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• BUS 475 Apply Week 1 Degree of Alignment advanced
  organizer (Apple)
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•         The assessments in this course give you
  the opportunity to design a project plan.
  Throughout the 5 weeks, you will choose an
  organization, create a project, write project
  metrics, and develop a plan that includes a
  contingency plan. You may use the course textbook
  and outside resources for all assessments.

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• BUS 475 Apply Week 2 SWOT Analysis (Apple)
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• Using the organization you selected for the Week
  1 assignment, review its corporate website and at
  least 2 other sources of information on the
  organization, including information on market
  trends.
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• Complete a SWOT analysis from a global
  perspective, if applicable, using the SWOT
  analysis worksheet.
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• Complete a 2- to 3-page summary of your findings
  addressing the questions in the Analysis section
  of the worksheet .

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• BUS 475 Apply Week 2 SWOT Analysis (Disney)
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• Using the organization you selected for the Week
  1 assignment, review its corporate website and at
  least 2 other sources of information on the
  organization, including information on market
  trends.
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• Complete a SWOT analysis from a global
  perspective, if applicable, using the SWOT
  analysis worksheet.
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• Complete a 2- to 3-page summary of your findings
  addressing the questions in the Analysis section
  of the worksheet .

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• BUS 475 Apply Week 3 Project Metrics (Apple)
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• Now that youve identified the organizations
  SWOT, you need to determine the project and its
  objectives and metrics. This project should be
  based on an unmet opportunity for the
  organization, or to minimize a potential threat.
  What does the organization need to do to advance
  its goals and/or expand its competitive
  advantage? How will you measure their progress?

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• BUS 475 Apply Week 3 Project Metrics (Disney)
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• Now that youve identified the organizations
  SWOT, you need to determine the project and its
  objectives and metrics. This project should be
  based on an unmet opportunity for the
  organization, or to minimize a potential threat.
  What does the organization need to do to advance
  its goals and/or expand its competitive
  advantage? How will you measure their progress?

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• BUS 475 Apply Week 3 Project Metrics (Walmart)
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• BUS 475 Apply Week 3 Project Metrics (Walmart)
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• BUS 475 Apply Week 3 Project Metrics (Wendys)
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• BUS 475 Apply Week 3 Project Metrics (Wendys)

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• BUS 475 Apply Week 4 Project Plan (Apple)
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• A project plan is based on research and
  organizational goals.
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• Use the provided Project Plan template to create a
  project plan that outlines the operational steps
  needed to meet each project objective determined
  in Wk 3 Apply Project Metrics.
• Use the textbook and other available resources to
  fill in the appropriate content.
• Summarize the justification for your project
  plan.
• Cite all sources following APA guidelines.

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• BUS 475 Apply Week 5 Contingency Plan and
  Executive Presentation (Apple)
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• Project plans outline the intended course of
  events however, things dont always happen as
  intended. Organizations need to consider risks
  and develop a contingency plan. This plan is
  typically presented to management.
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• Add the following 2 columns to the project plan
  table you created in Wk 4 Apply Project Plan
• Potential Risk Factors
• Contingency Plans

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• BUS 475 Apply Week 5 Contingency Plan and
  Executive Presentation (Walmart)
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• BUS 475 Apply Week 5 Contingency Plan and
  Executive Presentation (Walmart)

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• BUS 475 Apply Week 5 Contingency Plan and
  Executive Presentation (Wendy's)
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• BUS 475 Apply Week 5 Contingency Plan and
  Executive Presentation (Wendy's)

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• BUS 475 Apply Week 5 Executive Presentation
  (Disney)
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• Project plans outline the intended course of
  events however, things dont always happen as
  intended. Organizations need to consider risks
  and develop a contingency plan. This plan is
  typically presented to management.

