How to come up with ALRA zone 2 items that are useful: some advice
When constructing a management-concerns diagram for their MBA dissertation project formulation, quite a number of students have difficulties to come up with the agile literature review approach (ALRA) management-concerns diagram items, notably for zone 2 (organizational capabilities).
My suggestions as follows:
I. Increase theoretical sensitivity on organizational capabilities by studying the topic of core competence and the resource-based view. [also be familiar with the management subjects covered in the MBA programme:
II. Discuss with some other case study stakeholders to obtain some additional management-concerns items for consideration.
III. Study the ALRA dissertation samples to learn some illustrative examples on the management-concerns diagrams.
IV. Consider the following typical zone 2 items (28 items in total) and come up with your situation-specific ones for zone 2:
- human resource management competence
- human resource development competence
- training and development competence
- managerial competence
- leadership competence
- marketing management competence
- marketing communication management competence
- market development competence
- strategic management competence
- innovation capability
- product management competence
- product development competence
- IT management competence
- Supply chain management competence
- Distribution management competence
- Operations management competence
- TQM competence (or maturity)
- Financial management competence
- Management accounting function capability
- Business model capability
- Business partnership management competence
- IT infrastructure capability
- Information systems management competence
- Business intelligence management competence
- Project management competence
- Corporate risk management competence
- Corporate crisis management competence
- Corporate turnaround management competence
Consider the zone 2 items above and try to come up with your own zone 2 items. You need to ensure that your formulated zone 2 items can be related to some of the items in your management-concerns diagram.
Related note: on an exploratory interview technique to produce the management-concerns diagram.