MGT 5170 Applying Strategy For Managers

1. Cover page

 

2. One-page, single spaced Executive Summary for the case. This is a summary of your analysis, which is described in full in the seven appendices. The Executive Summary must be able to stand on its own as a document that provides the reader with the most important and essential information described in detail in the seven Appendices.

 

Seven each containing citations and APA-style references, including

a) bullet points identifying the most important problem(s) facing the company.

b) a table with at least five rows like the row shown in Table, with each of the five rows showing either an opportunity or threat, in each of the
five Steep areas of the macro environment.

c) a table with at least five rows like the row shown in Table II Wurthmann, with each of the five rows showing why each of the Porter’s Five forces (bargaining power of buyers & suppliers, threat of new entry and substitutes, and rivalry among competitors) is strong, moderate, or weak, based on one factor corresponding to that force (the factors are identified.

d) a financial analysis as described later in these instructions (for consistency, students should use the financial information posted in canvas).

e) a table with at least six rows like the row shown in Table III (Wurthmann, 2020), with three of the six rows showing 3 strengths and three of the six rows showing

3 weakness in the company (see chapter 4 and the related material in canvas).

f) at least four bullet points, with each of the four bullet points identifying an alternative strand of a strategy for the company. You must provide at least one strand of a strategy at each of the four intersections (i.e. the strength/opportunity, strength/threat, weakness/opportunity, or weakness/threat intersections) (please model each of the four alternative strands of a strategy after the strength/opportunity strand of a strategy shown on page 46 in Wurthmann (2020).

g) text and/or bullet points indicating which one of the four alternative strands of a strategy from appendix 6 you are recommending for the company, along with a brief (at least one page) explanation for why you selected this alternative (explain how the recommendation complements and integrates the existing strategy and enhances the prospects of the company, include information on how to implement the recommendation, see guidance in the penultimate section of Wurthmann