Skills for Business & Management Students in Dissertation

Hence the students must develop some fundamental
skills for business and management dissertations
that include.
The Milestone Deliverables Matrix indicated in Table
1 also indicates the phases and milestones for
preparing a dissertation report, but also lists the work
products that should be reviewed at each milestone
event, and the participants at each event.
IV. PLANNING SKILLS
As per Benjamin Franklin's words, "by failing to
prepare, you prepare to fail,", planning skills are
56pthe fundamental need for any business and
management student. It is the primary cognitive skill
that forms part of any executive function. Planning is
the ability to think about the future for mentally
expecting the right way to achieve a specific goal. It
is one of the essential skills for business and
management dissertations and future career. The
research and dissertation report writing effort can be
divided into a number of phases separated by
milestone events where products from the previous
phase are reviewed and approved before continuing
on to the next phase. The Research Milestone
Schedule indicated in Figure 1 depicts the
recommended phases and how the review milestones
(in blue and red) separate them.
Using the Research Breakdown Structure (RBS) to
Manage Information
The recommended management approach contained
in this paper includes the use of a new concept
referred to as a Research Breakdown Structure
(RBS). As indicated in Figure 2, the top of the RBS
diagram contains business areas the researcher is
interested in pursuing.
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