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Strategic analysis paper
Home organization: Revlon
The organization we are acquiring: ELF beauty

*This paper might require more pages, I would suggest not to focus on the appearance of it just the writing. For examples do not do the cover page, table of contents, line or paragraph spacing.

step 1: Conduct strategic analysis work on your Home Organization

Following careful research on your part—prepare a Competitive Profile Matrix (CPM; Ch. 3, p. 78-81) on your home organization using several competitors. You must include this CPM in your final paper.

Utilizing what you are learning from Chapters 1-6, perform a strategic analysis on your home organization. In your prepared analysis, you are required to include at least these five in addition to the CPM described in above:

1. Evaluation of Mission and/or Vision Statement (Ch. 2, p. 47-51)
2. External Factor Evaluation Matrix (EFE; Ch. 3, p. 77-78)
3. Internal Factor Evaluation Matrix (IFE; Ch. 4, p. 116-118)
4. Financial Ratio Analysis (Ch. 4, p. 104-106)—select at least one ratio from each of the five types (liquidity, leverage, activity, profitability, growth)—calculate and interpret each. You are not limited to only five—do more if you wish. Choose ratios with which you are most familiar and which hold the best promise of providing you useful information.
5. The SWOT Matrix (Ch. 6, p. 171-174)

When you include these matrices in your final paper, do not merely include a statistical
summary of the matrix. You are to present the full detail of the matrix in addition to your interpretation of the results. For example, if you are doing the External Factors Matrix (EFE), you are to show your entire list of opportunities (5-10 etc.) and your entire list of threats accompanied by the weight, rating, weighted score, and final total.

The student should not include in this section the complete copy of the Home organizations Income Statement and/or Balance Sheet required in Step 1 above.

Step 2: Conduct Strategic Analysis work on the Organization you plan to acquire

It is not a requirement of this assignment, but you may find it desirable to prepare a CPM on your second organization especially if they are not a competitor of your home organization.

Using the same five required analyses listed above for your home organization, prepare the same detailed analysis of the company you propose to acquire.

1. Evaluation of Mission and/or Vision Statement (Ch. 2, p. 47-51)
2. External Factor Evaluation Matrix (EFE; Ch. 3, p. 77-78)
3. Internal Factor Evaluation Matrix (IFE; Ch. 4, p. 116-118)
4. Financial Ratio Analysis (Ch. 4, p. 104-106)—select at least one ratio from each of the five types (liquidity, leverage, activity, profitability, growth)—calculate and interpret each of the chosen five, and include them in your analysis. You are not limited to these five. Choose ratios with which you are most familiar and which hold the best promise of providing you useful information.
5. The SWOT Matrix (Ch. 6, p. 171-174)

A comparison of these matrices should provide you a rich resource of information to compare and contrast the two companies, evaluate strengths and weaknesses of both, the benefits, the hazards, the cautions, etc., regarding acquisition, etc.

The student should not include in this section the complete copy of the Home organizations Income Statement and/or Balance Sheet required in Step 1 above.

Step 3: You may want to consider additional analyses
(these are not a requirement for your paper)

Additional, optional Strategic Analysis tools are described in our text which you can choose to use for your analysis—this is not a formal requirement for your paper:

As you work on this strategic analysis, you are urged to use what you consider to be the strengths you bring to this class (accounting, marketing, finance, etc.) based on previous academic training and/or personal experience. Leverage what you are already good at as you select (as you see fit) other analysis tools to include in your Strategic Analysis Paper from the list below—you, of course, are not limited to this list:

Value Chain Analysis (VCA; Ch. 4, p. 113-116)
Porters Five Forces Model (Ch. 3, p. 71-74)
Strategic Position and Action Evaluation Matrix (SPACE; Ch. 6, p. 174-178)
Boston Consulting Group Matrix (BCG; p. 178-181)
Internal-External Matrix (IE; Ch. 6, p. 181-184)
Grand Strategy Matrix (GSM; Ch. 6, p. 185-186)

Your professor wants to strongly suggest you might look closely at a couple of these for possible use in your paper . . .especially Porters Five Forces, and the SPACE matrix. . .but none of the above is a requirement for your paper.

Step 4: Make your decision about possible acquisition

Do a thorough comparison of the prospective acquisition company with your own organization with a view of proceeding with the acquisition.

As part of your comparison, analysis, and decision-making, you are required to use the Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix (QSPM; Ch. 6, p. 186-190) to further guide you in your decision process. You are to include this QSPM in your final paper and indicate how you used the statistical summary to guide you.

You may also use information found in the text to help with your determination. For example, you might choose to use merger/acquisition strategies on p. 150-151. . .or, using the information gleaned from a BCG matrix for both organizations. You should take into account information on why acquisitions fail (page 150, Table 5-5) and some of the anticipated benefits of acquisition (page 151, Table 5-6) given in our textbook.

