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In this assignment, you are to use the same corporation you selected and focused on for Assignment 1 (paper attached - BUS).

Using the corporation you chose from Assignment 1, examine the industry in which the entity operates. Use any or all of the following resources to conduct research on the company:

Company website

Public filings from the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml)

Other miscellaneous sources. Note: the company’s annual report will often provide insights that other resources may not include.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you (USE TEMPLATE with blue font)

Give your opinion on the corporation's greatest strengths and most significant weaknesses. Choose either a 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 tangible and intangible resources, core capabilities, and core competencies.

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.

Choose two (2) forces of competition that you estimate are the most significant for the corporation you chose. Evaluate how well the company has addressed these) forces in the recent past, going back no further than five (5) fiscal years.

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.

Identify what you consider to be the greatest external threat to this corporation. Discuss how the corporation should address this threat. Justify your explanation.

Identify what you consider to be the greatest opportunity presented to the corporation, and discuss how the corporation should take advantage of this opportunity. Justify your explanation

Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources .

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

This course requires use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.

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.

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Running head: WEEK 6 ASSIGNMENT 2 1 Week 6 Assignment 2 Student Full Name Strayer University BUS499 Business Administration Capstone Dr. Keller Date Everything in Blue should be deleted Due Week 6 and worth 125 points 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. NOTE: Be sure to read Chapters 1-3 in the course textbook and complete the LEARN EActivities for Weeks 1-3 as they set the foundation to this assignment. Be sure to cite your sources! Begin your paper on Page 2 by writing a four page paper (does not include Title or Reference pages) in which you: WEEK 6 ASSIGMENT 2 2 Week 6 Assignment 2 Write your introduction here: It should be one (1) good paragraph (not more than 1 paragraph) to introduce the reader to your topic and it should explain in detail what your paper will be discussing. Much of your introduction may be taken from the assignment itself (in your own words). Read the scenario to get a feel for what the paper is about and explain what your paper will be discussing – so be sure to review the Assignment instructions AND Rubric for understanding. Finally, please ask me any questions about this assignment. General Environment 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 (for background, be sure to research and explain the industry in which it operates. You could also define the general environment (cite your sources) and could explain the segments you chose using the textbook/Learn). Read Chapter 2 in the course text book. Review the Week 2 Learn video/Lecture for supporting content. (cite your sources) Five Forces of Competition Considering the five (5) forces (model) of competition, briefly explain why these are important to a firm. Item 1 Choose one (1) of the five (5) forces (model) of competition that you estimate is the most significant for the corporation you chose (it would help to define your choice from the textbook). Read Chapter 2 in the course text book and review the Week 1 Learn video Lecture for WEEK 6 ASSIGMENT 2 3 supporting content. A side note, the five (5) forces of competition is the same as “Porters 5 Forces of Competition. (cite your sources) Item 2 Choose another one (1) of the five (5) forces (model) of competition that you estimate is the most significant for the corporation you chose (it would help to define your choice from the textbook). Read Chapter 2 in the course text book and review the Week 1 Learn video Lecture for supporting content. A side note, the five (5) forces of competition is the same as “Porters 5 Forces of Competition. (cite your sources) Evaluation Evaluate how well the company has addressed these two (2) forces in the recent past. This will require some research. Future Improvements 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. Read Chapter 1 in the course text book as each chapter it provides a solid background and clues on this model that apply to this section. Review the Week 1 Learn video Lecture for supporting content. (cite your sources) External Threats Assess the external (things outside of the firm’s control) threats affecting this corporation and the opportunities available to the corporation. Read Chapter 2 in the course text book as it provides a solid background and clues for this section. Review the Week 2 Learn video/Lecture for supporting content. (cite your sources) Threats and Opportunities WEEK 6 ASSIGMENT 2 4 Give your opinions on how the corporation should deal with the most serious threat and the greatest opportunity. Consider that Threats and Opportunities are External in origin (hint: external environments). Justify your answer. Read Chapter 2 in the course text book as it provides a solid background and clues for this section. Review the Week 2 Learn video/Lecture for supporting content. (cite your sources) Strengths and Weaknesses Give your opinion on the corporation's greatest strengths and most significant weaknesses. Consider that Strengths and Weaknesses are Internal in origin (hint: Internal environments). Read Chapter 2 and 3 in the course text book as it provides a solid background and clues for this section. Review the Week 2 and Week 3 Learn video/Lecture for supporting content. (cite your sources) Strategy 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. Read Chapter 2 and 3 in the course text book as it provides a solid background and clues for this section. Review the Week 2 and Week 3 Learn video/Lecture for supporting content. (cite your sources) Resources, Capabilities, and Core Competencies Determine the company's resources, capabilities, and core competencies. Read Chapter 3 in the course text book as it provides a solid background and clues on mission that apply to this section. Review the Week 2 Learn video/Lecture for supporting content. (cite your sources) Value Chain WEEK 6 ASSIGMENT 2 Analyze the company's value chain to determine where they can create value using the resources, capabilities, and core competencies discussed above. Begin by defining the value chain as described in the course textbook. Read Chapter 3 in the course text book as it provides a solid background and clues on mission that apply to this section. Review the Week 3 Learn video Lecture for supporting content. (cite your sources) 5 WEEK 6 ASSIGMENT 2 6 References Use at least three (3) quality references, one of which should be the course text book. