MBA 705 Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric
Overview: For the capstone assessment, you will create a business implementation plan and audiovisual presentation for the product, service, or idea you have
been developing throughout your MBA coursework.
In Milestone Two, you will submit an implementation plan, which is a clear and comprehensive plan for implementing and managing the concept from inception
to completion. Although the details of your plan will necessarily depend upon your concept, at a minimum, your plan should include the following critical
elements:
Critical Elements:
Physical and technological resources needed for the concept, including where these will come from and how they will be used to reduce cost or improve
operations. Be sure to discuss why one resource option is better than another where appropriate.
• A detailed implementation schedule covering what needs to be done, by when, and, tentatively, by whom. (Note that key personnel will be covered in
more depth in Milestone Three.) The schedule should identify the critical path to success and outline the dependencies between tasks.
• Project review processes and indicators of success to ensure that the project stays on target.
• An explanation of how intrapreneurship or entrepreneurship factor in to the implementation of your plan and how you will protect intangible assets,
such as intellectual property or brand.
Guidelines for Submission: Your draft must contain all of the elements listed above. It should be 5 to 8 pages in length (excluding the title page, references, and
appendices) using 12-point Times New Roman font, with one-inch margins. You may include summary pictures, charts, graphs, or other explanatory diagrams as
needed to successfully explain the concept and implementation, but should use appendices for detailed supporting documentation. Your paper should follow
APA guidelines. You must include at least 5 scholarly sources. Cite your sources within the text of your paper and on the reference page.
Instructor Feedback: This activity uses an integrated rubric in Blackboard. Students can view instructor feedback in the Grade Center. For more information,
review these instructions.
Critical Elements
Main Elements
Critical Thinking
Physical and Technological
Resources
Implementation Schedule
Proficient (100%)
Includes most of the main elements
Provides logical conclusions and defends with
examples
Provides physical and technological resources
and includes a discussion of the source of the
resources and why certain options are better
than others
Provides an implementation schedule and the
critical path to project success, including
dependencies among tasks
Not Proficient (0%)
Does not include any of the main elements
Does not provide logical conclusions
Value
15
15
Does not provide physical and technological
resources
15
Does not provide an implementation schedule
15
Project Review Processes
Intrapreneurship or
Entrepreneurship
Articulation of Response
Provides a project review process and shows
how the process will keep the project on track,
including indicators of success
Provides an explanation of how
intrapreneurship or entrepreneurship factor
into plan implementation and includes a
discussion of how to protect intangible assets
Submission does not have critical errors
related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax,
or organization that prevent understanding of
ideas
Does not provide a project review process
15
Does not provide explanation of how
intrapreneurship or entrepreneurship factor
into plan implementation and does not include
a discussion of how to protect intangible
assets
Submission has critical errors related to
citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or
organization that prevent understanding of
ideas
Total
15
10
100%