Overview:

For this assignment, you will create a professional looking PowerPoint presentation on an operations management topic covered in this course. The scenario is that your supervisor has assigned you the task of presenting a 30-minute training session on this topic. You need to research your topic and prepare an engaging PowerPoint that would be used as a visual aid in for your presentation

topic:

Tips to effective demand forecasting

PowerPoint Requirements:

I. Title Slide

This will be the first slide of your PowerPoint (and is NOT considered a content slide).

This slide will include the following: title of your presentation, your full name, class name & section number, and your institution (Liberty University).

II. Content Slides

A minimum of 10 content slides must be included.

All content slides must contain speaker notes.

Speaker notes are a presenters cheat sheet, if you will. In other words, speaker notes are hidden from your audience, but you are able to view them while presenting.

Speaker notes are NOT a copy of the information on your slide. Instead, speaker notes expand upon and/or offer further clarification regarding points on each slide.

To add speaker notes, go to the Notes pane under the slide where you will see, Click to add notes.

III. Reference Slide

This slide will be the last slide(s) of your PowerPoint (and is NOT considered a

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content slide).

This slide (or slides) will contain all sources used in your PowerPoint presentation.

Sources must be formatted according to current APA formatting guidelines.

In addition to current APA formatting guidelines, the inclusion of the complete URL (sometimes called a permalink) is required for all full-text, peer-reviewed/scholarly articles retrieved from Libertys online library journal database. Note that this is not the same as the doi #. The URL must take your reader directly to the full text article within Libertys online library journal database. If you're unsure about the specific URL/link, you can copy the entire web address from the top of the browser's address bar once you are viewing the full text article within Libertys online library journal database.

IV. Sources

A minimum of four credible sources must be used within your presentation. Required, credible sources include:

Four full-text, peer-reviewed/scholarly articles retrieved from Libertys online library journal database.

Two of the above four full-text, peer-reviewed/scholarly articles must be within the last 7 years.

the course textbook (as listed on the course syllabus).

You are able to include additional sources, other than the four credible sources listed above; however, they must be full-text articles retrieved from Libertys online library journal database.

Sources NOT acceptable for this assignment:

No textbooks (including e-books), other than the course textbook/ebook (as listed on the course syllabus)

No general Internet searching is acceptable. Therefore, no blogs, education sites, commercial sites, Wikipedia, About.com, editorials, abstracts, online books, book reviews, etc.