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• BUS 475 Entire Course
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• BUS 475 Apply Week 1 Degree of Alignment advanced
  organizer (Apple)
• BUS 475 Week 1 Discussion Mission and Vision
  Statements
• BUS 475 Week 1 Practice Strategic Leadership
• BUS 475 Apply Week 2 SWOT Analysis (Apple)
• BUS 475 Apply Week 2 SWOT Analysis (Disney)

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• BUS 475 Week 1 Chapter 1 Practice what is
  strategy
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• BUS 475 Week 1 Chapter 1 Practice  what is
  strategy
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• 1.         Greener Grocers provides goods that
  are similar to competitors goods at a comparable
  price. Greener Grocers cannot lower prices more
  without facing financial difficulties. What is
  another way Greener Grocers could gain a
  competitive advantage?
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• It could provide goods or services that its
  consumers would value more highly than
  competitors offerings.
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• 2.         The element of a firms strategy that
  summarizes the ultimate goals of the firm is
  known as the vision.
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• 3.         Which of the following are primary
  strategy objectives? (Check all that apply.)
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• 4.         Walmart and Nordstorm maintain very
  different strategic positions, one based on
  cost-leadership and the other based on
  differentiation through superior customer
  service. This is an example of 

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• BUS 475 Week 1 Chapter 2 Practice Strategic
  Leadership managing the strategy Process
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• BUS 475 Week 1 Chapter 2 Practice Strategic
  Leadership managing the strategy Process
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• 1.         The stakeholders of a firm are
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• 2.         Which of the following are aims of
  stakeholder strategy?
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• 3.         True or false the strategists job is
  to focus on shareholders only.
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• 4.         Which of the following is a tool that
  managers can use to address the needs of
  stakeholders while maintaining a competitive
  advantage?

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• BUS 475 Week 1 Discussion Mission and Vision
  Statements
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•         The mission and vision statement guide an
  organizations practices and operations. What 3
  factors do you feel are most important to
  consider when producing an appropriate mission
  and vision statement for an organization?
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• Provide an example of a company/organization
  whose mission and vision statement contain the
  factors you feel are most important.

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• BUS 475 Week 1 Practice Strategic Leadership
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• Required information
• Strategic Leadership Formulating Strategy Across
  Levels
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• This activity focuses on IBM and how it uses
  corporate strategy, business strategy, and
  functional strategy to build competitive
  advantage. This activity is important because it
  illustrates how such strategies are created
  through the strategy process. The goal of this
  activity is important because it illustrates how
  such strategies are created through the strategy
  process. the goal of this activity is to
  recognize at which levels of strategy key members
  of IBM act on behalf of the firm, and what
  questions they must ask to build competitive
  advantage.
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• BUS 475 Week 2 Chapter 3 External Analysis
  Industry Structure, Competitive Forces, and
  Strategic Groups Assignment
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• BUS 475 Week 2 Chapter 3 External Analysis
  Industry Structure, Competitive Forces, and
  Strategic GroupsAssignment
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• 1.         Which of the following help determine
  competitive industry structure? (Check all that
  apply)
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• 2.         Which of the following are
  characteristics of a perfectly competitive
  industry? (Check all that apply.)
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• 3.         Which of the following are
  characteristics of a monopolistically competitive
  industry? (Check all that apply.)
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• BUS 475 Week 2 Chapter 4 Internal Analysis
  Resources, Capabilities, and Core Competencies
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• BUS 475 Week 2 Chapter 4 Internal Analysis
  Resources, Capabilities, and Core
  CompetenciesAssignment
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• 1.         The organizational and managerial
  skills necessary to orchestrate a diverse set of
  resources and deploy them strategically are
  called --------------.

