it is in parts but overall its like 10 pages apa style
textbook
Gregory G. Dess, Gerry McNamara, Alan B. Eisner, & Seung-Hyun Lee: Strategic Management: Text and Cases (9th edition). McGraw-Hill Irwin. ISBN: 978-1259899973
MGMT 425 Project – Part 1 Requirements 1. Part 1 is an industry (external) analysis. What matters is the industry in which your company lies. For those who chose the computer industry, you need to analyze the computer industry, which is SIC code 3571. For those who chose retail locations, you need to analyze the retail industry, which is SIC code 5331. Please make sure your paper has an industry focus, not a company analysis. Yes, it is an industry analysis focused on your firm, so there might be some firm specifics, but the primary focus of the paper is to describe the boundaries outside the industry. https://siccode.com/sic-code-lookup-directory 2. The first paragraph is an executive summary, which summarizes the following points. 1) Which industry you are analyzing: the computer industry or the retail industry. 2) What are the five forces of this industry? 3) What is the intensity of each force (strong, medium, or weak)? 4) What is the profitability of this industry (high, low, medium) and are there any opportunities or threats? The first paragraph is a summary of your entire paper. It has to be short, clear, straightforward and key to the points. I suggest you write this paragraph last, not first. Use a highlighted sentence to remember to come back. 3. The second to the sixth paragraphs are an analysis of each of Porter’s 5 forces for your industry. You need to spend at least one paragraph analyzing each force. If there is a force that you want to elaborate on, then you can (and should) spend more than one paragraph on that. When you analyze each force, you need to identify: 1) what this force is. 2) What is the intensity of this force (strong, medium, weak)? You should build your arguments based on the factors we discussed in class. You can find them from my lecture notes or in your textbook. In addition, you need to provide evidence for your arguments. The evidence comes from your library and internet research. 4. Please write in full sentences, not in bullet points. USE SECTION HEADINGS. 5. Other requirements include: 1) minimum of 4 pages, maximum of 8 pages. References and/or tables, figures etc. can surpass this amount, and should not be included in the page total. 2) double spaced, font size 12, 1-inch standard margin. 3) At least four references provided, at least one of which should include our library sources. In order to do a good job, you may need to have more than four references. 4) Make sure to have a reference list, format isn’t crucial. 6. The first paragraph is an executive summary; you need to indicate: 1) which company you analyze in your paper. 2) what competitive advantages and disadvantages the company has in its value chain activities. 3) what competitive advantages and disadvantages your company has based on your financial ratio analysis of your company and its competitors. Again it may be easier to write this paragraph last. Page Two 7. The first part of your paper is the value chain analysis. If you’re doing manufacturing, use the standard value chain. If you’re doing retail, use the retail value chain. Both are in the book. You need to: 1) Describe your company’s main products / services. 2) Identify the products’ / services’ suppliers, end users and if there is any distributors or retailers in between your company and the end users. 3) Identify the primary value chain activities of your company and describe what these activities consists of. (spend about a paragraph on each step of the value chain) 4) Indicate in which value chain activities your company has competitive advantages and explain why. When you talk about advantages and disadvantages, this should be relative to competitors you identify. 8. The second part of your paper is the financial ratio analysis of your company and its competitor. You need to: Identify a competitor of your company and download the financial ratios of both your company and the competitor from our library’s database: Mergent Online. For each company, please download the financial ratios of the recent three years. 9. Discuss these ratios: Quick ratio, current ratio, inventory turnover, receivables turnover, total asset turnover, return on assets, and return on equity. Remember our discussion about viewing changes over time and so forth. Ideally for each ratio you should have a chart showing both companies, and then an explanation below it talking about what the ratio means, how it is changing over time, etc. Compare and interpret the differences in the ratios of the two companies. Conclude what competitive advantages your company has over its competitor and what competitive disadvantages your company has over its competitor based on those ratios. https://allstudymba.com/ https://apastyle.apa.org/ https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/paper-format/sample-papers MGMT 425 - Here are the requirements on the Part Two of your Project. 1. Part Two is a company analysis. You will analyze the company you chose for your project. 2. The first paragraph is an executive summary; you need to indicate: 1) which company you analyze in your paper. 2) what competitive advantages and disadvantages the company has in its value chain activities. 