Strategic Planning and Risk Management

Part 1A: Project Summary
You are engaged jointly by East Dunbartionshire and West Dunbartonshire local authorities to advise and act as a Consultant during the proposed merger and the creation of their new IT infrastructure.
Your brief is as follows:
Identify and manage the risks and vulnerabilities through Strategic Planning and Risk Management.
In order to achieve this, you should undertake the following:
Critically evaluate tools/models/approaches in order to prepare a Strategic Plan for the proposed merger (Minimum 3).
Critically evaluate tools/models/approaches/standards for risk management (Minimum 3). Synthesise your evaluative findings and make recommendations which should form the basis of a formal report of recommendations for Strategic Planning and Risk Management strategies to the local authorities. Your report must contain a minimum of three tools/models/approaches.
Background Information:
The additional information you will need for your critical evaluation may be fictional or drawn through research. You must include diagrams of tools/models/approaches that you have used and indicate their relevance.
Guidance:
Use a formal report format which must be referenced according the Harvard Style system. You may include other recommendations into your report that you feel relevant. Your maximum word count for Part A is 3000 words excluding quotations and in text referencing.
 
 
 
 
Part 1B: Project Name:
 
Assessment task Part 1B: Identifying the LESPI considerations that the council should acknowledge.
 
Project Summary
 
You are engaged jointly by East Dunbartionshire and West Dunbartonshire local authorities to advise and act as a Consultant during the proposed merger and the creation of their new IT infrastructure.
 
Your brief is as follows:
 
Identifying the LESPI (Legal, Ethical, Social and Professional issues) considerations that the council should acknowledge.
 
In order to achieve this, you should undertake the following:
 
Critically evaluate each aspect of LESPI in depth
Provide examples to support your findings. For example: GDPR breach
Provide recommendations to how the council can counteract any issues raised.
 
 Background Information:                                                                                                                                                                               
 
 
 
The additional information you will need for your critical evaluation may be fictional or drawn through research. You must include diagrams of tools/models/approaches that you have used and indicate their relevance.
 
Guidance:
 
Use a formal report format which must be referenced according the Harvard Style system. You may include other recommendations into your report that you feel relevant. Your maximum word count for Part B is 3000 words excluding quotations and in text referencing.