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1. Make sure to state your assumptions clearly - especially in formulating your management problem, but also in deriving research objectives/questions as
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2. This is an exercise in practicing action-oriented decision problems. Thus, make sure to come up an actionable (action-oriented) decision problem (and not a
discovery oriented one). If you choose a discovery oriented problem, you will have difficulty with the rest of the assignment.
3. Research objectives basically ask the question: “what do | need to know to solve the management problem?” So, here it is essential that you list all the
things you would need to know to help you make the decision embedded in the management problem you have identified. It is also important that you do
NOT mention anything that is not directly relevant to your management problem.
4. Research questions follow a similar partner. You ask the question: "what do | need to know to address each of the research objectives | have identified?" So,
once again, it is essential that you list all the things you would need to know to address the research objectives and NOT mention anything that is NOT directly
elevant to it.
5. Finally, same principles apply to the listing of the variables: list all relevant variables, but not anything that is not. Depending on the variables you choose,
you might need to disclose any assumptions (e.g., do you assume the firm to be continuously collect some form of data, granularity of data, if needed data
collection method - survey, experiment, projective techniques etc.).
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Deciphering the symptoms a firm faces and formulating them into meaningful decision problems & research questions might be trickier then it seems. In this
exercise, you will be provided with a firm's situation and the symptoms it is facing.
Firms’ situation: Dave Grant, an entrepreneur and meat lover, recently opened a new butcher in Columbus. He was lucky enough to find a building that was
already fitted with a kitchen and the suitable setup. Dave closes his shop on Tuesdays and Wednesdays to do his butchering and is open for the remaining of
the days between 11am and 6pm. When he first opened his butcher, the novelty factor
ought in a lot of foot traffic, especially from the local neighborhood.
However, overtime, things has slowed down. He tried to reach his customers via new social media accounts, to offer lunch on Sundays and started offering
some specials. Later on, he also experimenting with increasing prices to make up for the lost revenue. Alas, he does not seem to increase the foot traffic or his
evenues.
So, these symptoms are:
= lower than ideal/expected foot traffic
= lower than ideal/expected revenues/profit
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