Question Week One: Introduction to Strategic

1.2 Create an organizational mission and vision statement.

1.3 Analyze an organization in terms of its structure, culture, and purpose.

1.4 Develop a strategic plan.

Read Ch. 7 of Strategy: Winning in the Marketplace.

Review this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings.

2.1 Analyze the effect of the external and internal environments on the organization’s strategic plan.

Read Ch. 3 of Strategy: Winning in the Marketplace.

Review this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings.

Conceptualizing a Business

· Define the business, products or services, and customers by developing a mission statement. Ensure that you are differentiating your product or service.

· Create a vision for this organization that clearly demonstrates your decision on what you want the business to become in the future.

· Define your guiding principles or values for your selected business considering the topics of culture, social responsibility, and ethics.

· Analyze how the vision, mission, and values guide the organization’s strategic direction.

· Evaluate how the organization addresses customer needs and critique how they achieve competitive advantage.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Value Alignment

· Analyze the origin(s) and subsequent evolution of the workplace values.

· Analyze the degree of alignment between the organization’s stated values and the organization’s actual plans and actions.

· Explain the differences and analyze the degree of alignment between your values and the organization’s values as reflected by the organization’s plans and actions.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.