JWI540 Week 1 Discussion | Assignment Help | Strayer University
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Secret Sauce
Reflect on the “secret sauce” of an organization with which you are familiar (this can be any organization, including your own). Identify the secret sauce (the differentiator that helps the organization create the most shareholder value) and explain how this provides the competitive advantage.
Vision and Mission
Evaluate a company’s vision and mission, and identify two behaviours that align with or contradict the vision and/or mission. Explain why you think the behaviours are/are not aligned and the potential impact this may have on success
JWI540 Week 2 Discussion | Assignment Help | Strayer University
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Nike’s Core Competency: The Risky Business of Fairy Tales
The MiniCase indicates that Nike’s core competency is to create heroes. How did Nike build its core competency? Does it obey the VRIO attributes (valuable, rare, inimitable, and organized to capture value based on the resource-based view of the firm)?
Person-based and Value-based Behaviors
Traditional organizational competencies consisted of Job-based and Future-based approaches that focused on static or hierarchal driven behaviors defined primarily by “what needs to get done.” (Cardy & Selvarajan, 2009, p. 240). However, Jack Welch favors a strategically dynamic, vigorous, proactive, and flat organizational structure because of its ability to dictate market behavior.
How do the Person-based and Value-based behaviors explain in Cardy & Selvarajan support Jack’s principles? Using an organization with which you are familiar, identify which of these approaches the organization uses and how this impacts the effectiveness of the organization’s core competencies. If the organization doesn’t use them, how might using Person-based and Value-based approaches impact the effectiveness of its core competencies?
JWI540 Week 3 Discussion | assignment Help | Strayer University
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Walmart and the Effects of Globalization
How have changes in the industry and the effects of globalization impacted Walmart’s ability to successfully compete? List and describe two factors that are negatively impacting Walmart.
Tesla Motors and the U.S. Automotive Industry
Using the five forces model, what implications can we derive for how Tesla Motors should compete in the U.S. car industry? What would be your top three recommendations for Elon Musk? Support your arguments.
JWI540 Week 4 Discussion | Assignment Help | Strayer University
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The Quest for Competitive Advantage: Apple vs. Microsoft
How much longer do you think Apple can sustain its competitive advantage (not just over Microsoft, but in general)? Explain.
Using Adverse Conditions to an Organization’s Advantage
Chakravorti (2010) discusses four methods that corporate innovators use to turn adverse conditions to their advantage. Examine an organization of your choice and briefly discuss how the organization might use one of these methods.
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JWMI 540: Strategy Academic Submissions and Evaluations
Assignment 1: Case Study – Big 5 Oil Co. Environment Analysis
Assess the company’s (that you choose in concert with your professor) external environment using three or more media sources to identify factors that are impacting their business model and take a stance on whether these factors signal imminent doom or new growth opportunities (if approached correctly).
Choose among (and let your professor know your choice by the end of Week 2):
- ExxonMobil (USA)
- Royal Dutch Shell (UK/Netherlands)
- BP (BP plc – UK)
- Chevron Corp. (USA)
- Conoco Phillips (USA)
Write a 5-6 page Business Brief for the Company Executive team on your findings.
- Identify and concisely describe four external factors impacting.
- Describe each of the four factors. Is each a positive or negative? Explain.
- What are the “symptoms” of each factor? (What is likely happening as a result of a factor?)
- How does each factor correlate to Porter’s Five Forces or the Blue Ocean models? Explain.
- Rank the factors in order from least to greatest potential impact and briefly explain your rationale.
Reverse so consistent with rubric
- Take a stand – Persuasively assert what these factors imply for the future.
- Consider how the factors potentially influence the organization’s capabilities, behavior, and strategic options.
- Support your recommendations, assertions, and facts with in-text citations, appendixes, and references.
Required format and organization for the Business Brief.
Business briefs are often used to convince and inform clearly and concisely in the business environment. For this assignment, your business brief should state its purpose, create awareness, and provide a persuasive informed assertion based on research and conceptual understandings.
- Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, professor’s name, and the course title and date. (The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.)
- Single-spaced, professional font (Times New Roman or Ariel), 10-12 font size
- Headings, bolded, are used to identifying main topics and subtopics
- Paragraphs separated by a single space
JWI540 Week 5 Discussion | Assignment Help | Strayer University
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Does Twitter Have a Strategy?
