In addition to being fiscally sound, cost neutral, or revenue producing, a new program/major change must fit with the organization’s philosophy, vision, mission, and strategic plan. Describe with specific examples how your project fits in with your institution’s philosophy, vision, mission, and strategic plan

In addition to being fiscally sound, cost neutral, or revenue producing, a new program/major change must fit with the organization’s philosophy, vision, mission, and strategic plan. Describe with specific examples how your project fits in with your institution’s philosophy, vision, mission, and strategic plan

In addition to being fiscally sound, cost neutral, or revenue producing, a new program/major change must fit with the organization’s philosophy, vision, mission, and strategic plan. Describe with specific examples how your project fits in with your institution’s philosophy, vision, mission, and strategic plan

Business Plan Assignment

            Employee staffing and payment systems have been major issues in the healthcare industry as they affect the entire operation cost. While all non-profit healthcare institutions strive to offer quality healthcare services, they are cautious about the amount they spend on the process. Poor staffing strategies have made various healthcare organizations bankrupt or employ qualified employees who they cannot pay effectively (Schoenfelder et al., 2020). These amount to poor financial decisions that affect an organization’s normal operations. The purpose of this assignment is to develop a business plan on a cost-effective business plan that TN can apply to meet the desired outcome.

BUY A CUSTOM- PAPER HERE ON; In addition to being fiscally sound, cost neutral, or revenue producing, a new program/major change must fit with the organization’s philosophy, vision, mission, and strategic plan. Describe with specific examples how your project fits in with your institution’s philosophy, vision, mission, and strategic plan

            This business plan relies on the PICOT question: Bachelor-prepared nurses working on the behavioral health unit (P), will be provided flexible scheduling and growth in their professional development (I), as opposed to not having flexible schedules and professional development available (C), this will retain 80% of our current bachelors prepared staff (O) within the next 8 months (T).

            The purpose of the business plan is to develop a flexible scheduling program that aligns with professional demands. The program aims to develop value-based reimbursement at Trinity Health (TH) Ann Arbor in Michigan. This program will be targeting Bachelor prepared nurses for the BH unit working at the hospital. The business plan will help execute the above PICOT question and guide through the planning phase.

            A business plan needs to be created based on the missions and visions of an organization. The alignment of the project plan to the desired mission and vision of the hospital will define the new business being created and how it would affect society positively (Schoenfelder et al., 2020). This business plan will include the purpose of the project, evidence supporting the project, the desired outcome, and marketing and financial analysis. Again, it will show how it blends with the mission and vision of the organization. Budget needs, cost analysis, and break-even analysis would also be included.

            Addressing the flexibility of schedules among nurses would reduce nurse fatigue and improve the nurse output in the healthcare facility. Issues of high nurse workloads have an impact on both patients and nurses at the facility (Schoenfelder et al., 2020). Therefore, improving the staff schedules at the clinic would be significant in increasing the service delivery at the clinic. By presenting a practical business plan to the management and decision-makers at the clinic, it would get approval for other plans.

Business Plan Proposal

            Nurse staffing affects employee output and patient safety. However, effective nurse staffing procedures would be significant in solving nurse staffing issues. Nurse workload significantly impacts the successful achievement of the desired outcome in any healthcare center (Schoenfelder et al., 2020). By implementing mixed payers at the facility will develop a value-based payment system where all professionals are paid for their time at the facility (Aydas et al., 2021). The project will take eight months at the end of the period, and the outcome we hope to see would be measured through various measures within the facility.

Cover Letter

Name

Address

October 10, 2022

Owen, CNO

Trinity Health (TH) Ann Arbor

Michigan

Address of receiver

Dear Owen.

 

            It was great spending time with you and discuss various issues affecting employees at TH hospital. During our last meeting, we understood that staff scheduling is a factor that affects the cost and satisfaction of employees. Therefore, by improving staff scheduling, programs will be able to improve employee satisfaction and reduce heavy nurse workloads that affect their output negatively. I have spent time developing a business plan on this issue and how the project could benefit the organization.

