Assessment Task 1 - Your team has been charged with the task of identifying an e-commerce opportunity for Apparel Brands and developing a proposal to put to the board of directors. For example, your team could decide to propose setting up an online business in which customers design their own custom t-shirts.

Your budget for setting up the e-commerce venture is $30,000.

For your proposed e-commerce venture, your team will need to determine:

? Value proposition: What will you offer consumers? What products? What price? What quality? How will the products benefit your customers?

? Who your target market is: What are the characteristics of the people who will buy your products? What do they need or desire?

? How you will gather necessary information for setting up the venture?

? Who you will consult or network with to benefit from others' expertise?

? What steps you will need to take to set up the e-commerce venture? This will range from website design, to ensuring a system for payment, to establishing an online presence through web search engines, etc.

? How you will determine the benefit to Apparel Brands: What is the benefit? Reduced costs? Increased productivity?

? How you will determine cost?

Once you have determined the above requirements, your team will need to plan specific activities to carry out in order to obtain the required information for your proposal. Assign tasks to each team member. Consult with each member of the team to develop individual performance plans.

Assessment Task 2 - Now that your team has completed individual performance plans, your new task is to carry out all the actions contained in your performance plan to enable the team goal of developing an e-commerce venture proposal for presentation to the board of Apparel Brands.

You will need to meet to discuss achievement of individual goals and provide feedback on others' work. You will need to work through and resolve any issues with your team in order to achieve your team goal/s.

Assessment Task 3 - Your manager has asked to meet with you to discuss issues regarding achieving team goals.

1. Consult with your manager (your assessor) to discuss issues and corrective actions.

2. Meet with your team to resolve team performance issues and to implement corrective actions.

3. Write a report to your manager describing the corrective action you have taken to resolve the performance issues. Explain the rationale behind your actions.

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