Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Acknowledgment: Some of the slides are taken from Prof. Jan Wickenberg lectures
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Lean Production Outsourcing and off shoring Knowledge Management Project Economics Feasibility Leadership Business Model Risk Management
These are just suggestions. Themes are purely decided by the groups themselves!
Possible Scenarios
IUIC want to reorganize their establishment and it has hired you as consultants to point out the possible services. (Lean Principle/ Agile Frame Work) IUIC want few of its processes to be outsourced. Your task as consultants is to identify them and then advocate your point. What are the risks involved in opening a new Campus in some other City. Analyze the revenue generated by IUIC annually and predict how much it will be after 5 years.
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Norms
Communication
Mutual respect
Meetings
Maturity
Mutual respect
Power struggles
Honeymoon
Unity
Generosity Idealization
Conflicts
Alliances
Disagreement
Integration
Crystallization of roles
Deeper communication
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Remember
Utilize all the resources in your group! Plan your work e.g. schedule face-to-face meetings Balance encouragement and inquiry key to mutual learning It is your responsibility to become a good team!
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Get Started
Organize yourselves plan your own project Select a theme and start reading about it What do you want to learn more about? What seems to be special about this scenario (red hot issues)? Design your study Start to read How to collect data How to interview to get interesting and useful information
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Three Designs
1. The Study
To collect information about the project and understand it by means of theory. Select some of your findings (the ones you find interesting) and discuss and analyze these (by means of theory) in line with a purpose and end up in some conclusions.
2. The Report
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Grading criteria
What you address (a difficult task may merit higher grades than a very simple one) How you address it (clarity in structure and quality of analysis) How you make use of the literature
The course literature Additional literature, appropriate for the chosen problem/issue Proper referencing is a must for a good grade!
At least 50% points required in the project to pass the course !
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Come prepared to supervision meetings Contact supervisor promptly via e-mail if problems occur do not wait!
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Advice
Decide what is a reasonable task given the fact that you only have limited time (17 weeks) Decide how to divide and coordinate the work load Make a project plan for your own project (Use Gantt chart if required) Read the literature and discuss your problem/issue before agreeing to some theme
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Mandatory Deliverables
Progress Presentations: 24th Sept and 29th Oct by 3pm (email)
Fight your stage anxiety Rough description of the project
Emailing Instructions
Each group should send one email The email subject must be of the form HUM321_Deliverable name_Group number Deliverable name may be Progress Presentation, Draft Report and Final Report & Presentation No other subjects would be accepted so be careful!
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Project Report
Maximum Six pages excluding references and title page Structure
Cover page
Relevant title, Group number, names, revision date, course id.
Abstract
Should not exceed 250 words
Introduction
Interest for further investigation, your research questions (Problem)?
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Method
includes information telling how the study was done, where it was done, with whom it was done, why the study was designed, how the data were collected and analyzed, and what procedures were carried out to ensure the validity of the arguments and conclusions made in the report.
Discussion
you must clearly show how the results found lead to the conclusions being drawn and therefore how these conclusions should be understood.
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References
refer to material written by others.
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