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Assignment 1: Discussion—RAEW Analysis

There are a variety of tools available for organizations to use to assess process. In this assignment you will learn how to apply a tool to a process situation.

RAEW is an acronym for responsibility, authority, expertise, and work. Responsibility denotes ownership, authority involves decision making, expertise involves skill or knowledge, and work is the task assigned either to a group or an individual.

Analyzing a process using the RAEW tool can help identify structural misalignments that impede strategy execution. These misalignments include the following:

· Authority with no responsibility

· Responsibility with no authority

· Responsibility with no expertise

These misalignments can impede strategy execution by slowing decision-making, disempowering teams when there is responsibility without authority, or depriving processes of key skills when there is responsibility without expertise.

Using the module readings, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, research the RAEW analysis technique. Based on your research, respond to the following:

· Select an important process in your business unit that is performing poorly and perform a simple RAEW analysis.

· What is the process you analyzed?

· How is it performing poorly?

· Can you find any structural misalignments using the RAEW tool?

· Describe the misalignment and the consequences of it.

· How would you fix this misalignment?

Write your initial response in approximately 300 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

By Saturday, August 8, 2015, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Also, 12 font, Times Roman, and be sure to include at least one reference that instructor has provided along with any other references of your choice. There must be at least 1-2 references. There was only one article provided:

· Porter, M. (1996). What is strategy? Harvard Business Review 74(6), 61–78. Retrieved from  http://libproxy.edmc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/ login.aspx?direct=true&db=bsh&AN=9611187954&site=ehost-live

Notes and from Instructor: Permutation and combination. Authority with both responsibility and expertise. Authority with responsibility but no expertise. Authority with no responsibility but with expertise. Responsibility with no authority but with expertise. Responsibility with authority and expertise. Responsibility with authority but no expertise. Expertise with authority and responsibility. Expertise with authority but no responsibility. Expertise with no authority but with responsibility. Authority with responsibility. Authority with no responsibility. Authority with expertise. Authority with no expertise. Responsibility with authority. Responsibility with no authority. Responsibility with expertise. Responsibility with no expertise. Expertise with authority. Expertise with no authority. Expertise with responsibility. Expertise with no responsibility. Are there more? Do some of these sound the same? Thoughts? WHY USE THIS PROCESS? What is it we are really talking about?