B7480 Week 9

 NOTE: Your writing proficiency in your responses to all three questions will be evaluated as a measure of your professional communication. Responses must demonstrate your ability to synthesize information appropriate to each business situation, and presented in a clear, concise, and organized manner. Supporting evidence must be drawn from reliable sources in the literature and referenced using accurate APA Style. 

Question #1-Strategic Thinking (Rubric Items:  1, 3 and 4) When involved in strategic management of the total enterprise, one must consider ways to assure proper implementation of the strategy, i.e., making it a real and viable part of strategic business unit (SBU). These activities include efforts to institutionalize or achieve, at the granular level, the ability to think and act strategically by every individual contributor and his or her leader from top to bottom of the organization and throughout all locations where the corporate holdings are found in the world, if needs be. What is given at this point is that the following have already taken place: 1. Strategic assessments both inside and outside of the SBU to derive outcomes called strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats; 2. The vision, mission and values have been decided upon and published throughout the SBU; 3. Generic and grand strategies have been formulated; and 4. Long-term objectives have been written in detail and translated to annual, functional and department level objectives and goals. What comes next on the road to full and complete unfettered institutionalization of strategy? Please describe that process called strategy implementation and application assessment. Discuss the challenges an organization and its leadership as well as individual contributors will face and how they will overcome them to assure that the strategic planning efforts will be fully accepted, endorsed and embraced by the membership of the SBU. Use scholarly, academic literature to support your response. 

Question #2-Divergent Thinking (Rubric Items:  1, 2, 3 and 4) Divergent thinking embraces all efforts to identify, analyze and reconcile the seemingly disparate interests and demands of the many stakeholders of an organization (both inside and outside) be it a business entity or any other kind of collectivity of human and material resources legally dedicated to the singular goals of achieving its purpose or mission and vision. The organization must be able to operate legally and without compromise to its mission when going through the process of ultimate reconciliation of stakeholder demands and claims on that organization. Consider the stakeholders that must be accounted for in a global entity from today’s business or service industries. Global entities might include but not be limited to Samsung, Toyota, Shell Oil, Mercedes, BMW, Honda, ZARA, IKEA, Nissan, VW, HSBC, Siemens, Nestle’s, Heineken, Dior, Lenovo, BP, International Red Cross, United Nations, WHO, the EU, etc. Choosing from this list or making a choice of another global organization, please list the top five (5) stakeholders that have the most powerful interests in and over that global entity, and perform a comparative analysis that identifies those stakeholders and what they would demand of the organization. Then, analyze and recommend how the entity might ultimately reconcile stakeholder demands and still function unfettered (feasibly, innovatively, ethically and legally) to realize its mission and vision. Use scholarly, academic literature to support your response. 

Question #3-Informed Decision Making (Rubric Items:  1, 3 and 4) Identify and describe a global company of your choice (mission, product line and customer base) that has come under the public criticism and governmental scrutiny for its accounting and financial practices that have resulted in external complaints of exaggerated claims of profitability (EBITDA) and strength of liquidity and market share. There are many businesses to choose from, from pharmaceutical research and manufacturing firms to financial institutions, or choose from the list of business entities offered in question #2 above. Your job is to help re-establish your business’s legal credibility and ethical standing under the law and in the eyes of its shareholders as well as customers.  What are the major legal and ethical requirements the organization must comply with before it can be restored and come out from under the limitations placed upon it by federal regulators (e.g., to allow it to offer stock and engage fully in the DOW or NASDAQ exchanges)? What is the decision making process the organization must undertake to achieve compliance, and what recommendations must be made by the leadership of the organization to achieve it competitive place in the business community once again? Use scholarly, academic literature to support your response.

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1. Strategic Thinking: Evaluate business issues and trends brought forth by economic globalization, to generate strategies that sustain long-term business success.

Unable to identify trends or determine issues that could be a result of economic globalization. Proposed strategies are weak or incomplete.

Able to identify and discuss issues and trends related to economic globalization. Related strategies are outlined, but represent short-term, not strategic solutions.

Presents a clear evaluation of specific issues and trends caused by economic globalization. Provides an overview of financial and business impacts and specific strategic recommendations

Provides a comprehensive evaluation of key issues and trends caused by economic globalization.  Analyzes the business and financial impacts and recommends feasible and strategic solutions that leverage the trends to meet sustained business success.

2. Divergent Thinking: Analyze and prioritize the needs of diverse stakeholders in business situations to recommend innovative, feasible, ethical, and legal actions.

Unable to prioritize needs of diverse stakeholders or recommend appropriate actions based on the specific business situation .

Identifies and discusses needs of diverse stakeholders based on the specific business situation. Recommendations may not cover all aspects of the situation.

Analyzes and prioritizes needs of diverse stakeholders and recommends appropriate legal and ethical actions based on the specific business situation.

Analyzes and prioritizes needs of diverse stakeholders from a personal, social and corporate perspective. Evaluates business situations to recommend feasible, ethical, and legal actions.

3. Professional Communication: Synthesize and communicate in a professional manner complex information that is concise, clear, organized and well supported, appropriate to each business situation.

Unable to synthesize and express the complexities in a given business problem in a clear and simple manner. Arguments are not supported by literature; comprehension of content is superficial.

Is able to discuss the complexities in a given business problem and convey ideas logically. Most arguments are well supported by literature. Minor content omissions and/or communication structure problems.

Synthesizes aspects of a given business problem clearly and logically. Reflection on business concepts are presented in succinct and thorough fashion and are supported by evidence, with only minor omissions.

Synthesizes and clearly expresses the complexities in a given business problem in a clear, concise, and logical manner. Reflection, application, and analysis of business concepts are presented in a succinct, systematic, and thorough manner well supported by sound evidence and current research

4. Informed Decision-Making Evaluate and apply relevant academic and professional literature to make evidence-based decisions in cross-cultural business environments.

Relies solely on subjective/personal experience, popular press reports of business, and/or anecdotal evidence. Bases solutions on opinion without support of appropriate research. Does not exhibit cultural sensitivity.

Relies on some secondary sources. Some gaps exist with respect to selecting or applying pertinent information in addressing the business problem. Decisions are based on facts and supported by relevant literature, with some omissions. Understands cultural differences.

Few gaps exist with respect to evaluating or applying pertinent information in addressing the business problem. Analyzes a business problem by gathering and assessing relevant information, considering and evaluating possible alternatives, and determining and defending an appropriate solution or course of action. Addresses cultural differences appropriately.

Comprehensive and extensive review of the literature from a variety of appropriate sources, extracting the important information and applying it in an in-depth response to the business problem. Comprehensively analyzes a business problem by gathering and assessing relevant information, diagnosing underlying causes, considering and evaluating possible alternatives, and determining and defending an appropriate, well-reasoned solution or course of action. Decisions show a high level of cultural sensitivity.

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