If in your research you are able to get a good grasp of what the organizational cultures of your two organizations are like, it would be a really smart idea to include in your paper some analysis of what the possible acquisition of a company might mean in terms of impact to the cultures of both companies. Are they significantly different? Very much alike? Would the acquisition tend be traumatic or relatively easy?

Step 4: Write your paper

Your Strategic Analysis Paper needs to conclude with either (1) a strategy to proceed with the acquisition, and what would be the anticipated benefits and challenges; (2) a strategy to abandon the acquisition effort, and your reasons why; or, (3) a strategy to continue pursuing the acquisition but conditional on gaining additional, essential, confirming information. You must specify what that information might include, but you are not actually required to develop it.
With all three possible conclusions, you must include a full development of your reasons for arriving at that conclusion.

A suggested outline for your Strategic Analysis Paper might be:

Introduction /Purpose of the paper—be sure your paper addresses these two
Strategic Analysis of Home Company
Strategic Analysis of the Company to Possibly Acquire
Comparison/Contrast of the Two Companies
Your Strategic Plan Regarding Possible Acquisition

You are not required to follow this suggested outline; rather you may create your own which may serve your purposes far better.

In preparing your paper, you have the latitude to either blend your matrix tables into the text of your paper, or you may cite them in the text as Appendices found at the conclusion of your paper.

Your paper should follow basic, simple APA guidelines to format your paper (your professor does not want to be burdensome with this). That is, prepare a cover and reference page for your paper following the APA formats, then follow these basic requirements: use 1 margins on all four sides, double space everything, use only 12-point font, allow 5-7 space indentions, and number your pages starting with the cover sheet (do not use the APA Running head).

One paper (recommended length 12-17 pages exclusive of appended material) will analyze the ethical, social and environmental standards and practices of a specific firm.

The following questions should be used, as relevant, to guide this assessment:

Are ethics, social responsibility and environmental sustainability ingrained in the organizations mission and governance structure?
Does the organization adhere to a code of ethical, social and/or environmental conduct (its own or an industry code)?
Does the organizations culture appear to be grounded in a utilitarian, teleological, deontological, or virtue-based philosophy of ethics?
Does the organization appear to perform at the economic viability and profitability, legal, ethical, or discretionary level of the corporate social responsibility model?
To what extent, how, and how effectively does the culture communicate and reinforce a commitment to the ten old cultural values identified by Fr. Byron at all levels of the organization?
Does the organization impose ethical, social and environmental standards on and seek to acquire environmentally friendly products and materials from its suppliers?
To what extent are the products and services delivered by the organization to its customers eco-friendly?
Does the organization make information about its environmental performance (e.g., carbon footprint) available to customers and other stakeholders?
What areas of business or consumer demand for socially beneficial or environmentally sustainable products and services may present current or future opportunities for the organization?
Do any current products or practices reflect ethical, social or environmental irresponsibility by causing or facilitating harm to any group or individual or to the environment and what, if anything, does the organization do to mitigate their impact?
What benefits and problems accrue to the organization as a consequence of its current approach to and level of ethical, social and environmental performance?
What specific policies or practices should the organization implement to improve its ethical, social and environmental performance?

Directions: Research the author of your novel ( I chose Cujo by Stephen King). Use at least 2 different sources that give details about his/her life and include them when you hand in your work. Using the references, write a letter in correct format to the author that gives your overall opinion of the book, lists particular aspects that you found interesting or frustrating, and that asks questions referencing specific facts you learned from the research sources that might have influenced the novel writing or events and characters in the novels. Your letter should have at least 3 substantial paragraphs and be correctly formatted.

For Final Project Part B, you are required to submit an interview transcript. Now that you have been studying anthropology in this course,you are ready to think about what topic you will address in your Final Project Part B submission.Prompt: Review all the crisis situations below and choose one for your Part B assignment. In this milestone, you will write about the crisis situation by explaining it and why you chose it.*** https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-aids-black-america/ ***.The crisis situation you chose and why you chose it.A short summary of the video on your crisis situation.Why you think an anthropological perspective would be beneficial to examining the crisis situationGuidelines for Submission: Your assignment must be submitted as a 2- to 3-paragraph Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins.

how have historical developments for food production impacted modern-day life?Also, think about your own life. How has food production impacted the things you do today?Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: Incorporate course concepts into your assignment. Address the consequences of anthropological events on modern society. Relate anthropological events to your own situation.

Assignment Content Companies are susceptible to losing customer data to cyber-attackers and human errors, so organizations must properly protect their data and network. In this assignment, you will create an Encryption Policy for CIO review. Use the organization you chose in the discussion Classifying an Organization’s Sensitive Data. Write a 2- page policy, and ensure you: List the organizations sensitive data that must be protected. Complete a matrix that compares the asymmetric and symmetric encryption methodologies (PKI, TLS, SSL) for protecting data within the network. Describe at least 2 primary threats that could compromise the organizations data. Describe how the encryption methodologies thats hould be implemented to protect the organizations sensitive data. Format your citations according to APA guidelines.

