This week’s discussion was focused on the team assignments for both Week 4 and Week 5. Below is an outline and description of what each team member will be responsible for on each assignment.
Week 4
Competitive advantage paper
This assignment is to decide what competitive advantages Riordan manufacturing has with chosen companies. Our team has chosen Google and Citizens watch as our comparative organizations.
We have broken the assignment down as follows.
Resources: Riordan Virtual Organization and Environmental Scan Paper
Use the Riordan Virtual Organization and research from last week’s Environmental Scan Paper for this assignment.
Decide which competitive advantages Riordan has in common with the companies researched last week, and estimate which competitive strategies Riordan could use to improve innovation and sustainability of business operations both in the United States and in the global market.Cathy and Mario. As stated, this is pertaining to the companies chosen above. – Cathy and Mario will have their parts posted on the class forum no later than Saturday evening.Cathy and Mario will provide comparison between Riordan and their chosen companies identified in week 2 (Google and Citizens watches).
Explain why you chose these competitive strategies and estimate how they might affect sustainability of long-term organizational performance.Stephanie– will have her contribution posted to the class forum no later than Sunday evening.
Explain how the global market would affect the business strategy of Riordan. Lorna will have her portion posted to the class forum no later than Monday evening.
Conclusion and Compile. Mike– will post a draft on the class forum prior to submitting no later than Tuesday evening for the rest of the team to review. Once the team agrees to a completed product Mike will submit the finished piece for team B under the assignments tab and a copy to the class forum as well prior to the deadline of 6 pm so