Business Paper Due 15 Feb 4 pm eastern time

 

 

Discuss with your Learning Team the forces and trends below that must be taken into consideration while developing a strategic plan. Given today’s business environment and each Learning Team members’ selected business idea, provide a list of the lessons learned from your Learning Team’s discussion for each of the items listed below. Use this discussion to complete this assignment.

 

Create a SWOTT table summarizing your findings. Your environmental analysis should take into account, at a minimum, the following factors. For each factor, identify the one primary strength, weakness, opportunity, threat, and trend, and include it in your table.

 

·       External forces and trends considerations:

 

o   Legal and regulatory

o   Global

o   Economic

o   Technological

o   Innovation

o   Social

o   Environmental

o   Competitive analysis

 

·       Internal forces and trends considerations:

 

o   Strategy

o   Structures

o   Processes and systems

o   Resources

o   Goals

o   Strategic capabilities

o   Culture

o   Technologies

o   Innovations

o   Intellectual property

o   Leadership

 

Write a 800 to 1,150 word synopsis in which you analyze at least seven of the forces and trends from the list above. Your analysis must include the following:

 

·       Include economic as well as legal and regulatory forces and trends.

·       Critique how well the organization adapts to change.

·       Analyze the supply chain operations of the organization.

·       Identify issues and/or opportunities:

 

o   Identify the major issues and/or opportunities that the company faces based on your analysis above.

o   Generate a hypothesis surrounding each issue and research questions to use for conducting analysis.

o   Identify the circumstances surrounding each issue; classify the circumstances; attribute the importance of each classification; and test the accuracy of the importance for each classification.

 

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.