Week 9 Assignment 4

From the same case that you have chosen for Deliverables 1 to 3, you  will advise the CEO on how best to position his organization to be  responsive to change in order to take advantage of the strategies you  have recommended.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

1. Give  your opinion as to whether your chosen company’s industry is maturing  or declining, based on its evolution history. Justify your answer.
2. Use  Porter’s National Diamond to evaluate the relative main advantages and  disadvantages of vertical integration versus outsourcing for the  company. Support your response.
3. Use the Boston Consulting Group’s growth-share matrix to evaluate the company’s strategic position as of 2013. Note: Refer to Figure 14.2 “The BCG Growth-share Matrix”, located on page 369, chapter 14 of the textbook.
4. Suggest  one (1) approach for the CEO to adopt in order to implement the  strategies that you recommended in Project Deliverable 3. Include the  main changes in decision-making style, main changes in planning  structure, and measures of success in your recommendation. Provide a  rationale for your response.
5. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be  typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with  one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA  or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional  instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the  assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title,  and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in  the required assignment page length.