MGT/576 Opportunity Evaluation And Value Creation
MGT/576 Opportunity Evaluation And Value Creation
MGT/576 Wk 1 – Apply: Corporate Entrepreneurship Assessment
Choose 1 of the following Fortune 500 companies to study throughout this course:
- CVS Health
- Chevron
- Kroger
- Bank of America
- Home Depot
- Comcast
- Target
- United Parcel Service
- Procter & Gamble
- Caterpillar
Complete the Entrepreneurial Strengths and Actions to Increase Value Creation Worksheet, describing the company’s approach to entrepreneurial value creation, assessing the company’s strengths in terms of entrepreneurial value creation, and recommending at least 1 action the company could take to increase entrepreneurial value creation.
Wk 1 – Apply: Corporate Entrepreneurship Assessment
MGT/576 Wk 1 Discussion – Effective Thinking
Due Day 3
Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
- What does it mean to think effectually?
- How is it different from thinking causally?
- When is it important for an entrepreneur to think effectually? Provide an example of your own effectual thinking.
Wk 1 Discussion – Effective Thinking
MGT/576 Wk 2 Discussion – Customer Buying Experience
Due Day 3
Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
- Choose 3 products you might be interested in purchasing that are sold on the Internet.
- For each product, visit 3 websites and go through the process as if you were going to actually purchase the product.
- Which website did you have the best buying experience with? Why do you think that is?
- Which website did you have the worst buying experience with? Why?
- If you could create the perfect website to sell a product on, what features would it have?
Wk 2 Discussion – Customer Buying Experience
MGT/576 Wk 2 – Apply: Signature Assignment: Adding Value to the Organization
Assess the external environment for the organization you researched in Wk 1.
Based on your assessment and the organization’s strengths and weaknesses you identified in Wk 1, evaluate opportunities for that organization to add economic, social, and environmental value.
Recommend an opportunity that best capitalizes on the organization’s valuable, rare, and hard-to-imitate resources; is least impacted by the organization’s weaknesses; and will take best advantage of the external environment.
Create a Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation to present your assessment, evaluation, and recommendation. Include the following sections in your presentation:
- A cover slide
- An agenda
- A description of the organization (1 slide with speaker’s notes).
- A summary of the strengths and weaknesses of the organization (2 slides with speaker’s notes)
- Key aspects of your assessment of the external environment that present opportunities for adding value, such as trends, unmet needs, unsolved problems, under-served consumer groups, etc. (2-3 slides with speaker’s notes)
- An evaluation of opportunities to add economic value (1 slide with speaker’s notes)
- An evaluation of opportunities to add social value (1 slide with speaker’s notes)
- An evaluation of opportunities to add environmental value (1 slide with speaker’s notes). Note: Some opportunities may appear on more than 1 slide. For example, you may find an opportunity that adds economic, social, and environmental value.
- A recommended opportunity to pursue first, with a rationale that shows how the opportunity capitalizes on the organization’s valuable, rare, and hard-to-imitate resources; is not much impacted by the organization’s weaknesses; and takes advantage of the external environment (1 slide, with speaker’s notes)
- A conclusion
- References
Cite references to support your assignment.
Wk 2 – Apply: Signature Assignment: Adding Value to the Organization
MGT/576 Wk 3 Discussion – Competitive Analysis
Due Day 3
Imagine yourself as the CEO of a company in an industry that interests you.
Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
- Identify the major trends in the general environment of that firm, analyze the impact of those trends on the firm, and identify sources you (as the CEO) could use to monitor those trends.
Wk 3 Discussion – Competitive Analysis
MGT/576 Wk 3 – Apply: Porter’s Five Forces
Complete the Porter’s Five Forces Worksheet, based on the company you have been working with since Wk 1.
Porter’s Five Forces
Complete the table below. For the company you’ve decided to assess in week 1, determine the strength of each of Porter’s Five Forces and of the complementors.
Justify your determination with examples.
| Industry force | Strength | Provide a justifying your determination with examples | ||
| High | Medium | Low | ||
| Example | x | This is why I believe it is medium. | ||
| Threat of new entrants | ||||
| Power of buyers | ||||
| Power of suppliers | ||||
| Power of substitutes | ||||
| Rivalry among competitors | ||||
| Complementors | ||||
Wk 3 – Apply: Porter’s Five Forces
MGT/576 Wk 4 Discussion – Organizational Structure
Due Day 3
Think of a company or organization with which you are familiar, perhaps one you have worked for, or even a place of worship or school.
Answer the following questions in a minimum of 175 words:
- What kind of organizational structure does the organization use?
- What other structures discussed in the chapter might allow the organization to operate more effectively? For example, would the move to a product team structure lead to greater efficiency or effectiveness? Why or why not?
