Explain how the strategic analysis tools found can help your chosen organization build a future-oriented strategy.

Scenario:

Choose an award-winning company from the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program website to study ( I CHOSE LOCKHEED MARTIN https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2017/10/11/2012_Lockheed_Martin_MFC_Application_Summary.pdf ) . You will evaluate the Award Application Summary as a business case. You are the director of strategy and business Intelligence for your chosen company. You are conducting an evaluation of your chosen company for an upcoming annual report. Your goal is to demonstrate skill and expertise in strategic analysis of the strategic position of your company. You will be submitting this report to the other C-level executives for consideration. Use the following criteria to make strategic decisions for your chosen award-winning organization.

Assignment Part 1 Requirements:

Provide background information about your chosen company, including the company name, industry sector in which the company operates, products, and target market. Elaborate and use research.
Introduce the concept of strategic analysis
Explain how the strategic analysis tools found can help your chosen organization build a future-oriented strategy.
Explain the macro-environment, how to analyze the macro-environment, and its importance to strategy development. Use theories, principles, and concepts from various research resources to substantiate your thoughts, opinions, and ideas
Conduct a PESTEL analysis and identify three strategically relevant factors per PESTEL component that may impact the long-term direction of your chosen company, including its strategic vision and mission, objectives, and business model ).
After the PESTEL analysis table, explain what strategically relevant factors are most likely to have a higher impact and which are likely to have a lower impact on your chosen companys situation and business strategy.
Explain the five forces framework and its value in diagnosing the competitive conditions in a companys industry
Conduct an analysis using the five forces framework to diagnose the competitive conditions in your chosen companys industry.
Analyze the rivalry among competing sellers of your chosen company
Analyze the competitive pressures associated with the threat of new entrants
Analyze the factors affecting competition from substitute products
Analyze the factors affecting the bargaining power of suppliers
Analyze the factors affecting the power of buyers
Explain the significance of the SOAR framework for competitor analysis as a strategic analysis tool in your chosen companys industry
Assignment Part 2 Requirements:

Explain how the tools for analyzing the internal environment of an organizationcan help your chosen organization to develop a competitive edge over rivals . Use theories, principles, and concepts from various additional research resources to substantiate your thoughts, opinions, and ideas.
Explain the components of a single-business companys strategy
Identify three key financial ratios. Explain why they are strategically important and how your chosen company can use them to analyze its current situation for strategic planning purposes
Explain the value of conducting a SWOT analysis to a company
Conduct a SWOT analysis on your chosen company. Determine the companys strengths and weaknesses in relation to the market opportunities and threats
Explain how the results of a SWOT analysis can be turned into strategic actions (
Explain how value chain activities impact a companys cost structure and customer value proposition.
Explain how your chosen companys resources and capabilities give it a competitive edge over rivals.
Explain what strategic issues and problems merit front-burner managerial attention for your chosen company.
Analyze the results of your strategic analyses and explain your chosen companys competitive situation and how this information can assist managers in making critical decisions about their next strategic moves.
Each slide should have oral narration and notes. Your slides should be professionally designed.

Identify three key aspects of leadership in World War II based on the readings of the second half of the course.

Identify three key aspects of leadership in World War II based on the readings of the second half of the course. Then, reflect on how leadership in each case was effective or ineffective (or both.) Also, consider what we can learn about leadership from each event. Do not merely tell the reader what happened.

Your essay must be at least 500 words in length and must include a topic sentence and a closing sentence. Include at least two meaningful quotations from the text with specific page numbers placed in parenthetical citations. DO NOT include outside sources. DO NOT merely write about what happened. 75% of the response should be your analysis and reflection, with the other 25% quotes or facts from the textbook.

Minor grammatical or spelling errors are not penalized.

3/4 of the essay should contain your analysis of the factual information. Essays predominately comprised of facts will be penalized significantly. Facts should support, but not dominate, the essay response. Quote from the textbook ONLY.

Do Americans get what they deserve from our economic system?

Do Americans get what they deserve from our economic system? Do Americans who live in poverty deserve to live in poverty? Do wealthy Americans deserve their wealth? What needs to be changed in order to make our economic system better?

In your answer you should demonstrate thoughtful understanding of the different schools of thought we have studied in relation to economic justice (e.g., capitalism, socialism, Rawls difference principle, etc.) and you should demonstrate an accurate knowledge of the distribution of basic economic goods (e.g., healthcare, income, social security, education, etc.) in the United States today.

