Module 8

AB. Module 8:This module is one of student discovery and review. Students will review the range of cost-benefit, cost-effective, ROI, and other methods used to collect information, analyze It, make decisions, structure problems, and formulate answers. Students will first work individually to discover as many software programs as possible that help perform managerial functions and will make a listing (with a short description of the function of each) of all those discovered. Then the students will join team members to collectively formulate a team mast list from the contributions of e~ch of the members. Each team will prepare a short presentation on what their list looks like, some of the outstanding programs discovered, and what their functions are - and what they would recommend to a strategic leader as oustanding pieces of software to perform tasks that the group has identified as most important helping the strategic leader function in his corporate role. The composite, annotated list will be handed in. Students will receive one score given based on:

  a. Score 1; The umber of items recorded and the quality of the annotating that was donefor each of them (MBA-l }. .