Assignment: Problem Analysis
Prompt
Returning to your problem catalog, choose for analysis a real-world problem that impacts your current or former workplace or a current or former organization (professional, civic, recreational, religious, etc.) that you are affiliated with. The list below provides some examples of the types of things you may have encountered:
i. Overuse of services provided by a group or department
ii. Continuous friction between groups
iii. Failure to follow rules/protocols
iv. Repeated tardiness in delivery of product, services, information, and so on
v. Poorer and poorer (degrading) performance
vi. Proliferation/acceptance of poor performance
vii. Incompetence
Note: You can choose a problem that you have worked with in an earlier module or you can choose a new problem. However, for this exercise, choose a problem different from the one you are analyzing for your final project.
Once you have chosen your problem, analyze it from both a traditional linear-thinking perspective and from a systems thinking perspective. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Analyze the chosen problem from a linear thinking perspective.
II. Analyze the chosen problem from a systems thinking perspective. Include the following:
i. A causal loop diagram or a stock and flow diagram (whichever you think is more illuminating) of the system producing the problem
ii. Application of all relevant archetypes and an explanation of how they operate within the system
III. Identify the extent to which there have been previous attempts at solving this or related problems. To what extent was systems thinking applied?
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.