BUS620 America Public University Week 7 Microsoft Strategic Plan
Description
Assignment Instructions
Course Objective: Develop the skills to assess the success of the plan.
- Evaluate strategic initiatives to leverage opportunities and mitigate threats to small businesses.
- Demonstrate how to build a competitive advantage through functional level strategy
Prompt:
Prepare a strategic plan that contains the following sections:
- Executive Summary
- Company Overview (with ticker symbol)
- Company History
- Products and or services
- Operations
- Vision
- Mission Statement
- Corporate Values & Culture
- SWOT Analysis
- Competition
- Management team/Leadership
- Financial Outlook
- Strategies
- Conclusion
Instructions:
- Paper must be written in flawless APA format using headers, headings, in-text references, reference page, 1′ margins (use template provided below)
- Make sure you use adequate, credible and reliable APA source citations to support your work.
- This strategic plan will incorporate what you have learned over the past 7 weeks. Your company selection must be listed on either the NASDAQ or NYSE.
- You may review the sample strategic plans shared in the resource section and use them as a guide in developing your strategic plan. Please keep in mind that you must still meet the 20% similarity scan requirements upon submission.
- Review the examples in the resource section of the course prior to submittal.
DO NOT SIMPLY COPY AND PASTE MATERIAL FROM THE COMPANY WEBSITE.
Important Notes:
- You must include a minimum of 6-9 sources and 3-4 must be from a peer-reviewed source (library/journal articles)
- Your paper should be in essay format; not bullet format.
- Minimum 12 full pages of content (Word Document) of strategic material (does not include cover page, executive summary nor reference pages); DO NOT GO OVER 14 pages of actual CONTENT (max content).
- All charts, graphs and pictures are to go in appendix (not a substitute for content)
- Once you submit your document to the assignment folder it will automatically be loaded to TURNTIN.COM within the course** NOTE: Strategic Plan must return a similarity scan of 20% or less (the following will be excluded: headers, bibliography, etc. prior to instructor grading paper – focus on content of scan percentage)**
- Due Day 7, Week 7 by 11:59 pm ET.
Grading Rubric
A rubric is provided here for your convenience that details how this assignment will be graded. Please review it carefully prior to submitting your work.
Supporting Materials
Submission
To submit your assignment, attach one or more files and then click Submit.
Originality of attachments will be verified by Turnitin. Both you and your instructor will receive the results.
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