Category: Business and Management

I have put the previous related files in the attachment, so you can use the previous files to complete the paper.
Objective
To prepare a final version of a business plan
To identify an exit strategy
Description
Students will finalize their business plans, select strategies for the continuing growth of their businesses, and decide at which point in their businesses’ life cycle they will exit and how.
Instructions
Submit the final business plan which is comprehensive document that explains the purpose of the business. A business plan serves several purposes. It can help convince investors or lenders to finance your business. It can persuade partners or key employees to join your company. Most importantly, it serves as a roadmap guiding the launch and growth of your new business.
Evaluation and Feedback
Final Business Plan will be marked in its entirety out of 100. The following rubric indicates the criteria students are to adhere to, and their relative weights to the assignment overall.
Activity/Competencies Demonstrated % of Final Grade
The Executive Summary is clear and effective as a stand-alone overview of the plan /10
Description of the product/service features, benefits, pricing, current stage of development /10
Analysis of size, growth, trends, market segments, customers and competition /10
Persuasive description of the target market, product/service strategy, pricing, distribution, sales, advertising and promotion /10
Plan for production/delivery of product or services, product cost, operating complexity, resources required /10
Backgrounds of key individuals, ability to execute, organization structure, role of non-student executives, which students will execute /10
Resources and capabilities. Barriers that can be establishes Are they sustainable? /10
The financial plan is consistent and effective in capturing financial performance. Key assumptions on risks, growth, margins, major expenditures and seasonality are clearly described /10
Proposal to investor/lender: amount of funding required, type of investment offering /10
Demonstrates good organization, including a strong introduction and conclusion /10
Total /100

INTRODUCTION
An organization’s sustainable competitive advantage is derived largely from intangible assets: human, social, and intellectual capital. Human resource professionals enable current and future organizational competitiveness by ensuring that people with the skills, knowledge, and abilities needed to produce these resources are in adequate supply. This is accomplished through employee training and talent management. As a human resource professional, your ability to effectively plan and implement employee training and develop talent management programs will directly contribute to your organization’s success. In this task, you will explain how a training plan can manage a variety of talent in an organization.
SCENARIO
A midsized custom furniture retail organization has recently acquired 10 new stores and 300 new employees from a competitor. The acquisition has been announced and the new stores are scheduled for their grand reopenings in 60 days. With the acquisition of floor agents from the new stores, the sales tactics, knowledge, and processes differ from store to store, resulting in various objectives, sales drivers, and measures for success within the sales department. To remain competitive in the furniture store industry and to create synergy among the newly acquired stores and the current stores, training and development of the sales department is needed.
As the director of strategic training and development, you need to create a training plan designed to train and prepare the newly acquired floor agent employees to meet organization expectations regarding sales initiatives and sales training. As you begin to strategize the training and development plan, you realize that the furniture store does not currently have any established process for training floor agents, thus the training plan will be developed from scratch.
Since the competitor organization has retained a number of their current locations, management at your organization has concerns that the competitor may attempt to entice their best employees back to their organization. Management needs you to identify those promising individuals and design a plan to work specifically with them on their career development within the organization and, when possible, their integration into the management of the organization.
REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The similarity report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).
Talent Management Plan
A.  Explain how training and development may engage employees at every stage of their career development by doing the following:
1.  Explain how the organization’s floor agents can use training and development to advance their careers within the organization.
2.  Explain how the organization can use training and development to identify individual floor agents to move into succession planning for promotion into management positions (e.g., client sales manager, store manager, supply chain manager, or project manager).
3.  Explain how training and development can be used to help floor agents map a specific, desired career path (e.g., client sales manager, store manager, supply chain manager, or project manager).
B.  Discuss communication during the training process by doing the following:
1.  Discuss how trainer communication could affect performance feedback and mitigate conflict. Include nonverbal and improvisational communication strategies.
2.  Explain how trust and communication would benefit the training program.
C.  Explain how the training program will ensure inclusivity while meeting the needs of a diverse population of employees. Include the following topics:
•   accessibility (e.g., physical ability or mental ability)
•   identity (e.g., age, race, gender, or culture)
•   learning style (e.g., talents, skills, education, or prior experiences)
D.  Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
E.  Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

Step 1: Congratulations! You’ve been hired as a manager and have been asked to analyze the current status of your organization. Review at least 3 global companies on the Business Source Complete: SWOT Analyses list. Select a company – either the company you work for, a company you have worked for in the past, or 1 of the companies on the Business Source Complete: SWOT Analyses list – to use for the rest of the course (this will sometimes be referred to as “your organization”) and research its history. Note: Some reports are more recent than others. It’s in your best interest to find an organization with a recent (within 2 years) report. Step 2: Review your organization’s SWOT analysis and other available sources to evaluate the strategic needs of the organization within a changing global environment. Complete the Organizational Analysis worksheet for your evaluation. Note: This type of information is often found in the organization’s annual report.  

