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Sample Leadership Studies Paper on Anticipatory Management Audit

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Project: Anticipatory Management Audit

Introduction: An Anticipatory Management Audit evaluates how strategic information flows from outside to inside the organization. Anticipatory management relies heavily on processes and responsibilities and considers the following questions:

  1. Does the client organization have a process to stay abreast of important external changes on the horizon?
    1. If not, what should the client do to achieve this objective?
  2. Does the client organization have processes and methods to share the external changes on the horizon with key individuals and stakeholders across the organization?
    1. If not, what should the client do to achieve this objective?
  3. Does the client organization have processes and methods to infuse key information relative to the external changes on the horizon in their strategy formation and decision-making processes?
    1. If not, what should the client do to achieve this objective?

Research:  Read your assigned pages in Ashley and Morrison’s textbook on Anticipatory Management and research online to grasp what an Anticipatory Management (AM) Audit involves. This assignment will require you to interview a client organization (My organization is Cyber/IT career field). Search the web to identify key issues likely to affect the client’s industry or business sector in the next ten to fifteen years.

Directions: Develop a multi-part Anticipatory Management (AM) Audit of a client organization and offer suggestions on how they might improve their anticipatory management processes to frame and advance the issues they face today and in the future. Based on your research, identify key issues likely to affect the client’s industry or business sector in the next few decades. This is a consulting report and should be developed for a leader or management group in your organization, or a client organization.

  1. You will focus on the above three questions in the Introduction to drive your analysis to assess what the client is currently doing so you can then make recommendations on how they can improve their processes.
  2. If the organization does not have an Anticipatory Management (AM) process, you should gear the AM audit to justify the embedding of key AM functions.
  3. If your client has an AM process, you should gear your project to strengthening their AM processes.
  4. Exemplary projects will:
    1. Assess: Create a list of issues based on an uncertainty/probability weighing chart.
    2. Prioritize: Gather survey data from managers that help segment issues into category I, II and III priorities. This can be done informally through interview questions or formally through an online survey.
    3. Brief: Apply the Issue Life Cycle model to a specific category I issue, with data points that illuminate the past, present and future trajectories of its progression curve.
    4. Recommend: Specific internal steps on how an AM function might be upgraded or established to frame and contain risks. A decision process model or accountability model of anticipatory management is recommended here.

Format: This Anticipatory Management Audit is written as a consulting report and should begin with a title page addressed to a CEO, strategic manager or task force of a client organization.The first internal page of the report should be an executive summary that explains the purpose of the report, the value of incorporating an AM process, and the key findings of the audit. The body of the report should run between 9-14 single-spaced pages, excluding appendices, and have a word count of between 2,500 to 3,500 words in length. The report  must follow the APA writing style guidelines with in-text citations and a list of references at the end.
Submission: Save the Anticipatory Management Audit as a Word document
Grading: This project is graded according to the above criteria and the instructions provided in the attachment, the ‘Major Project Rubric’ with Grading Comments feedback to students. Please look at the Rubric attachment so that you know how the project will be evaluated.