DBA 7505 Strategic Problem Framing
This course prepares students to apply evidence-informed thinking to real organizational challenges. Students learn to frame a practice-based issue, opportunity, or problem using a PICOC approach—Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome, and Context. Students will locate and evaluate evidence from key practice-relevant sources (organizational information, stakeholder perspectives, and scholar and practitioner literature) and identify what evidence is still needed to support sound decisions.
Throughout the course, students consider how emerging technologies (e.g., analytics, AI-enabled tools, automation, digital platforms) may shape the problem context, expand solution options, and introduce new constraints and risks. The course emphasizes clear framing, disciplined evaluation of evidence quality, and development of a practical evidence plan that builds momentum toward a consultancy project or traditional dissertation.