BUS 475 Complete Course

BUS 475 week 1 DQ 1

BUS 475 week 1 DQ 2
BUS 475 week 2 DQ 1
BUS 475 week 2 DQ 2
BUS 475 Week 2 Individual Assignment Strategic Plan, Part I Conceptualizing a
Business
BUS 475 Week 2 Team Assignment Value Alignment (StarBucks)
BUS 475 week 3 DQ 1
BUS 475 week 3 DQ 2
BUS 475 Week 3 Individual Assignment Strategic Plan, Part II SWOTT Analysis 1
BUS 475 Week 3 Team Assignment Functional Area Interrelationships (Kudler Foods)
BUS 475 week 4 DQ 1
BUS 475 week 4 DQ 2
BUS 475 Week 4 Individual Assignment Strategic Plan, Part III Balanced Scorecard 1
BUS 475 Week 4 Team Assignment Communication Plan Outline
BUS 475 week 5 DQ 1
BUS 475 week 5 DQ 2

BUS 475 Week 5 Individual Assignment Final Strategic Plan and Presentation

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BUS 475 week 1 DQ 1

What is strategic management? What are the roles of mission and vision statements
in strategic management? Can an organization have a successful strategic plan
without effective mission and vision statements? Why or why not?

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BUS 475 week 1 DQ 2

Select a small business that you may want to start. What is strategic management
and planning? Why would a strategic plan be important to the success of this
business? How are the four functions of management relative to creating and
implementing a strategic plan?

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BUS 475 week 2 DQ 1

What is a SWOTT analysis? What is its purpose in strategic planning? Must you
conduct a SWOTT analysis to have an effective strategic plan? Why or why not?

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BUS 475 week 2 DQ 2

What are the key planning factors for competitive success? Provide an example of an
organization that has achieved competitive success through planning. Provide an
example of an organization that has failed to achieve competitive success as the
result of failed planning.

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BUS 475 Week 2 Individual Assignment Strategic

Plan, Part I Conceptualizing a Business

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you explain the importance of your
selected businesss vision, mission, and values in determining your strategic
direction. Please do not write about an existing business. Create a new business and
include the following:
Define your business, products or services, and customers by developing a mission
statement. Ensure that you are differentiating your product or service.

Create a vision for this organization that clearly demonstrates your decision on what
you want your business to become in the future.
Define your guiding principles or values for your selected business considering the
topics of culture, social responsibility, and ethics.
Analyze how the vision, mission, and values guide the organizations strategic
direction.
Evaluate how the organization addresses customer needs and critique how they
achieve competitive advantage.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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BUS 475 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment

Value Alignment (StarBucks)

Discuss an existing organization with which you are familiar that is different than
the one you used for the Conceptualizing a Business paper.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you analyze the individual values and the
organizations values as reflected by the organizations plans and actions. Include the
following in your paper:
Analyze the origin(s) and subsequent evolution of your personal and workplace
values. Explain how your individual values drive your actions and behaviors, and
analyze the alignment between your values and actions and behaviors.

Analyze the degree of alignment between the organizations stated values and the
organizations actual plans and actions.
Explain the differences and analyze the degree of alignment between your values and
the organizations values as reflected by the organizations plans and actions.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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BUS 475 week 3 DQ 1

What are strategic objectives? What is the purpose of strategic objectives? What
makes an effective strategic objective? What are examples of strategic objectives for
you organization or one with which you are familiar?

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BUS 475 week 3 DQ 2

What is the difference among strategic, long-term, and short-term objectives? What
is the relationship between objectives and goals? What are examples of this
relationship?

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BUS 475 Week 3 Individual Assignment Strategic

Plan, Part II SWOTT Analysis

Conduct an internal and external environmental analysis for your proposed

business.
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.
1. External forces and trends considerations:
Legal and regulatory
Global
Economic
Technological
Innovation
Social
Environmental

Competitive analysis
2. Internal forces and trends considerations:
Strategy
Structures
Processes and systems
Resources
Goals
Strategic capabilities
Culture
Technologies
Innovations
Intellectual property
Leadership
Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word synopsis in which you analyze at least seven of the
forces and trends from the list above. Your analysis must include the following:
1. Include economic as well as legal and regulatory forces and trends.
2. Critique how well the organization adapts to change.
3. Analyze the supply chain operations of the organization.
4. Identify issues and/or opportunities:

Identify the major issues and/or opportunities that the company faces based on your
analysis above.
Generate a hypothesis surrounding each issue and research questions to use for
conducting analysis.
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.

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BUS 475 Week 3 Team Assignment Functional

Area Interrelationships (Kudler Foods)

Select one organization of the Virtual Organizations from the student website.
Write a 1,400- to 2,100-word paper in which you complete the following:
State the primary reasons for the organizations existence from an analysis of the
mission, vision, values, and goals.
Analyze the reason for the type of organizational structure employed by the
organization, and identify the key positions that support that organizational
structure.

