Question $91$ pts

As a project manager at a technology firm, you are tasked with designing a new integrated software system for managing client relationships, inventory, and logistics$.$ Your objective is to ensure that this complex system achieves its predefined purpose by organizing various components and subsystems efficiently. During a team meeting, you discuss which systems thinking technique would be most relevant for structuring and optimizing the design process to meet this goal.

In the context of designing an integrated software system to achieve a predefined purpose by efficiently organizing its components and subsystems, which systems thinking technique should you use to ensure optimal design and functionality?

Group of answer choices

Systems Engineering, which applies mathematical and analytical methods to design and optimize complex systems for efficient performance.

The Vanguard Method, which emphasizes understanding and improving service delivery from the perspective of system users.

Strategic Assumption Surfacing, which focuses on identifying and testing underlying assumptions in strategic decision$-$making processes.

Soft Systems Methodology, which is used for tackling complex, ill$-$structured problems by exploring different perspectives and finding accommodations among stakeholders.

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Question $101$ pts

You are leading a task force to develop strategic initiatives for South Africa's digital transformation, following President Ramaphosa$$s call for a digitally enabled economy during the $20191$st South African Digital Economy Summit. The President highlighted the need for this revolution to drive a fair, sustainable, and competitive future. To create effective policies and strategies, you must decide which level of systemic thinking is required to address the most profound underlying issues and ensure that the transformation aligns with this ambitious vision.

Given the goal of transforming South Africa into a digitally enabled economy as emphasized by President Ramaphosa, which level of systemic thinking is essential for addressing the deepest underlying factors that will ensure the transformation is fair, sustainable, and competitive?

Group of answer choices

Pattern Level, which focuses on identifying trends and repeated behaviors, such as consistent issues in digital infrastructure deployment.

Event Level, which involves reacting to immediate occurrences, such as short$-$term fluctuations in digital adoption rates.

Systemic Structures Level, which targets the underlying organizational and societal structures, such as regulations and institutions that support or hinder digital transformation.

Mental Models Level, which aims to change the fundamental beliefs and assumptions about digital technology$$s role in society, shaping how these technologies are integrated and utilized for long$-$term transformation.

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Question $111$ pts

You are a business analyst at a digital marketing agency tasked with improving the effectiveness of your client$$s online ad campaigns. To enhance your approach, you decide to use Soft Systems Methodology $($SSM$)$ to develop a conceptual model. Your goal is to clearly define the activities that need to be carried out by your team to transform and optimize the digital ad campaigns. This includes identifying necessary monitoring activities to ensure success.

In the context of optimizing digital ad campaigns using Soft Systems Methodology $($SSM$),$ which of the following best describes how to derive a conceptual model that defines what activities your team needs to undertake to achieve the transformation and measure success?

Group of answer choices

Include all potential activities performed by different teams within the agency to cover all bases, ensuring a comprehensive model.

Create a conceptual model that integrates activities from both internal and external stakeholders to address a broader range of objectives.

Focus on defining activities only for the actors named in the root definition, and include monitoring activities to measure and feedback results, ensuring the system's objectives are met.

Develop a model that prioritizes immediate campaign metrics, such as click$-$through rates, without considering long$-$term monitoring activities.

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Question $121$ pts

You are consulting for a retail company that is struggling with inefficiencies and poor communication across its various departments. The company's CEO is considering the use of the Viable System Model $($VSM$)$ to address these issues. You discuss how VSM can be applied both as a diagnostic tool to identify weaknesses and as a design tool for reorganizing the company's structure.

In the context of using the Viable System Model $($VSM$)$ for your client$$s retail company, which combination of the following statements accurately reflects the capabilities of VSM$?$

A$.$ Statement A: The VSM can be used as a diagnostic tool to id