Write an Inter-Organisational Strategic Planning.
1. Explaining How Strategic Intelligence has a Key Influence on Inter-Organisational Planning and Decision-Making
When making this answer, Learners could start with writers such as Ackoff who notes that no amount of analysis will right the wrong thing including his view of analysis and diagnosis. This dichotomy represents a major cultural difference in the way organisations deal with and interpret strategic intelligence and hence their confidence in that intelligence to inform the development, implementation and review of inter-organisational policy and strategy and so is only one approach that could be used.
2. Examining the Concept of “Acceptable Risk” Associated with the Gathering and Use of Strategic Intelligence
Learners might explore two differing views, one strategic intelligence based on data collection
and detailed analysis and another, strategic intelligence based on holism, identifying weak signals and emergence. These two views require different management competences and behaviours. A full answer might argue these two views in context of a national and international organisation and their culture and norms.
In explaining how strategic intelligence has a key influence in inter-organisational planning and decision – making a full answer could build on the response to assessment criterion 3.2 and explain how the two views discussed above, contribute or don’t contribute to inter-organisational planning and decision-making.
3. Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Risk Theories and Models Used in Inter-Organisational Strategic Planning
n examining the concept of “acceptable risk” associated with the gathering and use of strategic data and intelligence, a full answer could summarise the pros and cons associated with Frequentist versus Bayesian statistics. Frequentist statistics assume data is normally distributed and that “acceptable risks” falls within agreed and predefined control limits, for example, +/- 2 to 3 standard deviations either side of the norm.
Alternatively, Bayesian statistic deals with probabilities of events (Black Swans). It is not expected that a full answer would described the detailed mathematics of the two approaches but simply summarising the main differences and in particular how t
