Evaluating an Organizational Initiative

Now is the time to celebrate what you have learned in the course and apply it in practice. Imagine you are a business analyst writing an article for a business publication in which you evaluate a recent initiative by a prominent organization of your choice and the data-based decision-making processes they implemented. Your editor has asked you to include the following bulleted instructions in your evaluation.

In your final paper,

• Select an organization.
• Describe the industry and business model.
• Examine a recent initiative that the organization implemented.
• Assess the success of the initiative.
• Describe the organizations decision support systems and their decision-making process.
• Identify the decision support tools used by the organization to make various structured, semi-structured, and unstructured decisions.
• Outline the processes and tools the organization used following the decision tree model.
• Evaluate how their decision support system contributed to either the success or failure of the initiative.
• Assess how the organization could have approached the initiative differently to realize greater success.

The Evaluating an Organizational Initiative final paper

• must be 5 to 6 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to
• must include a separate title page with the following in title case:

title of paper in bold font

Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.

students name

name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)

course name and number

instructors name

due date

• must utilize academic voice.
• must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph.
• Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
• must use at least 2 scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
• must document any information used from sources in APA Style
• must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style

Please refer to rubric!