Final Case Analysis
Final Case Analysis
Select a business that has done well during COVID-19–below are recommended businesses:
- Peloton
- Amazon
- Netflix
- Costco
- Clorox
Why have these businesses done well? What can they do to improve? Can they sustain this level of profitability?
Research, analyze, and apply the concepts learned in this course and answer all of the questions below regarding the corporation. With this information, write a professional-looking paper.
This is only a written assignment–there is no PowerPoint presentation associated with this Case Study.
FINAL CASE STUDY QUESTIONS – See Appendix, Case Analysis and Case Analysis Boxes throughout the text – see page numbers below for more specific explanations of each point. Now for this Final Case Study, additional questions will be required to be addressed.
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1. Introduce the organization: basic facts and current status |
Pg. 14 |
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2. Specifically identify the industry, life-cycle stage and the competitors – see IBIS World database |
Pg. 25 |
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3. Analyze the potential profitability of the industry |
Pg. 38 |
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4. Who has succeeded and failed in the industry? What are the Critical Success Factors? |
Pg. 38 |
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5. What political/legal forces affect the industry? |
Pg. 55 |
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6. What economic forces affect the industry? What is the market structure? |
Pg. 62 |
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7. What social forces affect the industry? |
Pg. 81 |
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8. What technological forces affect the industry? |
Pg. 87 |
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9. What is the current firm-level or corporate-level strategy? |
Pg. 141 |
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10. What is the current business-level [generic] strategy? |
Pg. 172 |
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11. What are the business strategies of the major competitors? |
Pg. 175 |
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12. What is the organization’s Marketing Strategy? |
Pg. 191 |
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13. What is the organization’s financial position and financial strategy – how do they make and invest their money? |
Pg. 194 |
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14. What are the organization’s production and purchasing strategies? |
Pg. 199 |
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15. What are the current strategies in the organization’s other functional areas HR, IS, etc)? |
Pg. 202 |
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16. / 17. What are the organization’s Strengths and Weaknesses? On what competencies should they build? |
Pg. 215 |
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18. / 19. What are the organization’s Opportunities and Threats? |
Pg. 217 |
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20. What strategic alternatives are available to the organization? |
Pg. 220 |
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21. What are the pros and cons of these alternatives? |
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22. Which alternative should be pursued and why? |
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23. How should this alternative be implemented? Based on what you currently know, what would be the next three steps to be taken by this firm? |
Pg. 258 |
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24. How should this alternative be controlled? How will you measure the effectiveness of this strategy? |
Pg. 270 |
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25. What crisis events should the firm anticipate? What are the firm’s future prospects? |
Pg. 278 |
Final Case Study Summary
Instructions:
You are to write the research paper in accordance with the Appendix: Case Analysis found in the rear of your text, incorporating APA standards and citing a minimum of twelve (12) journal sources, and/or business trade resources.
Do not simply answer the questions; provide support and articulate a path forward.
Read the Peer Evaluation form attachment. If you attach one through this site, retain the Peer Evaluation in the same format as presented, in MS Word doc.
11/13 note: This is a team project with your dialogue group members.
11/19 Leaders submit the paper and attach the rest, such as a presentation and peer evaluation. The leaders can compose the same peer-evaluation together or complete a separate form with their own experience. As a backup document in the case that the leader’s submission had a problem, the second leader should submit the same things.
Anyone who wants to fill out a peer evaluation form and submit it to the assignment submission site is welcome to do so but it is not a requirement. All evaluations will be considered and taken seriously as a contributing/noncontribution team member would in real-world business/professional concepts, including ethical work behavior. These concepts are in our CLOs. Thus, I will have to wait until the submission date has passed to assure that everyone had an opportunity to fill out an evaluation form if they want. After the due date, I can grade.
