Unit 35 , task 1 , p1

To: The Bank

From: The Graphics Agency

Date: 05/06/13

Subject: Business Inquiry

This report is intended to inform you of the hardware and software required for a prosperous and efficacious graphics business also expressing the advisability in providing our business with a loan. The following will also consist of the price of each individual product in addition to the purchase location along with many different reflective reviews concerning this product.

To begin with, our Graphics Company will need the basic necessities such as a USB, the USB comes in many different dimensions, some based on how much they can hold. The USB is reliable due to how portable the device is, as well as its storage capacity to hold various different files. Overall a USB is needed for the portability to take files around with ease, and to store files, for example those of upcoming projects for clients of the graphic design agency. The product that is beneficial to purchase is the SanDisk flash drive which features burst write speeds up to 10MB this then reducing the time employees spend waiting for files to save. In addition with up to 64GB in storage capacity and its compact design to support portability specifications, its ability to accommodate the high-resolution photos, HD videos, scanned documents, and other data that is specific to the Graphics Industry, it is needed. The price of this product is £39.99 which is available on Amazon. 

Secondly the IMac is required due to factors like the Apple’s font and colour handling and bright displays which make the Apple IMac ideal for design work. The apple IMac’s properties make its quality from screen to print impeccable; this sort of standard would be needed to start the business on good terms, and would be beneficial economically. This would be needed in our business to promise high quality work to our customers, and has long term benefits despite the cost, which is that of £1,699.

As well as the iMac, the MacBook Pro is also need; this has all the qualities of the apple iMac but can be transported as it is a laptop, software can be opened and edited on the go with the security of files being backed up on the other apple device at the workplace. This is important as meetings can be held with clients for future investments; therefore the business’s work would need to be presented wherever , whenever. With running a graphics design company the MacBook Pro offers a faster hard disk and more Ram with the quality of the device , the reliability of the MacBook including other favoring prospects, represents the reasons shown previously as to why this device is needed. This coming in at £1,249.To add to these product's reliability and productivity the Mac time machine has a built in backup  which can also work with your external drive, this will ensure that the entire Mac will be backed-up , including system files , applications , accounts , photos , email messages, preferences and documents. Due to the time machine making a copy of every file it enables employees to be sure that work is available if a possible technology device is apparent.

The Mac Magic mouse, as part of other apple input devices is a wireless mouse that enables employees to move with ease for things such as editing logos to other specific requirements, to add, in case of loss from the graphics tablets stylus, the magic mouse can be used just the same. This is also beneficial for quality of work and presentation to possible clients, including advertisements due to its smooth running. In addition, as part of apples products, software such as IPhoto, ICal and other useful software could be used on both devices. As this shows , the properties of apple's products are reliable , well -functioning and quality pieces of hardware , perfect for a upcoming design business. This product individually costing £59.

The Wacom Graphics Tablet is actually used to create the graphic designs; digital drawings are produced by drawing on the tablet with a stylus that then transfers that drawing onto a laptop or PC monitor at the same time, this creates the ease of drawing with a pencil, rather than the unfamiliarity of drawing without that. This is needed because it’s the basis of the graphics design, without the tablet and means of drawing digitally; it limits the types of designs that can be made. This is £1678 at its lowest.

For quality images , the EOS 100D Canon Camera would be ideal with its abilities to produce  'High- Quality low noise photography' , due to it being highly compacted , it is almost limitless as to where it could be taken , widening the range and ease of taking equipment to design destinations. Describing the use the canon can also automatically analyse your scene and selects the best setting which is beneficial when time is concerned, especially within business. The price of this being £450.

Obviously in Graphics design a good quality printer will be needed in this case the Canon Pixma MG5350, this can print good quality rich pictures, with all different types of ink settings for different situations, this is also a basic necessity as ideas and actually completed work will need to be printed out , depending on the customers format choice. This is £89, worth the price.

