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Week 6 Assignment 2
Student Full Name
Strayer University
BUS499 Business Administration Capstone
Dr. Keller
Date
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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:
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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:
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Identify how the six segments of the general environment affect an industry and its firms.
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Identify the five forces of competition.
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Analyze the external environment for opportunities and threats that impact the firm.
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Analyze the internal environment of a company for strengths and weaknesses that impact
the firm's competitiveness.
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Use technology and information resources to research issues in business administration.
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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
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Assignment for Week 3
Strayer University
BUS499 Business Administration Capstone
Dr.
October 21, 2018
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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.
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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
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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,
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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-
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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
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essential opportunities and to realize a competitive advantage. The point of the three alerts in
strategic management allows the company to create informed choices.
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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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