Why is a good strategy so important, especially at high-tech startups like Twitter? Why is crafting a good strategy at Twitter so difficult? What are some of the pitfalls that a CEO of a company such as Twitter needs to watch out for when crafting and implementing a strategy?
Your “A-ha” Moment
Start thinking about your strategy for the final assignment and what that might look like. What has been your “A-ha” moment thus far? Brainstorm your winning move.
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Mitigating Risk and Uncertainty
Consider the six techniques Robinson (2007) describes that are used to mitigate risk and uncertainty. Using an organization with which you are familiar, discuss examples from that organization in which at least two techniques either were followed or should have been followed. Explain how the handling of risk mitigation or uncertainty could have been improved.
Innovation and Disruptive Change
Christensen and Overdorf (2000) discuss innovation and disruptive change and its effect on the type of successful strategic team. Briefly explain reasons that you agree or disagree with Christensen and Overdorf’s implementation selection table. Considering your industry’s vantage point, is there anything on the horizon in terms of innovation or disruption that your organization should be considering?
JWI540 Week 7 Discussion | Assignment Help | Strayer University
Based on your readings and lectures this week describe one way how the industry you wrote about in week 4 could generate growth.
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Assignment 2: Research Brief and Draft Slides 1 and 2
Assess the company’s (that you choose in concert with your professor) external environment using three or more media sources to identify factors that are impacting their business model and take a stance on whether these factors signal imminent doom or new growth opportunities (if approached correctly).
Choose among (and let your professor know your choice by the end of Week 2):
- ExxonMobil (USA)
- Royal Dutch Shell (UK/Netherlands)
- BP (BP plc – UK)
- Chevron Corp. (USA)
- Conoco Phillips (USA)
Write a 5-6 page Business Brief for the Company Executive team on your findings.
- Identify and concisely describe four external factors impacting.
- Describe each of the four factors. Is each a positive or negative? Explain.
- What are the “symptoms” of each factor? (What is likely happening as a result of a factor?)
- How does each factor correlate to Porter’s Five Forces or the Blue Ocean models? Explain.
- Rank the factors in order from least to greatest potential impact and briefly explain your rationale.
Reverse so consistent with rubric
- Take a stand – Persuasively assert what these factors imply for the future.
- Consider how the factors potentially influence the organization’s capabilities, behavior, and strategic options.
- Support your recommendations, assertions, and facts with in-text citations, appendixes, and references.
Format and organization for the Business Brief.
Business briefs are often used to convince and inform clearly and concisely in the business environment. For this assignment, your business brief should state its purpose, create awareness, and provide a persuasive informed assertion based on research and conceptual understandings.
- Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, professor’s name, and the course title and date. (The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.)
- Single-spaced, professional font (Times New Roman or Ariel), 10-12 font size
- Headings, bolded, are used to identify main topics and subtopics
- Paragraphs separated by a single space
JWI 540 Week 8Discussion | Assignment Help | Strayer University
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Strategic Alliances
Under what circumstances should an organization seek a strategic alliance? How have the motivations for strategic acquisitions changed over time and how do those changes affect (potential) M&A decisions made by an organization with which you are familiar?
Six Sins of M&A
Select two of Jack Welch’s Six M&A sins. Assume that an organization with which you are familiar committed both of them. Then, explain behaviors that the organization could employ to compensate for those errors.
JWI 540 Week 9Discussion | Assignment Help | Strayer University
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Zappos: From Happiness to Holacracy
Why is Zappos experiencing significant implementation problems with holacracy? What else could Zappos do to help implement the new structure more effectively?
Ambidextrous Behavior
Define the term “ambidextrous organization.” Provide a real-life example of an organization that displays ambidextrous behaviour. Explain your rationale.
JWI 540 Week 10Discussion | Assignment Help | Strayer University
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Four Questions
Simons (2010) proposes seven questions applicable to evaluating organizational behaviors and strategic performance during each strategy review session. Answer four of the questions for an organization with which you are familiar. Discuss specific organizational behavioral changes that you feel would correct deficiencies revealed by each of the four questions.
Shareholders, Employees, or Customers First?
One of Simons’ (2010) questions asks you to determine whether the organization’s shareholders, employees, or customers come first. Consider which comes first in an organization with which you’re familiar. Discuss the specific behaviours exhibited by the organization as a result of that choice, and consider how that choice might affect strategic performance and employee retention.