            By implementing the mixed payer system, we will be able to improve staff satisfaction, reduce their workload and reduce the cost of employment. Hiring new staff might increase the cost of running the hospital, and we could reduce costs by using the mixed-payer system. It has proved that poor scheduling of staff activities affects the working hours, further affecting the output of employees.

            I am certain that the cost of a new project is reasonable and would greatly impact the entire cost of operating the hospital. Employees would welcome the project because it reduces their workloads and increases their earnings on the additional working hours at the facility. Besides, it would increase the overall scheduling plans of nurses and increase the quality of service delivery at the facility. I hope that by you approving this plan for implementation, we will be able to meet the desired outcome at the facility.

Sincerely,

Name

Detailed Abstract

            Imagine working in a hospital without flexible hours for nurses and expecting nurses to give their best in delivering quality service to customers. How would these nurses have the ability to feel satisfied with their jobs and ensure that they always give the best services to the customers? These are the major issues that the business plans are aiming to solve and ensure that the sacrifice of the healthcare workers is valued and reimbursed adequately. Burnout is a form of exhaustion caused by excess and prolonged stress. Healthcare systems are driving many healthcare workers to burnout by having poor staff duty scheduling. The increased cases of burnout come from the many healthcare duties that limit healthcare workers from meeting their social or other parts of life (Marques-Pinto et al., 2018). Thus, these healthcare workers are at a high risk of developing mental health challenges causing them to resign from active healthcare service. Again, healthcare workers function in distressful environments that strain their emotional, physical, and psychological well-being. Increased cases of burnout limit patients from receiving the desired quality of care. By having a flexible staff schedule, nurses can plan their time and attend to other social life issues that might affect their output in the facility.

            Having a fixed nurse schedule might be effective for the clinic as they might feel like optimizing their human resources. However, they might be adamant about the great danger of having fixed nurse schedules. For instance, the fixed nurse schedule is the main cause of nurse burnout and fatigue. Burnout is the major cause of poor nurse healthcare output (Peyton et al., 2019). In addition, Peyton et al. (2019) pointed out the link between low staff engagement or burnout and worse patient satisfaction, poor health outcomes, and higher expense. High cases of employees resigning from healthcare imply that the workforce is declining, hindering service delivery quality. Nurse burnout is a concern to patients, employers, and nurses. While nurses risk developing the depressive disorder and other mental issues, employers or institutions would record a decreased quality of care that can affect their reputation. On the other hand, nurse burnout directly impacts patient health. However, these negative issues that affect employees adversely could be solved by increasing flexibility on nurse schedules.

            The project is scheduled to take eight months. During this time, the human resource department will change the nurse schedules to gain the desired flexibility. The most effective way to solve this would be by reducing the working hours on shifts. Variables such as acuity, number of admissions, discharges, transfers and staff skill level mix, physical space, and the availability of technical support or other resources should be taken into consideration when changing staff schedules (Hooshangi-Tabrizi et al., 2020). At a nurse-to-patient ratio of 1:4, each nurse should work eight hours a shift for a maximum. This change will show better outcomes for patient care, staff satisfaction, and cost savings in all areas. At the end of eight months of practicing this policy, the nurses will be interviewed to see how flexible nurse schedules impacted them in completing their assigned activities.

            A financial plan would not be of much significance in this project because no major budgets have been involved. The changing of the scheduling activities does not require any external supply that might cost the hospital a significant amount of money. The schedules or nurses are already in place at the hospital, except that they do not have an effect on the improvement of quality and cost savings at the hospital. This implies that the current scheduling plan of nurses leads to more wastage that could be prevented by installing flexible nurse schedule plans. Suppose this proposal does not work in improving and making the nurse schedules flexible, it could result in a significant budget that would be used to fund activities needed to increase the flexibility of the nurse schedules. However, on small-scale activities, I do not feel the need to develop a budget or ask for external financial assistance from other financial institutions. The internal stakeholders, such as nurse managers, HR, and external stakeholders such as patients, would feel the financial freedom brought by this project.

