{"id":380,"date":"2015-08-21T10:37:59","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T21:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/?p=380"},"modified":"2015-08-21T10:37:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T21:37:59","slug":"getting-started-on-your-case-study-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/2015\/08\/21\/getting-started-on-your-case-study-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting started on your case study analysis."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you are asked to write your analysis in the form of an <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/assignment-types\/essay-planning-and-structure.php\">essay<\/a> or a <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/assignment-types\/business-report-structure.php\">report<\/a> structure there are a few questions you can ask to get your analysis going:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What is the problem?<\/li>\n<li>What caused the problem?<\/li>\n<li>What (if any) are the symptoms of the problem?<\/li>\n<li>What possible solutions are there to the problem (how can it be prevented from happening again or how can it be dealt with\/resolved)?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Asking and answering these questions is just one way of approaching the analysis. There are other ways of approaching it (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/assignment-types\/analysing-issues-for-a-report.php\">SWOT<\/a> analysis), but this is one good way to get your thinking started if you are having trouble getting going.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For further help see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/pdf\/studyup-critical-reasoning.pdf\">http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/pdf\/studyup-critical-reasoning.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/pdf\/studyup-critical-reasoning-handout.pdf\">http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/pdf\/studyup-critical-reasoning-handout.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/assignment-types\/business-report-structure.php\">http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/assignment-types\/business-report-structure.php<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/assignment-types\/analysing-issues-for-a-report.php\">http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/assignment-types\/analysing-issues-for-a-report.php<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you are asked to write your analysis in the form of an essay or a report structure there are a few questions you can ask to get your analysis going: &nbsp; What is the problem? What caused the problem? What (if any) are the symptoms of the problem? What possible solutions are there to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4,14,11,7,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albany","category-distance-study","category-exams","category-first-year","category-internal-study","category-manawatu","category-postgraduate-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}