Assignment With Peer
Review: Five-Forces and Blue Ocean Strategy Analysis for Your Organization
Now it is time to apply lessons learned from this
week’s case analysis and Discussion about competitive force assessment, this
week’s readings, and other resources, to help you think about how you might
answer the question, how will you win?(How will you create unique value?)
To prepare for this
Discussion:
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Review all required
readings, including the Weekly Briefing, which provides additional guidance on
how to complete the Assignment.
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Review this week’s case
study and peer discussion and reflect and make notes on the following: What
insights did you gain, and what did you learn from this week’s resources your
case analysis and peer discussion that you can apply to your Strategy Playbook
for your chosen organization? What conceptual and strategic differences are
important between the case example and your organization (focus on the concepts
analyzed this week)? What assumptions do you need to make in order to use the
strategy concepts appropriately?
·
Identify and review all
relevant readings from the MBA Capstone Program Bibliography. Given your chosen
organization, what concepts, tools, and readings from the Program Capstone
Bibliography are most relevant to helping guide how you might recommend
improving the company? How and why are they relevant?
·
Locate and maintain access
to publicly available information about your organization.
By Day 5, posta polished and synthesized entry into the
discussion area, which will also be the basis for an entry into the final draft
of your Strategy Playbook for Extraordinary Results. At minimum you should add
the following to your discussion post and Strategy Playbook:
·
An evidence-based and
cohesive set of specific and actionable recommendations for actions (based on
application of this week’s strategy concepts), that your selected organization
can take that will clearly enable your organization to achieve its strategic
goals, sustain and grow its business, and remain viable and healthy.
o HINT: You should provide a preliminary argument
that defends your recommendations. Consider why your recommendations are
SMART– specific, measurable, achievable (that is realistic and feasible, and
timely (relevant and important).
·
A related set of metrics
that will enable your selected organization to measure the effectiveness of
your recommended actions.
o HINT: These metrics could then be used in the
comprehensive final draft of your strategy playbook diagram, which is part of
your final Strategy Playbook.
General Guidance:Your original discussion post for the Capstone
Forum will typically be 1 to 1 ½ single-spaced pages, excluding references.
Refer to the Week 5 Discussion 2 rubric for grading elements and criteria. Your
Instructor will use the rubric to assess your work.
Note:After you receive input from your colleagues in the
next few days, you should revise your original post to reflect input that you
think is helpful and strengthens your position. This final revised version from
this week’s Capstone Forum will become the fourth formal entry into your
Strategy Playbook appendix. Title this section “Competitive Force Analysis for
XYZ [Starbucks],” and be sure to keep a version of your response in your
Strategy Playbook template. As a best practiceyou should plan to review your playbook throughout the course as you
continue to build your components. You may find that you have new ideas and
items that further improve your work.
