Navigating Corporate Challenges: Strategy, Governance, Crisis Essay

• Critically evaluate the industry life cycle of a chosen organisation and reflect on the existing corporate strategy.
• Compare and contrast the board’s corporate governance structure and effectiveness.
• Prepare a board crisis action plan for a natural disaster of unforeseen event of catastrophic proportions.
•  Critically analyse a corporate governance failure and suggest actions that can be taken to reduce or eliminate and similar such occurrences from happening in the future.
• Critically analyse the various methods of data collection in order to conduct research into complex organisational issues using both primary and secondary research techniques.

1. This consists of a proposal that includes a brief introduction of the issue or problem in corporate governance or strategy in an organisation of your choice.
2. You are recommended to use your own organisation but you may use any organisation that is well known to you.
3. The proposal should explain why the issue you have identified is important. There should also be a brief literature review about the area of proposed research as well as details of the methods used for both primary and secondary research.
4. The proposal will include a Gannt chart showing the projected start and finish of the final summative project.

Assignment Task

Name of the organisation: Marks and Spencer

Topic: Strategy to address/enhance revenue in retail fashion of Marks and Spencer.