BUMGT5980 – Managerial decision making – S1 2016 PI
Assessment Task 3 – Solution Application Word limit: 2000 words excluding reference list and appendices Format: Report (Arranged in sections using a professional approach – as would be applied in the workplace) In this assignment you are expected to follow the problem solving stages (start with course Topics 13) to identify a specific problem, generate and evaluate solutions and devise an implementation plan.
You should take some time to identify a problem suitable for this assignment. This may have been, say, a past problem you’ve encountered at work, a situation reported in the media or a case study based on a fictitious scenario. Your task is to address this problem in a new way by application of tools and methods starting with those enunciated by Wood et al. (2009). Four more (at minimum) academic references should be cited in the report.
Specific tasks or report elements:
1. Problem background: what is the problem and cause of the problem. Provide background information of the company
2. Problem definition: using one of these techniques, Swot anlysis or 5 W’s or root cause analysis or value chain
3. Solution generation: using fish bone cause and effect diagram, brainwriting, mind-mapping
4. Solution evaluation: affinity diagram, ranking, decision matrix
Find the one or two way of the solving the problem then
5. Implementation and action plan: using force field anlysis or how-how diagram technique

All the steps should be linked with the problem. And using one technique in each step. If you need any more query please contact me I want to get good score in this assignment. thanks