Primary Discussion Response is due by Friday (11:59:59pm Central), Peer Responses are due by Tuesday (11:59:59pm Central).Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.Note: There are 2 parts to this assignment.Part 1You will be assigned a resource allocation strategy early this week to craft a united response to the questions below. Prepare a miniature brief that describes your assigned resource allocation strategy, and develop an illustration to aid in your explanation. Refer to the Lower Colorado Dams Network as the network to which you will allocate your resources using the model you were assigned last week. You have $30 million to allocate to the Lower Colorado Dams Network.Using the allocation model assigned to your small group last week, each group should present its strategy for how these dollars would be apportioned. Be true to the allocation strategy’s concept, and answer the following questions:What specific monies will you assign to which assets, links, network components, or sector elements? Explain how your allocation model guided your decisions.What strengths does your allocation model have to allocating resources to this network? Be comprehensive and specific in your answer.What shortcomings or detriments does your allocation model reveal for allocating resources to this network? Be comprehensive and specific in your answer.Provide 2–3 modifications to this model that would enhance it for allocating resources to this network. If you believe this model is ideal and no modifications are necessary, explain why you believe this. Respond to Another Student: Review at least 1 other student's Key Assignment Outline and provide meaningful feedback. Refrain from general feedback, such as simply stating "good job." Your feedback to other students is most helpful if you not only point out weak areas but also offer suggestions for improvement. The best feedback takes a three-stage approach to identify what was done well, weaknesses, and areas for improvement.Part 2Post an outline of your Unit 4 IP Key Assignment draft for peer review. Review and provide feedback to a minimum of 1 peer. In crafting your outline, return to the discussions and assignments from the earlier phases of this course. There is no specific order for your final product (Key Assignment), but you should demonstrate good organization skills and comprehensive inclusion of the main elements. You may also look at the illustrations or M.U.S.E. items to be reminded of components to include. For the outline you will share here, be as specific and detailed as possible. For example, do not simply state “Risk Assessment.” Instead (as an example), state: Risk Assessment of the Hoover Dam as the most critical node in the Lower Colorado Dams Network.This asset is chosen as most critical because…Threats considered include erosion, user demand, earthquake, terrorist attack…Consequences considered include, loss of all reserved water in dam, impact on agriculture, damage or destruction to lower dams…The most likely “Threats” include…Remember, this is an example of being comprehensive and specific; your node, priorities, conditions, and so forth may necessitate other elements in your outline.Provide a critical review of at least one classmate’s outline. This is not an invitation to be overly critical; rather, you should help identify gaps in the organization or planned content your peer will pursue. Choose a classmate for whom no one else has yet offered a review. (This way, everyone should be reviewed by someone else.)

The company I have chosen for this paper is Nordstrom Inc and the business is based in Italy...Prompt: You have already chosen the company you will use for your final project, and you have started a narrative description of your expansion project into another country. In this milestone, you will build on that narrative description providing sufficient detail about the expansion, its costs, and its time frame to give a loan committee a firm sense of the proposed investment. You will also analyze the impact of the investment proposal on your business by explaining why now is the right time for this investment given the global context and by explaining how the investment is a good strategic fit with your company. This milestone addresses all of Section II and Section III (Parts A and B only) of the final project.Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:II. Investment Project: Use this section to describe the investment for which you are seeking funding, its costs, and time frame. Specifically, you should:Describe the investment project. Be sure to provide sufficient detail to give the loan committee a firm sense of the parameters of the activity, the need for it, and what financial metrics are relevant for determining success. In other words, what do you propose to do, where, what marketplaceneed will it fill, and how will you measure success?Specify the resources the project will require and where these resources will come from. In addition to noting the amount of the loan you arerequesting, you should also consider human resources, facilities, government approvals, intellectual property, access to natural resources, and otherresources that might be required to carry out the project.Time frame. When will the project start, what is the anticipated economic life of the proposed expansion, and how will you decide if, when, or howto exit? Justify your choices with appropriate financial metrics.III. Justification: In this section, you should analyze the impact of the investment proposal on your business. In particular, you should cover:Why is now a good time for this investment given the global context? Justify your response, citing specific external factors such as trade regulations,foreign currency considerations, or trends in foreign direct investment that might affect business financial decisions.Strategic fit. Use this section to discuss why the investment proposal makes sense for your company strategically. Specifically:How does the investment align with the company’s organizational and financial priorities? Support your argument with evidence from company reports and financial statement analysis designed to persuade the lender that the investment is a good strategic fit for your company.How does the project fit within the global microeconomic environment? Support your response with evidence. For example, would theexpansion tap unmet demand for the company’s key products or services or fill a new niche? How do you know?How does the project build on the organization’s core competencies and comparative advantage? For example, does the company have a strategic advantage from intellectual property, regional expertise, suppliers, or organizational structure?RubricGuidelines for Submission: Your investment project and justification paper should be approximately 8-10 pages in length (excluding spreadsheets, other exhibits,and list of references as necessary). It should be double-spaced with 12-point Times New Roman font and one-inch margins, and should use APA format for references and citations.