Every industry has problems, many of which are still solved by humans. How does a
business define, understand, brainstorm, address, and solve problems?
TEXT TYPES: Work Plan, List of Terms, Report, Email, & Proposal
INSTRUCTIONS:
1) Make a Work Plan for this project in its entirety. Your plan must include all steps, actions, and deadlines in detail to successfully complete and submit each assignment listed herein on time.
2) Choose 1 business entity (company) with a minimum 20 verifiable employees. You can continue with your project 3 company or choose another one. You do not have to want to work for this company. Note: all team members must choose different companies.
3) Research your company’s assumptions, expectations, rules, and enforcement of employee behavior. This is part of corporate culture.
4) Research current company problems. When you find several of interest, see what’s being done, if anything, about them.
5) Choose 1 specific current company problem to work with for this project. “Current” is defined as still extant now in 2020. You’ll need at least 3 sources verifying that the problem exists today.
6) Research the co-factors involved in the problem: who, what, where, when, how, why, and $$$?
7) Teamwork: Discuss problem types, such as supply chain, CEO personality, lack of staff diversity, poor business model, questionable reputation, impeding government regulations, corruption, low demand, fierce competition, and many more. Research for lists of business problems to get more ideas. What type is your business problem?
8) Determine who in the company is involved with the problem. You must understand the company’s organizational structure to know this. Who are the people involved in terms of their locations, departments, positions/titles, job descriptions, power status, and other relevant facts? Who else is involved, external to the company?
9) Draw or otherwise create a diagram, flowchart, or picture of how all these people are connected to each other in the problem.
10) Consider why, when, and in which modes (email, text, Zoom, in person, etc) these people communicate with each other.
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