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Choose an industry you have not yet written about in this course, and one publicly traded corporation within that 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Determine the company’s resources, capabilities, and core competencies.
- Analyze the company’s value chain to determine where they can create value using the resources, capabilities, and core competencies discussed above.
- 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; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
- Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.
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.
Explanation & Answer
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Dollar General VS Discount Stores
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Introduction
The rebate assortment industry incorporates online and also retail locations. A portion of
the retail Goliaths in this industry have globalized and spread out to numerous different nations;
however Dollar General remains an across the country monster. "Dollar General Corporation has
been conveying an incentive to customers for more than 75 years. Dollar General helps
customers Save time. Spare cash. Each day! By offering items that are habitually utilized and
recharged, for example, sustenance, snacks, wellbeing and magnificence helps, cleaning
supplies, essential attire, house products and regular things at ordinary low costs in advantageous
neighborhood areas. Dollar General works 12,198 stores in 43 states starting on July 31, 2015.
Notwithstanding foreign private brands, Dollar General offers items from America's most trusted
producers, for example, Clorox, Energizer, Procter and Gamble, Hanes, Coca-Cola, Mars,
Unilever, Nestle, Kimberly-Clark, Kellogg's, General Mills, and PepsiCo" (www.
newscenter.dollargeneral). By inspecting the SWOT examination, the five powers of rivalry, the
general situations bolstered by this organization, the capacity to evaluate qualities, shortcomings,
abilities, and capabilities will make it less demanding to assess the fate of this assortment store
mammoth.
Segments
The examination of the general condition, the industry condition and the investigation of
contenders results in how a firm or organization is impacted as far as its central goal, values and
the main activities. Considers and conditions the general condition as a rule influence everybody
in an industry the same or correspondingly in the way. Per Hitt et al. (2013), the measurements
of the general condition are assembled into seven sections two of them that rank high and impact
the benefit of Dollar General are the statistic and innovative fragments. The general term
concentrates on patterns and can't be controlled by firms in the business. The statistic portion
spins around the size, age, ethnic blend and geographic and pay dispersion and is a noteworthy
concern when Dollar General assesses the requirement for one of their stores. These attributes
are what makes Dollar General the pioneer in small provincial territories; they are not reluctant
to go where the large retailers dread to tread and are making their nearness known by their
permeability in country America. The size, geographic area, and wage conveyance are regularly
the same in the majority of rural America, and Dollar General has discovered that they fill a
specialty in these ranges, they are loaded given the requirements of every individual group and
they additionally build up the sort of store for every region. Regardless of whether the store is
simply retail or solidified sustenances, even the Dollar General Market that conv...
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