Research Paper

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Part II-

Write a 1,100 word paper in which you research two-three companies and do the following:

  • Evaluate the internal and external environments of each company using an environmental scan.
  • Analyze the competitive advantage of each company
  • Evaluate the strategies each company uses to create value and gain competitive advantage.
  • Examine the measurement guidelines each company uses to verify its strategic effectiveness.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of the measurement guidelines that each company uses.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

 
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Competitive advantage

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Part I-

Discuss this week’s objectives with your team. Your discussion should include the topics you feel comfortable with, any topics you struggled with, and how the weekly topics relate to application in your field.

Prepare a 350- to 1,050-word paper detailing the findings of your discussion.

mY TOPIC: Analyze how to create value and sustained competitive advantage through business strategy. (300 words) 

 
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Training Program

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Part I-

You are the director of an organization and you are tasked with training your management team on creative problem solving, leadership, and employee motivation.

Create three bullet-point handouts to distribute during your training session. The handouts must address the following topics:

  • Creative problem solving: Describe approaches to creative problem solving and ways to encourage creative problem solving among employees.
  • Employee motivation: Identify ways to generate motivation during times of organizational change.
  • Leadership: Identify the role of the leadership in the innovative culture of an organization.

Note. Each handout must contain at least five main points or topics and must not be more than one page in length. There are no stipulations on how to format the handouts. Be creative with fonts, styles, and formatting. If you include images, keep the images small to limit the size of your document. Cite your images and references according to APA standards. Submit your handouts as one Microsoft® Word attachment.

 
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Reward System, design a theory-based strategic experiment

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Part II-  Here are the instructions, my part is the highlighted in yellow, and attached is some part of the presentation so you can follow. (3 slides with speaker notes)

Utilizing the same virtual organization from the measurement and reward System, design a theory-based strategic experiment based on one of the following problems associated with the organization:

  • Huffman Trucking
    • Rising fuel costs are affecting the operations of Huffman Trucking. The company would like to refrain from passing on the fuel costs to its customers, but in order to do so it needs to find other ways to cut costs. How can Huffman cut costs to supplement the rising fuel prices?
    • Being a successful company in a competitive business that is easily affected by fuel costs, Huffman would like to continue to set itself apart from other trucking companies. With the growing and highly publicized concern by all for the environment, Mr. H. Huffman is interested in adapting to a more eco-friendly approach, as well as potentially adapting their brand and marketing efforts to illustrate the company’s commitment to the environment. What are some things that could be done and how should they be structured?
    • Huffman Trucking has -consistently been successful as it relates to shipping large amounts of cargo for longer distances. However, they have also consistently lost business in the ship-same-day or ship-next-day markets. To remain competitive during slow economic times, Huffman must find a way to increase business in the same-day and next-day markets or they must enter a new market completely. What can they do?
 
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Strategic experiment

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Create a 7- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation, with detailed slide notes, on your strategic experiment. Incorporate the following into your presentation:

  • Present two innovative ways to solve the problem.
  • Address the following six changes involved with theory-based planning in your process and presentation:
    • Level of detail: Focus on the most critical market, technology, and unknown costs.
    • Communication of expectations: Base your predictions on theory and include a description of the theory used to generate your predictions.
    • Nature of predictions: Predict the trends, rather than the specific numbers.
    • Frequency of strategic reviews: Set a strategic review schedule.
    • Perspective in time: Consider the history of the organization when devising the experiment. Focus on long-term history, rather than just recent changes in the organization. Use information available through the virtual organization to gain insight on the historical background of the organization. Some examples of helpful documentation are a strategic plan, company history, employee handbook, sales plan, or internal memos.
    • Nature of measures: focus on leading indicators
  • Based on your theory-based planning, state what other factors need to be analyzed and what other steps must be completed to determine the best solution for the organization.
  • Include three to four scholarly references.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

 
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ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

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Part II-

Discuss this week’s objectives with your team. Your discussion should include the topics you feel comfortable with, any topics you struggled with, and how the weekly topics relate to application in your field.

Topic: Describe the primary components of the strategic management process.. (300 words)

 
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ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

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Part I-

Write a 750-800 word paper in which you do the following:

  • Explain the role of ethics and social responsibility in developing a strategic plan while considering stakeholder needs and agendas.
  • Include at least one example of a company overstepping ethical boundaries for stakeholder agendas, and what types of preventative measures could be taken to avoid this type of situation.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

 
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Innovation planning

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Write a 1,250 word paper on the innovation planning and design process addressed in Week Two. Include the following in your paper:

  • Analyze the internal and external factors related to designing innovation strategies. Describe how they relate to one another and to the overall innovation process.
  • Describe the factors involved in innovation systems design. Explain the importance of innovation systems.
  • Describe the steps involved in the innovation planning process.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines and incorporate at least four scholarly references in addition to your texts.

 
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Strategic management process

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Write a 350 word paper in which you complete the following:

  • Describe the primary components of a strategic management process, and indicate why a strategic management process is needed for a company.
  • Research at least one company and describe the strategic management process that the company uses.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

 
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Strategic plan for Target Corporation

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Scenario: The board of directors of Target has asked your team to create a strategic plan for the organization.

Create a 2,500- to 3,500-word strategic plan for the selected organization starting from what you learned in Week One and using a similar strategic management process as Concepts in Strategic Management and Business Policy. You may also use information from the team project you completed in Week Four to create the strategic plan.

Cover thoroughly the areas of environmental scanning, strategy formulation, strategy implementation, and evaluation and control.

Address the following questions in your strategic plan:

  • Why does your organization need a strategic plan?
  • What role should ethical and social responsibility considerations have in your organization’s strategic management plan?
  • What competitive advantages does  have, and which competitive strategies should your organization utilize to improve innovation and sustainability in both domestic and international applications?
  • What measurement guidelines should be used to verify strategy effectiveness?
  • What internal dynamics along with cultural and structural leadership considerations should be used in implementing business strategy for your organization?
  • How do they influence business continuity?
  • What assessment and feedback controls should be used to determine the direction to take your organization? If the strategy of your organization does not go according to plan, at what point would you consider altering the strategic plan you have suggested?

Explain and justify all of the decisions you have made for your strategic plan, using research and understanding learned from the reading material.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Present a completed strategic plan to the board of directors for the selected organization.

Outline your strategic plan for the sected organization in a 20- to 30-slide presentation using Microsoft® PowerPoint®.

Describe why the selected organization needs a plan, and walk the audience through every step in the strategic management process.

Include ethical considerations, environmental scanning for competitive advantages, innovation and sustainability considerations, measurement guidelines, internal dynamic and resource considerations for strategy implementation, and what feedback considerations your organization should put into place to ensure the success of the company.

 
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