Week 8 — Midterm Review & the Growth Question

Welcome to your Week 8 Start Here page.

Why this matters

Whether you lead a shift in a hospital kitchen or grow a coffee cart of your own, the first half's tools still decide whether the business works, and growth adds a new question: who reports to whom?

In plain language

This week you look back at Weeks 1 to 7 and pull out the one tool or the one distinction each week asks for. Then you meet one new idea, organizational structure (how a business splits up its work and who reports to whom). You draw it as an organization chart (a diagram with a box for each job and a line to each person's boss) for the coffee cart at one cart and at two. The chart answers the question the second half of the course starts from: what changes when one cart becomes two?

• Already covered: Weeks 1 to 7 built the cart from its SWOT to its break-even.
• This week: review, the organization chart, and the midterm.
• How they connect: every earlier number holds when the cart grows.
• Where we're going next: Week 9, Reaching More Customers.

Focus

What have we learned, and what changes when one cart becomes two?

By the end of this module, you should be able to:

• [ ] rerun each of Weeks 1 to 7's key calculations or sorts
• [ ] draw an organization chart and find spans of control
• [ ] tell a line position from a staff position
• [ ] compare centralization with decentralization, and tall with flat

To-do

Plan your week

1. Read Chapter 8 (about 40 minutes), then the lecture and slides.
2. Do the practice set (about 20 minutes) and the discussion (about 45 minutes).
3. Review, then take the midterm.

This week's checkpoint: draw the cart's chart at two carts and give the owner's span of control.

You've got this

Take it in order, and ask your instructor if a step snags.

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