Assessment 1 (Part A) Dear Everyone, Hope this finds you well. For Assessment 1 (Part A) please focus on the following tasks: Choose a "local" or "global" organisation/company/business that is currently facing significant intended or unintended issues/consequences which is impacting various stakeholders (Internal/external) of the same company. Critically analyse how “Systems Thinkings” approach can assist and help in making optimal decisions. Recommend/propose alternative policies/procedures using the “Systems Thinking” approach to help overcome the problem. A number of important points you need to focus on: Your Assessment 1 (Part A) should be holistic and needs to be posted on Assessment 1 Discussion Forum. Please make sure to submit Assessment 1 (Part A) before the deadline (Friday of Week 4, 11:59 pm, Brisbane Time). Assessment 1 (Part A) should be a maximum of 500 words and is an “individual” proposal. Simply this means that you need to do it on your own and not in a group. Please make sure to “provide a brief rationale of why it is important to use Systems Thinking and relevant tools and techniques to solve the identified organisational problem to minimise consequences”. Consider using Systems Thinking tools such as Rich Pictures and CATWOE, etc. Please make sure to use “References” in your assessment. Please be advised that the referencing needs to be done based on APA 6th Edition referencing Style Guide. Hope this helps. Assessment 1 (Part B) Dear Everyone, Hope this finds you well. For Assessment 1 (Part B) please focus on the following tasks: Each student requires to “Critique” an original post (Part A) of 2 other students/peers. Your Critique should include “commentary” on: Whether the original post is holistic or not? Please identify missing components (if any) and provide “constructive” feedback. Have all plausible consequences been identified? Have “Systems Thinking” tools been used and used properly? Please provide a critique of these tools and their use in solving the identified problem. Please note the following information: Please make sure to submit Assessment 1 (Part B) before the deadline (Friday of Week 5, 11:59 pm, Brisbane Time). This individual critique should be a maximum of 250 words. This assessment is designed to create robust discussion around “Systems Thinking” with your peers. Please feel free to post more than what is specified to broaden your understanding and appreciation of the topic. While presenting your views, you are required to support claims either with the relevant experience or with the published literature. This includes journal articles, relevant website links, news article, magazines or text from related books. The views could be supporting comments or they may be a contradiction, but you need to provide appropriate justification as specified above. If referring to published literature to support stated views, you are required to provide a relevant reference (and citation) in the response. If you can provide appropriate articles to support the opinion, it will be valued considerably. Please keep in mind that for referencing we focus on APA 6th Edition Referencing Style Guide. Along with actively participating in the discussions, it is equally important to provide responses, which are relevant and add value to the discussion. The quality of response will be considered as one of the most important criteria for evaluating students in Assessment 1, Part B. Once you have a good understanding of the task, then you need to post your work in the Assessment 1 (Part B) Discussion Forum. Hope this helps.

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