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Assignment OverviewFor this signature assignment assume the role of a member of the strategic planning team following the merger horizontal integration of two companies of your choice that were used in this course The purpose of the merger is to broaden the scope and increase global market accessibility As a member of the strategic planning team your first task is to produce a draft recruitment plan to fill three additional strategic management positions incorporating artificial intelligence tools and methods throughout the planning and selection process as assistance tools DeliverableA 12 15-page strategic plan excluding title and reference pages that addresses the items below and documents how AI was used at each stage Include appropriate tables charts and an appendix listing the AI prompts and outputs you used Cite a minimum of four scholarly resources Core Framing QuestionsWhere are you now Where do you want to be How do you get there Use course concepts and apply creative inferences where data is unavailable Document assumptions explicitly Required Content and AI IntegrationCompany Profile and OfferingsDescribe the merged company’s products or services Provide company background current headcount locations and primary organizational culture AI Integration Use an AI tool of your choice to synthesize public company descriptions produce a concise company profile draft and generate a summary Include the AI prompt and resulting output in the appendix Challenges to Candidate SelectionDiscuss structural cultural regulatory geographic and talent-market limitations that could hinder the selection of qualified candidates AI Integration Run an AI-assisted risk scan to identify likely barriers across regions and functions summarize findings and cite AI outputs Assess Employee Engagement After MergerAnalyze how the merger may affect engagement and retention Propose strategies to sustain engagement during integration AI Integration Use AI to model likely employee sentiment topics from hypothetical internal survey data and generate prioritized engagement interventions Include sample prompts and model responses S W O T Applied to Talent SelectionComplete a S W O T analysis focused on strategic leadership needs Explain how S W O T findings guide the selection of the three new members of the management team AI Integration Have