Business Consultant Proposal - APPROVED SCHOLARS

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Proposal: Short proposals are often provided to potential clients after initial meetings and before a contract is created and signed. Proposals ensure that clients and consultants are on the same page from the beginning. Additional language is often added later to create a contract. Provide an overview of the issue, background information, objectives of the project, the scope of work, the process you’ll take, timing and credentials of the consultant (you). Make sure you include if you will be acting as an internal or external consultants and why.
Discovery: Once a contract is signed a consultant generally enters a discovery phase. In this phase a consultant will utilize a range of tactics to dive deep into the problems occurring at an organization. Pick three discover strategies you’ll utilize in your discovery process, explain why you are utilizing them, outline the process you will take and how you will implement discover. Create an environmental scan, S.W.O.T. and document review (projected income) to create discovery.
Case for change: Create a “case for change” (sometimes also called the “case for action”). Questions to ask yourself when creating a case for change: What are the top three to five “selling points” for the change? If you were pitching this to your boss, or a family member or friend if it’s a personal change, what argument would you lay out to persuade her or him of the urgency of this change? In short, why do you believe you must you do something rather than do nothing and leave things well enough alone? What happens if the change happens? What happens if it does not? What are the costs either way? What’s the likely investment (in general terms)? What are the risks either way? What will you say when other people likely to be affected by your “Consultant Container” ask you, “Why?”
Change Management Plan: Has a detailed plan for how the change will be implemented. Outlines at least one implementation strategy and addresses action steps for implementation, outlines what steps will take place and how the change will be implemented. Created a calendar of action steps and delegated who will be responsible for implementation. Addressed how the change will be communicated to key stakeholders.
Change Supporters, Change Resistors: Change Supporters are the clinical manager and clinical coordinator, they are both nurses. Change resistor would be the administrator (owner of the company). Addressed and defined two to three supporter(s) and resistor(s), each. Defined how they’d approach the supporting individuals or groups to engage them in helping make the change happen. Explained in detail how they will work to counterbalance the resisting individuals or groups to diminish the impact of their resistance.
Implementation Challenges: The first step in building an implementation plan is to identify “implementation challenges.” The six principal categories of “implementation challenges” are 1. Leadership 2. Increased Workload 3. Employee Morale 4. “Land Mines” (e.g., major changes, hard hit functions, mission-critical tasks, key talent) 5. Phasing in Areas 6. Perceptions and Support of Customers and Major Stakeholders (people who will counterbalance the resistors you identified) Addressed at least two of above the six categories and identified specific implementation challenges. For each implementation challenge, provided a couple of ideas for how they will overcome that implementation challenge.
Measuring Change: Identified at least four measures, two quantitative and two qualitative. For each measure addressed the following: 1) The kind of data they will need to collect for that measure. 2) Who will be collecting the data 3) How the data will be gathered? 4) How often the data will be analyzed and how the data will be presented to senior management.
Conclusion: Summarized the above noted areas in a clear and concise format. Ties up the paper in a nice bow.

This paper should include an abstract and reference section – should include a minimum of 10-12 credible references.