Minor Project 1: Business Description, Strategic Analysis, and Scriptural Alignment

• Objective: To describe and analyze your new business or business process improvement project, integrating principles from Head & Heart, data considerations, and scriptural insights, particularly how the Greatest Commandment to love God and love people informs your approach.
• Instructions:
  1. Introduction: Provide a detailed description of your new business or business process improvement project. Build on your ideas from Discussion Forum 1, expanding on the problem or opportunity you plan to address. Clearly state your business goals or the outcomes you hope to achieve through the process improvement.
  2. Emotional Intelligence and Leadership: Apply the principles from Head & Heart to your business or process improvement. How will emotional intelligence—such as self-awareness, empathy, and resilience—play a role in your leadership and decision-making? Explain how your leadership approach will prioritize both strategic goals and the well-being of the people impacted by your decisions (employees, customers, stakeholders).
  3. Scriptural Examination: Consider how the Greatest Commandment—to love God and love people—aligns with your business or project goals. Exegetically examine a scripture (e.g., Matthew 22:37-39 or another passage that resonates with you) and explain how it reinforces the head and heart alignment in your project. How does scripture guide your approach to making decisions that will positively impact people while honoring God? Reflect on how your business decisions can be an expression of this commandment.
  4. Data Considerations: Identify key data sources that will guide your decisions. What data do you need to better understand your market, customers, or operations? Explain how you will collect and analyze this data to make informed, ethical decisions. Emphasize how data-driven insights will support your business or process improvement while staying aligned with your scriptural and emotional intelligence principles.
  5. Business Strategy: Using concepts from Business Made Simple, outline your initial strategy for launching your business or improving the process. How will you keep your strategy simple and effective, while ensuring that it aligns with your overall goals, scriptural values, and emotional intelligence framework?
• Deliverables:
  • A 5-page pape (excluding title and reference pages) with:
    • Introduction
    • Emotional Intelligence and Leadership section
    • Scriptural Examination section
    • Data Considerations section
    • Business Strategy section
    • Conclusion and reflection on next steps
• Formatting:
  • Double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, with proper citation of sources (APA), including scripture.