We’re going to go back to Week 2 and revisit the Garbage Can Model of Decision Making. If you remember, the authors weren’t exactly positive or supportive of this model of decision making, yet it can be useful and can provide positive results.
Knowing what you know now, discuss how you would approach your own organizational ‘garbage can’. What would you view as the most important factor(s) in selecting the combination of problem and solution? Examine how this topic would impact your selection and matching of problem and solution, and the specific types of innovations and change projects that would be supported/not supported by the factor. When writing your response, be sure to include Darnall and Preston’s perspectives from Chapter 2 of your text.
Also, in your post you should consider these topics:
The organization itself; its innovation culture, change culture, and diversity within
The leaders, followers, and champions that are present
The breadth of impact and the knowledge transfer requirements, including stickiness of knowledge
The potential costs and benefits
Note: you can include the challenges of obtaining these numbers, as well as the challenges of generating a positive business case
The challenges of taking action
Once you have read the instructions, post your response to the prompt.
