Impact of Digital Technology to Support Management of Educ8 Group

This report assesses the impact of digital technology on the management of Educ8 Group. It begins by outlining the aims and objectives of digital technology within the company, emphasizing its role in enhancing operational efficiency and fostering growth. A detailed project management plan is presented, encompassing cost, scope, time, quality, communication, risk, and resource management. The report includes a work breakdown structure and a Gantt chart to illustrate project timelines and task allocation. The research methodology involves both quantitative and qualitative approaches, utilizing questionnaires and data analysis to gather insights into the company's digital technology usage. The findings are analyzed using appropriate tools and techniques, leading to recommendations for data analysis and valid conclusions. The report also includes reflection on the research process and references to support the findings and recommendations.

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Table of Contents
Title:Impact of digital technology to support management of Educ8 group...................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
LO1.............................................................................................................................................1
P1. Aims and objectives of digital technology at Educ8 Group.................................................1
P2. Project management plan to cover the aspects of cost, scope, time, quality,
communication, risk and resources.............................................................................................2
P3. Work break down structure and Gantt Chart........................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
LO2.............................................................................................................................................6
P4. Small scale quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to gain the project aims
and objectives..............................................................................................................................6
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................10
LO3...........................................................................................................................................10
P5. Analysis of research and data using appropriate tools and techniques...............................10
P6. Recommendation for data analysis and the valid conclusion.............................................12
Task 4.............................................................................................................................................13
LO4...........................................................................................................................................13
Reflection on the research process............................................................................................13
References......................................................................................................................................15

Title:Impact of digital technology to support management of Educ8 group
TASK 1
LO1
P1. Aims and objectives of digital technology at Educ8 Group
Digital technology has played a major role in the improvement of the overall management and
the functioning of the company. Management is the blood and soul of an organisation. The
management will help the company to device the business plans and the future strategy. With the
help of digital technology, the management of the organisational operations will be more
convenient and timely and will be more accurate and precise (Matthews and Ross, 2014). The
digital technology covers the systems and electronic network as the resources. This will help the
company to generate more profit and revenue in the organisation. Also, it promotes the growth of
the company. Digital tool can be boon to small business like Educ8 group and all other firms like
this. By small business, if they use the advanced digital technology, they can raise their revenue,
growth, export etc. in the same way of big enterprises. Nowadays, the small businesses are using
the same technology tools and transforming their business to the digital era. In a more digitalised
world, consumer is more expected to work through online channels. While this happens most of
the time happen with large businesses, but it could also happen with small businesses like Educ8
Group, which might have not had engaged to reach the new, exciting customers. Technology
infrastructure affects culture, relationship and skilfulness of your business. It also affects the
trade advantage and confidential subject matter of your company. Foremost importance of
technology is the communication with the customers.
In today’s rapid world, these are necessary to interact with customers in very quick way
(Clark and Creswell, 2014). Fast shipment allows the business make large geographical area.
Further, quick response to the customer and also use of the latest technology create business
benefits because better communication makes a strong public image of the company. Firstly,
there is a big difficulty to make a business popular in their areas. But on the digital world, it is
very easy to promote your company in very effective way. To make your company famous in
social world, you have the best option of social media marketing to let everyone know about
your company. Digital technology also helps small business to improve its efficiency of
operation. The cash flow needs and sphere valuable resources such as physical space and time
along with the inventory management technology. Most business in era are concerned about the
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security threats and mischief's practised in the market. Technology helps in protecting their
financial data, important executive documents, property information etc. that leads to
competitive advantage of the company in the market. Technology also helps to research about
new opportunity that will come in the market and step ahead to its competition (Selwyn , 2014).
The internet allows the business virtually travel in the new market that raise the demand of the
company and allows selling the product and services abroad. That all make great impact for
Educ8 group if they follow the step of digital technology.
 Aim and Objectives
 Aim: Impact of digital technology to support management of Educ8 group
 Objectives:
 To understand the features and details of digital technology.
 To understand that how digital technology helps in the growth and innovations at Educ8
group (Jenssen and et.al 2016).
 To identify the relation between the use of digital technology and growth of innovation
at Educ8 group.
 To provide appropriate recommendations and implementation techniques to increase the
innovation and growth of Educ8 Group.
P2. Project management plan to cover the aspects of cost, scope, time, quality, communication,
risk and resources.
On the basis of the planned activities and the researches done, the experts or the
management of Educ8 Group will divide their functions and activities in a very detailed,
systematic and synchronised way (Selwyn and Facer, 2014). The work or the overall functioning
of the business firm will be divided in smaller time frames on each stage of the progress. Various
tasks had been taken into consideration to accomplish and fulfil them in a very systematic and
timely manner. Some factors that will be identified and applied in the business of Educ8 Group
will be:
Cost: According to the available budget to Educ8 Group, the company has £12000 as the
resource or the capital in hand. Thus, this cost has been required to carry out the essential and
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important functionalities of the company. Besides this, it will also help the company to decide
and determine its future policies.
Risk: From the research, it can be identified that the company has limited time and resources.
This constraint can affect their overall functionality to a greater extent. Besides this, the company
can face internal as well as external risks that can affect the performance of Educ8 Group.
Besides this, many times, the researcher or the management personnel's at the company cannot
understand the queries filed by the consumers, as they found it to be too engaging. Providing the
correct or the relevant details about the risk factors can't be possible in this case.
Scope: From the research, it can be identified that the scope or the extent to implement the
digital technology can improved which contribute to enhance the work quality and productivity
of the company. It also increases the chances of better revenue generation for the company which
will help Educ8 Group to perform well in the market. Also, the scope of innovation will play a
very crucial and important role in the growth of the company in a very systematic way.
Resources: The extensive and detailed research will help the company to achieve its goals and
market oriented targets in an easy and efficient way (Levine, Bae and Hirsch, 2013). The primary
as well as the secondary resources that will be identified in the research process will help the
company to develop an effective and efficient work process at Educ8 Group. It will also help the
company to manage the available resources along with time and workforce in a very precise and
systematic way to gain better profitability.
Quality: It is one of the important parameter that has been taken into consideration by
the researchers or the experts in the management of the company or the organisation. The
high-quality factor will help the company to build a better customer goodwill and provide
them with the better satisfaction level. With the information derived by the researchers,
Educ8 Group will put its resources and efforts to meet the targeted goals in efficient and
systematic way. It is an important element to achieve the goals and objectives of the
company.
P3. Work break down structure and Gantt Chart
Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors
Research Project Mon 12/18/17
Planning Wed 12/20/17
Finding of the topic 3 days Thu 12/21/17 Mon 12/25/17
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Statements of problems 1 day Thu 12/21/17 Thu 12/21/17 1
Time frame and
allocation of resources 2 days Fri 12/22/17 Mon 12/25/17 2
Implementation Fri 12/22/17
Literature review 5 days Sat 12/23/17 Thu 12/28/17 3
Selection of correct
research methodologies 1 day Sun 12/24/17 Sun 12/24/17 4
Data analysis and
interpretation 2 days Sat 12/23/17 Mon 12/25/17 5
Evaluation of results and
outcomes 2 days Sat 12/23/17 Mon 12/25/17 5
Project closer
Giving conclusion and
recommendation 1 day Wed 12/27/17 Wed 12/27/17 6
Results of documentation 1 day Thu 12/28/17 Thu 12/28/17 7
Submission of report 1 day Sat 12/30/17 Sat 12/30/17 8
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Illustration 1: Gantt Chart

