Organizational Analysis

Centennial College
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Professor
3
Timeline
  • June 6, 2020
    Experience start
  • June 14, 2020
    Project Scope Meeting
  • August 22, 2020
    Experience end
Experience
5 projects wanted
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Any
Any industries

Experience scope

Categories
Leadership Organizational structure Operations Project management
Skills
business consulting research
Learner goals and capabilities

What insights can be gained by better understanding the nature of one's own organization? Can these insights be used to avert disaster? Create opportunities? Maximize resources? Minimize damage? In this course, students will interview 3 levels of your organization to identify opportunities and gaps. Students will than submit a powerpoint and present their key findings to your business.

Learners

Learners
Undergraduate
Any level
28 learners
Project
10 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Teams of 3
Expected outcomes and deliverables

The final project deliverable will include:

  1. A powerpoint and report on students key findings
  2. A 15-minute presentation to your organization summarizing their key findings
Project timeline
  • June 6, 2020
    Experience start
  • June 14, 2020
    Project Scope Meeting
  • August 22, 2020
    Experience end

Project Examples

Requirements

A team of senior students would like to interview each individual for about 20 minutes, totaling about an hour of your company's time. In advance, students will have prepared – with guidance from faculty – a questionnaire to guide these interviews. If you would like to see the interview questions, I would be happy to send it to you in advance. The students will use The Four Frame Model designed to help understand and approach issues about organizational problems, development, and change to analyze your organization. This will provide your business with a report and presentation identifying opportunities and gaps within the organization.

Understanding gaps can help your organization to:

  • Improve the planning function across all departments (Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, Finance, etc.)
  • Improve available resource utilization to meet overall organizational objectives.
  • Ensure employees are aligned with values and the mission of the organization
  • Identify opportunities to reduce employee turnover or absenteeism or increase workplace safety.
  • Identify gaps within the organizational structure

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

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