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INTEGRATED BUSINESS TOPICS

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BUS 475 Week 1 CAREER CONNECTION: Mission, Vision, and

You

Think about your current or former place of employment or a business where you would

like to work.

Write a 350- to 700-word paper in which you address the following:

What is the company's mission statement?

What is the company's vision statement?

What role do these have on the way the business operates? Do the company's

actions seem to align to their vision and mission statements?

How might the mission and vision of the organization affect or guide you as an

employee or manager in the company?

If the company does not have a mission or vision statement, what might be the

effect of that?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Introductions, conclusions, and APA

headings are required in all written assignments in this course. Cite any resource material

used in completion of the paper. The introduction shall briefly, and clearly, convey the

purpose of the paper. Papers found to be plagiarized will receive an automatic zero and

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an academic violation report will be filed. Make sure to use in-text citations and reference

any and all resource material.

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BUS 475 Week 2 SWOT Paper

Review the SWOT Analysis information located in Chapter's 2 & 3 of the Strategic

Management textbook, and additional University Library sources such as Business

Source Complete found on the Week 2 Electronic Reserve Readings page to see the

types of information that companies or industries include.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you address the following:

Discuss the elements of a SWOT analysis. What elements to all SWOT analyses

have in common? Why might some be different?

Identify the elements the team considers most important and that would be

included in a SWOT conducted by the team. Why were these chosen?

Explain the purpose of a SWOT analysis. What are the alternatives?

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the SWOT analysis.




purpose of the paper. Papers found to be plagiarized will receive an automatic zero and

an academic violation report will be filed. Make sure to use in-text citations and reference

any and all resource material.


BUS 475 Week 2 Strategic Plan Part 1: New Product or Service

Use the Strategic Planning Outline as a guide to complete sections of your capstone

project each week. A final paper is due in Week 5. Cite your resources.

As clarification, papers 1, 2, and 3 do not require an executive summary or a table

of content.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you explain the importance of innovation in

your selected business's vision, mission, and values, and determine your business model

for this new division. Include the following:

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Propose a new product or service for the new company division (Core

Requirement). The division should be customer-focused with an innovative

mission statement. Ensure that you are differentiating your product or service. The

new product or service must be from your own imagination, meaning that I cannot

be a product or service that is already offered by the selected business.

Describe how the division addresses customer needs and achieves competitive

advantage.

Create a vision and a business model for this new division that clearly

demonstrates your decision on what you want your business to become in the

future.

Explain how the vision, mission, and value of the new division align with the

company's mission and vision.

Summarize how the vision, mission, and values guide the division's strategic

direction.

Define your guiding principles and values for your division in the context of culture,

social responsibility, and ethics.




purpose of the paper. Ensure that the new product or service is clearly stated in the

introduction. Papers found to be plagiarized will receive an automatic zero and an

academic violation report will be filed. Make sure to use in-text citations and reference any

and all resource material.


BUS 475 Week 3 Peer Review Analysis

Share drafts of your Business Model and Strategic Plan, Part I Individual assignments

from Week 2 with all team members.

Choose 1 or 2 team member's drafts and review as a team this week (do not wait for a

graded paper). You will review a different team member's drafts each week. By Week 5,

all team members' papers should have been reviewed at least once.

Provide feedback that team members can incorporate into their drafts.

Write a synopsis of no more than 350 words summarizing what the team has learned

from the review and discussion. I am looking for lessons learned from the reviews and

how the papers could be improved. All team members shall provide an input to the final

synopsis. The author(s) of the paper(s) under review should provide a brief statement

about how the peer reviews helped them improve their writing skills.

As this is a team paper, the use of first person is not allowed.


IMPORTANT: Learning Team assignments must be in by their due dates. Late

submissions of team assignment will not be accepted.

BUS 475 Week 3 Strategic Plan Part 2: SWOT Analysis Paper

Conduct an internal and external environmental analysis, and a supply chain analysis for

your proposed new division and its business model.

Create a SWOTT table summarizing your findings. Your environmental analysis should

consider, at a minimum, the following factors. For each factor, identify the one primary

strength, weakness, opportunity, threat, and trend, and include it in your table.

External forces and trends considerations:

o Legal and regulatory

o Global

o Economic

o Technological

o Innovation

o Social

o Environmental

o Competitive analysis

Internal forces and trends considerations:

o Strategy

o Structures

o Processes and systems

o Resources

o Goals

o Strategic capabilities

o Culture

o Technologies

o Innovations

o Intellectual property

o Leadership

Write a 900 to1,050 words synopsis in which you analyze relevant forces and trends from

the list above. Your analysis must include the following:

Include a formal discussion of economic and legal and regulatory forces and

trends applicable to your proposal

Critique how well the organization adapts to change.

Analyze and explain the supply chain of the new division of the existing business.

Share your plans to develop and leverage core competencies and resources

within the supply chain in an effort to make a positive impact on the business

model and the various stakeholders.

Identify issues and/or opportunities:

o Identify the major issues and/or opportunities that the company faces

based on your analysis.

o Generate a hypothesis surrounding each issue and research questions to

use for conducting analysis.

o Identify the circumstances surrounding each issue; classify the

circumstances; attribute the importance of each classification; and test the

accuracy of the importance for each classification.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines including an introduction, APA

headings, and a conclusion. In addition, cite any reference material used. Ensure SWOTT

table is embedded in the final deliverable. I expect one single submission for this

assignment.

