The purpose of this
assignment is to analyze a company’s strengths and weaknesses in order to
recommend feasible value-enhancing alternatives.
Consider the publicly
traded company your CLC group analyzed in the Environmental and Industry
Analysis assignment. In a paper of 1,000-1,200 words, discuss potential growth
opportunities and strategies for your selected company and compare the
advantages and disadvantages of each opportunity.
1. Conduct
a SWOT analysis for your selected company and discuss your findings. What
advantages does your company have over its competition? What opportunities
exist in the industry from which your company can benefit? Who is your
company's competition, and what types of risks might they pose? What weak areas
could your company improve to compete with its strongest competitors?
2. Identify
strategic alternatives that create value for the company. Which ones are
focused on internal growth and what do they offer to the company? What are the
drawbacks of these strategies? Which ones are focused on external growth and
what do they offer the company? What are the drawbacks of these strategies?
3. How
would you use a decision matrix to identify the leading alternative? Explain
how you determined the values used to distinguish between each option. What
about the matrix, if anything, may be limiting in its use value to an analyst
or decision maker?
4. What
factors might inhibit the success of the optimal strategic alternative
identified? How can the issues you identified be addressed and corrected?
5. Growing
an organization is not always about increasing the size of the firm. If
expansion is not the main focus, what other elements lend themselves to growth
of the firm? How might each be achieved?
You will be required to
incorporate instructor feedback from this paper into the Assessing and Managing
Risk assignment in Topic 7.
Prepare this assignment
according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the
Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a
rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become
familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You
are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support
articles for assistance.
Benchmark
Information
This
benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies:
BS
Business Analytics; BS Business Management; BS Finance
1.2
Apply techniques for creative problem solving and encouraging innovation within
organizations.
BS
Business for Secondary Education
6.1
Develop an innovative and entrepreneurial solution for a specific business
problem.
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