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Evolving Intelligent Systems: PDF

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Evolving Intelligent Systems: PDF

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Strategic Thinking andCritical Analysis
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TABLE OF CONTENTSPART 1- COMPANY REPORT......................................................................................................3Introduction..................................................................................................................................31) Situational Analysis ................................................................................................................3Rich Picture..................................................................................................................................52) Progressive resolution.............................................................................................................63) Wider implications..................................................................................................................9PART 2- EVIDENCE REVIEW...................................................................................................11Client business transformation for future sustainability ...........................................................14PART 3- REFLECTION................................................................................................................16REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................19
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PART 1- COMPANY REPORTIntroductionBusiness strategies are important in building stronger foundations and making correctdecisions. Critical thinking means evaluating every aspect and perspective of the problem orsituation and then coming up on a solution. ASDA is one of the leading retail organisations inUK and has been giving tough competition to its competitors. In this report, a situational analysiswill be performed for understanding the current functioning of the company. This shall help indeveloping strategies which will bring in more progress and development. Moreover, somechanges have also been proposed in this assessment which if adapted by organisation can help inachieving sustainable competitive advantage in markets.1) Situational Analysis CATWOE analysis is performed in context of ASDA for understanding its currentperformance, productivity, competitive position and the threats and challenges. These attributesdepict the problems which are faced by ASDA. This analysis is considered as Soft SystemsMethodology tool which helps in solving situational problems with different perceptions. Thisimplies that the validity of solution which is acquired after complete analysis is much more thanusual techniques (Wilkinson and et. al., 2010). The expansion of CATWOE is Clients, Actors,Weltanschauung, Owners and Environment. Clients: Clients are of two types that are business customers or simply purchasers that aregive money for the products they purchase. Shareholders and external stakeholders areconsidered as clients. Company’s activities have a huge impact over clients. For instance, ASDAproposes to make a decision of price hike for all its clients. This implies that right from basicconsumer to purchasers of bulk products have to gather more amounts of funds for purchasingthe commodities (Longaray, Ensslin and Mackness, 2014). In this analysis the clients who aresuffering or being benefited by company’s activities are identified. Actors: The strategies and action plans of a system keep on changing according todemand of situation. There are some factors which are responsible for such changes. In thisanalysis it is important to recognise the stakeholders that have been influencing the organisationto implement certain changes. ASDA’s internal working environment has to be balanced for3
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maintaining the productivity and profit margins. Hence, major changes introduced by theorganisation in its strategies are due to usually employees and the internal stakeholders likeboard members and partners (Longaray, Ensslin and Mackness, 2014). Transformation: Operations management is a system that is based on the inputs andoutputs which are generated by the system after application of appropriate transformationalchanges. CATWOE analysis is the medium through which the processes or systems that areapplied by company for transforming inputs into outputs can be identified and analysed. Therelationship with suppliers and the processes that are applicable for manufacturing and producingthe final product and services are categorised under this heading (Checkland and Poulter, 2010). Weltanschauung/ Worldview: Every action has certain consequences or effects. Thetransformation process which is involved for developing the output of the system has to beevaluated. It helps in understanding the aftereffects or consequences these transformationalprocesses can have. This element of CATWOE analysis is the wider implications oftransformational process. ASDA has to perform various operations for delivering the productsand commodities to consumers. For example, in the manufacturing of cookies, there are multipleraw materials required which are required for making these. The transformation process in thisoperation is mixing of food materials, baking, processing and packaging (Cundill and et. al.,2012). The Weltanschaunng will identify whether there is any sort of complication created byaforementioned processes on the environment or the stakeholders.Owner: The entrepreneur or the investor whose idea has been developed into this actualsystem is the owner of the company or organisation. The skills, attributes and decisions of ownerhave a deep impact over functioning of the company. CATWOE identifies owners andinvestigates the decisions taken by him/her.Environmental constraints: The complete surroundings under which the system isdeveloped and functioning is called environment. There may be some barriers or constraintswhich affect the performance of company. For example, ethical limitations, regulations,deficiency of resources, etc. This factor is important to evaluate because the challenge ofproblem faced by system can be due to environmental constraints and solution needs to bedeveloped according to source of problem. 4
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