Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management

  • Year: 2009
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 2

SAP-LAP Linkages – A Generic Interpretive Framework for Analyzing Managerial Contexts

  • Author:
  • Sushil
  • Total Page Count: 10
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 11 to 20

Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Vishwakarma Bhawan, Shaheed Jeet Singh Marg, New Delhi - 110016, sushil@dms.iitd.ac.in.

Abstract

The implementation of flexible systems management paradigm can be facilitated by SAP-LAP (Situation, Actor, Process, Learning, Action, Performance) framework and SAP-LAP models. The SAP-LAP models in vogue are atomic or naive models. In these models, the components of SAP-LAP are treated in isolation. This paper presents a generic framework to identify SAP-LAP linkages and develop models of managerial contexts taking into consideration various interrelationships along with their interpretation. The integrated framework is presented using self-interaction, cross-interaction and assessment matrices.

Keywords

assessment matrix, cross-interaction matrix, SAP-LAP linkages, SAP-LAP models, selfinteraction matrix