2500 words
50%
Monday 18th November 12pm
This assignment asks me to complete a detailed, structured strategic evaluation of an organisation and consider how well the organisations current strategic plans and commitments address the identified opportunities, threats and risks.
STEP 1 (35%)
Develop a comprehensive strategic profile and environmental context analysis of your chosen organisation.
This profile should position performance, strategy, objectives, assets and finances.
You are expected to apply a variety of models, frameworks and concepts in developing your analysis of the organisation and its internal and external environment.
STEP 2 (35%)
Develop a critical discussion of the importance of two critical themes drawn from your profile analysis, and focus a discussion of the implications of each of these two key themes for the organisations current and future strategies.
This should by implication link the organisations current strategy, its competition and key market characteristics.
The focus of one of the themes to be developed must be around a technology perspective, with the focus of the second theme to be chosen.
Where do the themes come from?
What might influence by choice of theme?
STEP 3 (15%)
Draw some specific conclusions about: the strength of the organisation the strategic position of the organisation for supporting the competitiveness of its products and services in the future.
Your conclusions should firmly reflect and synthesise your analysis within the previous sections.
STEP 4 (15%)
Introduction to report, organisation, context and structure
From your understanding of the chosen organisation, profile:
The organisation itself
Its current strategic context
Describe the structure of the report you have written
By way of ‘quality control’, ask yourself:
Does the introduction to my report give a good sense of the organisation and its current strategic context?
As well as a
References: A full listing of academic citations and other sources of information, presented in Harvard style Appendices Additional pages in support of information detailed within the main text of the report.