 Overall, the hardware i have chosen is those of high quality and high abilities in terms of running software and other prospects. In the overall working process of a graphics design business, the Graphics Card will need to be sufficient enough to function high resolution graphics, taking this into consideration i have chosen the devices that will be able to run properly and sufficiently. To run a prosperous graphics business these are the necessary requirements, I hope that the points made in this report will highlight as to why the hardware that is desirable will be chosen, in terms of the loan that may be given.

Hardware	Software
Apple iMac - Input	Adobe Photoshop CS6 extended
Macbook Pro - Input	Adobe illustrator CS6
Mac magic mouse - Input	Adobe InDesign CS6
Wacom  Graphics  Tablet - output	Adobe Acrobat 10 Pro
Graphics Card & sound card - input	Adobe Flash Professional CS6
Ram - input	Adobe Lightroom 4
USB - output	Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
Time machine – backup - input	Adobe After Effects CS6
Canon Camera - input	Adobe Contribute CS6
Multiple Samsung monitors - input	Microsoft Word 2010
Printer  - Input / Output

Unit 2 - task 3 - p3

Unit 2 Task 4 M1

Dedicated and relentless business focus i.e a project /programme business case

• Persistent drive to provide clarity (hence the reasoning behind the name of my consultancy “Clarety” a play on the word “Clarity”)

• Behaving with integrity

• Personal energy and an ability to harness the energy of others


What do these values /behaviours actually mean:-

• Dedicated and relentless business focus. This is the total focus on a project or programme’s business case. This (agreed) document should identify key system features required to achieve specific business objectives /goals along with detailed costings & business benefits of the work undertaken.


A good project manager must make sure that this information is clearly interpretated and communicated down the project /programme organisational structure to minimise the gap between what your project team believes needs to be delivered and the expectations of the business people. This focus on business need and return on capital employed is essential to control change and limit the potential for scope creep.

• Persistent drive to provide clarity. This is often the most misunderstood of the values /behaviours. 


It is vital to provide continuous transparency on the essential aspects of a project /programme of work from week to week, in a similar way that a car dashboard provides essential-fit-for-purpose information necessary for your safety and the car’s health. Without this steering or managing a project for success becomes impossible!!

• Integrity. This can be another troublesome area with clients. Organisations where IT projects /programmes fail regularly the incumbent IT management often survive through the use of well practiced Spin Management Techniques. Project Managers with Integrity can be regarded by clients as a spanner in the works of an effective spin machine, which has seen many bonuses paid and preserved many “jobs-for-the-boys”. The fact that a healthy injection of management integrity would help make IT Project Failures less frequent, and therefore reduce the need for a spin machine is often lost on such people.

General information
Projects rely on teams working well, and good teams are built on trust. Also, stakeholders need to be able to trust the project team because, while projects are transient, the customer has to live with the outcomes for many years – long after the project team has gone.


Without integrity trust disappears, teams don’t function effectively, and time is wasted because opinions are not respected. More time is spent protecting positions than in delivering the project. All the Project Managers gravitas and respect is lost, very often for good unless that manager moves to another organisation.


• Energy and an ability to harness energy in others. It is often stated that enthusiasm is a force multiplier where projects are concerned. 

In other words the inner energy necessary to push the project forward is just not there. People, in my view, cannot be given this gift. They either have it, or not, and I never waste time mentoring such people. You either have the capacity to work 65 hour weeks,  work late at night and run presentations at the weekend together with family commitments or not.

I believe energy is perhaps the greatest differentiation between good and bad project managers. Good Project Managers don’t leave on time, sit back, and monitor history: they actively go out and manage the future.

All good leaders exude and create energy and enthusiasm toward achieving their objectives – and project managers need to be good leaders.

They have to be able to drive the project forward, finding creative solutions and working in partnership to release the power of the individual and the team. They have to be able to motivate people and recognize the importance of acknowledging and rewarding achievement. Determination and persistence makes things happen.

 it is about the focused application of influence and determination to find the means to deliver – not finding out why things can’t be done.

P2 ,Task 2 , Unit 2

Unit 2, Task 1, P1 and D1

Unit 2 , Task 1 , P1 & D1