organizational analyses 2500 Problem Solving Case Study and Proposal Report
Organisations as Systems of Functionality
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Analysing Functionality
Are organisations difficult to describe?
Identify different types of organisations
Describe what they do
What are the features of organisational functionality?
How would functional analysts conceptualise organisations?
What descriptive techniques are used? You may refer to the readings.
Hint: What diagrammatic techniques have you encountered?
What assumptions would they make?
Why are they choosing particular types of diagrammatic techniques?
How are complex organisational relationships represented?
How do analysts gather data?
Is this type of representation open to challenge?
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Organisational Functionality
Systems of Organisational Functionality
When organisations are represented using particular diagrammatic techniques, or formalisms, are these easy to change?
How would functional definitions become obsolete?
How much effort would it take to maintain these functional descriptions?
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Organisational Functionality
Organisational Maturity as a Metaphor
How would maturity help an organisation?
What would process maturity mean?
Can you think of disadvantages?
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Practice
You are experienced students
Design a business process to describe how they should enrol into tutorials
Explain to the students what process to follow:
Balancing their work commitments
Balancing their other course commitments
What system do they use
What happens when they do not get the tutorial they want
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Practice
You are experienced students
Design a business process to describe how students should perform Assignment 1
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Assignment 1 Progress
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Developing Your Analytical Capability
What happens when you manage people from diverse disciplines:
Will language hold you back?
If language is ambiguous, what would you do?
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Increasing Your Critical Thinking Capability
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Have you understood the rationales for organisational analysis?
If you have not, self-reflect, why? Is your course workload balanced?
Do you understand why you are asked to “synthesise”?
Different readings
Different vocabulary
Different contexts
Different ideas
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Assignment 1 Progress
Have you read the key reading?
If you have not, self-reflect, why? Is your course workload balanced?
Four roles of the analyst
What are the roles?
What are some of the defining features of the roles?
Why has the analyst been placed in that role? Did someone place the analyst in the role or if not, what are the circumstances?
Have you downloaded the four Assignment 1 readings?
Have you familiarised yourself with the template?
Have you downloaded the four Assignment 1 readings?
Make an attempt to fill the template
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Tell your course leader what your progress is – show your work.
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Embark and Clarify
Autonomy
Self starting
Setting of personal aims
Time management
Stress management
Each week, reflect on how you have developed, personally, and update your CV.
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