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Management Problem Analysis This course is comprised of a series of Individual Project assignments that will contribute to a Key Assignment submission at the end of the course

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Management Problem Analysis

This course is comprised of a series of Individual Project assignments that will contribute to a Key Assignment submission at the end of the course. Each week, you will complete a part of a document that is designed to solve a management problem.

You will select a project as the topic for the analysis, which you will execute and document in this course. The project should represent a management problem that you will solve through research and application of knowledge and skills that you have gained in the courses taken in your program of study. This is the course's Key Assignment that you will make contributions to each week.

Below is a basic scenario that can help get you started thinking about a problem to work on. The idea here is to find a real problem in your world either at work or in another community you belong to. It could be a church, an association, and soon; a work problem is preferred_ If you have a unique idea other than a business; talk to your instructor and make sure it it’s within the parameters of the course outline and objectives.

For the purpose of this class, you are a research analyst and your job is to perform studies and analysis for companies that need product, process improvement, manufacturing, and consulting research services.

Scenario  

You have been assigned to develop a comprehensive research strategy and plan and develop a proposal outline for a customer-driven project. After you complete your review of the project, you will have to pick a topic and decide the research methodology that will be applied. Then you will have to develop the research design to include the topic, purpose statement, literature review, research question and hypothesis, and the analysis and report writing format. Finally, you will have to present the research proposal outline for customer/management approval. For this project, you will not have to do actual data collection. This project requires the completion of this assignment using secondary data.

Here is a link for more details and ideas for potential projects. http://leankit.com/learn/kanban/continuous-improvement/

Assignment Details

For the assignments in this course, you will be developing a management problem analysis document that identifies a management problem and works through formal research, analysis, and synthesis method to provide a proposed solution to the problem. Your first task(s) in this process will be to (1) select a project to use as the basis of your research, analysis, and synthesis for each of the assignments in the course and (2) identify the audience (i.e., who has the authority to take action on the recommendations). You will also create the shell document for the final project deliverable that you will be working on during each unit. As you proceed through each project phase, you will add content to each section of the final document to gradually complete the final project deliverable. Appropriate research should be conducted to support the development of your document, and assumptions may be made when necessary.

The project deliverables are as follows:

• Management Problem Analysis Document

? Use Word (do not use a template)

• Title Page

? Course number and name

       ? Working title (the final title will be determined in Unit 5)

? Student name

? Date Table of Contents (TOC)

• Use auto-generated TOC (leave this page blank until U5)

? Separate page

o Section Headings (create each heading on a new page with TBD as content, except for sections listed under New Content below)

            ? Introduction (Week 1).

            ? Literature Review (Week 2)

            ? Discussion (Week 3)

            ? Analysis (Week 4)

            ? Compilation of findings, conclusions, and recommendations (Week 5)

o New Content (Week 1): The following items are separate sections under the Introduction:

           ? Identify the problem, the context, and the audience.

             • Prepare a statement of the issue to be resolved.

             • Identify how the organization will be impacted if the issue is not resolved.

           ? Identify the consequences if the problem is not resolved.