Full lesson based around a experiment for Quality Assurance making Tea. Works really well once mastered. bellwork about what is quality and how measured for firms before Tea in a cafe and an kineasthetic experiment before breaking it down with the pro's and evals of quality assurance processes then pros of quality before a debate if time and videos if time plenary .

useful lesson for Lean production and also allows coverage of Mass Customisation. Use of lego game to see how they many they can make before splitting them into Kaisan groups...and look to be more innovative in your production techniques…. asked to formulate plans Ideas might include JIT, Capital intensive / CELL Production, Flow production Line, pre-fabrication of supplies, TQM/quality assurance. Mass customisation reference to the 7/8 S's. Then Q&A adv/disadv etc

whole lesson looking at Carillion and why it failed... brief intro to get students understanding the business before an activity where students can analyse data to create an picture of the factors behind the failure of the business. Data includes financial accounts, share prices, missed objectives, bonus culture etc etc.. they can create the picture on flip chart paper. evaluation - was it bound to fail - students invites to present ideas on how they would have run it better..

Greiner's Growth Model into an active lesson: There is a structured role-play activity They can do this in groups and discuss their similarities in answers and differences this then links to some real-life airline problems where they can discuss where they fit on the model (if they do or not) There is a video link explaining the theory and then you can get them to discuss the implications. Before an evaluation question to help them critique the model

Experience curve lesson that has flip learning, draws out the theory with a game and then gets students to analyse situations where it could be useful and evaluate the validity of the model.

Full lesson focusing on an integrated marketing mix with an Introduction of analysis of beer industry to start the conversation before moving onto looking at different types of Beer (normally I bring in props) and Beer market data with different usage habits... then a decision making activity on designing a beer for a target market which is quite good as it shows what Carlsberg actually did (which is normally very different to what the students normally come up with).

Designed to help my students consolidate their understanding from the 1st term of their AQA Business A level. Helpful for lower 6 students in the early stages of the course and for upper 6 to revise these elements of the course. Available in fully editable word format. 12 pages of revision questions, tables and situations to explain (by filling in and answering the questions..) covering the topics within the intro to business and marketing parts of the 1st year of the course. Split into 4 sections: where students have questions and tables to fill in What is business - early questions Different legal forms - sole trader, Ltd, PLC, Share prices and market capitalization Some financial objectives - revenues, costs, profits, contribution, break-even Understanding markets and marketing - covering all element of the spec in these areas

used for a half term mock in term 1 of the lower 6 before any marketing or other functional areas really taught... also MS will levels and differences to look for as tell tell signs for different levels

Old Buss3 paper.. used to get student doing a SWOT analysis on it.. Then some of the old questions used but also 3 new questions - including open q like the new Paper 3 on AQA for the new spec...

Full lesson (or two) on powerpoint focused on Market Segmentation. full of activities and 2ndary market research data that can be printed out and then blown up on A3 sheets - or use the word sheets attached which students can work through & prepare answers to the questions.. Starts off with Kineasthetic move around room starter (not necessarily needed) then looks at data on cinema market - allowing teaching of confidence intervals (new on AQA spec). then there is some data on different cinema - link to mass and niche markets - helps data analysis and discussion of factors that influence demand then decision making activities as a manager based on the data allowing for link to benefits of market research and so then the scientific decision making model if you wish

full lesson using either props... working through the different ways that firms can measure markets and marketing success. fun way to work through the calculations judgmental decision making activity as to best way to...

All activities on powerpoint easily printable Starter on perceived benefits Plotting activity Bowmans theory Then influences on Then judgment helping question

Lesson on Porters Generic - all activities on the powerpoint easily transferable to word or printable as is Video clip opening look at business failure market mapping activity Analysis of industry and then decision making activity comparison to actual business decision...

2 or 3 lessons on Porters 5 forces.. why does profitability in industries differ before a focus on competitive rivalry and then an a focus on firms with a judgment activity on if X is in a strong position. then look at other firms in different industries and different contexts and why 5 forces analysis matters before moving onto situations/contexts that change the competitive environment (before moving onto external environment)

Whole lesson as a combined adaptation on other ideas out there.. probably could get 2 (x 1hr) lessons out of this Way of deriving Ansoff's strategy from a scenario Lots of recent strategy stories..can be used for plotting/discussion then explanation of the model and an activity that helps question the idea of risk...traditionally but even in strategies the level of risk differ according to the context/situation .. so it depends on factors.. Another cut out Kineasthetic activity which helps with this... & is better than the stories as saves time and gets them moving things around the matrix..

worked well - got them to watch the 30mins panaroma before hand as flip Starts off with different situations and what would you do then do you think this "right" activity then looks at a problem industry (gambling) - lots of data and link to Flip learning video to watch Ends with an essay title to be planned in class and written outside of class.

2 Full lessons helping students to derive Lewins forces for and resisting forces for change worked well for my classes.... Activities all on powerpoint - can take off and add to word etc as needed Deriving the model activity to start based on teacher / school scenario's then applied to other situations in time - updated for 2018 - 2 business change of strategies with use of numbers to help with evaluation skills Plenary with data answer available Lesson 2 Visual starter...idea shower analysing forces and decision making activity applied to struggling business context with data (mintel and other sources) Notes on theory

Powerpoint full of different activities Pictures to ask what does it suggest about culture what culture is Analysis of culture using Model Explaining why different types of cultures matter writing activity Flip activity looking at Culture for a business at Undercover Boss

whole lesson with multiple questions Including the how to get rich out of a potato