Systems Thinking Analysis: Blackberry, Macquarie Group Case Study

This discussion board post analyzes two case studies through the lens of systems thinking. The first case examines Blackberry's decline due to competitive pressures and lack of innovation, highlighting the importance of adapting to market changes and utilizing tools like CATWOE analysis. The second case studies Macquarie Group, addressing challenges such as competition, employee concerns, and customer demands, while suggesting the use of tools like rich pictures and CATWOE for effective problem-solving. The post emphasizes the application of systems thinking frameworks and research worldviews to address organizational issues and enhance business processes. Both cases provide insights into strategic analysis and the application of systems thinking tools for improving business outcomes.

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This post is about Blackberry and how competition in market has affected its business
process. Blackberry, established in 1999 was one of the prominent player in market, but as
new companies entered into this consumer electronics market it could not maintain its market
dominance (Muthukumar, Ramakrishnan & Krishnamacharyulu, 2017). This post has
described it beautifully how Blackberry from a being market leader become less significant
as it was not capable of managing competition and innovation that these competitors offered
to their consumers through their products. This post provides a comprehensive idea that
innovation is important even for a company that is already established in market. Blackberry
already established it in market as a premium phone manufacturer and also ensured consumer
loyalty. Therefore, when new company like Apple and Google entered into this market, it did
not provide importance to those competitors (Kimball, 2017). But these companies kept on
innovating to offer consumers products of superior quality in a competitive price that is less
compared to what Blackberry charged its consumers for its flagship phones. As a result, there
was a significant decline in popularity of its phones and affected its market share as well.
A CATWOE analysis is provided in this post with reference to this organizational problem
and along with this a system thinking approach is also provided to identify an effective
solution to this organizational problem. This system thinking tool has provided a detailed
description regarding how Blackberry would retain its market value. Therefore, this post has
not only analysed issues in terms of organizational strategies of Blackberry, but it has also
provided strategies regarding how to resolve these issues for enhancing its business process
as well.
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This post is about Macquarie Gathering Constrained which is an Australian worldwide free
speculation bank monetary administrations organizations ("Macquarie Group", 2020). It has
more than 14,000 staffs who are working in 25 nations which makes it the largest foundation
in world that supervise resource and counsel for mergers and acquisitions with a$495 billion
worth of resource in its administration.
However, this post has described in details various issues that is affecting organizational
process. Some of these issues that are identified in this context are competition, protests
among employees for salary and demand for consumers to provide money at lower interest
rate while providing high interest on capital investment that they make through this
organization (Wensing, Laurant & Grol, 2020). In order to resolve this issues some of the
tools that are mentioned in this post are rich picture and CTWOE tool for implementing
system thinking approach. This post has not only described benefits of these tools, but it has
also analysed how to implement these tools to ensure that maximum benefit is obtained from
application of these tools. Therefore, this post might be considered for identifying
information regarding system thinking tools, how to apply these tools in organizational
context and ensure success as well. Along with this, this post has provided a detailed
description regarding how to apply frameworks thinking and research worldview thinking.
With reference to these tools, a hypothetical framework is provided in this post which will
help Macquarie to resolve its issues as described in this context.

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References:
Kimball, D. C. (2017). Can blackberry bounce back? conducting a SWOT to guide strategy.
SAGE Publications: SAGE Business Cases Originals.
Macquarie Group. (2020). Retrieved 19 March 2020, from
https://www.forbes.com/companies/macquarie-group/#34387afc29bd.
Muthukumar, R., Ramakrishnan, L., & Krishnamacharyulu, C. S. G. (2017). Turnaround of
BlackBerry. Journal of Management Cases, 4.
Wensing, M., Laurant, M., & Grol, R. (2020). Organizational Implementation
Strategies. Improving Patient Care: The Implementation of Change in Health Care,
263-274.