MGT/576

Wk 1: Corporate Entrepreneurship Assessment

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Wk 2 Summative Assessment: Value Creation Presentation

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Exam Content

Assess the external environment for the organization you researched in Wk 1. 

Based on your assessment and the organization’s strengths and weaknesses you identified in Wk 1, evaluate opportunities for that organization to add economic, social, and environmental value. 

Recommend an opportunity that best capitalizes on the organization’s valuable, rare, and hard-to-imitate resources; is least impacted by the organization’s weaknesses; and will take best advantage of the external environment.

Create a Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation to present your assessment, evaluation, and recommendation. Include the following sections in your presentation:

· A cover slide

· An agenda

· A description of the organization (1 slide with speaker’s notes)

· A summary of the strengths and weaknesses of the organization (2 slides with speaker’s notes)

· Key aspects of your assessment of the external environment that present opportunities for adding value, such as trends, unmet needs, unsolved problems, under-served consumer groups, etc. (2-3 slides with speaker’s notes)

· An evaluation of opportunities to add economic value (1 slide with speaker’s notes)

· An evaluation of opportunities to add social value (1 slide with speaker’s notes)

· An evaluation of opportunities to add environmental value (1 slide with speaker’s notes). Note: Some opportunities may appear on more than 1 slide. For example, you may find an opportunity that adds economic, social, and environmental value.

· A recommended opportunity to pursue first, with a rationale that shows how the opportunity capitalizes on the organization’s valuable, rare, and hard-to-imitate resources; is not much impacted by the organization’s weaknesses; and takes advantage of the external environment (1 slide, with speaker’s notes)

· A conclusion

· References

Cite references to support your assignment.

  Format your citations according to APA guidelines.

  Submit your assignment. 

 

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Wk 3: Porter's Five Forces (See Week3 attachment)

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Complete the Porter’s Five Forces Worksheet, based on the company you have been working with since Wk 1.

Submit your assignment.  

Cite references to support your assignment.

  Format your citations according to APA guidelines.

  Submit your assignment.

Wk 4 Summative Assessment: Dynamic Business Process Management (BPM) Analysis

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Choose 1 country that the organization you’ve been working on in this course could consider expanding into.   

Read the selected article from the  University Library.

   Analyze that potential international market by considering the 4 aspects of the Diamond of National Advantage: industry rivalry, demand conditions, related and supporting industries, and factor endowments.

   Analyze the forces (in the home market and international market) that will help the organization succeed with its expansion and the forces that may act as barriers to that expansion. Refer to your analysis of strengths and weaknesses completed in Wk 1, the Porter’s Five Forces worksheet from Wk 3, and your analysis of the Diamond of National Advantage. 

  

Evaluate the 4 adjustments leaders must make when expanding internationally (Burkus, 2012). Recommend 1 specific leadership action for each adjustment, such as developing a global mindset, developing sensitivity to cultural differences, decentralizing, deciding on the level of involvement, etc.

 

Recommend whether the organization should expand into the chosen country. Explain your rationale. 

 

Create a Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation to present your analysis and recommendation. Include the following sections in your presentation: 

· A cover slide

· An agenda

· Identification of the country you have chosen (1 slide, with brief speaker’s notes)

· 1 slide for analysis of each of the elements of the Diamond of National Advantage (4 slides, with speaker’s notes) 

· A summary of analysis of the forces that will help the organization succeed in the new country (1 slide, with speaker’s notes) 

· A summary of analysis of the forces that will hinder the organization’s success in the new country (1 slide, with speaker’s notes)

· Leadership actions required to make the 4 adjustments identified by Burkus (2012)

· A recommendation and rationale (1 slide, with speaker’s notes)

· A conclusion

· References

Cite references to support your assignment.

  Format your citations according to APA guidelines.

  Submit your assignment.

Bottom of Form Wk 5: Learning Organizations and Value Creation(See week 5 attachment)

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Review the 6 key elements of a learning organization (Ch. 11 of Strategic Management, by Dess).

Complete the Learning Organizations Worksheet, evaluating the extent to which the company you selected epitomizes each of the 6 elements.  

Submit your assignment.

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· Center for Writing Excellence

· Reference and Citation Generator

· Grammar Assistance

Wk 6 Summative Assessment: Entrepreneurship Memo

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Write a 2- to 3-page memo to the CEO of the company you’ve been assessing throughout the course, outlining your plan to create economic, social, and environmental value. In your memo, include the following items: 

· An executive summary of the memo

· A summary of the organization’s strengths and weaknesses, and recommendations for converting weaknesses into strengths

· A summary of your Wk 3 findings on Porter’s Five Forces

· A summary of your Wk 4 findings on the Diamond of National Advantage

· A summary of your Wk 5 analysis of the firm as a learning organization

· Strategic recommendations based on your previous work in this course. Include the opportunity identified in Wk 2, the move into the country identified in Wk 4, and any recommended moves toward being a learning organization. Provide a rationale for each recommendation.

Cite references to support your assignment.

Format your citations according to APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment. 

Resources

· Center for Writing Excellence

· Reference and Citation Generator

· Grammar Assistance