            This project aligns with the mission and vision of Trinity Health (TH) Ann Arbor. The organization’s mission is to serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within the community. This project is focused on improving the working hours of employees, which would have a significant effect on service delivery. Implementing this project will increase the flexibility of the nurses’ schedules allowing them to develop other facets of social life (Böðvarsdóttir et al., 2022). It is important to have a staff that is fit to serve and drive the organization in the desired direction. However, this objective is met by investing in the employees. This project allows Trinity Health to invest in the employees’ social well-being, which paves the way for better outcomes.

            Quality is the level at which healthcare services increase the consistency of achieving the desired healthcare outcome. The quality concerns that this business plan will address is cost, safety, healthcare access, and improved patient outcome. Achieving quality care and patient safety emanates from effective communication platform development among nursing professionals. The employees need to expect the proposed change and work towards meeting the newly designed change goals at the institution (Marques-Pinto et al., 2018). Learning these changes will be important in comprehending the need to incorporate nurses’ skills and leadership knowledge as it affects many operations that affect the quality-of-care delivery. This essential also points to the nurse leader’s role in managing professionals and leading nurses to achieve the desired quality in the health care delivery system. Achieving quality in healthcare remains a core principle in nursing that equips nurses to always align with the measures that can lead to a positive change in patients.

Conclusion

            In conclusion, this business plan acts as an itinerary for a long journey to quality improvement at Trinity Health (TH). Various challenges might occur in the implementation stage, but mitigation of these challenges would be a new dawn for TH. This business plan incorporates the financial aspect, which is an important and major area of concern at the clinic. Budgets are important in any healthcare center as they enable the hospital to stay on the financial plan. By proposing this project to the stakeholders, they will have time to evaluate it and certify its implementation. This is because of the benefits and changes it would have at the clinic.

Business Plan Worksheet

PROJECT DEVELOPER:  Name

PROJECT TITLE: Increasing flexibility of staff scheduling at Trinity Health.

PICOT QUESTION: Bachelor prepared nurses working on the behavioral health unit (P), will be provided flexible scheduling, and growth in their professional development (I), as opposed to not having flexible schedules, and professional development available (C), this will retain 80% of our current bachelors prepared staff (O) within the next 8 months (T).

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Addressing the flexibility of schedules among nurses would reduce nurse fatigue and improve the nurse output in the healthcare facility. Issues of high nurse workloads have an impact on both patients and nurses at the facility (Schoenfelder et al., 2020). Therefore, improving the staff schedules at the clinic would be significant in increasing the service delivery at the clinic. By presenting a practical business plan to the management and decision-makers at the clinic, it would get approval for other plans.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

• Complete interview prior to project starting
• Review staff schedule
• Revise the schedules to 8 hours per shift
• Measure Outcome

IMPLICATIONS FOR ORGANIZATIONAL MISSION

• Its cost effective
• Improves quality
• Improves employee wellbeing
• Enhance job satisfaction

IMPLICATIONS FOR STAKEHOLDERS

• Reduce staff burnout
• No additional cost of supplies

MARKET ANALYSIS:

• Target population: Bachelor prepared nurses for the BH unit
• Market size:
• Payer considerations:
• Competitive factors: Other area hospitals that may attract staff who are burned out.
• Projected volumes: N/A

OPERATIONS:  potential impact on clinical and service quality by improving nurse workloads that can improve patient outcomes

MARKETING PLAN

• Staff emailing

INSTITUTIONAL BRAND IMPACT:

FINANCIAL ANALYSIS:

• Break – even analysis and Cost/benefit ratio

REQUIREMENTS FOR PROJECT

• Implementation plan
• Leadership approval
• Staff engagement

FEASIBILITY:

SWOT ANALYSIS  

Strengths ·         Effective administrative structure. ·         Healthy working environment. ·         Reintroduce intensive training program for bachelor prepared nurses in behavioral health, will help retain nurses ·         Focus on nursing and retention.	Weaknesses ·         Shortage of bachelor prepared nurses specialized in behavioral health. ·         Limited autonomy is given to bachelor prepared nurses in the behavioral health unit. ·         Inadequate staff motivation programs.
Opportunities ·         Increase wages and overtime pay for bachelor prepared nurses. ·         Increase nurses’ autonomy. ·         Offering behavioral health certification	Threats ·         Neighboring hospitals have competitive salaries and offer nurses flexible working schedules. ·         Patient driven away form the hospital due to unsafe care due to staff turnover – this equals loss of revenue.