Questions & Answers 1. Analyze the mission/vision/values statement of an arts organization you are familiar with. Is it clear and to the point? What changes would you make to the mission/vision statement to improve its clarity? 2. What would be a good strategy for an arts organization to adopt if the national economy is in a recession and it is affecting the community? 3. Use the five steps of the formal planning process to plot out your own personal short-range plans (for the next year) and intermediate-range plans (for the next 23 years).

ASSIGNMENT To fully address this case assignment, please read and analyze the assigned case. Your response for the case should be numbered and provide the following: 1. Summarize the key OB issues in the case relative to this week’s material (at least 2 key issues MUST be identified). Be sure to speak in OB language, using appropriate terminology to identify the concepts and issues you identify. 2. Clearly link the key issues in the case back to relevant and specific course material covered. Be specific by identifying specific instances and scenarios in the case which demonstrate the OB issues and concepts identified. Explain how they are reflective of those specific OB issues. 3. Make at least one recommendation(s) of how each of the key issues you identified should be handled at the organizational level of the case’s main character. Justify the merit of each of your recommendations and be sure to include your rationale for why you expect them to be effective in addressing the issues. 4. Propose at least one executive or corporate level intervention for any one of your key issues to recommend how upper management can also play a part in addressing that issue. This response should be different from any of the recommendations offered in #3. Be sure to clearly identify which OB issue your organization level/executive level intervention is meant to address and how the intervention would be of benefit. Case 1 – Equity in Academia When the last student left Melinda Wilkersons office at 5:30 p.m., the young English Professor just sat, too exhausted to move. Her desk was piled high with student papers, journals, and recommendation forms. “There goes my weekend,” she thought to herself, knowing that just reading and commenting on the thirty journals would take up all of Saturday. She liked reading the journals, getting a glimpse of how her students were reacting to the novels and poems she had them read, watching them grow and change. But recently, as she picked up another journal from the bottomless pile or greeted another student with a smile, she often wondered whether it was all worth it. Wilkerson had had such a moment about an hour earlier, when Ron Agua, whose office was across the hall, had waved to her as he walked past her door. “Im off to the Rat,” he announced. “Come join us if you ever get free.” For a moment Wilkerson had stared blankly at the student before her, pondering the scene at the Rathskeller, the universitys most popular restaurant and meeting place. Agua would be there with four or five of the departments senior members, including Alice Bordy, the department chair. All would be glad to have her join them . . . if only she didnt have so much work. At the start of her first year as an assistant professor, Wilkerson had accepted her overwhelming workload as part of the territory. Her paycheck was smaller and her hours longer than she had expected, but Agua and the other two new faculty members seemed to be suffering under the same burdens. But now, in her second semester, Wilkerson was beginning to feel that things werent right. The stream of students knocking on her door persisted, but she noticed that Agua was spending less time talking and more time at his word processor than he had during the first semester. When asked, Agua told her he had reduced his course load because of his extra work on the departments hiring and library committees. He seemed surprised when Wilkerson admitted that she didnt know there was such a thing as a course reduction. As the semester progressed, Wilkerson realized there was a lot she didnt know about the way the department functioned. Agua would disappear once a week or so to give talks to groups around the state and then would turn those talks into papers for scholarly journalssomething Wilkerson couldnt dream of having time to do. She and Agua were still good friends, but she began to see differences in their approaches. “I cut down my office hours this semester,” he told her one day. “With all those students around all the time, I just never had a chance to get my work done.” Wilkerson had pondered that statement for a few weeks. She thought that dealing with students was “getting work done.” But when salaries for the following year were announced, she realized what Agua meant. He would be making almost $1,000 more than she; the human resources committee viewed his committee work as a valuable asset to the department, his talks around the state had already earned him notoriety, and his three upcoming publications clearly put him ahead of the other first-year professors. Wilkerson was confused. Agua hadnt done anything sneaky or immoralin fact, everything he did was admirable, things she would have liked to do. His trips to the Rat gave him the inside scoop on what to do and whom to talk to, but she couldnt blame him for that either. She could have done exactly the same thing. They worked equally hard, she thought. Yet Agua already was the highly paid star, whereas she was just another overworked instructor. As she began piling all the books, papers, and journals into her bag, Wilkerson thought about what she could do. She could quit and go somewhere else where she might be more appreciated, but jobs were hard to find and she suspected that the same thing might happen there. She could charge sex discrimination and demand to be paid as much as Agua, but that would be unfair to him and she didnt really feel discriminated against for being a woman. The university simply didnt value what she did with her time as highly as it valued what Agua did with his. Putting on her coat, Wilkerson spotted a piece of paper that had dropped out of one of the journals. She picked it up and saw it was a note from Wendy Martin, one of her freshman students. “Professor Wilkerson,” it read, “I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to talk to me last week. I really needed to talk to someone experienced about it, and all my other professors are men, and I just couldnt have talked to them. You helped me a whole lot.” Sighing, Wilkerson folded the note, put it in her bag, and closed her office door. Suddenly the pile of journals and the $1,000 didnt seem so important.
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