Create a 10-20 slide presentation with speaker notes that demonstrates how you would present and deliver your capstone project to your intended audience. Your presentation should be persuasive, use visual and graphical elements, and demonstrate professional speaking and presentation techniques.
Introduction
Often in a business environment you will be asked to give a presentation of your knowledge, research, or plan to a group of stakeholders. In this assessment, you will present your capstone project. Imagine that your audience is a leader in the organization or industry that you chose, that they have not read your paper, and that you need to present the highlights to them in less than 10 minutes. This presentation should contain all of the main elements found in your paper and incorporate appropriate charts or graphics, as well as cite academic and business resources appropriately.
Assessment Description
Prepare and record a short presentation of your capstone project. Ensure that your presentation meets these expectations:
Create a persuasive presentation using techniques to make a compelling business case and recommendations.
Write in a style that is appropriate for presenting in a professional setting and appropriate for your intended audience.
Add your commentary in the speaker’s notes area for each slide. This provides additional context to your slides, and it will be very efficient to have the speaker’s notes ready when you record the audio.
Use design techniques that enhance your message and information.
Apply visual and graphic elements effectively to support the business case and recommendations.
Your presentation should include charts, graphs, or any illustrative evidence that supports the business case you made in the written part of your project.
If you use existing charts or graphs, remember to credit the source using proper APA format for citations and references; for instance, figures should have in-text citations after their titles.
Apply professional speaking and presentation techniques for telling the business story that connects with the audience.
Your presentation must include slides with a recorded audio of you delivering your presentation to your intended audience.
Use best practices of professional speaking and presenting to achieve a strong presentation.
Font and font size: Use an appropriate size and weight for a presentation, generally 24–28 points for headings and no smaller than 18 points for bulleted

Assignment instructions (Draft with all data added and references in the attachment)
Needs editing, using APA style, checking for AI and plagiarism
Final Entrepreneurial Business Plan
Goal: Development of the overall business plan with all
relevant parts included.
Submission Instructions: 
The detailed summary should be 3000 words in length that
uses current APA style and format. 

About this Assignment
Effective managers are also proficient communicators, because they know that what they say and how they say it directly impacts their team’s ability to solve problems, resolve conflicts, and make decisions. In this course, you learned how managerial communications impacts both processes and relationships within the organization. For your final assignment, you will develop a managerial communication plan that facilitates effective and efficient internal communications between departmental managers and departmental teams:
Your plan should include policies for oral, written, and non-verbal communications.
Your plan should include procedures for communications involving conflict management and decision making.
Your plan should detail the specific process and tools used to communicate between departments in specific situations.
You should present your communication plan in a formal, written report that includes the policies, procedures, processes, and tools that your organization will use, along with an analysis of why you selected each component. The report should be in APA format, and be between 2500-3000words in length.
Project Prompts
You may want to start this project by deciding the type of organization or industry you will be writing about. For example, a communication plan for a manufacturing plant, where all employees work in one large building, may be different from the plan at a retail chain that has stores in many different cities or a virtual company, where most employees work from home.
Organizations can become siloed, with each department failing to share information with other departments or individuals in the same organization. Effective managerial communications will take down the walls between departments, opening the flow of information, knowledge, and ideas between divisions. As you develop your plan, think about ways to facilitate communications between groups that normally do not interact with each other.
Think about the different communication tools that organizations have access to today, and how these tools are used. Every company has access to telephones and email, but think about other technologies that allow collaboration across workgroups. Consider both synchronous tools, such as instant messaging, video conferences, or in-person meetings, and asynchronous tools, like SharePoint, discussion threads, or wikis. As you research your plan, consider the tools that make the most sense for your organization and your plan.
Sources
You may refer to the course material for supporting evidence, but you must also use at least three credible, outside sources and cite them using APA format. Please include a mix of both primary and secondary sources, with at least one source from a scholarly peer-reviewed journal. If you use any Study.com lessons as sources, please also cite them in APA (including the lesson title and instructor’s name).
Primary sources are first-hand accounts such as interviews, advertisements, speeches, company documents, statements, and press releases published by the company in question.
Secondary sources come from peer-reviewed scholarly journals, such as the Journal of Management. You may use like JSTOR, Google Scholar, and Social Science Research Network to find articles from these journals. Secondary sources may also come from reputable websites with .gov, .edu, or .org in the domain. (Wikipedia is not a reputable source, though the sources listed in Wikipedia articles may be acceptable.)

