Part 1:
Prompt: The final project for this course is the creation of an impact of governmental action on a business paper. For Milestone Two, you will submit the Overview section of your final project, which continues building on what you started in Milestone One to complete Section I of the final project critical elements.
You will provide the business profile and governmental action, revised according to feedback received on Milestone One, then add organization and teams, stakeholders, and current environment. Be sure to support all factual claims/positions with appropriate citations to your research materials.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Overview: In your role as vice president of governmental affairs, your boss, the business's CEO, is considering retaining an outside consulting firm to assist the company with a government issue that it is facing. Jack Harris is the president of that firm, which is called Crisis Consulting. Jack has told your boss that he will not know if he can help until he learns more information about your company and the issue it faces. Your CEO has asked you to prepare a memo that will provide a detailed overview of your company as well as the government action that is it facing. Address the following:
A. Business Profile: Provide a brief profile of the business and the industry it occupies, including the business's market share and competitors, as well as opportunities and threats facing the business and industry outside of the particular governmental action now facing the business.
B. Governmental Action: Analyze the potential governmental action or political challenge that will affect the business in this particular situation.
C. Organization and Teams: Describe the organization of the company, including divisions and project teams, and the manner in which the company has used these teams to respond to government regulations in the past.
D. Stakeholders: Describe the company's internal and external stakeholders. In your description, include the actions taken by the stakeholders to date to influence the political process and advocate for the business's interests.
E. Current Environment: Describe the current business environment, both financial and otherwise, including the initial reaction of the company to the situation and the initial position taken by political actors and other stakeholders.
Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as an 8-10 page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, oneinch margins, and sources cited in APA format.
Part 2:
Overview: The executive memorandum assignment requires your careful consideration of an appropriate, sensible investment project for your chosen company.
Furthermore, this assignment will develop and demonstrate your ability to find useful, authoritative information sources about your selected company, its industry, its economic environment, and the particular investment opportunity.
Prompt: Write a memo about the expansion opportunity for which you will request funding in your final project proposal. This paper should be 1-2 pages long and should include only a simple narrative description. You do not need fancy formatting, numbers, tables, or graphs in this document.
List your key information sources about the organization you have chosen for your final project, explaining in one to two sentences each how source is relevant to your project. Your memo should identify the source (not just a website address) plus, in general, describe what information that source can reliably provide. Your sources must be authoritative. The company's own website is an authoritative source for its own public financial and other information, for example.
Serious business or economic sites, such as Bloomberg, or industry trade journals can be authoritative sources for fairly unbiased news about the organization or its industry. Other reliable sources could educate you about the business environment in your project's target country (e. g., the CIA World Factbook). Someone you know who has worked for that organization or in that industry could also be an excellent source of certain information.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
- Include a narrative overview of your expansion opportunity. Describe the expansion project, the country in which the expansion will take place, and the reasoning behind this expansion into this country at this particular time. In other words, why does this particular project and country make sense for your chosen company?
- Include key information sources related to the company you have chosen. Sources should provide an introductory, authoritative, future-oriented understanding of the company itself, the industry, technology, customers, suppliers and competitors, and the economic environment of the company and of your proposed expansion. Sources could be published or online; they could even include a person you know with experience in that industry. The sources will almost certainly include the company's website; you might also follow its Facebook and Twitter feeds.
- Note how each source is relevant and describe what information the source will provide. You will probably develop more sources later in the course, but these are meant to give you a solid start.
Guidelines for Submission: Your executive memo must be 1-2 pages long (excluding the reference page), doubled spaced, written in 12-point Times New Roman font. Your reference page should be in APA style.