Preparing an Effective Case Analysis Michael Hitt, Duane Ireland and Robert Hoskisson Using the Case Method The case method brings reality into the classroom. When developed and presented effectively, with rich and interesting detail, cases keep conceptual discussions grounded in reality. The case method can help you develop your analytical and judgment skills. Case analysis also helps you learn how to ask the right questions. Students aspiring to be managers and business owners can improve their ability to identify underlying problems, rather than focusing on superficial symptoms, through development of the skills required to ask probing, yet appropriate, questions. The particular set of cases your instructor chooses to assign the class …show more content…
b. Discover or invent feasible action alternatives. c. Examine the probable consequences of action alternatives. d. Select a course of action. e. Design an implementation plan/schedule. f. Create a plan for assessing the action to be implemented. Source: C.C. Lundberg and C. Enz, 1993, A framework for student case preperation, Case Research Journal 13 (summer): 144. 2 Gaining Familiarity The first step of an effective case analysis process calls for you to become familiar with the facts featured in the case. Initially, you should become familiar with the focal business's general situation (e.g., who, what, how, where, and when). Thorough familiarization demands appreciation of the nuances as well as the major issues in the case. Gaining familiarity with a situation requires you to study several situational levels, including interactions between and among individuals within groups. Recognizing relationships facilitates a more thorough understanding of the specific case situation. It is also important that you evaluate information on a continuum of certainty. Information that is verifiable by several sources and judged along similar dimensions can be classified as a fact. Information representing someone's perceptual judgment of a particular situation is referred to as an inference. Information gleaned from a situation that is not verifiable is classified as speculation. Finally, information that is independent of verifiable sources and arises
In this paper, the definition and description of what a case study is, what are some reasons for using a case study, what are some disadvantages and advantages of this approach? Also included in this paper I will talk about what are some of the ways a researcher can acquire information that can is used for a case study. A case study can be defined as a descriptive account of the behavior, history, and other relevant factors concerning a particular individual (Cozby, Bates, 2012).
A case study is a puzzle that has to be solved. The first thing to remember about writing a case study is that the case should have a problem for the readers to solve. The case should have enough information in it that readers can understand what the problem is and, after thinking about it and analyzing the information; the readers should be able to come up with a proposed solution. Writing an interesting case study is a bit like writing a detective story. You want to keep your readers very interested in the situation.
IV. Identify problems and solutions with your plan (develop it) and also your aims and objectives:
Because the case is nondirected, there is ample opportunity for students to be creative in their solution approaches. Thus, it is impossible to provide a single solution here that is applicable to every student's work. As a starting point in evaluating students' solutions, we provide a solution that is based on the questions contained in online Case Questions section. It is important, however, to recognize that this solution is merely a starting point, and student work should be graded at least as much on the
Because the case is nondirected, students have ample opportunity to be creative in their solution approaches. Thus, it is impossible to provide a single solution here that applies to every student’s work. As a starting point in evaluating students’ solutions, we provide a solution based on the questions in the online Case Questions section. However, this solution is merely a starting point, and student work should be graded at least as much on thought processes, assumptions used, creativity, and the ability to
Case studies are one of the first types of research to be used in the qualitative methodology and repeating the study several times will lead to the increased reliability of the study (Starman, 2013). This methodology is appropriate because it will allow for data collection results to be generalized based on the theoretical propositions and not the population (Harrison et al. 2017).
Therefore rational for the use of case formulation is that it improves practice by linking theory, research and
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c) Research Design Formulation.- This next step is acquired when the characters decided to “what to do” to obtain the
In my opinion, the clinical case-based analysis stimulates the clinical reasoning and the problem solving to a specific clinical scenario. When I was studying my Occupational Therapy Bachelor degree without any clinical experience, case-based analysis helps me visualize the patient's clinical situation and how could be the occupational therapy process and intervention. Also, when I took some continuous education courses about specific techniques like sensory integration or NDT for example, in small discussion groups the use of case-based analysis help us to engage in clinical reasoning specific to the provided case, and it allows students to integrate previous knowledge into the OT process in the specific clinical situation. This process and
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Constructing courses of action to solve the problem involves discovering what actions will deal with any obstacles and achieve my objective. Workable solutions are developed by combining and modifying ideas and a range of creative techniques are available to help in this process. The more ideas I have to work with, the better my chances of finding an effective
case analysis. You may choose any case of interest from your text or the news.
Methodology provides clarity in the potential areas of weakness , as well as an overview of the situation and a way to identify relationships that may not be obvious at first through hard techniques . A structured approach or difficult the task to prevent the learning process to be held and will not allow the situation to be seen as a whole
According to Campbell (1975) replicating the case through pattern-matching, a technique linking several pieces of information from the same case to some theoretical propositions, for instance, multiple-case design enhances and supports the previous results. This ensures confidence of the strength of the method. This method then can prove that it is appropriate to the research questions and that a chain of evidence, either quantitively, though it is not case with our study here or qualitatively, are systematically recorded through direct observations by the researcher and therefore, form as the basis for the main sources of data. The inclusion of both quantitative and qualitative data in case study, helps in explaining both the process ad outcome of a given phenomenon through complete observation, reconstruction and analysis of the cases under investigation because it links theoretical framework (Tellis, 1997).