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2. BUS 402 Slingshot Academy/ bus402edu.com BUS 402 Entire Course (3 Set) BUS 402 Week 1 DQ 1 Strategic Planning • This Tutorial contains 3 Sets of Papers for All Assignments (Week 2 & 5) • BUS 402 Week 1 DQ 1 Strategic Planning • BUS 402 Week 1 DQ 2 Leadership • BUS 402 Week 2 DQ 1 Porter’s Five Forces • BUS 402 Week 2 DQ 2 Analyzing the Great Environment • BUS 402 Week 2 Assignment Porsche’s Analysis (3 Papers) • Strategic Planning CLOs: 1,5,6. 1st Post Due by Day 3. Discuss the elements of strategic management and explain why it is crucial to an organization’s survival. Using a company as an example, explain the difference between a strategy and a business model. Please discuss in 200-250 words.

3. BUS 402 Slingshot Academy/ bus402edu.com BUS 402 Week 1 DQ 2 Leadership BUS 402 Week 2 Assignment Porsche’s Analysis (3 Papers) • Leadership CLOs: 1,5. 1st Post Due by Day 3. Leadership is the ability to influence people toward the attainment of goals. The changing of the environment in which most organizations are operating has significantly influenced leadership systems in recent years, and has contributed to a shift in how we think about and practice leadership. • This Tutorial contains 3 Different Papers • Porsche’s Analysis CLOs: 2,6. Due by Day 7. Read What’s Driving Porsche? And History of Porsche AG –FundingUniverse and describe the company’s history, products, and major competitors in a paragraph or two. Assess the financial performance and condition of the organization

4. BUS 402 Slingshot Academy/ bus402edu.com BUS 402 Week 2 DQ 1 Porter’s Five Forces BUS 402 Week 2 DQ 2 Analyzing the Great Environment • Porter’s 5 forces CLO: 3. 1st Post Due by Day 3. Please review the required You Tube video Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy, regarding Porter’s 5 forces. In the video, Mr. Porter discusses how Porter's Five Forces Analysis is an important tool for assessing the potential for profitability in an industry. As an example, Mr. Porter applied these 5 forces to the airline industry • Leadership CLOs: 1,5. 1st Post Due by Day 3. Leadership is the ability to influence people toward the attainment of goals. The changing of the environment in which most organizations are operating has significantly influenced leadership systems in recent years, and has contributed to a shift in how we think about and practice leadership.

5. BUS 402 Slingshot Academy/ bus402edu.com BUS 402 Week 3 DQ 1 Strategic Alternative Bundles BUS 402 Week 3 DQ 2 Triggers and Contingencies • Porter’s 5 forces CLO: 3. 1st Post Due by Day 3. Please review the required You Tube video Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy, regarding Porter’s 5 forces. In the video, Mr. Porter discusses how Porter's Five Forces Analysis is an important tool for assessing the potential for profitability in an industry • Triggers and Contingencies CLO: 6. 1st Post Due by Day 3. Due to the changing environment and external triggers, contingency planning is necessary. • What qualities make a future issue a “trigger”?

6. BUS 402 Slingshot Academy/ bus402edu.com BUS 402 Week 4 DQ 1 Operational Planning BUS 402 Week 4 DQ 2 Deliberate and Emergent Strategies • Operational Planning CLO: 5. 1st Post Due by Day 3. Discuss how an organization benefits from operational planning, and how operational planning and budget planning are related. Explain how “system thinking” improves operation decision making. • Deliberate and Emergent Strategies CLO: 5. 1st Post Due by Day 3. [Read the following article: “Porter or Mintzberg: Whose View of Strategy Is the Most Relevant Today?”. What is the difference between deliberate strategies and emergent strategies? How might emergent strategies help with a future strategic planning process? In your opinion, what are the potential consequences of ignoring emergent strategies?

7. BUS 402 Slingshot Academy/ bus402edu.com BUS 402 Week 5 Assignment Final Case Study and Strategic Plan (3 Different Papers) BUS 402 Week 5 DQ 1 Corporate Social Responsibility • This Tutorial contains 3 Different Papers • Final Case Study and Strategic Plan CLOs: 1,2,3,4,5. Due by Day 7. Read What’s Driving Porsche? And History of Porsche AG – FundingUniverse. From the perspective of an executive with the firm, prepare a strategic plan to grow the business over the next three years. • Your strategic plan must be future-oriented and must • Corporate Social Responsibility CLO: 5. 1st Post Due by Day 3. In your own words, explain what corporate social responsibility (CSR) is. Name two examples of social responsible companies you know and explain why you consider them so. • We learned that CSR can be viewed as a pyramid with Philanthropic Responsibilities at the top.

8. BUS 402 Slingshot Academy/ bus402edu.com BUS 402 Week 5 DQ 2 International Strategies • International Strategies CLO:4. 1st Post Due by Day 3. When companies expand into the international arena, they do so either because their home market has matured or because they see real opportunities in the foreign market. Discuss which kinds of international strategies are most appropriate for companies in the following domestic industries: • •Producing movies

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