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Innovation and Creativity in Business Analytics
Assessment - Solving a wicked problem using systems thinking
Case Study
The case study will be placed in the Announcements section in the portal on the Friday of week 3. However please refer to the article below for some initial reflections. Get top assignment help at pocket friendly prices!
Assessment Instructions
Prior to week 4, form groups of 3 to 4 students and inform your lecturer of these groups. You will be provided with a case study at the beginning of class. You will be asked to:
Apply the systems thinking process
Prepare 10 slides
Slide Content
Slide 1: Cover page
Slide 2: Explanation of why having an affordable healthy diet for welfare groups in Australia is especially important during the current cost-of-living crisis, with the application of data sets.
Slide 3: Reframe the problem in terms of a question or questions that could lead to micro-solutions and recommendations, i.e. approaching the bigger problem via smaller ones. For example, perhaps you could focus on how to deter relatively more expensive habitual (non healthy) diets. This is to be a unique initiative of your group, which would lead to a more specific solution.
Slide 4: Explain the elements of the system now that you have reframed it. Slide 5: List the possible perspectives of different "players" in the system.
Slide 6: List the boundaries (scope and scale of the system), having reframed the problem.
Slide 7: Apply three datasets to the problem, now that you have reframed it? Explain how these data sets offer fresh insight to the problem..
Slide 8: Apply the Iceberg model (using Systemic Thinking in contrast to Systems Thinking) to identify underlying causes for the problem (see week 3 slides).
Slide 9: Suggest some preliminary recommendations, solutions and suggest next steps. Slide 10: References (both academic and "grey" material)
Assessment - Group Peer Review
Task
During class in Week 5, each team member will present the slides your group created in Assessment 1
The other class members (not in your group) will listen to your presentation and can ask questions at the end of your presentation.
Assessment Description
When presenting an initiative, it is important to convince your stakeholders that the initiative will be successful.
In this assessment you need to convince your classmates that your initiative from Assessment 1 will succeed.
Assessment Instructions
Groups will be given 1 hour in class at the commencement of week 5 to prepare a presentation of 8 minutes (2 minutes per student) of their initiative from Assessment 1. This presentation is prepared by each group based on their Assessment 1 submission.
In preparing the Assessment 2 presentation, there is to be no further assistance using Generative AI beyond what the group used in submitting Assessment 1.
Each member of the group is to participate in the presentation
Other students will make notes and ask questions after the presentation (there are up to 2 marks for your group asking questions of the other groups that are presenting).
Article 1: Habitual Diets Are More Expensive than Recommended Healthy Diets
Article 2: Cost and Affordability of Habitual and Recommended Diets in Welfare-Dependent Households in Australia