1) discussion Reflect on a time when you witnessed or participated in a strategic initiative within an organization, such as a new product launch, a digital marketing campaign to increase brand awareness, or even an acquisition of a competitor to increase market share. Consider how the existing culture influenced the success or challenges of that initiative. Draw from the theoretical concepts in this week’s materials and your practical experience to explore the relationship between strategy and culture. Respond to the following: From your perspective, what aspects of organizational culture are the most critical for evaluating the effectiveness of strategies? How can leaders assess whether their organization’s culture is aligned with their strategic ...
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In this assessment, you will evaluate the mission, vision, values, strategies, and culture of an organization to identify opportunities for growth and alignment with its stated objectives. This analysis will serve as the foundation for proposing actionable strategies for organizational improvement and change.
Assessment Preparation
Review your SWOT analysis from Week 1 and incorporate any faculty feedback, as appropriate, to prepare for this assessment.
Assessment Deliverable
Create a 10- to 12-slide presentation using the provided template, analyzing the key components of mission, vision, values, strategies, and cultures of your selected organization as the foundation for organizational change. In your presentation:
- Analyze how the organization’s mission, vision, and values can be leveraged to determine strategies to achieve organizational goals. If these are not well defined, suggest how to clarify and integrate them into the organization’s action plan. In your analysis:
- Identify 3 strategies the organization can implement to communicate its mission, vision, and values more clearly to employees, customers, and the public.
- Justify why improvement strategies would benefit the organization, and directly relate your justification to its mission, vision, and values.
- Identify 2 strategies this organization is implementing to grow and gain a larger market share, and explain how effective you think the strategies are for its growth and development.
- Describe the culture of this organization, including purpose, vision, expectations, leadership, inclusion, interaction, and growth.
- Evaluate the alignment between the organization’s strategies for growth and its stated mission, values, and culture.
- Summarize the SWOT analysis you completed in Week 1 as the basis for future change and explain the most important organizational needs that must be addressed.
- Summarize the key findings from your overall analysis of the organization and explain any patterns that emerged in understanding the organization’s current strategies and culture.
Include detailed speaker notes and images to support the content on your slides.
Cite sources to support your assessment.
Include a slide with APA-formatted references.
Submit your assessment.
Assessment Support
- Review the grading rubric for guidance on deliverable expectations.
- Review Presentations, Recordings, and Images to learn how to create a presentation.
- Review the following resources for writing guidelines and APA information:
- Center for Writing Excellence
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