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75-150 words per question (enough to answer each question in detail)
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1. On an airplane, you find yourself sitting next to an executive whose goodwill is important to you either as a client or as a senior leader of your company. The executive asks, You said that you are a performance improvement consultant. What exactly does one do? You have less than 3 minutes (3 short paragraphs) to explain the HPT/HPI processes you use to get results and tie everything back to that executives business.
2. What is Corporate social responsibility (CSR) to a company? What is the relationship between CSR and profitability to a company?
3.Due to a down-turn in the economy, your company has been experiencing financial losses in revenue. You have been asked to put together a team that will find 3-5 low-cost or no-cost ways to resource costs by 25% for your companys main product line. You are being given less 6 weeks to identify and test these cost-cutting measures. If they work in a pilot, you and your team guide the organization through the changes, if not your team will be redeployed. With no margin for error, you feel that it is imperative that evaluation be right from the beginning. Identify the evaluations and key decisions that need to be made in each of the next six weeks. (Reminder: this isnt about designing the solutions but the plan to get to solutions.)
4. What is the relationship between a cause analysis and a requirements definition (often a document)? How does one impact the other? How does information flow between the two? Also explain what a cause analysis is including what information is needed before starting the cause analysis, what information would be gathered during the analysis and what decisions would be made based on that analysis. Then, explain what requirements are and how they will be used.
5. Explain what a gap analysis is including how gaps are defined and measured. Be sure to address how gap analysis relates to needs, requirements, design, project scoping, evaluation and evaluation planning.
