Problem set

Resources	☐ Little or no monies, supplies or change in resources	☐ Requires moderate resources	☐ Requires significant resources and/or additional FTEs
Multidisciplinary	☐ One (1) discipline involved/impacted	☐ Two (2) – Three (3) disciplines involved/impacted	☐ Four (4) or more disciplines involved/impacted
Complexity	☐ Little complexity	☐ Moderate complexity	☐ Very complex
Technology Involvement	☐ No technology changes	☐ IT consult needed	☐ IT resources assigned
Approvals	☐ None needed	☐ Approval by immediate supervisor	☐ Executive-level approval
Potential Risk Level	☐ Minimal impact on customer	☐ Moderate impact on customer	☐ Significant impact on customer
Staff Commitment	☐ Involvement of 2 3 people for solution	☐ Small team needed to generate solutions	☐ Requires large team of multiple departments for improvement
Communication & Education	☐ Simple communication plan or unit-based education only	☐ Moderate communication plan; requires education across departments	☐ Complex communication/ education plan with various media
Metrics	☐ Requires at least a one-time follow-up check	☐ Improvement will be tracked	☐ Baseline and ongoing tracking of data
If majority of checks lie in this area:
Final Decision	☐ No charter needed	☐ Complete a mini or basic charter	☐ Complete a full project charter

DECISION MATRIX & ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE EXERCISE

Justification for Matrix Selections

Instructions: Below you will find each of the categories reflected in the above Decision Matrix. For each of these you will state specifically why you made the selection you did in the Decision Matrix. These rationales need to provide specific evidence from the scenario to justify your selection. For example, under Resources, if you mark “little or no monies, supplies or change in resources” you would not just state “it requires few resources and is only $150,000”. You would need to explain why $100,000, in your opinion, is not a lot of money and why few supplies or resources are needed. Or if you marked “Requires significant resources and or additional FTEs (Full Time Equivalents) you will need to state why the project will use significant resources, why the funding is substantial and/or why more personnel will be needed. Thoroughly explain and justify your selections!

Resources:

Multidisciplinary:

Complexity:

Technology Involvement:

Approvals:

Potential Risk Levels:

Staff Commitment:

Communication & Education:

Metrics:

Final Decision:

Instructions: Copy and paste your Business Case from Week 2 assignment. Analyze the selected project to determine which organizational structure (Section 4-1) would be the ideal or preferred organizational structure for this project. Discuss why you selected this structure and justify that choice through an analysis of the project versus the elements and definitions of the organizational structure as presented in the Kloppenborg text. Then, discuss which structure is the least preferred and explain/justify why this would not be a preferred organizational structure for your selected project providing the same depth of analysis. Provide specific examples, elements or components from the project to explain your justification. Each of the justification sections should be a minimum of 300 words.

Business Case (copy and paste):

Preferred Organizational Structure:

Least Preferred Organizational Structure: