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#*#[[Threat]]. A negative trend in the [[external environment]].
 
#*#[[Threat]]. A negative trend in the [[external environment]].
 
#*[[Porter's five forces framework]]. A [[market analysis tool]] that maps the analysis of competition of a [[business]]. The five forces include (a) threat of new entrants, (b) threat of substitutes, (c) bargaining power of customers, (d) bargaining power of suppliers, and (e) industry rivalry.
 
#*[[Porter's five forces framework]]. A [[market analysis tool]] that maps the analysis of competition of a [[business]]. The five forces include (a) threat of new entrants, (b) threat of substitutes, (c) bargaining power of customers, (d) bargaining power of suppliers, and (e) industry rivalry.
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#'''[[Risk evaluation pattern]]'''. A three-step pattern used to evaluate risks. Risks are identified first, qualitatively analyzed and prioritized second, and those, that are selected as the most important, quantitatively analyzed third.
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#*[[Risk identification]]. Determining which risks might affect the project and documenting their characteristics.
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#*[[Qualitative risk analysis]]. Performing a qualitative analysis of risks and conditions to prioritize their effects on project objectives. It involves assessing the probability and impact of project risk(s) and using methods such as the probability and impact matrix to classify risks into categories of high, moderate, and low for prioritized risk response planning.
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#*[[Quantitative risk analysis]]. Measuring the probability and consequences of risks and estimating their implications for project objectives. Risks are characterized by probability distributions of possible outcomes. This process uses quantitative techniques such as simulation and decision tree analysis.
 
#'''[[Portfolio appraisal tool]]'''. A tangible or software implement used to carry out [[portfolio appraisal]].  
 
#'''[[Portfolio appraisal tool]]'''. A tangible or software implement used to carry out [[portfolio appraisal]].  
 
#*[[BCG matrix]]. A strategy tool that guides resource allocation decisions on the basis of market share and growth rate of [[strategic business unit]]s.
 
#*[[BCG matrix]]. A strategy tool that guides resource allocation decisions on the basis of market share and growth rate of [[strategic business unit]]s.

Revision as of 19:15, 22 March 2018

Feasibility Study Quarter (hereinafter, the Quarter) is the first of four lectures of Operations Quadrivium (hereinafter, the Quadrivium):

The Quadrivium is the first of seven modules of Septem Artes Administrativi, which is a course designed to introduce its learners to general concepts in business administration, management, and organizational behavior.


Outline

The predecessor lecture is Idea Generation Quarter.

Concepts

  1. Feasibility study. In enterprise administration, an assessment of the practical potential of a proposed change. Depending on the nature of the proposed change and the complexity of its implementation, this assessment may consist of one or more evaluations. If the proposed change implementation is a single project, a cost-benefit analysis may be needed. If the proposed change refers to the enterprise portfolio, another evaluation, portfolio appraisal, is needed. A feasibility study is feasible itself when its change stimulus is a business opportunity. If its change stimulus is a business need, no feasibility study is needed; business analysis is conducted instead. The change support analysis may be feasible for bureaucracies.
  2. Idea evaluation. An appraisal of potential solutions to problems to identify the best one.
  3. Cost-benefit analysis. Studies of the difference between the change benefit estimate, which is what the enterprise is going to obtain, and change cost estimate, which is what the enterprise is going to lose, is the primary target of the feasibility study if the proposed change is a project.
  4. Market analysis. Studies of the attractiveness, the risks, and the dynamics of the market that is identified by the analysis' buyer. Sometimes, market research is considered being the first phase of the market analysis.
    • Market. A place or space in which commercial dealings are conducted including a regular gathering of people for the purchase and sale of products. Collectively, the buyers create the market demand; the sellers create the market supply.
    • Planned economy. An economic system in which economic decisions are planned by a central government.
    • Free market economy. An economic system in which resources are primarily owned and controlled by the private sector.
    • Competition. The activity or condition of competing on the market. The buyers may compete over purchases of a product; more frequently, the sellers compete over sales of a product.
    • Competitor intelligence. The ability to control market research, to identify the data about the competitors, to process the identified data in order to acquire knowledge, and to apply the knowledge towards understanding and anticipating competitors' actions rather than merely react to them.
    • First mover. An enterprise that's first to bring a product innovation to the market or to use a new process innovation.
  5. Enterprise portfolio. A collection of all businesses in which a particular organization is.
  6. Portfolio appraisal. An appraisal of practical potentials of enterprise portfolios undertaken in order to identify the best one.
    • Business strategy. The formulation of how an organization is going to compete in a particular business. This formulation may or may not include (a) what products, (c) resulted from what production, (d) at what price, (e) using what presentation, (f) on what market, (g) with what people, (h) with what level of organization's support this organization is going to offer, as well as (i) what financial results and/or competitors' actions would trigger what changes in those decisions. Rarely, a mature organization formulates just one business strategy; usually, there are several business strategies in the organization's enterprise portfolio since both/either different divisions may have their own business strategies and/or different business strategies are developed for different products, regions, and/or segments of customers.
    • Organization. A consciously coordinated social unit, composed of two or more legal entities, that functions on a relatively continuous basis to achieve a common goal or set of goals.
  7. Change support analysis. An evaluation of the stakeholder support of the proposed change and, vice versa, the resistance to this change.