References

Aydas, O. T., Ross, A. D., Scanlon, M. C., & Aydas, B. (2021). New results on integrated nurse staffing and scheduling: The medium-term context for intensive care units. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 72(12), 2631-2648. https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2020.1806742

Böðvarsdóttir, E. B., Bagger, N. C. F., Høffner, L. E., & Stidsen, T. J. (2022). A flexible mixed integer programming-based system for real-world nurse rostering. Journal of Scheduling, 25(1), 59-88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10951-021-00705-7

Hooshangi-Tabrizi, P., Contreras, I., Bhuiyan, N., & Batist, G. (2020). Improving patient-care services at an oncology clinic using a flexible and adaptive scheduling procedure. Expert Systems with Applications, 150, 113267. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113267

Marques-Pinto, A., Jesus, É. H., Mendes, A. M. O. C., Fronteira, I., & Roberto, M. S. (2018). Nurses intention to leave the organization: a mediation study of professional burnout and engagement. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 21. https://doi.org/10.1017/sjp.2018.30

Peyton, T., Zigarmi, D., & Fowler, S. N. (2019, January 1). Examining the relationship between leader’s power use, followers’ motivational outlooks, and follower work intentions. Frontiers. Retrieved from, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02620/full.

Schoenfelder, J., Bretthauer, K. M., Wright, P. D., & Coe, E. (2020). Nurse scheduling with quick-response methods: Improving hospital performance, nurse workload, and patient experience. European Journal of Operational Research, 283(1), 390-403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2019.10.047

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In addition to being fiscally sound, cost neutral, or revenue producing, a new program/major change must fit with the organization’s philosophy, vision, mission, and strategic plan. Describe with specific examples how your project fits in with your institution’s philosophy, vision, mission, and strategic plan.
Drawing upon your knowledge of various change theories and in particular the McKinsey Influence Model, how will you go about engaging stakeholders to adopt your proposal for change?

Business Plan Assignment

Guidelines with Scoring Rubric

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is to develop a business plan for a quality improvement project, program, or service related to an area of student interest within the selected healthcare organization.

Total Points Possible:  200

I. Requirements:

1. Address all components of the business plan as outlined in Preparing the Paper.
2. Use the Business Plan Worksheet at least weekly to collect information necessary for writing the plan. It can be downloaded from the assignment page. You will be required to submit this completed document with your assignment.
3. This paper will be graded on quality and completeness of information, accuracy of any required calculations, use of citations, use of standard English grammar, sentence structure, and organization based on the required components.
4. Create this assignment using Microsoft Word, which is the required format for all Chamberlain documents. You can tell that the document is saved as an MS Word document because it will end in .docx.
5. Use of Turn It In is used for this assignment and is part of the submission into the assignment portal.
6. Submit the final paper Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT. Any questions about this paper may be discussed in the weekly Q & A forum or reach out to faculty.
7. The length of the paper is to be no greater than seven pages excluding the appendices, title page, and reference page. Your business plan worksheet should be included in the appendices section.
8. APA format, using the most current edition, is required in this assignment, including a title page and a reference page. Use headings for the sections of the paper according to APA format. Remember that the introduction does not require a heading and no running heads are used. Times New Roman Font- 12-point and one-inch margins on all sides of page are required format. See the most current edition of the APA manual for details of formatting. You may also refer to Guidelines for Writing Professional Papers found in the Student Resources Center.
9. A complete paper will contain all components outlined under Preparing the Paper.

II. Preparing the paper

A business plan is a detailed plan for a proposed program, project, or service.

The following outline should be used with level I and II headings as required. A template for the cover letter is provided below. Remember, there is no heading used for the introduction section.

