What is a succinct report?

asic Instructions:

Working individually, students will demonstrate additional competency in project, operations, and information systems management by preparing a succinct report that integrates project, operations, and information systems management to meet a managerial challenge at their organization (academic hospital) and significantly improve its performance.

The report will include at least the following topics

An executive summary
Description of the managerial challenge
Application of project management to the challenge
Application of operations management to the challenge
Application of information systems management to the challenge
Assignment of the project team
Training needed
Work breakdown including critical path
A planning budget

The report will be submitted in pdf format except for the budget, which will be in xlsx format, and the work breakdown including critical path, which will be prepared with a project management software such as MS-Project.

Critical thinking, managerial decision making, information literacy, problem-solving, systems thinking, and technology fluency are needed.

Additional Instructions:

What is a succinct report? Could it not be 10 pages or less? One reads that IBM decision papers are limited to that length, and we all recall the single-sheet Ringo Sho approach to important decisions at Toyota.

Project management always refers to the Triple Constraint and involves a project team, plus a Gantt chart with critical path.

Operations management refers here to the daily processes at your organization; you should show how they will be improved after the project is completed.

Information systems management refers to the support provided by IS and included IT both during the project and also afterwards; you should describe it.

Required Format:

Except as provided above, you should again use APA format, double spaced

Required Readings:

Christensen, C.M. (2012). Tech futures – Christensen on solar energy. Cambridge: Harvard Business School Publishing. To be found in Content/Week 10. Makes a “shocking” prediction
Meredith, J.R., & Mantel, S.J., Jr. (n.d.). Technological forecasting.http://wiley.com/college/dec/mered