Category: Business and Management

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).
The Strategic Analysis must be submitted electronically by the scheduled due date.  Your file (Word; PDF) should be uploaded to the proper folder under the Assignments tab on our iCollege site.
Each submitted analysis should be roughly three pages in length.
The purpose of this case is to examine the factors leading to IKEA’s decision to enter India, as well as to propose strategic actions to build a competitive advantage in this new market. Review the questions below before reading the case study materials linked to this case introduction.
What are the segments in the general environment that relate to IKEA’s situation?
What is IKEA’s choice of international entry mode? What are the advantages and disadvantages compared to other entry modes?
Describe IKEA’s intended international corporate-level strategy in India. Is it different from its earlier international strategy?
Identify IKEA’s current challenges in India. Based on your analysis, what recommendations would you make to help IKEA achieve its goals?
Background: In June 2013, IKEA approved a plan to invest €1.5 billion to open 25 stand-alone stores across India.  In the previous year, India reversed course on foreign entrance by allowing 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) in single-brand retail.  This shift in FDI regulation provided IKEA with an opportunity to enter at the retail level.  Prior to 2012, IKEA had been sourcing materials from India for roughly 30 years.  The company’s initial attempt to enter the retail market was thwarted in 2009 by India’s previously stringent regulations.  In fact, the company had established a market research division to seek relationships with Indian companies.
With the shift in FDI regulation, IKEA announced the objective of opening an initial 10 stores by 2023.  However, there were still a number of regulatory issues restricting IKEA’s business model.  For example, FDI in multi-brand retail was forbidden, meaning that IKEA could not sell its famous meatballs in a furniture store!  The Company was also forbidden by the Indian government from selling furniture online in India.  IKEA was also required to source 30% of its products from domestic SMEs (i.e., small-to-medium enterprises).  This would limit the company’s ability to ensure global efficiencies, meet safety standards, and source from quality suppliers.
Case Study: IKEA Adapting its service for India.pdf
Company announcement: IKEA_Next Stop_India.pdf

A.  Evaluate what makes a strategy either successful or unsuccessful by doing the following:
1.  Discuss how the creation of the vision, mission, and values statements are critical in the formation of the overall strategy.
2.  Discuss the importance of leadership team buy-in of the strategy.
3.  Discuss the use of at least two analytical tools in performing a situational analysis.
4.  Discuss the importance of having the appropriate alignment between strategy, people, and corporate culture.
a.  Discuss the role that this alignment plays in determining the success or failure of the business strategy.
B.  Perform a SWOT analysis for a company with which you are familiar or where you are presently employed by doing the following:
1.  Analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the company.
C.  Discuss how the SWOT analysis from part B1 impacts your company’s strategic decisions.
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.

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 create and evaluate a training plan for 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).
Training Development and Evaluation
A.  Identify four measurable learning objectives for the training program that would help develop the floor agents’ selling capabilities.
B.  Describe a training program you would develop and how it would appropriately address the learning objectives.
1.  Justify how the training program is supported by adult learning theory and behavioral theory.
C.  Recommend one in-person and one technology-facilitated method for effectively delivering the training program.
1.  Justify the rationale for each recommended delivery method from part C.
D.  Identify a desired result of the training program for each learning objective from part A.
E.  Explain how you will evaluate the desired results from part D by doing the following:
1.  Recommend one metric to evaluate the results of the training program.
2.  Explain how to calculate the recommended metric.
Note: You will not need to perform the calculations.
3.  Explain why the chosen metric is an effective option for evaluating the training program.
F.  Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
G.  Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

Subject area is Business
This project evaluates your knowledge and skills in the following areas:
Using the state standard to write learning objectives
Aligning the rigor of the state standard to the rigor of the learning objective
Describing a performance measure that is aligned to the state standard and is included in the learning objective
Writing an objective statement and related performance measures in student-friendly terms
Describing the purpose of learning the new content; why it helps the student in the content area and in their life
Writing a statement that the teacher uses to connect the lesson to necessary prior knowledge and/or background knowledge, and supports the student making connections within and across content areas
This project is aligned to the Texas Educator Standards.  Successful completion is required as a demonstration of your knowledge and skills in meeting the above standards, and is a preservice requirement. You must score 80% or higher on each submission to successfully complete the project. You can download the scoring rubric here.
For TNT 700.3PBP, you will complete two lesson plan introductions, completing only those areas described above. Each lesson plan introduction will be submitted on a different submission page. There are two submission pages, one for each document.
NOTE: If you are seeking certification in Core Subjects EC – 6, Core Subjects 4 – 8, ELAR 4 – 8, or ELAR/SS 4 – 8 at least ONE of your two lesson plans must be written for literacy, using the literacy standards.  The other lesson plan may be in any other Core EC-6 Content Area.
All other content areas must write lesson plans aligned to the certification area you are seeking. You will use these plans in the upcoming projects, TNT 700.4PBP and 700.5PBP.
Below are links to the TEKS, a sample project, the template for which you will need 2 documents, and a copy of the scoring criteria — the rubric. Select each link to get the information you need.

Answer the following questions based off the article.
1. Reflect on the strategic management decisions made by Family Dollar and Dollar General in the context of location selection and management practices. How have these decisions impacted their performance and competitive positioning? Consider the importance of strategic location selection and operational efficiency in maintaining a competitive edge in the retail industry.
2. Analyze the role of external economic factors such as inflation, government spending cuts, and consumer spending habits in shaping the business strategies of Family Dollar and Dollar General. How can businesses in the retail sector adapt their strategies to mitigate the impact of these external factors and sustain growth? Please identify which business level strategy you think these companies are using (cost leadership, focus, or differentiation) and why you think that is their strategy. Discuss the importance of aligning business-level strategy with consumer behavior.
Please make sure your answers are detailed and through.

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The Final Case Brief is a
formal paper that frames, evaluates, and develops an action plan for managing
an ethical challenge that your have identifies. This is your opportunity to demonstrate
everything you know about applying values to the challenges of business
leadership.

For this report, you are requested to choose a well-known and listed company. You are requested to critically evaluate the external and internal influences of the selected company, considering economics, government structures, shareholders, and culture. In doing so, critically appraise the role of ethics and corporate social responsibility within the global marketplace.
For this essay, you are requested to choose a well-known and listed company of your choice. You are requested to critically evaluate the external and internal influences of the selected company, considering economics, government structures, shareholders, and culture. In doing so, critically appraise the role of ethics and corporate social responsibility within the global marketplace.
In completing the above task, please note the below assessment criteria:
1. A critical reflection of the key points of the discussion with reference to theory covering the different phases of the project strategy in the context of change management with a focus on ethics-CSR, internationalization, and stakeholder management is needed.
2. Understanding and application of theories.
3. Correct use of terminology.
4. Relevance of examples and scenarios.

Think
about the experiences you’ve had while working on your Civic Engagement Project
(CEP). Describe your experiences and explain how they relate to engaged
citizenship. Specifically, explain how the ideals and values contained in the U.S.
Founding Documents and the institutions of self-governance support or conflict
with the values of engaged citizenship. Reflect on how your personal values and
the values referenced in the Declaration of Independence, the U.S.
Constitution, and/or the various Constitutional Amendments are better
understood by completing the 12 voluntary hours required in the CEP assignment. 
READING
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/amendments-11-27
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript

Please refer to the attached assignment brief and course guide. Please choose any of the question options but refer to Walmart as the main case study.