3) what competitive advantages and disadvantages your company has based on your financial ratio analysis of your company and its competitors. Again it may be easier to write this paragraph last. 3. The first part of your paper is the value chain analysis. If you’re doing manufacturing, use the standard value chain. If you’re doing retail, use the retail value chain. Both are in the book. You need to: 1) Describe your company’s main products / services. 2) Identify the products’ / services’ suppliers, end users and if there is any distributors or retailers in between your company and the end users. 3) Identify the primary value chain activities of your company and describe what these activities consists of. (spend about a paragraph on each step of the value chain) 4) Indicate in which value chain activities your company has competitive advantages and explain why. When you talk about advantages and disadvantages, this should be relative to competitors you identify. 4. The second part of your paper is the financial ratio analysis of your company and its competitor. You need to: Identify a competitor of your company and download the financial ratios of both your company and the competitor from our library’s database: Mergent Online. For each company, please download the financial ratios of the recent three years. 5. Discuss these ratios: Quick ratio, current ratio, inventory turnover, receivables turnover, total asset turnover, return on assets, and return on equity. Remember our discussion about viewing changes over time and so forth. Ideally for each ratio you should have a chart showing both companies, and then an explanation below it talking about what the ratio means, how it is changing over time, etc. Compare and interpret the differences in the ratios of the two companies. Conclude what competitive advantages your company has over its competitor and what competitive disadvantages your company has over its competitor based on those ratios. 6. Please write in full sentences, not in bullet points. USE SECTION HEADINGS. 7. Other requirements include: 1) minimum of 5 pages, maximum of 8 pages plus references 2) double spaced, font size 12, 1-inch standard margin. 3) at least two references provided, including our library source. In order to do a good job, you may need to have more than two references. 4) Please provide correct and complete references. 8. Remember our conversations about plagiarism. Feel free to discuss your issues with classmates, but write in your own voice, and come to your own conclusions. 1 Here are the requirements on the Part Three of your Project (and info on combining the parts for final submission at the end). 1. Part Three is a Strategy Recommendation. Please make recommendations to your company’s business level strategy or corporate level strategy. 2. NO executive summary is required for this part. 3. The first section is to analyze your company’s business level strategy. You need to: 1) identify your company’s business level strategy, i.e. whether it is cost leadership, differentiation, focused cost leadership, focused differentiation or a combination. Please explain why you think this is your company’s business level strategy. 2) Analyze how this business level strategy is achieved through your company’s value chain activities. 4. The second section is to analyze your company’s corporate level strategy. You need to: 1) Identify one of your company’s corporate level strategies. Please choose one from the following: horizontal integration, vertical integration, outsourcing, related diversification, and unrelated diversification. Please explain why you think this is your company’s primary corporate level strategy. It is possible they participate in more than one of these, try to find the one that has the greatest apparent focus. You may discuss the others briefly as well and how they relate, but try to focus on the primary one you identify. 2) Discuss how your company implements this corporate level strategy, whether through merger and acquisition, strategic alliance, joint venture, internal development, or through other means. 5. For the first and second sections, you can prioritize your writing on either one, based on your company’s strategy preference. If you company mainly uses business level strategy to achieve its goals, then you may want to discuss more on the first section. Similarly, if your company mainly uses corporate level strategy to create values, then you may want to elaborate on the second section. You can also allocate your writing equally on these two sections, if you find your company does not have a specific focus on either of these two strategies. 6. The third section is to make recommendations to your company’s business level or corporate level strategy. In your Part one and Part two analyses, you have identified the opportunities and threats in your company’s industry, and the competitive advantages and disadvantages that your company has. How can your company improve its business level strategy or corporate level strategy in order to either strengthen its competitive advantages, or overcome its competitive disadvantages, to utilize the industry’s opportunities or mitigate the industry’s threats? Please explain the rationale of your strategy recommendations. (You need to spend at least one page on this section.) 7. Please write in full sentences, not in bullet points. 8. Other