MRIYO-P11

MRIYO-P11
PGDM 2011-13: Term-IV

MRI for Your Organization

Credits	1.5
Faculty Name	Prof. Harsha Desai (visiting professor)
Program	PGDM
Academic Year and Term	2012-2013, Term-IV

Instructor: Dr Harsha Desai

Content: In this Management and International Business elective students stress test an organization’s strategyStress-Test Your Strategy: The 7 Questions to Ask by R L Simons: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2010. They also ‘audit’ an organization’s leadership, capability and capacity to innovate, and functional areas to check how well these functions are integrated with the stated mission and strategy and how well is the organization performing in accomplishing its goals. The resulting check-up, or Management RecapManagement Reconnaissance for Intelligence Scan; Management Reconnaissance for Inefficiency Scan; Management Requirement Investigation Scan; Management Resource Imbalance Scan; Multifold Reflection Image Scan; Multi Route Investigation Scan; Management Resources Infrastructure Scan!& Investigation (MRI), leads to the creation of new strategy for the organization. The final paper includes an action plan that also details intended and unintended consequences of the proposed actions.

The focus is also on evaluating an organization’s value chain as well as the execution of its elements as they fit within the organization’s strategyBloom, et al. (2012) “Management practices across firms and countries,” Academy of management Perspective, Vol. 26, No. 1 (February), pp. 12-33; Waldman, et al. “What can we really learn about management practices across firms and countries?”, Academy of management Perspective, Vol. 26, No. 1 (February), pp. 34-40.. The course affords students an opportunity to explore how their organization’s functional strategies are aligned with the overarching mission and goals and tests how well the strategy of an organization is ‘lived’!

Format: During the first sessions we discuss the plan of action for the course; discuss how to go about conducting this ‘audit’ and intermediate deadlines for completing on the project plan.

The following session are a mix of theory and case discussions

Text: Simons, R. Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution, Harvard Business Press, 2010.

Readings: Various readings from Strategy, General Management, Marketing, Operations, Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources, International and Culture. We begin with the referenced articles. Additional readings are assigned according to the student’s organization and its industry grouping.

Cases: Three to five appropriate cases (TBD)

Assessment: Student project: 40%
Final exam: 40%
Class participation: 20%

Session Outline:

	Topic	Book Chapter
1	Introduction
2	Who is your primary customer?	Chapter 1
3
4	How do your core values prioritize shareholders, employees, and customers?	Chapter 2
5	Case
6	What critical performance variables are you tracking?	Chapter 3
7	Case
8	What strategic boundaries have you set?	Chapter 4
9	How are you generating creative tension?	Chapter 5
10	Case
11	How committed should your employees be to helping each other?	Chapter 6
12
13	What strategic uncertainties keep you awake at night?	Chapter 7
14	Student Presentations
15	Wrap up

Ref. Articles: -Bloom, N., Genakos, C., Sadun, R. and Van Reenen, V. (2012) “Management practices across firms and countries,” Academy of Management Perspective, Vol. 26, No. 1 (February), pp. 12-33.

-Waldman, et al. “What can we really learn about management practices across firms and countries?”,

Academy of Management Perspective

, Vol. 26, No. 1 (February), pp. 34-40.

-Simons, R. (2010) “Stress-test your strategy,”

Harvard Business Review

, Vol. 88, Issue 11 (November), pp. 92-100,

-Bloom, N. and Van Reenen, J. (2007) “Measuring and explaining management practices across firms and countries,”

Quarterly Journal of Economics

, Vol. 122, Issue 4 (November), pp. 1351-1408.

-Pfeffer, J. and Sutton, R. (1999) “knowing “what” to do is not enough: Turning knowledge into action,”

California Management Review

, Vo. 42, No. 1 (Fall), pp. 83-108.

Harsha Desai 2012

Created By: Debasis Mohanty on 05/18/2012 at 09:06 AM
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