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.
