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Personal Effectiveness

Assessment Brief

The required submission for this assignment is a 3500-word business report. Students are required to:

Evaluate the personal effectiveness strategies of Sundar Pichai, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Google, and discuss how you intend to apply personal effectiveness principles your own personal development.

Your management report should contain the following:

a) A short introduction in which you provide a few general statements outlining the background of personal effectiveness, along with a short summary of what the report will discuss

b) Apply theories and frameworks relating to personal effectiveness to provide a critical evaluation of the skills and behaviours that Sundar Pichai has used to make him a successful global leader

c) Discuss how you intend to apply personal effectiveness principles to your own development in order to be successful in the competitive job market

d) A short conclusion in which you summarise the main findings of your report and make an overall closing statement which brings the key elements of your assignment together

You must use relevant concepts, models and/or theories of personal effectiveness to justify your observations and comments throughout.

Presentation

Your business report should contain the following:
• BPP assignment cover sheet (including SRN and word count)
• Business report title page
• Contents page
• Introduction
• Case Study Review (written in third person narrative)
• Reflective Statement (written in first person narrative)
• Conclusion
• Reference listing
• Glossary (optional)
• Appendices (if appropriate)

Global Strategy and Sustainability

Assessment Brief

Part 1:
You are required to write a Strategy Report for the CEO of Amazon.com referring to the case study in the core textbook.

You will need your VitalSource Bookshelf log in details to access the case study. Your Report MUST BE SUPPORTED WITH YOUR OWN EXTENSIVE AND INDEPENDENT RESEARCH. Within your report, reference should be made to the relevant strategic concepts, key industry information and literature sources and their application as appropriate.

The Amazon.com case study refers to historic information and this should be used to set context for your Strategy Report. Your report must focus on recent events that are of value to Amazon.com. No new data (other than that in the case study) should be introduced that is prior to January 2017.

Contents of your Strategy Report (3,000 words)

Amazon.com is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle. The business began by selling books to a mass audience and, over the years, developed into an organisation that carries one of the World's most recognised (and valued) brands. Amazon.com focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It is considered the fourth technology company, surpassed only by Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

Throughout its history, Amazon.com has been challenged by external and internal factors that have, at times supported strategic direction and at other time arrested it. Amazon.com operates in a highly competitive commercial environment and has chosen to implement innovation and disruptive technology to advance its strategic goals.

Your Strategy Report should be structured as follows:
• Introduction
• External Analysis of the Industry using 2 appropriate Strategic Models of your choice
• Internal Analysis of Amazon.com using 2 appropriate Strategic Models of your choice
• Critical analysis and evaluation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability (using 1 model of your choice).
• Implications of the Externa Analysis, Internal Analysis, and Sustainability Analysis above, considering Competitive Advantage and Global options for Amazon.com (using the SWOT Model)
• Recommendations for Amazon.com's Strategic Development, including how they should deal with Global challenges, mode(s) of entry into any new markets and choice of Global strategies. These recommendations should be realistic and be consistent with the analysis outcomes from your External and Internal Environments above
• Recommendations for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability

Part 2:

You are required to produce a video presentation up to a maximum of 10 minutes. Your presentation should follow the structure of your written report and should be targeted at the CEO of Amazon.com. You should aim to present the highlights of your internal and external analysis and justify your clear Global Development recommendations to the CEO.

The procedure for the uploading of your video presentation and its submission for marking will be briefed by your tutor. Your presentation should contain MS PowerPoint slides or an equivalent presentation tool.
These should be visible during the presentation together with your face and body, so that body language is visible to the viewers.

Remember that you must copy and paste the link to your video presentation onto the title page of your written report.

Contents of your Presentation
Your presentation should contain the following: -

• Brief introduction to yourself including your SRN only (no names please) and date of submission
• Contents of your Presentation
• Summary of your analysis of the External and Internal Environments, highlighting the areas you believe will be of interest to the CEO
• Your Summary / Conclusion and Recommendations to Amazon.com with justification

Structure of your Submission Document: The Strategy Report
Your submission document for your Strategy Report should contain the following: -

• BPP Cover Sheet, including your SRN, word count and date and a link to your video recording
• Report Title Page - contains the title of your report, SRN and date
• Contents page - should guide the reader through your document and help them find specific sections easily. It should include page numbers
• Introduction - introduces the company, its current strategic position and challenges and informs the reader of the key contents of the report
• Critical analysis and evaluation of the External Environment
• Critical analysis and evaluation of the Internal Environment
• Critical analysis and evaluation of CSR and Sustainability
• Evaluation of the implications of the External Environment Analysis, Internal Environment Analysis, and Sustainability Analysis and how they may impact on the Industry and on Amazon.com
• Recommendations for Global Development
• Recommendations for Sustainability
• References - all sources either printed or online must be included in your list of references and internet sources must include access dates.

• Appendices (if appropriate) - Appendices should contain additional information which would be too detailed to include in the main body of the report e.g. glossaries, supporting statistical data, additional research etc. Appendices will not attract any marks and so should be used sparingly.

Leading Through Digital Disruption

Assessment Brief

Assignment: Report

This module is assessed through one graded element. You must achieve at least 50% to pass this module.

For this assignment you will create a "case for change" - a report that presents a proposal for how to transform a company of your choice, struggling to stay relevant in the face of digital transformation. The report has to include the following tasks:

• Task 1 (ILO1): The Case for Change
Identify the company that you are using and the digital transformation it is going through and explain it. As part of it, explain what threats this company is facing and what are the objectives this company wants to achieve through this digital transformation

• Task 2 (ILO2): Capture Insights
Advise on which techniques your chosen company can use to detect the changes that are appending in the market it operates. Specifically, explain how your company can capture insights about its competitors, macroeconomic trends and partners

• Task 3 (ILO2): Make Fast Decisions
Advise on which approaches your chosen company can use to make fast decisions to quickly adapt to the changes in its market.

• Task 4 (ILO4): Acquire and Engage Talents
Advise on which techniques your company can use to acquire and engage the talents needed for its digital transformation.

• Task 5 (ILO3): Create a Digital-Ready Culture
Advise on how formal and informal leaders should help to foster a digital-ready culture to support the digital transformation of your chosen company.

• Task 6 (ILO4): Steer Collaboration
Explain which collaboration tools your company can use to enable individuals to contribute to decision-making and give leaders visibility into such contributions.

• Task 7 (ILO3): Select your Leaders
Explain about what key attributes and behaviours would you look for in a leader to help build a culture that supports the success of your chosen company's digital transformation?

Attachment:- Global Strategy and Sustainability.rar