1. Introduction/Overview
   1. Purpose of assignment
   2. PICOT
   3. Purpose of business plan
   4. What will be included
2. Business Plan Proposal
   1. Cover letter
   2. Executive Summary

• Detailed Abstract
  1. Expanded description of project
     1. Issue/problem defined
     2. Supportive evidence for the project

• Expected outcomes and timeline

1. Details of the project plan
2. Market analysis
   1. SWOT
   2. Fit with organizational mission
   3. Fit with current service
3. Marketing and financial plans
   1. Marketing plan strategies (2)
   2. Financial analysis
      1. Financial Plan (including budgetary needs)
      2. Financial impact on stakeholders
      3. Break-even and/or cost-benefit analysis results
   3. Appendices (documents referred to in the plan)
      1. SWOT analysis
      2. Financials
         1. Budget
         2. Break-even analysis

• Cost-benefit analysis

1. Graphs/charts
2. Business Plan Worksheet

1. Conclusion
   1. Summary of what was covered in the assignment
   2. Strengths and weaknesses of the plan
   3. Approach for approval

1. Clearly introduce your business-plan assignment in the Introduction This should be no longer that one paragraph. Include the purpose of your assignment, PICOT as basis and purpose for the business plan; and what will be covered in the assignment.
2. Include a clearly articulated cover letter written in business letter format, active voice and exactly as it would be read by leadership. Include overview of issue, proposed solution, and action request. There should be no other content on this page except for the business letter. The template to use is as follows:

Cover Letter

Your name

Your address

Date

Name of receiver

Address of receiver

Dear Mr/Ms/Dr. name

In the business letter one paragraph would be an overview the issue, its impact, and solution. Give enough information so they know what you are doing. Do not need references in letter.

Another paragraph would engage the reader to take action such as leaving your phone number and letting the person know that if they have questions to please each out to you.

Or thanking them for reading and tell them you look forward to hearing from them.

Sincerely,

Your name

3. Present a captivating executive summary that is interesting and captures the interest of leadership and draws them in to read further. Content includes (1) a description of the proposed project, program, or service, (2) why it is being proposed, and (3) what outcomes are most likely to occur as a result.
4. Detailed Abstract expands the executive summary. Use detailed outline above to ensure adequate inclusion of all elements.
5. Appendices should include any financial tables, charts, or graphs, or other supporting documents referred to in the detailed abstract. The business plan worksheet should be included in the appendices.
6. Conclusion for the paper includes an overview of what was covered in the paper, strengths and weaknesses of the plan, and plan for seeking proposal approval.
7. Note: After submitting your assignment, please upload your completed executive summary into the Week 8 designated Discussion to share with your peers.

Category	Points	Description
Introduction	20	Purpose of assignment; purpose of business plan; PICOT clearly stated; what will be included in the paper
Proposal	40	Cover letter in business letter format engages reader with brief overview of issue and solution and engages reader to take action. Executive summary describes project, its purpose, outcomes, marketing, and financial summary.
Detailed Abstract	75	Expand description of project purpose, issue/problem defined; supportive evidence for project; expected outcomes and timeline;  marketing/needs analyses and plans; fit with mission of organization; fit with current services; financial plan including budgetary needs;  financial impact on stakeholders; break-even analysis and cost/benefit analysis results
Appendices	15	Business plan worksheet; budget; break-even analysis; other charts, tables, referred to in plan
Conclusion	25	Concluding statements that include what was covered in the assignment; strengths and weaknesses of the plan; and strategies for seeking approval
Paper formatting requirements	15	Text, title page, headings, and references are consistent with APA format; heading labels consistent with paper requirements; Ideas and information from other sources are cited correctly; page length within seven-page limit
Writing conventions	10	Rules of grammar, word usage, spelling, and punctuation are followed
Total	200	A quality assignment will meet or exceed all of the above requirements.