Wk 4 Discussion – Organizational Structure
MGT/576 Wk 4 – Apply: Signature Assignment: Expanding the Organization
hoose 1 country that the organization you’ve been working on in this course could consider expanding into.
Read the selected article from the University Library.
Analyze that potential international market by considering the 4 aspects of the Diamond of National Advantage: industry rivalry, demand conditions, related and supporting industries, and factor endowments.
Analyze the forces (in the home market and international market) that will help the organization succeed with its expansion and the forces that may act as barriers to that expansion. Refer to your analysis of strengths and weaknesses completed in Wk 1, the Porter’s Five Forces worksheet from Wk 3, and your analysis of the Diamond of National Advantage.
Evaluate the 4 adjustments leaders must make when expanding internationally (Burkus, 2012). Recommend 1 specific leadership action for each adjustment, such as developing a global mindset, developing sensitivity to cultural differences, decentralizing, deciding on the level of involvement, etc.
Recommend whether the organization should expand into the chosen country. Explain your rationale.
Create a Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation to present your analysis and recommendation. Include the following sections in your presentation:
- A cover slide
- An agenda
- Identification of the country you have chosen (1 slide, with brief speaker’s notes)
- 1 slide for analysis of each of the elements of the Diamond of National Advantage (4 slides, with speaker’s notes)
- A summary of analysis of the forces that will help the organization succeed in the new country (1 slide, with speaker’s notes)
- A summary of analysis of the forces that will hinder the organization’s success in the new country (1 slide, with speaker’s notes)
- Leadership actions required to make the 4 adjustments identified by Burkus (2012)
- A recommendation and rationale (1 slide, with speaker’s notes)
- A conclusion
- References
Cite references to support your assignment.
Format your citations according to APA guidelines.
MGT/576 Wk 4 – Apply: Signature Assignment: Expanding the Organization
MGT/576 Wk 5 Discussion – Innovations
Due Day 3
Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
- For the company you’ve been assessing throughout the course, identify the types of innovations it is pursuing.
- Do the innovations tend to be incremental or radical? Product-related or process-related?
- In what ways, no matter how minor, could you add value to such innovations
Wk 5 Discussion – Innovations
MGT/576 Wk 5 – Apply: Learning Organizations and Value Creation
Review the 6 key elements of a learning organization (Ch. 11 of Strategic Management, by Dess).
Complete the Learning Organizations Worksheet, evaluating the extent to which the company you selected epitomizes each of the 6 elements.
Review the 6 key elements of a learning organization (Ch. 11 of Strategic Management, by Dess).
Complete the table below. Evaluate the extent to which the company you’ve selected to assess in this course epitomizes each of the 6 elements.
Justify your determination with examples.
| Learning Organization Element | Extent to which the company epitomizes this element | Provide a sentence justifying your determination | ||
| High | Medium | Low | ||
| Example | x | [This] is why I believe it is medium. | ||
| Inspiring and motivating people with a mission or purpose | ||||
| Developing leaders | ||||
| Empowering employees | ||||
| Accumulating and sharing internal knowledge | ||||
| Gathering and integrating external information | ||||
| Challenging the status quo and enabling creativity | ||||
| Recommend at least 1 step the organization’s leaders could take to enhance 1 of the elements and explain how that could help the organization create more value.
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Wk 5 – Apply: Learning Organizations and Value Creation
MGT/576 Wk 6 Discussion – Small-Business Marketing
Due Day 3
Find an example of a small business that is using social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn, to promote its products or services.
Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
- How effective do you think this strategy is? Why?
- Give some advantages and disadvantages to this company’s use of social media.
- What is 1 thing would you recommend the business do to enhance its social media results?
Wk 6 Discussion – Small-Business Marketing
MGT/576 Wk 6 – Apply: Signature Assignment: Strategic Recommendation Memo
Write a 2- to 3-page memo to the CEO of the company you’ve been assessing throughout the course, outlining your plan to create economic, social, and environmental value. In your memo, include the following items:
- An executive summary of the memo
- A summary of the organization’s strengths and weaknesses, and recommendations for converting weaknesses into strengths
- A summary of your Wk 3 findings on Porter’s Five Forces
- A summary of your Wk 4 findings on the Diamond of National Advantage
- A summary of your Wk 5 analysis of the firm as a learning organization
- Strategic recommendations based on your previous work in this course. Include the opportunity identified in Wk 2, the move into the country identified in Wk 4, and any recommended moves toward being a learning organization. Provide a rationale for each recommendation.
Cite references to support your assignment.
