MT460
Unit Discussions
Unit
1:
How does competition amongst companies affect
you in your daily life (personal and or professional)? Provide a real-world
experience that might apply. For instance, consider how you recently chose
between at least two products or services offered from rival companies.
What factors made you decide to purchase one
over the other? How do these companies compete?
Unit 2:
In preparation for your Discussion
topic, please read Chapter 2 Appendix, BB&T Vision, Mission, and Purpose in
the Pearce and Robinson text. Post your answer in the Discussion Board along
with your source citation in APA format.
BB&T Vision, Mission, and
Purpose statement is considered an exemplary Mission Statement. Please read it,
comment on the positives and negatives of this statement, and defend your
answer through APA citation.
Unit 3
The way business policy and strategy management works with
companies is to ultimately find the process in which acknowledges all aspects
of the process. These key building blocks that provide the information
needed are processes such as VCA, RBV and SWOT. All of these processes
have reasons for working to achieve an overall successful strategy.
Unit 4
Choose an industry in which you would like to compete
globally. Use the Five-Force method of analysis to explain why you find that
industry attractive for business
Unit 5
These two automotive giants compete in the same
strategic group. Browse each website and search for each company’s
business-level strategy.
How are the luxury car competitors’ strategies
similar? In what manner are they different? Which company has the competitive
advantage and why?
Unit 6
Why have outsourcing initiatives become a key element in
shaping functional tactics for today’s global companies? As a team, choose a
Fortune 1,000 company that has adopted the use of outsourcing and has done so
successfully
Unit 7
Corporate
social responsibility (CSR) is an “idea that business has [as] a duty to serve
in general as well as the financial interest of stockholders” (Pearce &
Robinson, 2013, p. 57). Do you believe society’s expectations for CSR will
change in the next decade (p. 85)?
Unit 8
Retail companies like Walmart are
heavy users of strategic control systems. Think about how it utilizes RFID
technology to track products from inventory to the market shelves. Discuss how
Walmart relies upon strategic surveillance, special alert control, and
implementation control. What improvements might you suggest to the company’s
COO relative to strategic control and why?
Unit 9
If you were asked to serve as an Ethics Review
Arbitrator, what decision would you have rendered in support of the Duke
University MBA Program learners’ issue? The Centenary College Chinese MBA
Program?
In support of your ruling as Ethics
Review Arbitrator, explain your key reasons for your decision.
Unit 10
If you refer to Exhibit 14.7, Who Is
The Entrepreneur? In your text, the top right-hand quadrant defines an
entrepreneur as being one who has high creativity and innovativeness but not
necessarily high management skills and business know-how (Pearce & Robinson,
2013, p. 414).
- What is intrapreneurship and
how is it best enabled?
JOURNALS
Learning Journal time…
Organizations, leadership, and culture are very popular topics in
the business world. Think of a Fortune company that operated like a 20th
Century company and has adopted a structure that supports 21st Century
characteristics (Pearce & Robinson, 2013, pp. 328–349). What similarities
have remained? What differences have emerged?
