WMBA-6040B/MMSL-6645/WMBA-6040/MGMT-6645 WMBA6040 Improving Business Performance Week 3 Assignment An Evaluation of the Dilemma at Benevento Foods: Understanding Cause and Effect and Recommendations for Improvement For this Assignment, you will continue to evaluate the same scenario from the previous week (Benevento Foods). For this evaluation, you will use systems thinking...
WMBA-6040B/MMSL-6645/WMBA-6040/MGMT-6645 WMBA6040 Improving Business Performance Week 2 Assignment An Evaluation of the Dilemma at Benevento Foods: Thinking in Systems For this Assignment, you will evaluate a real-world business scenario using a systems thinking approach to evaluate the workings of an organization. You will identify areas within the case where...
WMBA-6040B/MMSL-6645/WMBA-6040/MGMT-6645 WMBA6040 Improving Business Performance Week 1 Assignment Today’s Problems Come From Yesterday’s Thinking Albert Einstein is credited with saying, “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” This is as true in business as it is in science. Peter Senge (2006) describes...
WMBA-6040B/MMSL-6645/WMBA-6040/MGMT-6645 WMBA6040 Improving Business Performance Week 1 Discussion What Is a System? And What Is Systems Thinking? Donella Meadows, the pioneer of systems thinking and author of Thinking in Systems: A Primer, defines a system as “an interconnected set of elements that is coherently organized in a way that...
WMBA-6040B/MMSL-6645/WMBA-6040/MGMT-6645 WMBA6040 Improving Business Performance Week 8 Discussion The Goal—Part 3 This week is a continuation from Week 6 and Week 7, in which you used critical thinking skills to analyze business issues from the business novel The Goal. You will analyze the relevance of systems thinking concepts described...
WMBA-6040B/MMSL-6645/WMBA-6040/MGMT-6645 WMBA6040 Improving Business Performance Week 7 Discussion The Goal—Part 2 Through the lens of the business novel The Goal, you have been following many characters, complex business issues, and various management methodologies proposed for correcting problems. In choosing to write a novel, the authors are able to explore...
WMBA-6040B/MMSL-6645/WMBA-6040/MGMT-6645 WMBA6040 Improving Business Performance Week 6 Discussion The Goal—Part 1 According to The Foundation for Critical Thinking (n.d.), “[c]ritical thinking is that mode of thinking—about any subject, content, or problem—in which the thinker improves the quality of [their] thinking by skillfully analyzing, assessing, and reconstructing it.” As a...
WMBA-6040B/MMSL-6645/WMBA-6040/MGMT-6645 WMBA6040 Improving Business Performance Week 1 Discussion What Is a System? And What Is Systems Thinking? Donella Meadows, the pioneer of systems thinking and author of Thinking in Systems: A Primer, defines a system as “an interconnected set of elements that is coherently organized in a way that...
WMBA-6040B/MMSL-6645/WMBA-6040/MGMT-6645 WMBA6040 Improving Business Performance Week 1 Assignment Today’s Problems Come From Yesterday’s Thinking Albert Einstein is credited with saying, “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” This is as true in business as it is in science. Peter Senge (2006) describes...
WMBA-6040B/MMSL-6645/WMBA-6040/MGMT-6645 WMBA6040 Improving Business Performance Week 8 Assignment Systems Thinking for Good, Part 3 This week, you will complete the business report you have been developing during the last 2 weeks. As a reminder, you have assumed the role of a consultant who has been asked by the upper...