During Week One you will need to pick three major International Organizations from the Fortune 500 list provided to research for the entire course. Post your choices to the discussion thread and justify your choices. You must introduce a new product/service, and/or market. This will required you to create new business initiatives and strategies for your company.
The format of your analysis will be a Comprehensive Business Plan in sections based on the data you collect from your research.
During the first week, you will submit three Fortune 500 new business proposals or real-life problems. The new business proposals must meet the following criteria:
1. The new business proposals MUST be related to your area of concentration.
2. In one Word document, you will submit a 1/3 page proposal on each topic stating rationale and why it is a relevant topic on which to write the capstone business plan. The proposal must include an appendix on historical Financial and Accounting Analysis for the past three years of each company. Your proposals will be written in APA format.
3. You will share with the professor how and where your will gather all the necessary resources and data to complete the capstone project. Prior to the appendex, the proposal will include reference pages. For each proposal there should be at least ten (10) resources/references listed to demonstrate that preliminary research has been completed and there is ample information available for a thorough business plan. By the middle of week 2, your professor will tell you which of the three you will work on for the remainder of the capstone.