Wk 6 – Apply: Signature Assignment: Strategic Recommendation Memo
MGT/576 Opportunity Evaluation And Value Creation
MGT/576 Wk 1 – Apply: Corporate Entrepreneurship Assessment
Choose 1 of the following Fortune 500 companies to study throughout this course:
- CVS Health
- Chevron
- Kroger
- Bank of America
- Home Depot
- Comcast
- Target
- United Parcel Service
- Procter & Gamble
- Caterpillar
Complete the Entrepreneurial Strengths and Actions to Increase Value Creation Worksheet, describing the company’s approach to entrepreneurial value creation, assessing the company’s strengths in terms of entrepreneurial value creation, and recommending at least 1 action the company could take to increase entrepreneurial value creation.
Wk 1 – Apply: Corporate Entrepreneurship Assessment
MGT/576 Wk 1 Discussion – Effective Thinking
Due Day 3
Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
- What does it mean to think effectually?
- How is it different from thinking causally?
- When is it important for an entrepreneur to think effectually? Provide an example of your own effectual thinking.
Wk 1 Discussion – Effective Thinking
MGT/576 Wk 2 Discussion – Customer Buying Experience
Due Day 3
Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
- Choose 3 products you might be interested in purchasing that are sold on the Internet.
- For each product, visit 3 websites and go through the process as if you were going to actually purchase the product.
- Which website did you have the best buying experience with? Why do you think that is?
- Which website did you have the worst buying experience with? Why?
- If you could create the perfect website to sell a product on, what features would it have?
Wk 2 Discussion – Customer Buying Experience
MGT/576 Wk 2 – Apply: Signature Assignment: Adding Value to the Organization
Assess the external environment for the organization you researched in Wk 1.
Based on your assessment and the organization’s strengths and weaknesses you identified in Wk 1, evaluate opportunities for that organization to add economic, social, and environmental value.
Recommend an opportunity that best capitalizes on the organization’s valuable, rare, and hard-to-imitate resources; is least impacted by the organization’s weaknesses; and will take best advantage of the external environment.
Create a Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation to present your assessment, evaluation, and recommendation. Include the following sections in your presentation:
- A cover slide
- An agenda
- A description of the organization (1 slide with speaker’s notes).
- A summary of the strengths and weaknesses of the organization (2 slides with speaker’s notes)
- Key aspects of your assessment of the external environment that present opportunities for adding value, such as trends, unmet needs, unsolved problems, under-served consumer groups, etc. (2-3 slides with speaker’s notes)
- An evaluation of opportunities to add economic value (1 slide with speaker’s notes)
- An evaluation of opportunities to add social value (1 slide with speaker’s notes)
- An evaluation of opportunities to add environmental value (1 slide with speaker’s notes). Note: Some opportunities may appear on more than 1 slide. For example, you may find an opportunity that adds economic, social, and environmental value.
- A recommended opportunity to pursue first, with a rationale that shows how the opportunity capitalizes on the organization’s valuable, rare, and hard-to-imitate resources; is not much impacted by the organization’s weaknesses; and takes advantage of the external environment (1 slide, with speaker’s notes)
- A conclusion
- References
Cite references to support your assignment.
Wk 2 – Apply: Signature Assignment: Adding Value to the Organization
MGT/576 Wk 3 Discussion – Competitive Analysis
Due Day 3
Imagine yourself as the CEO of a company in an industry that interests you.
Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
- Identify the major trends in the general environment of that firm, analyze the impact of those trends on the firm, and identify sources you (as the CEO) could use to monitor those trends.
Wk 3 Discussion – Competitive Analysis
MGT/576 Wk 3 – Apply: Porter’s Five Forces
Complete the Porter’s Five Forces Worksheet, based on the company you have been working with since Wk 1.
Porter’s Five Forces
Complete the table below. For the company you’ve decided to assess in week 1, determine the strength of each of Porter’s Five Forces and of the complementors.
Justify your determination with examples.
| Industry force | Strength | Provide a justifying your determination with examples | ||
| High | Medium | Low | ||
| Example | x | This is why I believe it is medium. | ||
| Threat of new entrants | ||||
| Power of buyers | ||||
| Power of suppliers | ||||
| Power of substitutes | ||||
| Rivalry among competitors | ||||
| Complementors | ||||
Wk 3 – Apply: Porter’s Five Forces
MGT/576 Wk 4 Discussion – Organizational Structure
Due Day 3
Think of a company or organization with which you are familiar, perhaps one you have worked for, or even a place of worship or school.
Answer the following questions in a minimum of 175 words:
- What kind of organizational structure does the organization use?
- What other structures discussed in the chapter might allow the organization to operate more effectively? For example, would the move to a product team structure lead to greater efficiency or effectiveness? Why or why not?