Methods

  1. Idea evaluation technique. An established procedure for carrying out idea evaluation.
  2. Funding. The act of providing financial resources, usually in the form of money, or other values such as effort or time, to finance a need, program, and project, usually by an organization.
    • Equity crowdfunding. The online offering of private company securities to a group of people for investment and therefore it is a part of the capital markets.
    • Angel investor. A private investor or group of private investors who offers financial backing to an entrepreneurial venture in return for equity in the venture.
    • Venture capitalist. External equity financing provided by professionally managed pools of investor money.
  3. Project estimate technique. An established procedure for carrying out project estimating.
    • Precedence diagramming method (PDM). A network diagramming technique in which activities are represented by boxes (or nodes). Activities are linked by precedence relationships to show the sequence in which the activities are to be performed.
    • Critical path method (CPM). A network analysis technique used to predict project duration by analyzing which sequence of activities (which path) has the least amount of scheduling flexibility (the least amount of float). Early dates are calculated by means of a forward pass, using a specified start date. Late dates are calculated by means of a backward pass, starting from a specified completion date (usually the forward pass' calculated project early finish date).
    • Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT). An event-oriented network analysis technique used to estimate program duration when there is uncertainty in the individual activity duration estimates. PERT applies the critical path method using durations that are computed by a weighted average of optimistic, pessimistic, and most likely duration estimates. PERT computes the standard deviation of the completion date from those of the path's activity durations.
      1. PERT network. A flowchart diagram showing the sequence of activities needed to complete a project and the time or cost associated with each.
      2. PERT activity. The time or resource needed to progress from one event to another in a PERT network.
      3. PERT event. End point that represents the completion of major activities in a PERT network.
  4. Risk evaluation technique: An established procedure for carrying out risk evaluation.

Instruments

  1. Idea evaluation tool. A tangible or software implement used to carry out idea evaluation.
  2. Project tool. A tangible or software implement used to carry out project estimation.
    • Gantt chart. A project tool that represents actual and planned output over a period of time. In other words, it is a graphic display of schedule-related information. In the typical Gantt chart, activities or other project elements are listed down the left side of the chart, dates are shown across the top, and activity durations are shown as date-placed horizontal bars. The chart was initially developed by Henry Gantt.
  3. Market analysis tool. A tangible or software implement used to carry out market analysis.
  4. Risk evaluation pattern. A three-step pattern used to evaluate risks. Risks are identified first, qualitatively analyzed and prioritized second, and those, that are selected as the most important, quantitatively analyzed third.
    • Risk identification. Determining which risks might affect the project and documenting their characteristics.
    • Qualitative risk analysis. Performing a qualitative analysis of risks and conditions to prioritize their effects on project objectives. It involves assessing the probability and impact of project risk(s) and using methods such as the probability and impact matrix to classify risks into categories of high, moderate, and low for prioritized risk response planning.
    • Quantitative risk analysis. Measuring the probability and consequences of risks and estimating their implications for project objectives. Risks are characterized by probability distributions of possible outcomes. This process uses quantitative techniques such as simulation and decision tree analysis.
  5. Portfolio appraisal tool. A tangible or software implement used to carry out portfolio appraisal.

Practices

The successor lecture is Business Modeling Quarter.

Materials

Recorded audio

Recorded video

Live sessions

Texts and graphics

See also