13 Jan Complete your actual

Week 4 learning activity

General instructions:

Research, apply and answer in your own words with appropriate reference(s) and in-text citation(s) to this week’s readings, videos, and/or examples from current events to support the position and/or rationale.

Label your responses specifically “Learning activity 1”, and “Learning activity 2”.

Write in 250 words at least for initial response. Due by Thursday.

Write in 75 words for each follow-up response (at least 2 follow-up responses for each learning activity) by expanding the discussion topic substantively and explore other possibilities and/or solutions, thereby enriching class learning. Due by Sunday.

Each week there are 2 learning activities. Each learning activity requires 1 initial response, and 2 follow-up postings. Hence, for 2 learning activities of each week, 2 separate initial responses and 4 follow-up postings in total are required to meet the discussion requirements.

In each of the weekly learning activities (that is, weekly discussion participation forum) in this course, learners are not allowed to use the same companies as those are instructed as the focal companies in the Assignment 1, Assignment 2, and Assignment 3 Phase 1 of this course.

Week 4 Learning Activity 1

Using the same company you selected for Week 3 Learning Activity, it is now time to evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that you uncovered, and determine what strategy is best suited, based on the outcome of the IFE and EFE.

Discuss which generic business-level strategy is best suited to keep the company that you selected competitive.

Requirement 1:

Reiterate the focal company and identify the generic strategy for the focal company

Requirement 2:

Discuss the generic strategy in the context of focal company.

Requirement 3:

Support the rationale for your explanation.

Requirement 4:

Use the appropriate APA formatted scholarly reference sources and corresponding in-text citations in all your postings.

Week 4 Learning Activity 2

Below is a pool of three strategy-formulation analytic tools:

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Matrix

IE Matrix

SPACE Matrix

Based on the information that you have gathered from your Week 3 Learning Activities, please select one matrix from the above-mentioned pool and complete your selected analytic tool.

Requirement 1:

Reiterate the focal company, and identify the analytic tool for your analysis

Requirement 2:

Discuss the reasons why you chose that analytic tool.

Requirement 3:

Complete your actual computations and/or analysis with the chosen tool.

Learners need to show their required steps in (a) doing the actual computations, (b) determining the position of the point (that is, the coordinates) in the matrix, (c) drawing the line on the matrix, or deciding “which products go into which quadrant” within the graphic representation.

Requirement 4:

Once you have completed the analytic tool, (a) discuss the outcome of your analysis in terms of what strategic direction the selected company should take, (b) devise the appropriate tactical strategies, and (c) explain “why” in details.

Requirement 5:

Support the rationale for your explanation throughout the analysis.

Use the appropriate APA formatted scholarly reference source and corresponding in-text citations in all your postings.