are not conclusive because sometimes researcher has to change his path but
it did not disrupt the direction of fundamental aspects as they are new for the process of research.
Research Approach-
For this report researcher has taken deductive research which helped him to test the
assumptions on the basis of its validity. A approach is deductive when when the hypothesis is
either confirmed or rejected during the whole process. This approach highlights the issues of
migration of labour.
Data Collection-
This process helps in collecting the information from the sources which are available in
order to take out corrective measures and answers to the topic. For that there are two ways one is
to conduct primary method and secondary method. Primary method has been chosen by the

researcher and it is divided into two parts that is qualitative and quantitative. here, questionnaire
is used for gathering data. Qualitative method includes observing feelings, emotions, sounds etc.
behaviours which are non quantifiable. On the other hand, quantitative method includes
mathematical work and calculations.
Sampling-
This aspect states that some selected members in the whole population are taken in order
to conduct the study. It is not possible to approach people directly. If the large area is needed to
be covered then statistical method of sampling is used. There is no choice with the researcher as
size of the population is very large (Zokaei and Hines, 2017). This is the main reason that a part
of population is studied in every research. here, random sampling is chosen and sample size is 30
participants.
Data Analysis-
For the analysis of data either qualitative or quantitative method is taken. Aspects such as
interviews, experiments, focus groups comes under qualitative data. For the analysis of
qualitative data researcher needed to identify the common practices so that they can figure out
the aims and objectives of the research in a systematic way. On the other hand quantitative data
includes numbers, figures and interpretation in order to take out research findings. Researcher
has used thematic data analysis technique.
P 5 research and data using appropriate tools and techniques
Questionnaire
Q-1 Do you think joint venture have positive impact on globalization?
Yes
no
maybe
Q-2 What instrument have effect to these joint arrangements?
Contract agreements
Partnership agreements
Written agreement

Q- 3 Do you think that innovation can be explored through joint venture?
Agree
Disagree
Q-4 Does innovation will help in improving quality of life of people?
Agree
Disagree
Q-5 What is role of innovation through R&D in joint venture?
New product development
High growth
Competitive advantage
Data interpretation
Theme- Joint venture have positive impact on globalization
Q 1) Do you think joint venture have positive impact on
globalization?
respondents
Yes 16
no 8
maybe 6
total 30

Yes
no
maybe
Data interpretation
From the above data it can be interpreted that the joint venture have the positive impacts in the
development of the globalization in UK. The joint venture have helps the country to have the
helps in making the business to grow as faster paces. This also have resulted in creating the level
of productiveness and generate more level of profit on the other hand few have the resulted as
joint venture have resulted in vague objectives along with reconstructiveness in flexibility

Theme- Instrument have effect to these joint arrangements
Q 2) What instrument have effect to these joint
arrangements?
respondents
Contract agreements 12
Partnership agreements 8
Written arrangement 10
total 30
Contract agreements
Partnership agreements
Written arrangement
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
respondents
Data interpretation
From the above data it can be interpreted that joints venture is considered to be the part of the
written aggrievement among the parties. The aggrievement has the written level of all details
along with purposes and profit sharing ratio with losses. Globalisation of businesses and firms
are rapidly enhancing particularly through international joint ventures in terms to take
advancement of opportunities in world market.

Theme- Innovation can be explored through joint venture
Q 3) Do you think that innovation can be
explored through joint venture?
Respondents
Agree 21
Disagree 9
Total 30
Data Interpretation- From the above information it has been realized that 21 out of 30 people
agree to the point that joint venture will bring innovation into the market. whereas 9 disagreed
with it. thus, it is stated that if two companies are working together then there are more chances
that they will be able to bring innovation as they have more availability of resources, knowledge
and power by which they can successfully bring it. the resources are combined and it increases
capability as well as efficiency of company to develop new products.
Theme- Innovation will help in improving quality of life of people
Q 4) Does innovation will help in improving
quality of life of people?
Respondents
Agree 17
Disagree 13
Total 30
Data Interpretation-
According to the above information 17 out of 30 people agree to the point that innovation will
help in improving the quality of life as it will improve the standard of living. On other hand, 13
said disagreed with it. Consumers are the ones who like to keep up with trends and standardized

products of innovation will help them to improve their quality of life. The new products or
services are offered to them to fulfil their needs. In this way their social life is improved.
Theme- Innovation through R&D in joint venture
Q 5) What is role of innovation through R&D
in joint venture?
Respondents
New product development 18
High growth 8
Competitive advantage 4
Total 30
Data Interpretation-
From the information given above it has been interpreted that research and development will
help to develop the product. 18 out of 30 respondents has agreed to this statement. Also, 8 said
that it results in high growth and 4 said that competitive advantage is gained. Therefore, it is
analysed that there is also some scope for other options such as high growth and competitive
advancement. Innovation in joint venture results in new product. Here, advance and different
features are included in it.
P6 Recommendations
There are some recommendation that can be followed :-
 The company can do innovation by merging it with small companies that will help in
developing new products and services.
 They should protect and secure their intellectual property rights so that it is not copied by
other companies

 Moreover, joint ventures can be developed at global level as well which will help in
expanding into other markets and gaining competitive advantage.
P7 Reflection
While working on this project opportunities of exploring innovation by the joint- venture
organisations to improve quality of life in the UK scholar has learnt many things. I got to know
about importance of innovation to business unit. I learnt that how joint venture can help
companies in improving quality. I have also read about various research methods and why each
method is used in different nature of research projects. I realised that if wrong method is used
then it may affect the results and scholar will not be able to get desired outcome. I conducted
literature review that helped me in knowing more about views of other authors on the same topic
and also I realised importance of carrying out literature review in dissertation and research
projects.
I was not that much good in team working but here in this project I had to work with
group of people. Initially it was very difficult for me to develop coordination with the
participants and other team members. But gradually I realised that people can communicate with
each other if they trust on each other. Hence I worked on building friendship with them which
helped me in performing well in this project t hence this study has improved my team working
skill to great extent. But still my technical skills are not that much good. I faced huge problems
when I had to use software to analyses data. I realised that if researcher do not have good
knowledge about software then data analyses can be difficult. I will take action on improving my
technical skill soon. I will join some coaching where I can improve this skill.
My communication skill is very good that has helped me in building strong relationship
with the participants. I convey them their value to this research project and they have supported
me in this project. If I do not have this interaction ability, then I would not be able to raise their
involvement in this project. But I will also work to improve this skill so that I can avoid their
rejections and can get more factual detail about the subject areas. I realised that secondary data
can also help in gaining insight detail about topic. Use of books and Journals enhances
knowledge of scholar and make them able to understand topic well. I realised that my searching
skills are not that much good as it is average. Sometimes I can search relevant information within
less time but sometimes I take too much time to get relevant information. This becomes
problematic for me because I fail to complete my project on time. I need to work on improving

me searching skills so that I can finish the entire work on time every time. I read about Gantt
chart and WBS. This helped me in making proper structure so that I can become able to finish
work on time always.

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Written arrangement
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