Evaluate specific company strategies and analyze the impact on competitive advantage and financial performance; Demonstrate careful reasoning for strategic initiatives using the tools of external and internal analysis
Hence, creating a strategic analysis of a company’s situation will help you develop the skills to synthesize diverse information and so reason critically about potential solutions.  Such skills are necessary for effective business management. The task is to create a written analysis containing the following three aspects:
An identification of the company’s strategy, referencing course concepts (e.g. business-level strategy, five elements of strategy, international strategy)
An explication of the strategic issues facing the company, derived from an analysis of the external environment and internal organization (i.e. SWOT analysis)
A recommendation plan for dealing with the issues explicated (i.e. detailed options that weigh the benefits and costs of the proposal)
A few points of clarification:
The format is a typed document (12-point font, double-spaced text), should be roughly three pages in length.
Students should read the case materials below on Alphabet: Reorganizing Google. We will discuss how Google re-organized into Alphabet following an aggressive process of product diversification. The Company’s ambitions in hardware, drones, and health extended the company far from its Google search core, thereby challenging the mission to organize the world’s information. The organization change was intended to help its businesses operate more efficiently. We will address the following issues:
In response to increasing pressure from investors and in the face of stagnant share prices, Google announced an unusual restructuring plan in October 2015. It created a new firm – Alphabet, Inc. – to act as a holding company for Google and quite a few other independent subsidiaries under the Alphabet umbrella.
Has the reorganization addressed investors’ concerns, specifically whether Google’s investments in new projects have yielded attractive returns?
Has innovation actually improved under the new organizational structure for these risky bets on new technology and products?
Are the businesses financially stronger and more likely to succeed under the holding company structure?
How should Alphabet manage its product diversification moving forward? Should the company be more focused on developing moonshot projects that support the company’s core activity of creating audiences for ads?  How does the company integrate technological advances in artificial intelligence across a wide range of businesses and products?
To learn about Google’s re-organization into Alphabet, please read the following articles:
https://hbr.org/2015/08/why-google-became-alphabet

What’s Behind Google’s Alphabet Restructuring?

https://abc.xyz/investor/

Prepare a strategic entry plan for your multinational employer seeking to enter an emerging market addressing the following key items:
1. (Target) Market and Competitive Situation
2. The Business – Why and What
3. The Strategy
4. (Operating) Business Model
5. Sales & Marketing Plan/Strategies (Go-to-market/entry strategies)
6. Differentiators (or Branding)
7. Team (background and why you)
8. Timeline (your launch and action plan)
9. The Social Impact or contribution through the proposed entry
10. Potential Partner(s)
11. Risks and Challenges of operating in the market (and strategies for overcoming them)
12. Others

please see attachment for instructions. I’d like to include in my essay being the first of my siblings to excel in higher education, be able to use all resources and tools to implement in my current position as I strive for potential growth within my company.

Research a topic area of your choosing that you are passionate about, want to see change, or simply want to learn more about. Ideas could come from areas of theology, social matters, legal, moral, or policies matters. Research an advocate (individual or organization) that promotes the topic area you selected.
In 1,000-1,500 words, address the following:
Summarize the position/argument researched and assess it for validity. Ensure you are directly quoting the source and summarizing it in syllogistic form. The expectation is for you to show the syllogism and assess it for validity using the tools covered in this course.
Identify the assumptions of the position by drawing inferences from its communicated proposition. Specifically, explicitly draw out any connections or contradictions to the Christian Worldview presented by the argument. These inferences should setup your argument.
Construct a valid argument that contradicts, challenges, or improves the position of the organization. Again, show the syllogism and its validity.
use 5 academic level sources