Company: JP Morgan Chase
The competitive landscape of companies has been changing dynamically over the last decade. Enterprises have been changing their business strategies to co-evolve with the competitive landscape and to take advantage of amazing new MIS technologies and capabilities. Today’s companies are striving to thrive and to achieve profitable growth.
For this writing assignment, you will assume the role of a writer for a technology review journal. Your journal wants to create a list of top companies or startups utilizing technology in innovative and effective ways. You are tasked with writing an 8 to12 page (no size limit) research article (not including diagrams and exhibits) about a company you are personally excited about.
The chosen company can either offer tech products or services or merely utilize technologies to improve their performance.
More details are in the attached files!!! Please read the instruction before you start writing.
Very Urgent! it is due in less than 24 hours!!
MIS 375 Iterative Case Write-up Instructions Fall 2021 The competitive landscape of companies has been changing dynamically over the last decade. Enterprises have been changing their business strategies to co-evolve with the competitive landscape and to take advantage of amazing new MIS technologies and capabilities. Today’s companies are striving to thrive and to achieve profitable growth. For this writing assignment, you will assume the role of a writer for a technology review journal. Your journal wants to create a list of top companies or startups utilizing technology in innovative and effective ways. You are tasked with writing an 8 to12 page (no size limit) research article (not including diagrams and exhibits) about a company you are personally excited about. The chosen company can either offer tech products or services or merely utilize technologies to improve their performance. Within the article, you are tasked with answering three main questions: Q1. Based on your research and analysis, what should be the aspired business strategy of the company based on their current strategy and their current industry positioning and relevant forces? Q2. What additional innovations, initiatives, or actions to support the current aspired business strategy will continue to keep the company on a profitable growth trajectory? Q3. What future strategic recommendations and actions (derived from a SoaP analysis) could enable the company to continue to evolve and thrive in the future? Start by answering each question by explicitly and concisely stating your answers to the write-up questions. • To explicitly address Q1, clearly state the “aspired business strategy” of the company (use the full strategy packet) and why that is exciting to you. • To explicitly address Q2, clearly state if you agree or disagree with any aspects of the “aspired business strategy” of the company and then use examples of innovations/actions to support your assessment of the strategy. • To explicitly address Q3: state the strategic recommendations you would make to support the company’s profitable growth objective. Recall the meaning of business strategy, what kinds of decisions it entails, and accordingly, ensure that your recommendations are indeed strategic. Substantiate your answers to the questions by concisely presenting your supporting analyses. Recall that this course covered several tools for you to analyze and deconstruct the strategic issues of a firm. Listed below is a partial list of potentially useful course concepts and the types of questions you may want to ask yourself in researching and analyzing the situation of the company. Paul Wen Session 2 - Strategy 1: • What is the generic strategy of the company? • What are the implications of the strategy of the company? Session 3 - Strategy 2: • What are the positioning and trade-offs of the company? • What are the aspired activities of the company? • Are the activities consistent with the products and customer segmentation of the company? Session 5 – Five Forces Framework: • What is the competitive landscape of the company? • What actions should the company take for each of the five forces? Session 6 - Innovation: • What disruptive innovation opportunities (or threats) exist? • What future innovation opportunities exist? • How can these be exploited by the company you are analyzing? Sessions 8 and 10: MIS Enterprise Architecture: • What is the aspired EA maturity level of the company? • Is the aspired EA maturity level consistent with the competitive landscape and the aspired strategies of the company? • Which IT infrastructure technologies and business processes of the company are feasible to improve across the operating units of the company? • Going forward, how should the company change its aspired EA maturity level, if at all, to continue profitable growth? Sessions 12, 19, and 21: Business Models: • Is the company aspiring to compete on products or platforms or both? • Do opportunities exist for eCommerce, Freemium, or Versioning? How can these be exploited? • If the company aspires to compete on some platforms, which ones are the most strategic? • Can the company use its access or control of resources to its advantage? • Are the company platforms just technology platforms or have they turned into multi- sided business platforms such as Apple’s or Google’s platforms? • Does the company have any major advantages in any platforms (e.g., large installed base of users, third-party complements, strong network effects, lock-in, and switching costs)? • If the company is lagging rivals in the emerging Cloud, Mobile, and Social Media platforms, how can it catch up on network effects and convince users and third-party complements to switch over from the rivals’ platforms to its own? • How is the company trying to scale up its business to achieve and sustain both profitability and growth simultaneously? • If there are barriers to the further profitable growth of the firm, how should the firm change its scalability approach, if at all, going forward? To earn the most points on this criterion, substantiate your analyses, findings, conclusions, and recommendations by citing case facts and evidence that support your analyses. For example, if you are classifying the competitive landscape of the company into simple, complicated, or complex, cite the case facts and evidence that support your classification. To claim that it is not just your opinion per se (“I think”), and that “you know,” please cite the supporting analyses, evidence, facts, and logic. If you feel like it takes too much space to justify all key assertions and arguments with evidence, consider making a summary table. Please include all framework diagrams you have used for your analysis as an appendix to the report. Format Requirements • Length: 8-12 pages (no limit), not including all supporting material such as tables, figures, appendices, etc. (do not use overly large graphics to simply take up space) – You can go longer if needed. • Page margins: 1” margins on all sides • Font type: Verdana • Font size: 11-point font • Line spacing: 1.15 font Please adhere to grammar, spelling, and punctuation rules. Grading Rubric 8 Overview 10 Industry / Position 10 Tradeoffs 10 Activities 10 Competition 15 Strategies (Outcomes, Actions) 10 Recommendations (Projects) 7 Conclusion (Restate focus areas) 15 Frameworks (Example of each) 3 References (6 minimum – no limit) 2 Format Suggested Format Please write the article in a conversational, but professional voice. Include anecdotes and examples, add in some humor or personal experience, and employ your creativity. The below format is a guideline to make sure you incorporate essential elements of analysis; feel free to rearrange paragraphs for a more logical flow and then add-in paragraphs of your own. Make sure to include the gradable elements – but also feel free to be creative and follow your own interests. Paragraph(s) Introduction and general company overview – finish the paragraph with a statement about your general conclusion/hypothesis as to how this company could use technology and digital business strategies effectively Paragraph(s) Explanation of company’s industry, technology opportunities, and positioning in the industry (include APA formatted research references) Paul Wen Paragraph(s) A review of the current competition and the market forces which should be considered by the company (include APA formatted research references throughout the remainder of the paper) Paragraph(s) Explanation of current customer characteristics, segmentation, and the trade-offs being made to identify and serve the target market Paragraph(s) An overview of the key unique activities which make the company special and provide identifiable value in the eyes of the customer Strategic Recommendations Paragraph(s) The key business outcomes and actions, creative technology uses or implications, and strategies (especially porter’s strategies or resource-based strategies) which should be considered in the future for improving the company’s business situation for profitable growth and sustainable competitiveness Recommend any new IT systems, databases, or applications which could be changed or introduced that can enhance the company’s performance in the future. (APA formatted research references) Final Paragraph(s) Conclusion of strengths and IT strategies the company is employing, recommended projects, and the high-level benefits the company should experience Appendix Strategic framework analysis diagrams and other relevant research materials (include as many as needed).