Page 25 - Case Lab Assignment

The teaching guide is the pointy end of the case study. It is

the element that pierces the heart of the problem and
provides the cutting edge of applied analysis.

But, on reflection case study analysis has a number of

inbuilt advantages over questions set on interpretation of a
piece of theory. To start with cases do not have a long shelf

life, probably only five years or so. Students demand that

lecturers be up to date in the companies they examine. For

the lecturer a current up-to-date case study has the
advantage that a general solution to it is highly unlikely to be

floating about on the web.

Moreover the case study from issue to the student to the

hand-in day may only be three weeks or so. This helps to

reduce the paid for solution providers ability to generate a

progressive specified degree of pass.

The implication is that the person who writes the paid for

answer must of necessity read and understand the

individual case study and it's contextualisation. True, some
aspects of case analysis remain the same e.g. the

development and use of a timeline. But, even here if the

timeline is not provided in the case study itself then at some
stage in the analysis it has to be built in order to help

explain the sequence of events, how critical they are and

what linkages are applicable.

For the paid for solution writer this work is not simply the

application of learned theory but rather the application of

applied theory.