How to come up with ALRA zone 2 items that are useful: some advice

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:

1. human resource management competence
2. human resource development competence
3. training and development competence
4. managerial competence
5. leadership competence
6. marketing management competence
7. marketing communication management competence
8. market development competence
9. strategic management competence
10. innovation capability
11. product management competence
12. product development competence
13. IT management competence
14. Supply chain management competence
15. Distribution management competence
16. Operations management competence
17. TQM competence (or maturity)
18. Financial management competence
19. Management accounting function capability
20. Business model capability
21. Business partnership management competence
22. IT infrastructure capability
23. Information systems management competence
24. Business intelligence management competence
25. Project management competence
26. Corporate risk management competence
27. Corporate crisis management competence
28. 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.