Overview
Purpose
In this section, you will begin developing Project 3 by discussing functional strategies, your company’s organization, and implementation procedures for the Strategic Plan developed in Project 2. This week you will implement feedback for sections 1, 2, and 3 while writing sections 4 and 5. You will also assess the current organizational values and culture, identifying any issues that may impact strategy implementation.
Skills
This assignment will allow you to demonstrate mastery of the following skills:
Communication
- Change Management
- Critical Thinking
- Writing
- Interpersonal Communication
- DEI Policy
- Employee Relations
- Professionalism
Managerial Decision-Making
- Analytical Skills
- Critical Thinking
- Business Process
- Business Strategies
- Business Planning
- Critical Thinking
- Business Requirements
- Controlling (Functions)
Visionary Thinking
- Business Planning
- Business Strategies
- Change Management
- Emotional Intelligence
- Controlling (Functions)
- Critical Thinking
- Strategic Planning
- Systems Thinking
- Business Strategies
- Controlling (Functions)
- Innovation
- Forecasting
- Innovation
- Research
Leadership
- Change Management
- Organizing (Functions)
- Strategic Planning
- Emotional Intelligence
- Employee Relations
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Risk Management
Integrated Planning and Operations
- Analytical Skills
- Controlling (Functions)
- Critical Thinking
- Detail Oriented
- DEI Policy
- Operations
Task
This week you will focus on implementing feedback on sections 1, 2, and 3 of this project and completing sections 4 and 5.
Complete the following sections of your project:
- Introduction
- Briefly introduce your company, and set up the discussion and stated purpose of this paper.
- Set the context for the strategic plan, outlining the company’s need for a clear direction moving forward.
- Functional Strategies
- Define and explain the importance of functional strategies in the implementation of a strategic plan.
- Discuss how specific departments (e.g., marketing, operations, finance) contribute to the overall goals of the company.
- Provide examples from course readings to demonstrate how functional strategies support business and corporate strategies.
- Current Organization
- Based on your research, describe the company’s current organizational structure.
- Include an organizational chart that highlights the roles of key officers and managers at the corporate level.
- Briefly describe the basic responsibilities of each key officer and how they contribute to the company’s overall strategy.
- Implementation Procedures
- Recommend procedures for implementing the company’s strategic plan.
- Identify which executives or offices will be responsible for implementing each goal or objective.
- Explain the actions that executives must take to ensure the successful implementation of corporate, business, and functional goals.
- Identify any organizational changes that may be necessary to support the new strategy.
- Organizational Culture Considerations
- Characterize the company’s organizational culture based on your research and course readings.
- Identify and discuss the company’s core values and how these cultural elements influence strategy implementation.
- Highlight any cultural issues that may need to be addressed as the company implements its new strategy.
- Discuss how cultural factors could support or hinder the execution of the strategic plan.
You will use the discussion tool to share your draft and review your peer’s draft.
Submission
Posting your draft in this unit:
- Your work should address all the proposed questions in Sections 1 through 5.
- Your submission for Sections 1 through 5 should be 6 pages long.
- Include appropriate attribution (citation) of authorship for paraphrases or ideas acquired from course readings and external research on the company’s internal organization, culture, and operations. Apa 7th edition in cite text and referencing
- Please include a minimum of 10 references from both course readings and your own external research on the company.
- By the end of this unit (Unit 6), share your work as a post in the Project 3 Peer Review discussion.
- Only your assigned peer review partner and the instructor will see your work.
Criteria for Success
Assessment of this assignment will measure the student’s mastery of skills taught in the unit, including demonstrating knowledge of relevant concepts and theories, effective integration of course readings with additional research, application of business management concepts, and professional organization and mechanics. Evaluations will focus on the depth of content, quality of research, clarity, organization, and adherence to assignment guidelines, as detailed in the assignment rubric.
Attached: 1. Rubric for this assignment, and previous papers probably needed to complete this final project.
Please let me know if you need anything else. I need this by Thurs.