Module 8 Assignment Instructions for Strategic Audit. Company is Pandora Internet Company

In this module, you will finish putting together all the elements of your Strategic Audit (SA) for the Capstone BUS 485A. The SA is the most valuable grading item.

ASSIGNMENT: Submit the complete Strategic Audit with sections V(TOWS) to VIII. Templates are uploaded. Include updated/improved/corrected sections.

Submit also the updated/improved/corrected versions of 5-Y financials, SFAS, TOWS matrix, Pro Forma Income Statements and Implementation, Evaluation and Control Plans in your SA

Exhibit attachment instructions Some exhibits go at the end of your SA (word document) and others are included in the 5-year financials of your case (Excel document).

• Exhibit 3, SFAS, included at the end of your SA
• Exhibit 6, Implementation, Evaluation and Control Plan, included at the end of your SA
• Exhibit 7, TOWS Matrix, included at the end of your SA
• Exhibit 8, Pro Forma Income Statements, included in Excel 5-year financials.

Assignment Submission Procedures

You can do it from Module Eight/Assignment or Course Work/Assignments. Attach both, your complete SA word document and 5-Y Financials Excel file. After attaching your documents, you may add comments to your instructor in the Add Comments field if you wish. Then click the Submit button.

Writing Instructions

Level of detailed discussion and analysis: Your prose needs to be in sufficient detail to demonstrate your business knowledge, critical thinking, and critical analysis abilities. One-line statements do not show nor demonstrate satisfactory business knowledge. Bullets do not show nor demonstrate satisfactory business knowledge. Your writing needs to expand on each point in a paragraph where you discuss and analyze the important elements of that particular SA item. Demonstrate critical thinking, critical analysis, good discussion/analysis for your paragraphs. Make your paragraphs good complete detailed discussion and analysis.. Not one-liners.

Formatting and Admin of the SA: Single space your SA with the appropriate line spacing between parts, sections, and paragraphs. Extra line spacing is a serious detractor. Follow the alphanumeric paragraph structure as in the texts SA and as shown in the SA Paragraphing Structure Template and the Expanded Paragraph View for sections VI, VII, and VIII document. Do not use bullets. Use font size 10-12. Use Portrait page mode for your SA text do not use Landscape page mode for your SA text. Use single space of 1.0 do not use 1.15, nor 1.5.

Use the SA Writing Template in Course Resources.

For Section V(TOWS): Analysis of Strategic Factors:

1. In your Situational Analysis, discuss how the 10 most important Strategic Factors shown in the SFAS could be grouped in the TOWS matrix. Divide them up into paragraphs on Strengths and Opportunities, Strengths and Threats, Weaknesses and Opportunities, and Weaknesses and Threats. Be sure to continue using the same SF tags from the SFAS (S2, W4, T3, O2, etc etc)
2. In your Review of Mission and Objectives, the question here is – are the current mission and objectives good to go or not? And if they need to be changed, what do you recommend they be changed to? See page 38, Appendix 1.A for good analysis questions.

For VI: Strategic Alternatives and Recommended Strategy:

Pay close attention to the content for this section in the SA-WritingTemplate-BUS485B document in Course Resources. It does not follow Appendix 1.A.

In VI.A, there are 3 Strategic Alternatives mutually exclusive: No change alternative, growth alternative and retrenchment alternative.

For each of the three strategic alternatives, you must provide

1. a corporate strategy direction (stability, growth, and retrenchment),
2. appropriate supporting business strategy (competitive or cooperative),
3. and need to identify 3 to 4 supporting functional level strategies (marketing, finance, R&D, operations, purchasing, logistics, HR, IT, etc)
4. describe corporate scenario
5. discuss the Pros and Cons

Discuss in good complete detail each of the 3 levels of strategy in each alternative. Talk about what the Corporate level strategy is about. Talk about what the supporting Business-level strategy is about. Talk about what each supporting functional level strategy is about.

Demonstrate the linkages between each of the 3 levels in each alternatives hierarchy of strategy as you discuss and describe each level of strategy.

Then, discuss in good complete detail each of the 3 strategic alternative corporate scenarios with good reasonable estimations of future performance expressed in $$$.

Then discuss in good complete detail the Pros and Cons for each of the 3 strategic alternatives.

If you follow the suggested organization in the writing template, then youll be sure to do good complete work to construct, analyze, and discuss in detail your 3 strategic alternatives under consideration. Remember, you need to have the hierarchy of strategy, the corporate scenario, and the pros/cons for each of your 3 Strategic Alternatives. Do NOT use the VI.A paragraph structure in the text on page 368.

In VI.B discuss in detail your decision-making process:

First, state your one selected alternative.

Then second, provide a good complete discussion of the decision criteria you used to analyze your 3 alternatives and base your decision on.

Then third, discuss and analyze your 3 alternatives in terms of your decision criteria to show your rationale and justification for your selection. A good complete compare and contrast analysis would be very useful. Be sure to support your decision using your calculations from your 3 pro forma common-size income statements included in your 5-Y Financials for your 3 alternatives.

For VII, Implementation, and VIII, Evaluation and Control:

Organize your discussion and analysis around your ONE recommended Strategic Alternative that you have chosen to implement.

The verbiage in VII and VIII describes the data elements in your Exhibit 6, Implementation, Evaluation and Control Plan. Your Exhibit 6 content that supports VII and VIII should contain the same details about your one recommended Corporate Strategy, supporting Business Strategy, and 3 to 4 supporting Functional Strategies.

Follow all templates and rubric

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