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BUS525 Business Strategy and Planning

Unit 1 Discussion

DQ1 Final Project Selection

Please review the details of your final project in this course.  In 3 - 4 paragraphs:

Select and describe the organization that you will use for your final project in this course.

Provide a general description of the organization including the type of business, its current strategic planning process and cycle, its current mission statement, current vision statement, and current core values if they exist.

Give three goals that they currently focused on as part of their strategic plan.

Note: You should select an organization that you have significant interest and passion for and have access to data, information, and resources beyond what is available on the internet.  In response to your peers, please share your thoughts on their organizational selection and focus.

DQ2 Advice to CEO of Martinsville Manufacturing Corp

Regarding the fictitious story of Martinsville Manufacturing Corporation discussed in Unit 1, what advice do you have for the CEO going forward concerning the strategic planning process by utilizing the readings and materials for Unit 1? In response to your peers, compare and contrast your advice.

BUS525 Business Strategy and Planning

Unit 2 Discussion

Mission and Vision Statements

Describe both the mission and vision statements of an organization of your choice and tell us if you think it is effective or not using the concepts from the textbook.  In response to your peers, compare and contrast your findings.

BUS525 Business Strategy and Planning

Unit 3 Discussion

DQ1 PESTLE Analysis

Describe the external environment of the organization you are choosing for your final paper by utilizing a PESTLE Analysis and explaining those items that have the most impact. In response to your peers, compare and contrast your PESTLE analysis with theirs.

DQ2 Advice to CEO of Martinsville Manufacturing Group

Please review this week’s Martinsville Manufacturing Corporation story.  If the CEO mentioned to you that he planned to ensure the pricing of their products were at the lowest price compared to competitors, what advice would you give him based on the readings this week?  In response to your peers, compare and contrast your advice.

BUS525 Business Strategy and Planning

Unit 4 Discussion

Application of Strategic Tools

Use the organization that you plan to use for your final paper and apply at least one of these strategic tools or concepts to it (Porter's Five Forces, Porter's Diamond, Vertical and horizontal integration or value chain analysis).  In response to your peers, please provide feedback on their application of these strategic tools or concepts.

BUS525 Business Strategy and Planning

Unit 5 Discussion

DQ1 Discussion Strategic Control Systems

Describe the strategic control systems that are used in the organization that you are using for your final paper to effectively implement strategy.  In response to your peers, please provide feedback on their description of these strategic control systems of their organization.

DQ2 Advice to CEO of Martinsville Manufacturing Corp

Please reflect on the CEO’s reluctance to the scorecard and give him some advice in this week’s second discussion question thread based on the material covered in this week’s unit course materials.  In response to your peers, compare and contrast your advice.

BUS525 Business Strategy and Planning

Unit 6 Discussion

DQ1 Leadership and the Ethical Culture

In 2-3 paragraphs, describe the leadership and ethical culture practices of the organization that you have selected for your final paper.  Are they effective based on the material discussed this week?  In response to your peers, please provide feedback on their description and evaluation of the leadership and ethical culture practices of their organization.

DQ2 If You Were the CEO of Martinsville Manufacturing Corp

Please review this week’s Martinsville Manufacturing Corporation story.  The consultant gave the CEO the following overall feedback from her interviews with the employees.  “We received feedback that some employees felt highly engaged and energized to the organization’s new focus, and felt that excellent research had been done in its development so far. We also received feedback that you are not open-minded, and you may likely experience some employee turnover due to this concern.”  Given this feedback only, as the CEO, would you make changes to the strategic plan or your approaches?  In response to your peers, compare and contrast your responses.

BUS525 Business Strategy and Planning

Unit 7 Discussion

Blue or Red Ocean

Does the organization that you are using for your final paper use a blue or red ocean strategy?  Please explain your reasoning.  In response to your peers, please provide feedback on their description and evaluation of whether their selected organization uses a blue or red ocean strategy.

BUS525 Business Strategy and Planning

Unit 8 Discussion

DQ1 Capstone Project

In 2 - 3 paragraphs, discuss a concept(s) and/or assignments from this course that had the most significant impact on you as you connected its content with the rest of the MBA program so far.  In addition, after reading the “Heads Up” to the Capstone Project this week, do you plan to use this same topic or portions of it for your Capstone project?  Why or why not?   In response to your peers, please provide feedback on their most significant impact and their likely application to the Capstone.

DQ2 Final Project Presentation

You will create an 8-10-minute video presentation of your key points of the Final Paper Project and post it to this discussion.  You will comment on at least two fellow students’ presentations.