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• BUS 475 Week 2 Chapter 10 Global Strategy
  Competing Around the World Assignment
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• BUS 475 Week 2 Chapter 10 Global Strategy
  Competing Around the World Assignment
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• 1.         A company should only expand abroad if
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• 2.         Benicio's Burritos is a leader in the
  Mexican fast-food category in the United States.
  It decides to expand internationally, starting in
  Japan. Benicio's Burritos fails within a year,
  learning later that Mexican food is uncommon in
  Japan and that the flavor profiles are not
  compatible with Japanese palates. The failure of
  Benicio's Burritos can be attributed to which of
  the following?
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• 3.         Which of the following risks do
  companies face when expanding internationally?
• loss of Intellectual property

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• BUS 475 Week 2 Discussion Internal and External
  Considerations
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• For an organization to be successful, its leaders
  must be fully aware of their environment. What
  are the primary internal and external
  organizational considerations for the development
  of a global strategic plan? In your opinion,
  which 3 considerations have the most impact and
  why?
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• BUS 475 Week 2 Practice Internal and External
  Considerations
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• Internal Analysis Looking Inside the Firm of
  Honda Corp.
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• The strategic actions managers take link firm
  resources and capabilities. For example,
  investments in RD labs (managerial actions) are
  one mechanism that links the resource (engineers)
  with the firm capability (product innovation).
  This activity is important because when multiple
  resources and capabilities are aligned on a
  single goal, the firm may have a core competency.
  For instance, Canons ability in optics
  originates not just in the capability of its
  design engineers, but also in its precision in
  manufacturing. When a firms core competency is
  at the heart of the product it sells, that
  product can be considered a core product. In the
  case of Canon, optics are at the heart of such
  products as cameras, camcorders, scanners, and
  projectors.

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• BUS 475 Week 3 Discussion Market Trends
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• An organizations business model depends on the
  key trends of the market. These trends vary
  depending on the industry.
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• Select an industry. What are the current trends
  and assumptions within that industry? Provide an
  example of a company that failed to follow market
  trends. How did it fail?

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• BUS 475 Week 3 Practice Developing and
  Communicating Strategic Objectives
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• Required information
• Economic Value Creation
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• This activity is important because it reviews the
  concept of economic value creation when measuring
  competitive advantage. The goal of the activity
  is to learn how economic value creation helps a
  firm measure competitive advantage. Familiarize
  yourself with the text material from economic
  value creation before completing this exercise.

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• BUS 475 Week 4 chapter 7 Business Strategy
  Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Platforms
  Assignment
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• BUS 475 Week 4 chapter 7 Business Strategy
  Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Platforms
  Assignment
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• Taking on an economic risk in order to innovate
  is known as --------------------.
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•  People who pursue entrepreneurship within an
  existing company are called------------.

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• BUS 475 Week 4 chapter 8 Corporate Strategy
  Vertical Integration and Diversification
  Assignment
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• BUS 475 Week 4 chapter 8 Corporate Strategy
  Vertical Integration and Diversification
  Assignment
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• A firm that is active in several different
  countries is pursuing a(n) ----------------diversi
  fication strategy.
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• To figure out if a firms type of diversification
  is -------------, one can ask question about the
  degree to which the corporations business units
  share core competencies.

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• BUS 475 Week 4 chapter 12 Section 3, Business
  Ethics Assignment
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• BUS 475 Week 4 chapter 12 Section 3, Business
  EthicsAssignment
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• High profit accounting scandals and the global
  financial crisis are example of -----------------.

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• BUS 475 Week 4 Discussion Components and
  Considerations of a Strategic Plan
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• Companies use strategic plans as a course of
  action for success. What do you consider to be
  the most and least important factors to consider
  when implementing a strategic plan? What ethical
  considerations should you include in the
  strategic plan? Why?
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• BUS 475 Week 4 Practice Strategy Implementation
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• Platform Strategy
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• In the digital age, platforms are business model
  innovations that use technology (such as the
  internet, cloud computing, etc.) to connect
  organizations, resources, information, and people
  in an interactive ecosystem where
  value-generating transactions can be created and
  exchanged. This activity is important because it
  highlights how some platform business models have
  achieved competitive advantage.

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