4pa3

4PA3 Case Exam Notes

1. Your role

* Use only a few lines

* Be as brief as possible

2. Include things on the Diamond E at your own discretion

* Some of it may not be applicable

* If you don't include it, the TA will assume that its not important

3. Organizational performance

* Make a chart with your ratios, its equation and explanation

* Explanations should be within the chart

* Make sure to give a rating and explain why

* Always have a concluding sentence for your tables

4. Organizational health

* List 3 or 4 issues and their measures

5. Show which quadrant the business is in

* Explain why they are in the quadrant

* Where were they before, where they are now, where will they be in the future

* Suggest improvements

* Everything you are writing now leads to the alternatives

6. Resource Analysis

* Only do the chart

* Identify resource requirements

* Only list the ones that are relevant

* Have a gap closing analysis

* What they should do with their resources to close the gap between them and their goals

* Conclusion

* List implications of the gaps

7. PEEST

* Case may not include all of PEEST

8. Developing Alternatives

* Do external research

* Sometimes finding out what the company really did will help you think of alternatives

* Don't copy it entirely obviously

* Give pros and cons of each alternative before the decision criteria table

* Use a scale with a multiplier to rank the criteria's importance

* Percentages and points should add up to 100

* Have 4 alternatives and 1 "Do Nothing" (5 in total)

9. Action Plan

* Decision

* Ex. "The alternative mitigates the criteria because this company is on X point on the crisis curve, here are the changes that I recommend to get them into a...