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Capstone Organizational Analysis Project-CBPM Assessment
Over the term each executive team will develop and submit an organizational analysis report. The report is expected to be detailed and comprehensive.
Individual contributions towards the group project paper should be in the vicinity of 1,200 to 1,500 words. This means 3,600 to 4,500 words for a three-person team and 4,800 to 6,000 words for a four-person team.).
At the minimum, your written project report will include the following (see Appendix 7 for rubric):
CURRENT SITUATION
1. Introduction and company overview
Strategic Posture
2. Strategic history of the organization (over the 6 rounds)
3. Organizational mission statement and strategic vision
4. Business level strategy
External Analysis: Industry and Environment
5. Strategic history of the industry
6. Five-Forces analysis of the industry
7. Segment Analysis OR Competitive Dynamics Analysis
Internal Analysis
8. Functional analysis - Explains the business model that includes all the functions. You will address questions such as: What did the team do in in each functional level in each round? How the general strategy was implemented?
That is, how did the strategic choices being made in each round relate to the general strategy? What were the observed outcomes? - Shanelle
9. Financial analysis - A financial analysis of the firm in comparison to the industry.
10. Organizational structure and culture (think about group-level dynamics among the TMT members) F
11. VRIN Analysis
12. Core and distinctive competencies
13. Summary: SWOT (listing and explanation)
STRATEGIC DIRECTION
14. Discuss the specific strategic and tactical decisions that led to the company standing. If something went wrong (low performances) the TMT should detect the major strategic mistakes and provide possible solution to address the issue.
15. Business Model to improve/correct strategic direction
16-19 should be one person
16. Key Strategic Issues (KSI)
17. Strategic alternatives each KSI
18. Recommended strategy each KSI and justification
19. Action plan (tactics) for subsequent year (what would have been your strategy for a hypothetical round 7, 8 etc...).
Additional instructions
• All sources of information must be cited.
• Formatting American Psychological Association (APA) academic formatting style for all assignments.
• No information in the analysis may come from a case or case analysis written in any form.
• Unity in the paper. The paper should show unity; that is the content should build together to the conclusions. Content, analysis, and writing should be consistent throughout the paper. Major points will be lost if this is not done.