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PLEASE CHOOSE AN AMERICAN COMPANY

using the corporation you chose from Assignment 1, examine its industry. Research the company on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University's online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:

  1. Choose the two (2) segments of the general environment that would rank highest in their influence on the corporation you chose. Assess how these segments affect the corporation you chose and the industry in which it operates.
  2. Considering the five (5) forces of competition, choose the two (2) that you estimate are the most significant for the corporation you chose. Evaluate how well the company has addressed these two (2) forces in the recent past.
  3. With the same two (2) forces in mind, predict what the company might do to improve its ability to address these forces in the near future.
  4. Assess the external threats affecting this corporation and the opportunities available to the corporation. Give your opinions on how the corporation should deal with the most serious threat and the greatest opportunity. Justify your answer.
  5. Give your opinion on the corporation's greatest strengths and most significant weaknesses. Choose the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to take maximum advantage of its strengths, and the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to fix its most significant weakness. Justify your choices.
  6. Determine the company's resources, capabilities, and core competencies.
  7. Analyze the company's value chain to determine where they can create value using the resources, capabilities, and core competencies discussed above.
  8. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
  • Citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format.
  • Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Identify how the six segments of the general environment affect an industry and its firms.
  • Identify the five forces of competition.
  • Analyze the external environment for opportunities and threats that impact the firm.
  • Analyze the internal environment of a company for strengths and weaknesses that impact the firm's competitiveness.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in business administration.
  • Write clearly and concisely about business administration using proper writing mechanics.

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Running head: DELOITTE CONSULTING

Deloitte Consulting
Name
Institution

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DELOITTE CONSULTING

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Introduction
Deloitte is a UK based corporation that offering consultancy services, accounting and
audit services, and enterprise risks financial advisory services. Deloitte is a multi-national
network with a huge number of clients globally. The company is one of the highly ranked
consulting companies in offering consulting services. The company is known to operate in the
wide market and has had related environmental challenges in the past. The company has been
operational for more than a hundred years and has managed to reach people from different
regions, countries, and territories. Several segments of the general environment have incredible
influence on the operations of Deloitte. This paper will focus on two main segments that highly
influence the company's operation in the US and across the world. These include the
political/legal segment and the technological segment.
Question one
First and foremost, the legal segment focuses on how laws such as antitrust laws, taxation
laws, labor, policies, and philosophies influence the activities of the company. Legal factors that
predominantly influence business activities in large part include laws on employment, safety and
health-related laws, anti-discrimination laws and antitrust laws. It is also important to note that
besides these laws the company has its policies and philosophies that guide its vision, mission,
and objectives. These laws essentially advice how the company's businesses should be handled,
the personnel in charge; they provide a clear procedure on how activities are conducted.
Additionally, Deloitte has regulations for its employees which work hand in hand with the labor
laws of the government. This brings us to the employment law which is sometimes referred to as
labor law. This law provides regulations or rather restrictions on how company employees
should be treated. It works closely with the minimum wage laws and the child labor laws which

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restrict the way the company operated in all the stages of operation. Deloitte has approximately
two hundred and seventy thousand professionals among other employees.
The consumer law, on the other hand, plays a very vital role in ensuring that the company
maintains a good reputation as far as consumer safety is concerned (Belton, 2017). Consumers
often suffer great's losses from fraudulent corporations or practices. As a leading company in
consulting, risk and financial advisory Deloitte has the mandate to maintain the requirements of
the consumer laws by putting detailed instructions and information's on the service package.
Another interesting aspect of the legal segment are the intellectual property rights. Due to the
ever-growing technology legal laws change continuously to cover potential business risks.
Deloitte has policies and procedures to manage such risks diligently. The Deloitte Legal for
instance provides the policies; procedure and IP right protection which explains how legal laws
shape the business world (Deloitte, 2014).
Secondly, we have the technological segment. The segment focuses on the incredible
changes in products and services. It revolves around invention and innovation that provide
opportunities for development as well as threats of different forms. The digital world provides
avenues for advertisement and online platforms from where customers access services. To
compete Deloitte effectively hires the best technology that guarantees the safety of information
and clients. However, much influence originates from the technology-based companies.
Question two
One of the greatest threats to a company or a new startup can ever experience is
competition. There are five forces of competition namely; competitive rivalry, bargaining power
of supplier, the bargaining power of customers, threats of new entrants and threat of substitute
product or service. This report will look at competitive rivalry and threats of new entrants about

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Deloitte Consulting. The company faces intense competition from different companies' regarding
business strategy and technology. Regarding strategy, Deloitte faces intense competition from
companies such as McKinsey and Bain & Co.
The company has devised effective strategies such as maintaining a good reputation for
customer service, creating new markets and improving businesses. But most importantly the
company has good leadership processes and channels within which employees can flexibly
follow their career path. Deloitte treats its employees as the number one customer, a strategy
that put the company on the map for offering world-class consulting services. Additionally, the
company involves the clients in making necessary changes. This has been achieved through
customer satisfaction surveys where the clients are directly consulted on areas where they feel
the company should improve.
The threat of new entrants is also another force of competition that Deloitte has
strategically dealt with over the years. This force examines the stability of existing companies
about available windows of new entries. Deloitte is a company that embraces new technology
and works relatively close to the market trends. The company provided world-class services
which for years has earned it the stability in the market with acts as a tough barrier to new entry.
Additionally, the company acts as a pacesetter such that its ways of operation govern the market
forces.
Question three
The company can make some changes or improvements within to improve its ability to
handl...


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