Establishing Baselines and Assessing Success

MT400

Establishing Baselines and Assessing Success

Unit 8 Assignment

In this Assignment, through the development of pilot studies and contingency plans, you will engage in developing the following professional competencies:

● Write an action plan

In this Assignment, you are going to evaluate a specific business process based on criteria detailed below. If you already have selected a business process, continue using that and skip to the next paragraph. If you have not yet selected the business process you will use for these Assignments, then begin by selecting one. E-mail your instructor and clearly describe the objective of this process, the participants, and the strategic significance for the company. The business process you select must have a clear beginning and an end, with identifiable, specific steps. Your instructor will confirm that the process you selected is suitable, or ask you to select another one.

For this Assignment, write a paper that answers the following questions (use the subheadings/numbered questions below to organize your paper):

PART 1 – IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES

In the first section, you will use critical thinking skills to tackle the problem of revised process implementation. You will evaluate various implementation strategies and pick the best option for your project.

Analyze the suitability of the four implementation strategies discussed in your book to your project, determine the best one and describe how you would design the implementation for your specific process based on this strategy.

● For each strategy explain the specific pros and cons of using it for your project. Do not simply repeat the generic pros/cons from the book- your analysis should be based on how each strategy applies to the process you selected and the nature of your selected organization. Discuss the makeup of your organization as well as the requirements of your process and anticipate how each strategy may experience difficulties.

● Select the one you think will work the best in your situation. Justify your selection.

● Explain how this strategy must be customized for your selected process.

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After the table is complete, address the following questions:

1. Why is it important to ensure that the baseline data is accurate?

2. Was the project successful? Why or why not?

Directions for Submitting Your Project

Compose your Assignment as a Microsoft Word document and save it as Username-MT400- Assignment-Unit#.docx (Example: TAllen-MT400 Assignment-Unit 8.docx). Submit your file by selecting the Unit 8: Assignment Dropbox by the end of Unit 8.

Grading note: In the grading rubric below, you will see a section on analysis and critical thinking. The points in this section will partly be based on your ability to apply the concepts discussed in your Assignment to the specific circumstances and details of the process/organization you selected. Writing in general terms without applying the concepts and analyzing your specific project may get you points for content section, but you will lose points in the analysis section.

Review the grading rubric below before beginning this activity.