Begin by choosing a publicly traded corporation( COCA COLA) and conduct research to find articles or academic sources that explain the resources, capabilities, and competencies of your chosen corporation. From your list of competencies, identify your chosen corporation’s core competency (ies). Suppose you have been appointed to conduct a high-level value-chain analysis of your chosen corporation. What would you say are the corporation’s primary and secondary activities? Be specific in describing how each activity adds value to the corporation and ultimately to shareholders’ wealth.

I used to work at a non-franchised cleaners back in the day when I was in high school. After purchasing all the dry cleaner equipment, the organization  was “cash poor.”   In seeking to create a competitive advantage given the organization’s economic circumstances, what options might the company have to achieve a more favorable cash position?

Colleges and universities, like all businesses, have strengths, weaknesses, and competitors. What would be considered to be an online university's internal strengths and weaknesses? Why? who would be the competitors to online universities? What are three external opportunities and three external threats?

Why would B Corporation be considered the most compelling form of, or approach to, business?

Review the following section from the article we previously covered, Experimenting in the Entrepreneurial VentureLinks to an external site. from the Harvard Business Publishing Coursepack. Minimum Viable Product MVP, section 2.3, step 3, pages 8-13.  Look at your Business Model Canvas Map. Do you have a minimum viable product? If so, can you refine it more? If  you don’t have one, what product would you like to provide to potential customers?  If you have not already, decide on a minimum viable product for your business and write about it in a document (at least 50 words). Consider the following prompts when writing about your product: What is your minimum viable product? Why did you choose this product? What kind of reaction do you believe you will have from your customers?

Final Business Model and Strategic PlanWrite a 700- to 1,050-word section for your business model and strategic plan in which you add your strategies and tactics to implement and realize your objectives, measures, and targets.Include marketing and information technology strategies and tactics.Develop at least three methods to monitor and control your proposed strategic plan, being sure to analyze how the measures will advance organizational goals financially and operationally.Explain the ethical issues faced by the organization, summarize the legal and regulatory issues faced by the organization, and then summarize the organization's corporate social responsibility.Develop a 350-word page executive summary defining the new division of existing business. Share your Vision, Mission, final business model, value proposition and list your key assumptions, risks, and change management issues. Quantify the growth and profit opportunity and planned impact on various stakeholders.Note:…

In your role as a vice-president at a company that manufactures exercise equipment, you have been asked to create a risk assessment for your company to assist with deciding to migrate from Excel to Access. What are two risks that your company will face if you switch to Access?

Evaluate if it is possible for a business to meet the needs of shareholders, customers, employees, suppliers and society at the same time. How can a balance of interests be achieved?

To begin this discussion, introduce yourself to your classmates and instructor. Briefly discuss your background, describe your professional goals, explain what you hope to gain from this course, and share what you enjoy doing in your free time.   Then, to continue your initial post, consider how strategic management and policies are important to the healthcare environment and respond to the following:   Do policies impact the culture and procedure of a healthcare organization?   How does strategic management impact the organization's mission and vision?

What happens if a corporation tries to equal the competitor's current competitive position?