Wk 4 Discussion – Organizational Structure
MGT/576 Wk 4 – Apply: Signature Assignment: Expanding the Organization
hoose 1 country that the organization you’ve been working on in this course could consider expanding into.
Read the selected article from the University Library.
Analyze that potential international market by considering the 4 aspects of the Diamond of National Advantage: industry rivalry, demand conditions, related and supporting industries, and factor endowments.
Analyze the forces (in the home market and international market) that will help the organization succeed with its expansion and the forces that may act as barriers to that expansion. Refer to your analysis of strengths and weaknesses completed in Wk 1, the Porter’s Five Forces worksheet from Wk 3, and your analysis of the Diamond of National Advantage.
Evaluate the 4 adjustments leaders must make when expanding internationally (Burkus, 2012). Recommend 1 specific leadership action for each adjustment, such as developing a global mindset, developing sensitivity to cultural differences, decentralizing, deciding on the level of involvement, etc.
Recommend whether the organization should expand into the chosen country. Explain your rationale.
Create a Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation to present your analysis and recommendation. Include the following sections in your presentation:
- A cover slide
- An agenda
- Identification of the country you have chosen (1 slide, with brief speaker’s notes)
- 1 slide for analysis of each of the elements of the Diamond of National Advantage (4 slides, with speaker’s notes)
- A summary of analysis of the forces that will help the organization succeed in the new country (1 slide, with speaker’s notes)
- A summary of analysis of the forces that will hinder the organization’s success in the new country (1 slide, with speaker’s notes)
- Leadership actions required to make the 4 adjustments identified by Burkus (2012)
- A recommendation and rationale (1 slide, with speaker’s notes)
- A conclusion
- References
Cite references to support your assignment.
Format your citations according to APA guidelines.
MGT/576 Wk 4 – Apply: Signature Assignment: Expanding the Organization
MGT/576 Wk 5 Discussion – Innovations
Due Day 3
Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
- For the company you’ve been assessing throughout the course, identify the types of innovations it is pursuing.
- Do the innovations tend to be incremental or radical? Product-related or process-related?
- In what ways, no matter how minor, could you add value to such innovations
Wk 5 Discussion – Innovations
MGT/576 Wk 5 – Apply: Learning Organizations and Value Creation
Review the 6 key elements of a learning organization (Ch. 11 of Strategic Management, by Dess).
Complete the Learning Organizations Worksheet, evaluating the extent to which the company you selected epitomizes each of the 6 elements.
Review the 6 key elements of a learning organization (Ch. 11 of Strategic Management, by Dess).
Complete the table below. Evaluate the extent to which the company you’ve selected to assess in this course epitomizes each of the 6 elements.
Justify your determination with examples.
| Learning Organization Element | Extent to which the company epitomizes this element | Provide a sentence justifying your determination | ||
| High | Medium | Low | ||
| Example | x | [This] is why I believe it is medium. | ||
| Inspiring and motivating people with a mission or purpose | ||||
| Developing leaders | ||||
| Empowering employees | ||||
| Accumulating and sharing internal knowledge | ||||
| Gathering and integrating external information | ||||
| Challenging the status quo and enabling creativity | ||||
| Recommend at least 1 step the organization’s leaders could take to enhance 1 of the elements and explain how that could help the organization create more value.
|
||||
Wk 5 – Apply: Learning Organizations and Value Creation
MGT/576 Wk 6 Discussion – Small-Business Marketing
Due Day 3
Find an example of a small business that is using social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn, to promote its products or services.
Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
- How effective do you think this strategy is? Why?
- Give some advantages and disadvantages to this company’s use of social media.
- What is 1 thing would you recommend the business do to enhance its social media results?
Wk 6 Discussion – Small-Business Marketing
MGT/576 Wk 6 – Apply: Signature Assignment: Strategic Recommendation Memo
Write a 2- to 3-page memo to the CEO of the company you’ve been assessing throughout the course, outlining your plan to create economic, social, and environmental value. In your memo, include the following items:
- An executive summary of the memo
- A summary of the organization’s strengths and weaknesses, and recommendations for converting weaknesses into strengths
- A summary of your Wk 3 findings on Porter’s Five Forces
- A summary of your Wk 4 findings on the Diamond of National Advantage
- A summary of your Wk 5 analysis of the firm as a learning organization
- Strategic recommendations based on your previous work in this course. Include the opportunity identified in Wk 2, the move into the country identified in Wk 4, and any recommended moves toward being a learning organization. Provide a rationale for each recommendation.
Cite references to support your assignment.
Wk 6 – Apply: Signature Assignment: Strategic Recommendation Memo
MGT/576 Opportunity Evaluation And Value Creation