Succinct Report

Succinct Report Order Description • Identify an important managerial challenge facing his or her work or other organization. • Develop a plan that integrates effective financial and operational decision making to successfully meet this challenge and improve organizational performance, in a succinct report that includes an executive summary. What is a succinct report? Could it be 10 pages or less? One reads that IBM decision papers are limited to that length, and we all recall the single-sheet Ringo Sho approach to important decisions at Toyota. As to overall plan format, I-B-C (https://polaris.umuc.edu/~jstewart/StewartWebSite/writingt.htm) is, recommended for your consideration. A results-filled executive summary (ES) should lead off the plan. This link is to "How to Write an Executive Summary" in Course Resources. You may also benefit from a review of the files in Course Resources specific toWriting Guidelines and the files showing proper APA citations.