Business
Competitive advantage
Successful businesses regularly analyze their processes to ensure they’re operating as efficiently as possible and maintaining their competitive advantages. Although you can assess a company in many ways, a common technique is the SWOT analysis. In this assignment, you will practice using a SWOT analysis to better understand the factors involved in making business decisions that promote sustainable competitive advantage.
Select and research a company from the 2019 Fortune 500 list that demonstrates a sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Evaluate the selected company’s sustainable competitive advantage using the SWOT analysis technique.
Pay and Benefits Outside the United States
Respond to the following:
If you were asked to work in another country, which country would you choose and why?
What type of benefit(s) would be most important to you in this country?
Support your response with specific examples.
Requirements: two paragraphs
if you have the book Strategic Compensation: A Human Resource Management Approach, read:
Chapter 13, “Compensating Expatriates.”
Chapter 14, “Pay and Benefits Outside the United States.
Entrepreneurship an oxymoron
Discuss whether the term “corporate entrepreneurship” an oxymoron? Can corporations—especially large ones—be innovative? Support your answer with examples.
Use the Internet to find an example of two corporate innovations—one brought about through autonomous strategic behavior and one developed through induced strategic behavior. Which innovation seems to hold the most promise for commercial success and why?
Be sure to respond to at least one of your classmates’ post.
The classmates post is attached
initial post 200words
response 100 words
Face -to -face communication strategy
In this assignment, you are to use the same corporation you selected and focused on for assignments in Weeks 3, 6, and 8.
Research the company on its own website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Filings & Forms page, the Strayer University’s online databases, the Lexis Advance database, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.
You will do a 15-minute presentation to the Board of Directors of the corporation. Use the Capstone Template [PPTX] to ensure that your assignment meets the requirements.
Requirements
Develop an 8–12 slide PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes based upon assignments in Weeks 3, 6, and 8, and the following:
Develop an executive-level PowerPoint presentation with 8–12 slides with speaker notes and appropriate graphics.
Create a SWOT analysis for the company to determine its major strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
Based on the SWOT analysis, outline a strategy for the company to capitalize on its strengths and opportunities, and minimize its weaknesses and threats.
Business environment
Using your analysis of the strategic plan from the Wk 2- Strategic Plan Research assignment, complete the following:
Analyze in 350 to 525 words the:
Purpose of the strategic plan
Key objectives:
Market development and how your ideas fit
Process improvement
Development of people
Product/service – How do you deliver? Is there a way to improve quality over time to differentiate?
Key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure performance over time
Recommend initiatives to support your objectives to improve the strategic plan.
Identify ways to adapt to the changing business environment.
Submit your assignment.RubricWeek#4 – Rubric1. Purpose of the strategic plan (13%) 2. Key objectives – Explanation of core values, ethics, and social responsibility principles (12%)3. Market development and how your ideas fit – Marketing Plan & target? Market strategy, implementation, and monitoring –(what part of your SWOT analysis (from week#2, will your market plan target?) (20%)1. Process improvement-Work Flow / Training/Production/Scale-up (20%) Process improvement-Work Flow / Training/Production/Scale-up Product/service – How do you deliver? Is there a way to improve quality over time to differentiate? (10%) 7. Development of people-HR/Labor