Grading Rubric

Assignment Criteria	Exceptional Outstanding or highest level of performance (100%)	Above Average Very good or high level of performance (88%)	Average Minimum level of performance (80%)	Below Average Needs improvement   (50%)	Failing Poor performance     (0%)
Content Possible Points = 200 Points
Introduction	20 Points	18 Points	16 Points	10 Points	0
	All components of introduction are clearly and specifically articulated.   1.     Purpose of assignment 2.    Purpose of business plan 3.    PICOT clearly stated 4.    What will be included in the paper	Three of four components of   introduction are clearly and specifically articulated.   1.    Purpose of assignment 2.    Purpose of business plan 3.    PICOT clearly stated 4.    What will be included in the paper	Two of four components of introduction are clearly and specifically articulated.   1.    Purpose of assignment 2.    Purpose of business plan 3.    PICOT clearly stated 4.    What will be included in the paper	Only one component of introduction is clearly and specifically articulated.     1.    Purpose of assignment 2.    Purpose of business plan 3.    PICOT clearly stated 4.    What will be included in the paper	No component specifically addressed, or section is missing   1.    Purpose of assignment 2.    Purpose of business plan 3.    PICOT clearly stated 4.    What will be included in the paper
Proposal Cover Letter and Executive Summary	15 Points	13 Points	12 Points	8 Points	0 Points
	Cover Letter:   All components of cover letter are clearly and accurately presented.   1.    Cover letter in business letter format 2.    Brief overview of issue and solution 3.    Engages reader to act	Cover Letter:   Two of three components of cover letter are clearly and accurately presented.   1.    Cover letter in business letter format 2.    Brief overview of issue and solution 3.    Engages reader to act	Cover Letter:   One of three components of cover letter are clearly and accurately presented.   1.    Cover letter in business letter format 2.    Brief overview of issue and solution 3.    Engages reader to act	Cover Letter: All components of cover letter are generally presented 1.    Cover letter in business letter format 2.    Brief overview of issue and solution 3.    Engages reader to act	Cover Letter: No components of cover letter are present 1.    Cover letter in business letter format 2.    Brief overview of issue and solution 3.    Engages reader to act
	25 Points	22 Points	20 Points	12 Points	0 Points
	Executive Summary:   All components of executive summary are clearly and accurately presented. 1.    Executive summary engages reader’s interest in project. 2.    Provides summary of project a.    purpose b.    outcomes c.     marketing and financial summaries.	Executive Summary:   Three of four components of executive summary are clearly and accurately presented. 1.    Executive summary engages reader’s interest in project. 2.    Provides summary of project a.    purpose b.    outcomes c.     marketing and financial summaries.	Executive Summary:   Two of four components of executive summary are clearly and accurately presented. 1.    Executive summary engages reader’s interest in project. 2.    Provides summary of project a.    purpose b.    outcomes c.     marketing and financial summaries.	Executive Summary:   Only one component of executive summary is clearly and accurately presented 1.    Executive summary engages reader’s interest in project. 2.    Provides summary of project a.    purpose b.    outcomes c.     marketing and financial summaries.	Executive Summary:   All components are generally addressed, or section is missing 1.    Executive summary engages reader’s interest in project. 2.    Provides summary of project a.    purpose b.    outcomes c.     marketing and financial summaries.
Detailed Abstract Full description of project proposal	75 Points	66 Points	60 Points	38 Points	0 Points
	All components are clearly and completely articulated. 1.    Expand description of project purpose 2.    Issue/problem defined 3.    Supportive evidence for project 4.    Expected outcomes from project and timeline 5.    Marketing/needs analyses and plans included 6.    Fit with mission of organization 7.    Fit with current services 8.    Financial plan including budgetary needs 9.    Financial impact on stakeholders 10.  Break-even and Cost/benefit analysis results	8 to 9 components are clearly and completely articulated. 1.    Expand description of project purpose 2.    Issue/problem defined 3.    Supportive evidence for project 4.    Expected outcomes from project and timeline 5.    Marketing/needs analyses and plans included 6.    Fit with mission of organization 7.    Fit with current services 8.    Financial plan including budgetary needs 9.    Financial impact on stakeholders 10.  Break-even and Cost/benefit analysis results	6 to 7 components are clearly and completely articulated. 1.    Expand description of project purpose 2.    Issue/problem defined 3.    Supportive evidence for project 4.    Expected outcomes from project and timeline 5.    Marketing/needs analyses and plans included 6.    Fit with mission of organization 7.    Fit with current services 8.    Financial plan including budgetary needs 9.    Financial impact on stakeholders 10.  