Assignment Task 1
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Strategic Report [60 Marks]
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Scenario: Your first
assignment is to help save a company that is on the ropes: it is losing
money, it is losing market share, and it seems to have lost its
identity. Unless you intervene, the
company will have to fold.
You will write a formal report and you may use graphics and charts in
the report that will be sent ahead of the Board meeting to each member of the
Board. The report should include full citations for all references (using the
Harvard Referencing System format), to support your claims and approach. The
body of the report should be clear, concise, and compelling.
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Your report should include the following
aspects:
- Executive
Summary and Introduction. [5 Marks]
- Focus
on the relationships between strategy, stakeholder expectations, and
organizational performance, choosing a theory of strategic management to
explain those relationships and expectations. Justify to the Board why
you settled on this approach rather than some other one. [10
Marks]
- Identify
and evaluate the impact of external factors on strategic management in
international context, particularly economic, political, and cultural
factors. [10 Marks]
- Based
on the analysis of the environments (internal and external) use relevant
tools and formulate a new strategy to face the challenges and meet
organizational objectives. Critically evaluate the strategy and justify
why this is the best way forward.
[10 Marks]
- Explain
how your business strategy encourages and supports innovation and
change, and evaluate your strategy against competing strategies based on
its contribution to the success of your organization. [10
Marks]
- Develop
an implementation plan for the strategy you have developed and document
how your plan will fulfill major stakeholder expectations. [10
Marks]
- Recommendations
and Conclusion [5 Marks]
The report
shall not exceed 4,000 words and should include relevant examples and
illustrations.
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Assignment Task 2
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Organizational Redesign [20 Marks]
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Scenario: For the above strategy how would you restructure
the organization which enables it to overcome the challenges and improve
innovation, collaboration and coordination?
Develop and submit a strategic
restructure plan. Include current organization chart and proposed
organizational charts and describe the changes in detail.
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- Analyse the current
organizational structure and evaluate its effectiveness in meeting
organizational objectives. Describe the reasons why a restructure is
required to enable the new strategy implementation. Include current
organization chart and proposed organizational chart. Describe the
proposed structural changes and its benefits in detail. [15
Marks]
- Critically evaluate the
restructure plan addressing possible issues and negative consequences
and ways to overcome them. [5 Marks]
The report shall not exceed 2,000 words and should
include relevant examples and illustrations.
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