How to do a Case Study?

The below is a "cut and paste" from Dr. Aziz's webpage on "Doing Case Study?". It details on some approaches in how to analyze data and facts through the use of several methods.

Here are some bits of what's contained at Dr. Aziz's page. For the more info, visit his page because all the LAW stuff is there man!

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Analyzing the Data or Facts

This is an actual first step in doing Case Study. We have to acquire relevant and important facts or data as much as we can to be used in analyzing the case. Importing the words of a group of writers17,

“Relevant data (or facts)18 might be information about environmental issue, current economic conditions in the (construction)19 industry, market share, competitive strategy, customer reaction, available funding, profit, government regulations, productive capacity, work performance and managerial style”.

This list can be added to includes labour (availability skilled and unskilled), working evironment, political stability, and etc.

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The next thing to do with the facts or data is the methods used to analyze these kinds of data or facts.We can use a number of different methods to analyze data or facts – but usually past relevant experience in the specific field is valuable – by applying creative problem-solving or by estimating the risk. To list some of it are:

1. SWOT analysis;
2. Environmental scan;
3. SPACE analysis;
4. Critical success factors;
5. Sustainable growth; or
6. Organisation life cycle, etc.

The bottom line is: It is our own responsibility to analyze data or facts (No delegation of responsibility please!). It is also possible to adapt “decision tree20” or Ishikawa21 process in analyzing the facts or data according to priority of its importance and relevancy.

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