Developing a management-concerns diagram from a core theme in ALRA: an illustration

Developing a management-concerns diagram from a core theme in the Agile Literature Review Approach (ALRA): an illustration 


Sometimes, a student's initial management-concerns diagram is purely his/her research theme expressed in diagram form. For example, the research theme is on sustainable product development. In this case, it is possible to introduce a few additional components into the management-concerns diagram to depict a set of management concerns more clearly, thus, more meaningfully. This is indicated in the following diagram:

Diagram 1

Components 3 and 4 cover the core theme of the research project on "sustainable product management" and "sustainable product marketing". Components 1, 2 and 5 are added to cover factors that raise the need to improve components 3 and 4. Preferably, the student should go through the project orientation phase more properly so as to include more specific factors for components 1, 2 and 5 so as to make the set of management concerns more specific to a particular client system at a particular time-space. Diagram 1 serves to encourage the student to do so.