Assignment:
Discussion 1
Accessing Non-Renewable Resources
Countries with access to the planet's resources continue to grow at a great pace, placing a tremendous strain on the availability of non-renewable resources.
What responsibility do these countries have with regard to the rest of the world's access to these resources? Is a country's first responsibility to its own citizens or should it consider the rest of the globe? Should countries practice the 'Golden Rule' as many believe individuals should?
Discussion 2
The Pledge to Eliminate Poverty
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals were created to provide developing countries support through the partnership of developed countries. Now the UN is working towards achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. These two videos look briefly at these:
Watch video: 8 Millennium Development Goals: What We Met And Missed
The Sustainable Development Goals - Action Towards 2030 | CAFOD and SDGs
Discussion 3
Before starting this activity, review the LEARN (e-Activity) (there are several) and read the course text book. Doing this will give you the why to include in your response to the following:
"Business-Level Strategy" : In a single response, respond to the following:
1) From the first e-Activity, assess your satisfaction with the company you researched
o Make recommendations about how that company could modify its business-level strategy to both increase your overall level of satisfaction and to attract new customers.
o Provide specific examples to support your response.
2) Analyze the five business-level strategies discussed to determine which strategy the company you researched most likely applies.
3) Determine how your experience with that company might change if it switched to one of the other four strategies (your choice). Explain your rationale.
Be sure to respond to at least one (1) other student and/or myself student (more responses may be required to get your percentage to 100%).
Discussion 4
Evaluate the Corporate-Level Strategy of Victory Motorcycles to determine whether you believe the strategy is appropriate to offset forces in the industry.
o Provide specific examples to support your response.
• Make recommendations for improving this strategy as well as describing any challenges you foresee in executing those recommendations.
Provide specific examples to support your response.