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: List your reference here. The reference page must include all of the references you used, listed in. All references listed here must be used (cited) in your paper. After deleting the blue fonts in this template, make sure your original writing is turned to a black font. Note: You will be graded on the quality of your answers, the logic/organization of the report, your language skills, and your writing skills. You will be graded on the quality of your answers, the logic/organization of the report, your language skills, and your writing skills. 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. NOTE: Strayer uses SafeAssign – an automated plagiarism checker. It is advised that you do your own writing and use external resources (other websites) to support what you have written in your own words. Running head: Assignment for Week 3 1 Assignment for Week 3 Strayer University BUS499 Business Administration Capstone Dr. October 21, 2018 Assignment for Week 3 2 Assignment for Week 3 This paper aims to examine the effect of globalization and innovative support over the Dell organization. The resource-based model and the industrial organization model will be applied to the company to depict its potential advantages. The role of the company's vision, mission, and stakeholder in deciding achievement will also get additionally examined. Globalization Globalization has altered the competitive market of the global technology and economy especially the fast technological advancements which have made two essential drivers of hypercompetitive conditions and the idea of the present competitive landscape which are obscuring industry limits (Campbell-Kelly & Garcia-Swartz, 2017). Globalization and innovative changes both have affected Dell's business strategy and operations colossally. Because of globalization, Dell has confronted extreme rivalry to hold and pull in new clients in a viable way, and this has influenced it to change its business techniques. With the end goal to diminish competition, it has expanded its activities and products globally. Because of worldwide operations, it has additionally confronted different financial, cultural, social, political and lawful condition that have induced it to change business strategies and structure. Dell has modified its business approaches with the basis of the global business conditions (Pulscher et al., 2017). Moreover, globalization gave a chance to Dell to creating its availability in different markets. Because of this, it has achieved the critical part of the market in rising economies, for example, China, India and so on. Along these lines, globalization changes have impacted Dell' business strategies and tasks as needs are. Assignment for Week 3 3 Technology Dell technological integration is immense regarding communicating with their suppliers who assist in making clear and diminished conflict which develops a considerable concern to the company. The competent relation is utilized by the company to create and deliver their products at the lowest prices possible and time. Dell provides job opportunities and income to host countries that contributing to its success. The company has been creating a culture of continuous enhancement to satisfy the associated groups. Global technological changes, for example, the development of web-based business, web-based supply, and other web apparatuses have changed the business model of Dell and gave huge chances. With this, it has created a web-based inventory network model and began to make coordinate sales. These technological changes have been incorporated and utilized by Dell to cause production to deliver effectively and to coordinate suppliers. Technological changes have further transformed Dell's communication tactics, as it is used to communicate with suppliers, consumers, and workers. The Internet is heavily utilized by Dell to counter to the influence of technological developments. Besides, global era adjusted purchasing behavior in their production line and because of that, they necessitated efficient and satisfactory support policy. By responding to this development, Dell has developed its approaches and formulated various retail markets throughout the world. Industrial-Based Model Industrial Organization (I/O) Model of above-average returns depicts that the strategic decision of a firm is enormously affected by the external condition. Industrial Organization model incorporates the examination of general, industrial and rivalry state that impact business' strategic decisions and activities as needs are. The analysis of general state includes the study of Assignment for Week 3 4 statistic, monetary, political, socio-culture and lawful variables that would be noteworthy to provide Dell with knowledge about potential changes that could bear some opportunities and risks for its activities. By examining the context of computing equipment market, Dell will raise apprehension concerning the bargaining power of consumer and suppliers, new competitors, alternate products, and competition level (Escamilla, Celada & O'Rourke, 2017). In the competitor’s analysis, Dell will measure the strategies, goals, hypothesis, and capacities of its chief opponents such as Samsung, IBM, Apple, etc. This examination will present vital knowledge regarding threats and opportunities, and experience would be advantageous to practice and generate acquainted decisions and strategies respectively. In this approach, the stated I/O model would provide a useful platform to Dell for penetrating openings and restricting threats efficiently in the comparison of opponents that could support to obtain over-average returns. Resource-Based Model The RB model describes the internal context of a company making them conscious of their capabilities and resources. Through RB process, Dell will be in a position to establish its weakness and strength, while examining the necessary competencies. The consciousness will assist Dell to construct