Critical thinking essay, accounting
Follow the instructions.
The assignment: Assume you are working for a major international company. As you think about the way the world is evolving-technologically, environmentally, socially, politically, etc.-and about the business subject of the week, you have realized that these changes will have implications for your company. You have decided to write a memo to the company's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in the hope of (gently) persuading the CEO to pay attention to and respond to your concerns.
Your memo should (1) identify the relevant force(s) for change, (2) discuss how this force (these forces) might affect the company with respect to the business subject of the week, and (3) make recommendations for what your company might/should do in response.
The essay is to be addressed to the CEO of a specific company by name. Target length: 750 words. A sample format for your memo is on the back of this page. You are welcome to cut and paste the format around your memo when you finalize it for submission.
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Subject: will affect our company
Sample topic
• Subject of the week:Operations Management (supply chain, in particular sourcing of raw materials)
• Company:Coca-Cola, Inc.
• Force for change:Impending global shortage of fresh water (cite!)
• Impact on company:Water is Coca-Cola's most important raw material (cite!)
• How the company might respond:
o Invest in desalinization plants generating their own fresh water to guaranty their own supply (this could lead to a new business)
o Change their product mix so there is less reliance on fresh water
o Move bottling plants to locations with greater and/or more certain supply
o etc.