Category: Business and Management

For this assignment, you will focus on Stakeholder Lessons Learned.  Note that the Lessons Learned process is a signficant part of every project and should always be held, and the results documented.
This assignment is a two-part submission to have you look at the Lessons Learned process, how important stakeholders are in this process, and to identify the value produced.  Please review the Week 5 slides about Lessons Learned.  We will review/discuss them further during our Week 5 meeting.  Note the use in the slides of the terms “Plus” (something we did well and want to continue) and “Delta” (something that didn’t go so well and we’d like to change/improve)
Part 1:
Review this article Download this articleand select one of the projects (not the DIA, which you’ve obviously already worked on) to be the focus for this assignment.  Note that the article identifies all of these projects as failures, so there should be a signficant amount of Lessons Learned that can be obtained from whichever project you select
Analyze the case and any additional supporting documentation you can find. Based on your analysis, assume you’re running a Lessons Learned session at the end of the project, and provide the following:
An Overview section regarding the case you’ve selected
Identify at least two (2) stakeholder-related issues with this project that would be discussed during the lessons learned session. For each of the issues that you identify, answer the following:
What was the primary issue with the Stakeholders that apparently caused this issue? Be specific when identifying the Stakeholder or the Stakeholder Group.
Was there a specific conflict issue that caused it? How did this conflict negatively impact the project?
What could have been done by the PM/sponsor to resolve this conflict?
Specific to each issue, what is your recommendation for future projects, so this type of issue doesn’t occur going forward (a Delta)?
We tend to focus on the negatives during lessons learned sessions. Based on your analysis of this project, what is one POSITIVE lesson learned (a Plus) from this project that you would recommend continuing to do going forward?
Part 2:
Specific to the DIA case that we’ve used in this course:
Select one (1) Stakeholder GROUP (not an individual) that you identified as part of your identification and analysis processes and indicate why you’ve selected them:
How will you implement lessons learned sessions for this group? For example, when will you hold the session(s)? How many sessions will you hold? Who will be invited?  What do you see as the primary areas to focus on? Do you anticipate any conflict as part of the session? Feel free to include anything else you expect to occur in the planning or execution of this Lessons Learned session.
Since many of the DIA stakeholders will be included in future projects targeted at improvements, expansion, etc. at DIA, explain how you will use the outcomes from your Lessons Learned session to help improve future DIA projects using your selected Stakeholder group in particular.
I would recommend the following format for this assignment:
Part 1
Project Overview
Stakeholder Issues to be Discussed at Lessons Learned
LL #1
Primary Issue
Conflict?
Recommendation
LL #2
Primary Issue
Conflict?
Recommendation
Positive (Plus) LL from this project
Part 2 – Specific to the DIA case that was used throughout this course:
Stakeholder GROUP you’ve selected and why
How will you implement lessons learned sessions for this group?
How will you use the Lessons Learned results for future projects?

How do you know which economic, political, and legal system is more effective? How would you compare the development of the two countries? 
• How would you measure the economic success of a nation?
• Why is GDP/capita not a sufficient measure of the success of a nation?
• Other than economic indicators, what are other ways to measure how developed a nation is?

1. Explain what is a “At Will State”
2. How can a company use HR management to gain a competitive advantage?(1/2 page)
3. Give 3 reasons companies recruit internally and 3 reasons they recruit externally
4. Identify and explain 3 challenges that can arise from employee appraisals
Have about 5-8 sentences per question but #2 has to be half a page single spaced
You also need 2 website sources that are cited at the end of the page and within the discussion post

1. Explain the term delegation and show how it can be done effectively
2. Identify 3 approaches to organization departmentalization and how is it working (use Walmart as an example)
3. Distinguished between a centralized and a decentralized organization
4. Explain what is a “Learning Organization”
5. Identify some ways that “downsizing” has impacted the US economy
6. Show how customers are important to a responsive organization
About 5-12 sentences per question
Need 2 apa sources added in the post as well as sited at the end

Textbook chapters covered:  (pages 92-125)
Chapter 12 Planning & Decision-Making
Chapter 13 Forms of Business Organizations
1.  Every year for the past decade, ESPN has identified The Fighting Okra as one of the top ten college mascots in the United States.  The Fighting Okra product line is manufactured locally, in Mexico, and in the Pacific Rim, with each area producing about the same percentage of merchandise.  An emerging market is occurring in France due to that country’s growing use of okra as a vegetable of choice in French cuisine.  The Fighting Okra beanie baby is the second most popular item in that market, surpassed only by the Teddy Bear.  Sales are projected to increase ten percent annually over the next few years.  Managing the University’s mascots has become a business.  What form of business organization would you recommend that the College of Business and Aviation create?
2.  Write a Mission Statement for Fighting Okra, Inc.  Explain why you wrote what you did.
3.  Write a Vision Statement for Fighting Okra, Inc.  Explain why you wrote what you did.
4.  Conduct a SWOT analysis of Fighting Okra, Inc.
5.  Write a five-year plan to grow this business.  State legal issues that may arise.  Make a recommendation regarding licensing the trademarks.

Tell me about a leader you have experienced – who were they and what was the circumstance (2 marks) Using the concepts in Chapter 12 Tasa, K., & McShane, S. L. (2017). Canadian Organizational Behaviour. McGraw-Hill Education. | Chapter 12 on leadership, tell me what kind of leader you think they were and give specific examples of things they did that emulated that type (those types) of leadership (3 marks). Was their leadership style motivating, why or why not? (3 marks) Please note overall quality of writing will be worth 2 marks. Your submission must be between 800-1000 words, 12 font, submit on URcourses assignment tab. Must be a Word doc.
Do not make up fake stories – this will result in a zero because this is not a creative writing class. This is a reflective assignment designed to show me that you can apply the concepts.
Late assignments will receive a grade of zero.
Please do not cheat…this is a pretty easy assignment and it breaks my heart to see so many students using other students papers (or resorting to AI The use of AI is not permitted in this class. I catch MANY students each semester and am then forced to send the info to the Associate Dean, who then investigates and decides the penalty. For 10% it just is not worth it, so please, just do your own work.
Worth 10% of your final mark.

I have done the title page, table of contents, and vision/mission statement. I did write on paper for company overview and product strategy. I will also send what I have I just need help and I will be done with this class.

How does economic forecasting help you make better decisions about personal spending, investment, or other financial goals you may have?

This case write up should focus on (1) company History, timeline which led to the problem if necessary, and any other fact or figure important for introducing the company; (2) identifying and describing all the issues/problems faced by the company; (3) solutions taken by the company (organization) in the case to solve the above mentioned issues/problems; (4) evaluating the solutions taken by the company in the case and articulating pros/cons of the each solution; (5) offering substantiated recommendations to address the stated problem(s)/opportunity (ies) out of the solutions you found from the case. Your recommendations should effectively integrate both case and current information to offer viable options for the company in the case; (6) conclusion of the case study;

You are considering opening a small doughnut shop in your hometown. Research the process required to make doughnuts. After learning all of the steps that are required in the production of doughnuts, respond to the following:
List and describe all of the steps required to produce doughnuts as well as the equipment required to complete each step.
Create a bill of materials to list those ingredients required to produce doughnuts.
Describe what would be the capacity of the doughnut production operation that you are envisioning. In other words, describe what would define the maximum number of doughnuts that you could produce per hour.
If your doughnut business is incredibly successful (to the point that you are now selling them frozen, via grocery stores nationwide, so that people can prepare them in their own homes), explain how you could effectively increase the capacity of your doughnut operation.What change in process strategy would be required to produce and sell doughnuts in this way?