Evaluate effective working capital-management techniques.

For a health care organization to survive and grow, it requires capital. Effective capital management is vital for the business to function, especially in health care sectors that exist with such narrow profit margins. Your business operations skill is important to be able to identify risks associated with various financing options for capital projects that fund growth, purchase equipment, and build new facilities.

Preparing for the Assignment

Create this assignment using Microsoft® PowerPoint®.

Assignment Directions

Create a 12- to 15-slide presentation with detailed speaker notes in which you:

Evaluate effective working capital-management techniques.
Evaluate alternative capital projects.
Analyze risks associated with capital projects.
Describe the decision-making factors in lease versus buy.
Describe the effect of financing strategies on the cost of capital.
Describe the benefits and risks of debt financing.
Incorporate appropriate use of images or other multimedia in your presentation.

Cite any sources, images, and multimedia included in your presentation.

Format your references according to APA guidelines.

How does your chosen topic relate to interpersonal communication competence?

Throughout this course, you have delved into many areas of interpersonal communication. Now it is time to demonstrate what you have learned. Select one of the following topics previously covered and explain how it relates to interpersonal communication:

Perception
Culture and Communication
Gender and Communication
Listening
Verbal Communication
Nonverbal Communication
Conflict
Relationships
Create a PowerPoint with a visual presentation, address the following:

How does your chosen topic relate to interpersonal communication competence?
What possible communication barriers are related to your chosen topic?
What knowledge or skills related to your chosen topic can improve communication?
What have you learned about yourself, related to your chosen topic?
Your visual presentation must include 5-10 PowerPoint slides and should be in the following format:

Title slide (1 slide)
Discussion (3-8 slides)
List of references, including at least three scholarly references (1 slide)

How is Amazigh history and culture influencing the form of society that modern Amazigh people wish to establish?

An ancient constellation of cultures commonly known as Berbers are the native people of North Africa. While North Africa saw successive invasions and colonizations by Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs, Turks and France/Italy/England, the native Amazigh culture endured and is now reemerging in Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt. Write a 1500-word paper investigating the following questions:
– How is Amazigh history and culture influencing the form of society that modern Amazigh people wish to establish?
– How are the Amazigh languages and alphabet playing a role in identity formation today?
– What is the state of relations between Amazigh and North African Arabs, and how did the Arab Spring of 2011 bring new opportunities for the Amazigh to express themselves as a people?

What is the U.S. Preventive Task Force (USPTF)?

The following two weeks we will be discussing the clinical preventive service and our role on disease prevention.

A valuable website to review the screening prevention recommendations based on the latest evidence based practice :

https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/Page/Name/home

On your discussion this week answer the following questions:

1.) What is the U.S. Preventive Task Force (USPTF)?

2. ) Select a disease for example colon cancer and discuss the screening age recommendations and the screening tools recommended for early prevention?

Elaborate on the nurse manager’s role in conflict resolution and team building.

Develop a 5-10 line script using cooperative strategies to resolve the conflict between you, Nurse Maggie, and Nurse George. Download the script template for this assignment.

Part 2: Essay Writing

Develop a 2-3 page explanatory essay that addresses the following information:

Elaborate on the nurse manager’s role in conflict resolution and team building.
Develop at least two interventions for decreasing incivility in the workplace that are supported by scholarly evidence.
Discuss in detail at least two methods for decreasing moral distress in the workplace that are supported by scholarly evidence.
You must include at least three evidence-based, peer-reviewed resources to support your ideas. These include .gov and .org professional websites, journal articles, and your textbook(s).

What is your view of a well-lived life? Consider each of the aspects in this chapter (money, social relationships, values, meaning, religion/spirituality, and work) and describe their importance to you.

What is your view of a well-lived life? Consider each of the aspects in this chapter (money, social relationships, values, meaning, religion/spirituality, and work) and describe their importance to you. What are your priorities?
Additionally, how has this changed over your lifetime?
If you identify as a middle adult, is this aligned with the live youre living now?
If youre an emerging adult, what are you working on now that will lead to a life well-lived according to you?
Finally, how might this differ across cultures and how could this impact the work you do with adult clients with different values?

What is the impact of developmental timing on history-graded change?

Consider a major event that has occurred in your lifetime (like a war, recession, revolution, major shift in technology, etc.). What effect has this had on your life? Now think of someone from an older or younger generation. Do you think the effects will be similar to or different from your own? What is the impact of developmental timing on history-graded change?