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Analyze Organizational Strategy and Objectives

• Find and analyze the organization’s organizational strategy
• If possible, confirm the process used in creating, reviewing, and revising these objectives, as well as who contributes and how
• Include a preliminary evaluation of success in achieving objectives.
• Cite the tools and methods you used to reach your conclusions, such as the balanced scorecard and key performance indicators.

When analyzing your organization’s strategy and objectives and their implications for performance, it is useful to consider critics of strategic planning who point out that very successful ventures sometimes result from a series of unintended or unexpected activities. Therefore, you will also want to be on the lookout for evidence that some of the successes realized by your organization may not be the result of a rational strategic planning process.

Identify Strategy Types and Competitive Advantage

REVIEW THE MAJOR TYPES OF ORGANZIATIONAL STRATEGIES – IDENTIFY AND DEFINE WHICH ONE APPLIES TO ORGANIZATION

• Business Unit and Corporate Strategies (USE FUNCTIONAL)
  • Organizational Strategy
    • Global Level Strategy
    • Corporate Level Strategy
    • Business Level Strategy
    • Functional Level Strategy
  • Business Level Strategy (Porter’s Five Business Level Strategies) select and define one that applies to organization
    • Broad Differentiation Strategy
    • Focused Differentiation Strategy
    • Broad Low-Cost Producer Strategy
    • Focused Low-Cost Producer Strategy
    • Best-Cost Strategy
• Competitive Advantage
  • Define competitive advantage
  • Identify the organizations sources of competitive advantage are (if any)
  • Present a preliminary assessment of the relative value of these advantages
• Core Competencies
  • Identify the organizations core competencies
  • Are they used to achieve the organizations competitive advantage?
  • How?
  • Provide supportable conclusions

Determine Organizational Size and Structure

• Organizational Size
• Organizational Structure
  • Review and provide the organizational chart
  • Provide an analysis of whether the current structure aligns with and impacts the organizations mission, values, goals and objectives (MVGO).
  • If not, the likely consequences.

Analyze Critical Resources

• Critical Resources
• Types of Critical Resources
  • Human resources
  • Financial resources
  • Technology resources
  • Buildings and equipment (physical resources)
  • Other types of resources you consider important (e.g., information)
• Select ONE critical resource you think is the most important for the organization to maintain its competitive advantage
• Explain why this particular critical resource was selected ahead of the others
• Explain why this critical resource is the most important of the critical resources to the maintenance or enhancement of the organizations competitive advantage

View the clip below, in which one person believes they are partners
and the other believes it is an employer / employee relationship. Agents
may bind the principal in a number of ways. When you are reviewing the
video, consider whether the intentions / understanding of each party
make a difference, and then respond to the discussion question below.

Clip – Agency – Richard Gere: You Work For Me (2012) (0:45)

As a small-business owner, you are faced with rising costs,
particularly employment costs, insurance, et cetera. So, you decide to
hire some friends and pay them as they work, rather than go through the
expense and procedure of bringing in “actual” employees. Your friends
wear the business uniform, deal with vendors and customers, and tell
friends and family that they work for the business. One friend /
employee orders way too much from a vendor. The vendor has dealt with
the person numerous times; in fact, the person has been ordering from
the vendor for months.

• Since the person who ordered was not an “employee,” but a friend you hired, are you liable to pay for the improper order?
• Discuss the implications of agency that apply in this situation, and
  describe at least one (1) way the company may be able to cancel or
  return the order in question.
• Be sure to support your legal analysis with concepts and definitions from the reading.

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Case 03-1 Who Pays? From the Book page 90

Book Name:

• Coyle/Novack/Gibson/Bardi. Transportation: A Supply Chain Perspective, 7th Edition. ISBN- 13: 9780324789195

You need to read and understand the Case stud which is in page 90 from the book (Coyle/Novack/Gibson/Bardi. Transportation: A Supply Chain Perspective, 7th Edition. ISBN- 13: 9780324789195), then do the following:

1. Provide a response to this case study, which is in the page 90 from the book. Be sure to answer all the questions given in less than 24 hours.

2. After that, I will share with you the text-writing of three other students from the class.

3. You need to write a respond to each student maximum in less than 24 hours from sharing their text-writing (You must write at least 70-word response to each student).

Kindly note the following:

• Do not just repeat words and text from the book.
• Use your own words and add value/information beyond the book.
• Copying from sites like Wikipedia or other internet sites will result in a score of zero as the work will be checked by TurnItInwebsite for plagiarism.
• If an internet site is used, it must be cited properly. Plagiarism is not acceptable!

My chose company is AvalonBay Communities, Inc.

Overview: The executive memorandum assignment requires your careful consideration of an appropriate, sensible investment project for your chosen company.
Furthermore, this assignment will develop and demonstrate your ability to find useful, authoritative information sources about your selected company, its
industry, its economic environment, and the particular investment opportunity.
Prompt: Write a memo about the expansion opportunity for which you will request funding in your final project proposal. This paper should be 1–2 pages long
and should include only a simple narrative description. You do not need fancy formatting, numbers, tables, or graphs in this document.

International Servant Leader

Research an international servant leader or international servant leadership organization.

Examine the similarities and differences in the practice of servant leadership in Western culture and Christianity when compared with other cultures and religions.

Summarize the similarities and differences. Discuss which principles of servant leadership are universal, regardless of religious and cultural differences.

Provide examples to support your opinions.

Strengthen your claims with supporting situations from “Edward Slover – Topic 6: Inclusion, Multiculturalism, and Diversity” and other topic study materials. Provide in-text citations and corresponding references.

Using APA format and 2 creditable and APA cited sources (1 provided Topic 6) in 500 words