Identify and explain the steps of the collaboration process among the functional
areas that must be employed to achieve organizational goals, and prepare an action
plan to implement the collaboration process.
Identify and provide an example of the use of lateral collaboration and vertical
collaboration within the organization, and prepare an action plan to use lateral and
vertical collaboration.
Identify the key stakeholders and their roles needed to achieve the organizational
goals, and recommend the collaborative interactions among the key stakeholders to
facilitate the organizations success.

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BUS 475 week 4 DQ 1

Why is it important to continuously update the implementation and communication

of a strategic plan? Who should be responsible for updating and communicating a
strategic plan? Why?

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BUS 475 week 4 DQ 2

What things should be taken into consideration in the creation of a roadmap for a
strategic plan? What are examples of external and internal change agents? What
role do change agents play in the execution of a road map for a strategic plan?

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BUS 475 Week 4 Individual Assignment Strategic

Plan, Part III Balanced Scorecard 1

Resource: Exhibit 7-1 in Ch. 7 of Strategic Management

Develop the strategic objectives for your business in the format of a balanced
scorecard. The strategic objectives are measures of attaining your vision and mission.
As you develop them consider the vision, mission, and values for your business and
the outcomes of your SWOTT analysis. Consider the following four quadrants of the
balanced scorecard when developing your strategic objectives:
1

Shareholder Value or Financial Perspective, includes strategic objectives in

areas such as:

Market share
Revenues and costs
Profitability
Competitive position

Customer Value Perspective, includes strategic objectives in areas such as:

Customer retention or turnover

Customer satisfaction
Customer value
3

Process or Internal Operations Perspective, includes strategic objectives in

areas such as:

Measure of process performance
Productivity or productivity improvement
Operations metrics
4

Learning and Growth (Employee) Perspective, includes strategic objectives in

areas such as:

Employee satisfaction
Employee turnover or retention
Level of organizational capability
Nature of organizational culture or climate
Technological innovation
Develop at least two strategic objectives for each of the following four balanced
scorecard areas identified above (Financial, Customer, Process, Learning and
Growth). Your objectives should be selected, in part, based on an evaluation of a
number of potential alternatives to the issues and/or opportunities identified in the
SWOTT Analysis paper and table you completed in Week Three. Base your solutions

on a ranking of alternative solutions that includes an identification of potential risks

and mitigation plans, and a stakeholder analysis that includes mitigation and
contingency strategies. You should also incorporate the ethical implications of your
solutions into your selection.

For each strategic objective, develop a metric and target using a balanced scorecard
format. (For example, a strategic objective in the shareholder or Financial Perspective
is to increase market share. A metric to actually measure this strategic objective
of market share increase is, The percentage of increase in market share. The target
is the specific number to be achieved in a particular time period. The target for the
metric of Increase market share could be Increase market share by 2% for each of
the next 3 years of an increase of 2% per year for 3 years.)
Write a 700- to 1,050-word summary that explains your critical thinking on how you
derived your objectives from your vision, mission, values, and SWOTT analysis.
Format paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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BUS 475 Week 4 Team Assignment

Communication Plan Outline

Develop a generic communications plan and template. This template will be used to
develop a communication plan for your Final Strategic Plan, due in Week Five.

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BUS 475 week 5 DQ 1

Why is it necessary to monitor and control strategic plans? Who should be

responsible for monitoring and controlling strategic plans? Why? What are the
pitfalls of failing to monitor and control strategic plans?

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BUS 475 week 5 DQ 2

As an employee of an organization, what role do you play in the strategic planning

process? What role do you play in the implementation process? What role do you play
in the monitoring and controlling process?

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BUS 475 Week 5 Individual Assignment Final

Strategic Plan and Presentation

Resources: Vision, mission, values, SWOTT analysis, balanced scorecards, and

communication plan
Write a 700- to 1,050-word section for your strategic plan in which you add your
strategies and tactics to implement and realize your strategic objectives, measures,
and targets. Include marketing and information technology strategies and tactics.
Develop at least three methods to monitor and control your proposed strategic plan,
being sure to analyze how the measures will advance organizational goals financially
and operationally. Finally, recommend actions needed to address ethical, legal, and
regulatory issues faced by the organization, and how they can improve corporate
citizenship.
Combine your completed strategic plan. This includes the vision, mission, values,
SWOTT analysis, balanced scorecard, and communication plan. Your consolidated
final strategic plan should be 2,800 to 4,200 words in length.
Prepare three to five Microsoft PowerPoint slides in which you briefly outline the
vision, mission, values, and balanced scorecard that you have developed for your
business.

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