Problem - Imagine you are an executive for a Fortune 500 company and you are preparing a presentation for the board of directors about the organization's direction.
Create a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, with speaker notes on each slide, in which you address the following:
- Analyze factors that influence each of the following: the company's strategic planning, tactical planning, operational planning, and contingency planning.
- Analyze the influence that legal issues, ethics, and corporate social responsibility have had on management planning. Provide at least one example for each.
- Evaluate the planning function of management as it relates to the organization's goals and strategies.
- Use steps in the specific formal planning process outlined in Management.
Discuss how CEOs use concentration, vertical integration, or diversification in the planning function of management.