M1A3 Capstone

Course Overview

This course provides you with a forum to draw from your master of business administration (MBA) prior coursework and learning and to design and deliver a capstone project that triangulates concepts, theories, and practical application. Activities in this course provide you the opportunity to dynamically address organizational or business challenges, thereby demonstrating both scholarly depth and real-world application necessary in an ever-changing business world. You will examine models, theories, and cases that, in tandem with prior learning and experience, demonstrate your ability to review and assess organizational situations as well as recommend and apply right-fit strategies to facilitate change or address issues that are impeding progress or growth.

You will review a number of required and recommended readings provided in each module that will help you focus on important concepts, models, and theories. You will also be required to find additional scholarly works to support the positions you present in discussions and assignments.

Throughout this course, you will examine how the company Applied Vision Products (AVP) carried out a strategy audit. You will review interviews with Carolynn Larson-Garcia, president and co-owner of AVP, to learn more about how the audit results were implemented across the organization.

Strategy Audit Project

The focal point in the course is completing a strategy audit for an organization of your choice as. You will submit the strategy audit in two parts through two Learning Assessment System Assignments (LASAs). In Module 3, you will present a preliminary strategic audit in LASA 1. In Module 5, you will complete the capstone strategy audit in LASA 2. Assignments throughout the course will help you prepare the various components of the capstone strategy audit.

Completing this project will provide a summative learning experience that allows you to demonstrate your understanding of most of the MBA program learning outcomes and concepts in the various courses within the program. You will write this report as though you are a consultant to your selected company and are addressing the executive officers of this company. In each module, you will collect and analyze data in producing your report, but your final product will be condensed and will focus on presenting your analysis findings and conclusions.

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