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 this systemic phenomenon as “today’s problems […]

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 achieves something. If you look at […]

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 in the book to effective business […]

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 abstract concepts in an informative and […]

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 manager, much of your work requires […]

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 achieves something. If you look at […]

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 this systemic phenomenon as “today’s […]

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 management team to evaluate an organizational […]

WMBA-6040B/MMSL-6645/WMBA-6040/MGMT-6645 WMBA6040 Improving Business Performance Week 7 Assignment Systems Thinking for Good, Part 2 This week, you will return to the business report you began working on in Week 6. As a reminder, you have assumed the role of a consultant who has been asked by the upper management team to evaluate an organizational performance […]

MHRM-6611/MSPM-6010/WMBA-6010/COMM-6504/MGMT-6010/MMSL-6010/WMBA-6010B WMBA6010 Managing People and Promoting Collaboration Week 1 Discussion Describing Organizational Culture What does organizational culture mean to you? Has it been an important factor when deciding where you want to work? Has the culture of an organization ever caused you to want to leave an organization? Or is it a term that has […]