Break-even and Cost/benefit analysis results	5 or less components are clearly and completely articulated. 1.    Expand description of project purpose 2.    Issue/problem defined 3.    Supportive evidence for project 4.    Expected outcomes from project and timeline 5.    Marketing/needs analyses and plans included 6.    Fit with mission of organization 7.    Fit with current services 8.    Financial plan including budgetary needs 9.    Financial impact on stakeholders 10.  Break-even and Cost/benefit analysis results	All components are generally addressed, or section is missing 1.    Expand description of project purpose 2.    Issue/problem defined 3.    Supportive evidence for project 4.    Expected outcomes from project and timeline 5.    Marketing/needs analyses and plans included 6.    Fit with mission of organization 7.    Fit with current services 8.    Financial plan including budgetary needs 9.    Financial impact on stakeholders 10.  Break-even and Cost/benefit analysis results
Appendices	15 Points	13 Points	12 Points	8 Points	0 Points
	All required supporting documents are included and accurately presented. Required: 1.    Business plan worksheet 2.    Budget 3.    Break-even analysis 4.    Other charts, tables, referred to in plan	Three of four required supporting documents are included and accurately presented. 1.    Business plan worksheet 2.    Budget 3.    Break-even analysis 4.    Other charts, tables, referred to in plan	Two of four required supporting documents are present and accurately presented. 1.    Business plan worksheet 2.    Budget 3.    Break-even analysis 4.    Other charts, tables, referred to in plan	Only one of four required supporting documents is present and accurately presented. 1.    Business plan worksheet 2.    Budget 3.    Break-even analysis 4.    Other charts, tables, referred to in plan	No supporting documents are presented, or section is missing 1.    Business plan worksheet 2.    Budget 3.    Break-even analysis Other charts, tables, referred to in plan
Conclusion	25 Points	22 Points	20 Points	12 Points	0 Points
	All required components for conclusion are clearly and accurately presented. 1.    Concluding statements that include what was covered in the assignment 2.    Two strengths and two weaknesses of the plan are described 3.    Strategy for obtaining project approval	Two of three required components for conclusion are clearly and accurately presented. 1.    Concluding statements that include what was covered in the assignment 2.    Two strengths and two weaknesses of the plan are described 3.    Strategy for obtaining project approval	One of three required components for conclusion are clearly and accurately presented. 1.    Concluding statements that include what was covered in the assignment 2.    Two strengths and two weaknesses of the plan are described 3.    Strategy for obtaining project approval	All required components for conclusion are generally addressed. 1.    Concluding statements that include what was covered in the assignment 2.    Two strengths and two weaknesses of the plan are described 3.    Strategy for obtaining project approval	No required components are addressed, or section is missing 1.    Concluding statements that include what was covered in the assignment 2.    Two strengths and two weaknesses of the plan are described Strategy for obtaining project approval
Paper Format	15 Points	13 Points	12 Points	8 Points	0 Points
	All formatting elements are present with two or less errors.   1. Text, title page, headings, and references 2. Headings label follow required outline 3. All ideas and information from other sources are cited correctly 4. Page length within seven-page limit	Formatting elements are mostly correct with three errors.   1. Text, title page, headings, and references 2. Headings label follow required outline 3. All ideas and information from other sources are cited correctly 4. Page length within seven-page limit	Formatting elements are mostly correct with four errors.   1. Text, title page, headings, and references 2. Headings label follow required outline 3. All ideas and information from other sources are cited correctly 4. Page length within seven-page limit	All formatting elements are present with five errors   1. Text, title page, headings, and references 2. Headings label follow required outline 3. All ideas and information from other sources are cited correctly 4. Page length within seven-page limit	All formatting elements are present with six or more errors   1. Text, title page, headings, and references 2. Headings label follow required outline 3. All ideas and information from other sources are cited correctly 4. Page length within seven-page limit
Writing Conventions	10 Points	9 Points	8 Points	5 Points	0 points
	Rules of grammar, word usage, spelling, and punctuation are followed and contain two or fewer errors.	Rules of grammar, word usage, spelling, and punctuation are followed and contains three errors.	Rules of grammar, word usage, spelling, and punctuation are followed and contain four errors.	Rules of grammar, word usage, spelling, and punctuation are followed and contain five errors.	Rules of grammar, word usage, spelling, and punctuation are followed and contain six or more errors.
Total Points					_____/200 points