Report $2$: Proposal $($Group Memo$)$ Instructions

Write an informal proposal memo that offers to solve a business problem$$perhaps what you identified in Report $1$: Information Email.

Due: by $48$ hours before our Week $5$ class begins Value: $10\%$ of your grade for the course

Purpose

The main objective of this assignment is to get you to practice writing a proposal for those occasions in your career when your livelihood depends on documenting a pitch and submitting it to a client, funding body $($e$.$g$.,$ the government or an NGO$),$ or investors. This will also set you up for the recommendation report you write for Report $4$: Recommendation $($Group Manuscript$),$ which will be the basis for your Report $3$: Progress $($Group Email$)$ assignment.

Scenario

You$$re an employee in a company$$the same you were working for in the scenario for Report $1$: Information Email. Following up on your documentation of the problems described in that information email, your manager verbally signals interest in hearing what solutions you had in mind to solve the problems you identified. Since this is going to involve some expense, your manager wants to see your proposed solutions documented and costed out in a proposal memo.