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Share drafts of your Business Model and Strategic Plan, Part II Individual assignments

from Week 3 with all team members. Continue reviewing 1 or 2 team member's drafts

and review as a team this week. Provide feedback that team members can incorporate

into their drafts.








IMPORTANT: Learning Team assignments must be in by their due dates. Late

submissions of team assignment will not be accepted.

BUS 475 Week 4 Strategic Plan Part 3: Balanced Scorecard and

Communication Plan

Identify key trends, assumptions, and risks in the context of your final business model.

Develop the strategic objectives for your new division of the existing business in a

balanced scorecard format in the context of key trends, assumptions, and risks.The

strategic objectives are measures of attaining your vision and mission. As you develop

them, consider the vision, mission, and values for your business and the outcomes of your

SWOTT analysis and supply chain analysis.

Consider the following four quadrants of the balanced scorecard when developing your

strategic objectives:

Shareholder Value or Financial Perspective, includes strategic objectives in areas

such as:

o Market share

o Revenues and costs

o Profitability

o Competitive position

Customer Value Perspective, includes strategic objectives in areas such as:

o Customer retention or turnover

o Customer satisfaction

o Customer value

Process or Internal Operations Perspective, includes strategic objectives in areas

such as:

o Measure of process performance

o Productivity or productivity improvement

o Operations metrics

o Impact of change on the organization

Learning and Growth (Employee) Perspective, includes strategic objectives in

areas such as:

o Employee satisfaction

o Employee turnover or retention

o Level of organizational capability

o Nature of organizational culture or climate

o Technological innovation

Develop at least three strategic objectives for each of the four balanced scorecard areas

identified (Financial, Customer, Process, Learning and Growth). Your objectives should

be selected, in part, based on an evaluation of a number of potential alternatives to the

issues and/or opportunities identified in the SWOTT Analysis paper and table you

completed in Week 3.

Base your solutions on a ranking of alternative solutions that includes an identification of

potential risks and mitigation plans, and a stakeholder analysis that includes mitigation

and contingency strategies. You should also incorporate the ethical implications of your

solutions into your selection.

For each strategic objective, develop a metric and target using a balanced

scorecard format. (For example, a strategic objective in the shareholder or

Financial Perspective is to increase market share. A metric to actually measure

this strategic objective of market share increase is, "The percentage of increase in

market share." The target is the specific number to be achieved in a particular time

period. The target for the metric of "Increase market share" could be "Increase

market share by 2% for each of the next 3 years" of an increase of 2% per year for

3 years.)

Outline a brief communication plan discussing how you will communicate the company's

strategic objectives that includes the following:

Define the purpose.

Define the audience.

Identify the channel(s) of communication and why you selected that channel.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word strategic objectives summary. Include your balanced

scorecard and its impact on all stakeholders, and the communication plan.

Format paper consistent with APA guidelines including an introduction, APA headings,

and a conclusion. Cite any reference material used. Ensure any tables are embedded in

the paper. I expect one single artifact to be turned in for this assignment.


Share drafts of the Business Model and Strategic Plan, Part III Individual assignments

from Week 4 with all team members. Continue reviewing 1 or 2 team member's drafts

and review as a team this week. By the end of this week, all team members' papers

should have been reviewed at least once. Provide feedback that team members can

incorporate into their drafts.







BUS 475 Week 5 CAREER CONNECTION: Final Strategic Plan

Write a 700- to 1,050-word section (this is not the total length of the paper) for your

business model and strategic plan in which you add your strategies and tactics to

implement and realize your objectives, measures, and targets.

Include marketing and information technology strategies and tactics.

Develop at least three methods to monitor and control your proposed strategic

plan, being sure to analyze how the measures will advance organizational goals

financially and operationally.

Determine the best possible options for evaluating the strategic plan.

Explain the ethical issues faced by the organization, summarize the legal and

regulatory issues faced by the organization, and then summarize the

organization's corporate social responsibility.

Include in this section the possible implications of the triple bottom line (people,

planet, profit) on the strategic plan and its implementation.

Write a 350-word executive summary defining the new division of existing business.

Share your Vision, Mission, final business model, and value proposition, and list your key

assumptions, risks, and change management issues. Quantify the growth and profit

opportunity and planned impact on various stakeholders.

Note: Any investor should be eager to meet with you after reading your executive

summary. An executive summary is not the conclusion of the paper. I will provide further

information about what I expect for this assignment late in the course.

Using the University of Phoenix Business Model and Strategic Planning Outline as a

guide, combine Parts 1, 2, and 3 of your completed business model strategic plan with

your Final Business Plan Model assignment and Executive Summary. This includes the

Business Model, Vision, Mission, Values, SWOT Analysis, Supply Chain Analysis,

Balanced Scorecard, and Communication Plan from prior weeks. Your consolidated final

strategic plan should be 4,200 to 5,250 words in length.

The final artifact should follow the following order:

Title Page

Table of Content (Optional)

Executive Summary

Introduction (For the entire paper)

Conceptualization of the new product or service

Remove introduction and conclusion of this paper. Failure to do so will result in a

penalty.

SWOTT Analysis

Remove introduction and conclusion of paper. Failure to do so will result in a penalty.

Balanced Scorecard

Remove introduction and conclusion of paper. Failure to do so will result in a penalty.

Strategies and Tactics to realize the strategic objectives

Marketing Strategy

Monitoring and Control Methods

Ethical Issues including legal and regulatory issues

Corporate Social Responsibility discussion

Conclusion

Format the paper consistent with APA guidelines. Any paper plagiarized will receive a

zero and an academic violation report will be filed. Ensure all resource material used in

the paper is clearly cited.


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