Business Sustainability Plan

Weekly tasks or assignments (Individual or Group Projects) will be due by Monday and late submissions will be assigned a late penalty in accordance with the late penalty policy found in the syllabus. NOTE: All submission posting times are based on midnight Central Time.

This course is comprised of a series of Individual Project assignments that will contribute to a Key Assignment submission at the end of the course. Each week, you will complete a part of a Business Sustainability Plan. You will select a real or hypothetical organization to use as the base of your Business Sustainability Plan. 

The project deliverables are as follows:

• Business Sustainability Plan 
  • Use Word
  • Title page 
    • Course number and name
    • Project name
    • Your name
    • Date 
  • Table of Contents (TOC) 
    • Use an autogenerated TOC.
    • This should be on a separate page.
    • This should be a maximum of 3 levels deep.
    • Be sure to update the fields of the TOC so that it is up-to-date before submitting your project. 
  • Section Headings and Content
    • Section 1: Introduction
      • Provide a background of the company that you chose, including a brief history, the industry, the degree of competition, the role of technology, and so forth.
      • Discuss the background of the company’s industry: how long it has been around, what forces or trends have positively or negatively affected the industry, and so forth.
      • Identify current trends that are being utilized within your organization.
      • Compare and contrast the contemporary business to an emerging social business concept. Does your organization follow a more contemporary format, or has it adapted to emerging social business concepts? 
    • Section 2: Past Trends I
      • Discuss how the following different types of trends have positively and negatively affected your company: 
        • Governmental
        • Economic
        • Technological
        • Social 
    • Section 3: Past Trends II
      • Discuss past trends, such as outsourcing, offshoring, globalization, and emerging social business concepts.
      • Discuss at least 2 market disruptors or major world events that have affected the company positively or negatively. Examples include Japan’s nuclear reactor disaster, Hurricane Katrina, Iran’s threat to close the Strait of Hormuz, the downgrade of U.S. federal debt, and so forth. 
    • Section 4: Future Trends
      • Discuss what future trends will likely have a favorable impact on the company.
      • Discuss what future trends will likely have an unfavorable impact on the company. 
    • Section 5: Tactics
      • Discuss tactics to capitalize on favorable trends.
      • Discuss tactics to minimize the risk of unfavorable trends. 
    • Section 6: Conclusion
      • Based upon the experience of completing this research and report, what are the key points that you will take away as a learner?
      • Could this knowledge be applied in your current or prior place of work?
      • What other conclusions can you draw from this research? 

Create the following section for Week 1:

• Section 1: Introduction
  • Provide a background of the company that you chose, including a brief history, the industry, the degree of competition, the role of technology, and so forth.
  • Discuss the background of the company’s industry: how long it has been around, what forces or trends have positively or negatively affected the industry, and so forth.
  • Identify current trends that are being utilized within your organization.
  • Compare and contrast the contemporary business to an emerging social business concept. Does your organization follow a more contemporary format, or has it adapted to emerging social business concepts? 

Please submit your assignment.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources.

• Compare and contrast Contemporary Business versus an emerging Social Business concept.
• Identify and describe current business trends to include outsourcing, off-shoring and globalization.