{"id":170616,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/environmental-scanning-4"},"modified":"2017-08-18T05:52:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T05:52:44","slug":"environmental-scanning-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/environmental-scanning-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Scanning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Due: June 5, 2017 10:00 AM EST<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Purpose of Assignment:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A strategic management plan addresses four different management functions: environmental scanning, strategy formulation, strategy implementation, evaluation and control. Weeks 3, 4 and 5 individual assignments (Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3) are integrated to generate a strategic management plan. The purpose of the Week 3 individual assignment is to evaluate the internal and external environments of a company selected by the student, to analyze the competitive advantage of the selected company, to evaluate a set of suitable strategies, and to examine appropriate metrics.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This assignment provides students an opportunity to research a selected company as if they were involved in a company&#8217;s actual strategic management planning process.&nbsp; It allows students to see which management planning process and management plan the selected company is currently using, allowing them to measure the effectiveness of current strategies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A Strategic Management Plan addresses four different management functions: Environmental Scanning, Strategy Formulation, Strategy Implementation, Evaluation and Control.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Week 3, 4, and 5 Individual Assignments (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) are integrated to generate a Strategic Management Plan. This is Part 1 of the three part Strategic Management Plan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Assignment Steps<\/b>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Write<\/b>&nbsp;a 1,150 word report in which you select a company you are familiar with or a company where you currently work, and do the following:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evaluate the internal and external environments of your selected company using an environmental scan.<\/li>\n<li>Analyze the competitive advantage of your selected company.<\/li>\n<li>Evaluate the strategies your selected company uses to create value and gain competitive advantage.<\/li>\n<li>Examine the measurement guidelines your selected company uses to verify its strategic effectiveness.<\/li>\n<li>Evaluate the effectiveness of the measurement guidelines your selected company uses.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Cite<\/b>&nbsp;3 scholarly references, including at least one peer-reviewed reference.<\/p>\n<p><b>Format&nbsp;<\/b>your paper consistent with APA guidelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due: June 5, 2017 10:00 AM EST Purpose of Assignment: A strategic management plan addresses four different management functions: environmental scanning, strategy formulation, strategy implementation, evaluation and control. Weeks 3, 4 and 5 individual assignments (Part 1, Part 2 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/environmental-scanning-4\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}