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Case - Strategy Implementation and Strategic Controls
Assignment Overview
This final case involves an analysis of strategy implementation at Pepsico. You will use the resources you identified in the SLP to gather information about the company and relate that information to your work in the previous cases.
Required Reading
Refer to the required and optional readings related to strategy implementation and strategic controls, the themes for this module.
Case Assignment
In Module 4, we will conclude the case study process by researching Pepsico's strategic controls and their fit with the company's chosen strategy.
Keys to the Assignment
- Step One: Review your Case papers from Modules 1-3 so that you are familiar with the mission, vision, SWOT, strategy, and strategic choices you have identified over the course of the class. (will send as attachments after this request has receive price qoute)
- Step Two: Research the PepsiCo
-structure,
-systems,
-people, and
-culture
You will not be able to get answers to every single question, but you will need to answer at least two for each component.
- Step Three: Describe Pepsico's organizational design,
-key strategic control systems (such as budgeting and variance analysis systems),
-primary human resources concerns,
-cultural factors,
You will need to discuss the effect that these have had on the implementation of Pepsico's strategy.
- Step Four: In a 6- to 8-page paper, critically evaluate the fit-or the lack of fit-between the company's mission, strategy, and organizational components crucial to implementation. Do these components complement the strategy? Why or why not?
- Step Five: Review the 13 ethical "prescriptions" and choose 3 to discuss the extent which the company's sense of business ethics has been embedded within its strategic management process, as evidenced by your chosen three indicators.link: https://www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/business-ethics/resources/incorporating-ethics-into-the-organization/ .
1. Don't rely on auditors, ethics officers, compliance officers, cops, regulations, manuals, and audits as the vehicle to insert ethics into the strategy. Use info from Walmart
2. Make employee development part of strategy and make ethics training part of employee development.
3. Encourage all employees to be challenging and demanding in the ethical domain (of everyone in the organization, including the bosses)Use info from Walmart
• Step Six: What changes would you-as the CEO-make to better assure the success of the company's strategy? This is the most important section of the Module 4 Case.
• Step Seven: Consider the Case as a "formal business report" that you are developing for the Board of Directors and CEO as Pepsico's consultant. This is a professional document.
Follow the format below:
o Executive summary: This is a 1/2-3/4 page length synopsis of the main points, conclusions, and recommendations made in the longer report.
o Introduction: State the main purpose of the paper (thesis statement), what you hope to accomplish, and how you will go about doing it.
o Main Body: The "meat" of the paper. Emphasize analysis, not just description. Delineate separate topics or sections with headings.
o Conclusion: Summarize your paper in the light of your thesis statement.
Attachment:- Strategy Implementation.rar