a strategy that will allow or encourage them to develop their powers and to define the weaknesses (David, 2013). Such a strategy formulation will additionally offer a result based platform to determine competitive advantage that might assist to have above-average returns. Besides, the model demonstrates a way in which Dell manages capabilities and resources dynamically and get above-average results in scaling the computing industry. Therefore, the integration of RB and I/O model will assist Dell to develop its strengths, weaknesses, Assignment for Week 3 5 opportunities, and threats that will aid in developing acquainted policies that could help in earning a high return with lighter effort. Vision Environmental scanning gives knowledge that is necessary to form mission and vision in any company. The vision statement of Dell presents the organization's motive as follows "Our vision is not only to give the excellent consumer expertise in our market but to get reckoned amongst the greatest in any market." The vision statement for Dell provides a course that needs addressing an assortment of an appropriate strategy (Tallman, 2017). To be the best in their markets, Dell developed a culture of constant development that aids in building assorted and skilled workforce worldwide. The skilled workforce facilitates the organization to present unique expertise to the consumers that assist them to establish a global availability and increase their purchases. The vision of the organization further contributes to supporting the absolute combined values which encourage Dell to produce leaders and realize personal responsibility. Mission The mission statement of Dell asserts as follows "Our mission is to be the most prosperous IT operations organization in the globally by providing excellent consumer experience in all businesses we attend." Its mission benefits the organization to desegregate its processes with consumer expectations that allow them to grow its market worldwide. With such, Dell aims at satisfying global customers and expanding their services worldwide which aids them to be the most prosperous IT Company. The mission allows Dell to create a culture of personal accountability that hence their services being the best. The purpose further enhances sales and profitability and improves the consumer experience which adds to accomplishing success globally. With this, Dell has been able to explore maximum opportunities from the e- Assignment for Week 3 6 commerce part concerning other organizations that encourage Dell to grasp large market percentage in the industry. The mission motivates Dell to maximize quality and minimize the expense of services and products offering in various markets. The supply chain management strategy aids Dell to enunciate its mission statement enabling them to provide the best and highquality products at a competitive cost with leading technology. Stakeholders Managers and employee's participation allows Dell to perform its supply chain efficiently and effectively helping them to give a quality product that is less costly hence gaining global appearance. Dell shareholders and other principal suppliers like creditors and banks provide funds for promoting the company's new marketing investments and presume the actual return from Dell. The organization achieves profitability and offers enough returns, which influences the stakeholder group to invest more with them. Due to this, the company attains adequate capital to finance the new investments which help them to perform operations with less funding. Stakeholders enable Dell to depreciate capital cost and maximize productivity. The stakeholder group comprises unions, suppliers, host communities, and primary consumers who effectively influence organizations' performance (Hjerpe et al., 2017). With effective supply chain management, Dell meets the expectation of every stakeholder association which supports it to accomplish global prosperity. Dell customers necessitate reliable products with reasonable costs. Conclusion As per the analysis, Dell reflects all three aspects of value creations namely stakeholder approach, RB model and I/O model concerning strategic management. It allows it to apprehend Assignment for Week 3 essential opportunities and to realize a competitive advantage. The point of the three alerts in strategic management allows the company to create informed choices. 7 Assignment for Week 3 8 References Tallman, S. (2017). Global Strategic Management. The Blackwell Handbook of Strategic Management, 461-487. doi:10.1111/b.9780631218616.2006.00017.x Pulscher, S., Provenzano, N., Rand, C., & O'Rourke, J. S. (2017). Dell Inc: Managing reputation in the blogosphere (A). London: SAGE Publications Ltd. Hjerpe, E. A., Yang, J., Veschi, V., & O'Rourke, J. S. (2017). Dell Inc: Taking the company private (B). London: SAGE Publications Ltd. Escamilla, E., Celada, C., & O'Rourke, J. S. (2017). The soul of Dell: The value of corporate philosophy statements. London: SAGE Publications Ltd. David, F. R. (2013). Strategic management concepts and cases: A competitive advantage approach. Boston: Pearson. Boston; Montréal: Pearson. Campbell-Kelly, M., & Garcia-Swartz, D. D. (2017). From mainframes to smartphones: A history of the international computer industry.
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Running head: WEEK 6 ASSIGNMENT 2

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Week 6 Assignment 2
Student Full Name
Strayer University
BUS499 Business Administration Capstone
Dr. Keller
Date

Week 6 Assignment 2

WEEK 6 ASSIGMENT 2

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Introduction.
This assignment section aims to highlight some of the stronghold and weakest parts of
Dell Company. Primarily, this relates to PESTEL, PORTERS FIVE and SWOT analysis of the
company. Such analysis helps in reaching a final strategy in the company's decision making and
future strategy.
General Environment
Technological.
Technology is rapidly influencing different businesses no matter how they view it. The
sector comprises of the organizations and practices which relate to developing innovation into
processes, materials, and products. The fundamental bearing of technology these days is rapid.
With the aid of the web, organizations have an exceptional chance to get their name into the
general population region apart from a quick method to customs administrations to its client
portions. In any case, the mind-boggling expense of utilizing the internet has turned into a risk to
Dell in its technological sector.
Economic
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