Illustration 2: Work break down Structure
TASK 2
LO2
P4. Small scale quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to gain the project aims and
objectives.
To determine the capability and the work efficiency of the company as well as its
employees, the experts or the researchers at Educ8 Group will take the approach of qualitative
and quantitative analysis methodologies. This is done, in fact to identify and determine the
various types of essential data's and to make the appropriate and significant measures and
improvements, so that the company can run in a very systematic manner and achieve its targeted
goals that are been identified and determined by the company (Levine, Bae and Hirsch, 2013).
The qualitative and quantitative analysis helps the company to get a better understanding of the
market trends and customers demands and then to decide the appropriate and essential changes
or improvement measures for the Educ8 group. In order to gain the qualitative analysis, the
manager or the expert researchers will refer to various articles, journals, online books, news etc.
For the quantitative analysis, various survey, graphs and tables will be refereed. In this research,
we have taken the primary data for which a questionnaire is been prepared to collect the
authentic and relevant information. The questionnaire prepared is as following:
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Questionnaire
Name:
Age:
Gender:
1. On average, do you use you computer under natural lightning or Artificial Ligtning?
 Artificial Lighting
 Natural Lighting
2. What internet access your company uses?
 DSL over telephone line
 Cable Modem
 Wireless connection
 Satellite
 Fibre optics
 Wi-fi
3. Did your business have a website for reference?
 Yes
 No (Please move to Question 5)
4. Which strategy do you used to direct the internet traffic to your website?
 Paid search
 Print Advertising
 Social media
 Other media options
 None of the above
5. Did your business uses internet for providing services?
 Yes
 No
Theme 1: Educ8 Group using internet website
On average, do you use you computer under
natural lightning or Artificial Lighting?
Frequency
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Artificial Lighting 25
Natural Lighting 5
Interpretation: From the above graph we can conclude that 25 people work under Artificial
lighting while 5 people work in natural lighting conditions. This depicts the work condition of
the employee at Educ8 Group.
Theme 2: Internet facility used by Educ8 Group
What internet access your company uses Frequency
DSL over telephone line 15
Cable Modem 5
Wireless connection 2
Satellite 1
Fibre optics 1
Wi-fi 1
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25
5 Artificial
Lighting
Natural
Lighting
DSL over
telephone line
Cable Modem
Wireless
connection
Satellite
Fibre optics Wi-fi

Interpretation: From the graph we can say that 15 people uses DSL over telephone line. 5
people uses the cable modem. 2 people uses the wireless connection. While the satellite, fibre
optics and Wi-fi is used by three individuals each.
Theme 3: Usage of business website
Did your business have a website for
reference
Frequency
Yes 22
No 8
Interpretation: From the above graph we can say that 22 people uses the website for businesses
while only 8 people don't use it for business purposes.
Theme 4: Strategy for traffic transfer on website
Which strategy do you used to direct the
internet traffic to your website
Frequency
Paid search 5
Print Advertising 9
Social media 12
Other media options 1
None of the above 1
9
Yes
No

Interpretation: From the above graph we came to know that 5 people uses the paid search to
transfer the traffic. 9 people uses print media approach. Social media platform is been used by 12
people while 1-1 individual uses either other medium or no medium to transfer the traffic.
Theme 5: Using internet for services
Did your business uses internet for
providing services
Frequency
Yes 23
No 7
Interpretation: From the graph above we can say that about 23 people uses internet to provide
their business services while 7 people don't use it for business purposes.
TASK 3
LO3
P5. Analysis of research and data using appropriate tools and techniques
The research of the digital technology determines effective results to create a better
market growth and scope of innovation for the Educ8 Group. It is a very essential and important
process as it ensures that the essential information is appropriately derived from the research
process and look after the efficient implementation of different tools and techniques. It includes
the various aspects:
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Paid search
Print Advertising
Social media
Other media options
None of the above
Yes
No