Analysis of Problem
Development of Strategic Alternatives
Evaluation of Strategic Alternatives: Management & Leadership Focus Area
Section Three Draft - Annotated Outline
Analysis of Problem
Development of Strategic Alternatives:
What strategies can you suggest from your External and Internal environmental analysis?
What strategies can you suggest from your financial analysis? What strategies can you suggest from your Porter's Five Forces analysis?
What strategic alternatives could you suggest from your evaluation of your organization's mission?
Evaluation of Strategic Alternatives: Management and Leadership Focus Area:
This section examines the involvement of management and leadership in the evaluation of the strategic alternatives suggested in the previous section.
For example, assume the following scenario: the organization is a wireless telephone service provider, the central problem is an inadequate smartphone product line, and the alternatives are to 1) design and manufacture their own branded smartphone in house and 2) purchase and private label a smartphone from an existing smartphone manufacturer.
What do the experts in management and leadership say about the alternatives?
What management or leadership key concepts and theories will help to support your discussion in evaluating the alternatives?
Nearly every strategic decision has implications for the people in an organization, and thus involves ethics. Review any ethical considerations that should be examined in the strategic alternatives within the context of the management and leadership focus area and the moral and ethical framework as expressed by the IWU "world changer" perspective.
Research Requirements:
Articles: What do experts say about the project topic? Students need to include research from at least five articles accessed through OCLS.
MBA course integration: What key concepts and theories will help to support your discussion in this focus area? This section must include at least five sources from the Management and Leadership Focus area, for example, Ethics Law and Leadership, Intercultural and Global Issues, Management, Operations Strategy, and Organizational Development and Change.
Ethical Considerations: One source from your Ethics Law and Leadership course and two citations from the Bible.
Total in text citations and references for Management and Leadership Focus Area: 13