Guidelines for Attaining Strategic Alignment with BPM

Order Description
Requirements for a literature review paper
Here the outcome will be a literature review paper should include the following items or similar, based on discussions with your supervisor.

Title
The title should be concise and descriptive. Be precise enough to suggest the nature and scope of the literature review and concise enough to be referred to quickly and easily. The title should also be “catchy” to attract the readers’ attention (~ less than 20 words)
The title page should also include the units associated with your project. For example if you are doing a 48-credit point project you should state that this project involves
The title page should also include the name of your supervisor(s) and project coordinator.
Abstract
This should be concise as well as provide a complete overview of the paper ; a reader should be able to understand all pertinent facts after reading the abstract.
(Length: ~350 words)
Introduction
The introduction orients the reader to both the overall literature review project and the resulting paper. You must know
a) who your audience for this paper is, and
b) clearly express what this literature review project and paper is about;
c) the purpose,
d) objective and
e) scope of the work.

The need for and the value of this literature review should be clearly articulated with supporting justification from prior related literature and sound arguments made by the author. The target deliverables from the review and the scope of the review should be explicitly documented
It helps the reader to know what to expect by outlining the structure of the paper (outlining what each section will cover) and what will be addressed.
(Length: ~1000 words)
Literature Review Methodology
This section will provide a detailed overview on how you design and implemented your literature review. Make sure you make reference to and adopt well established literature review guidelines and clearly articulate the methods, tools, and procedures applied. Essential aspects such as how you extracted papers (the design and execution of the search strategy), how you made inclusion/ exclusion decisions and managed the quality of the papers, how the synthesis and analysis took place and how the findings were presented etc, all must be covered in detail. The rigour of your literature review approach is an essential ingredient for the validity and reliability of the review findings, hence much be well presented.

(Length: ~1500-2000 words)
Literature Review Results
The literature review results should align to the set goals and deliverables (specified and promised in the Introduction). Make sure that all ‘promised’ deliverables are presented and that all literature review results are appropriately interpreted.
(Length: ~3000-4000 words)

Discussion
The Discussions will critically explore the key findings from the literature review. While this can be a separate section it can also well be integrated as part of the literature review results and interpretations and/or as part of the paper’s conclusions.
Literature reviews, like all projects have strengths and limitations. you should critically analyse your own work and clearly recognise the significance and limitations as part of the Discussions
You should also discuss any key recommendations arising from your work and/or discuss the next steps that must be taken to move the project forward or develop the work further. Ideally you can propose a Research Agenda based on your literature analysis
(Length: ~1000-1500 words)

Conclusion
This is where you bring this review paper to a close. Do not introduce any new material or key concepts. Use the conclusion to link together the threads of your discussion and close off the narrative.
(Length: ~500-750 words)

Reflections on your learning
As a final aspect of the assessment for the project, you should provide a 750 word reflective discussion. This should include any challenges that you faced, how these challenges were identified and managed, what you have learnt from doing this project as well as any opportunities you can capitalize for your future from this project experience. This should also be correlate with the weekly progress updates that you had reported on (do keep in mind that you should submit your weekly project tracking sheets as an Appendix).
You should consider the overall strengths and weaknesses of your work, by referring to the marking criteria provided for the assignment. Some questions to prompt you may be:
• What were the things/activities you thought you did best in this project?
• What were the things/activities you thought you did least well in this project?
• Were there any specific problems or challenges you encountered? How did you handle them?
• What did you find as the hardest part of this project?
• Which areas of your own professional knowledge and skills, or your personal attributes do you feel require further development?
• What was the most important thing you learned doing this project?
• What have you learnt about project management and research within professional practice?
• What kind of opportunities or next steps you see based on your learnings doing this project?