Homework: Communicating Your Strategic Plan
Overview
In this homework, use the same company you selected (TESLA) and focused on for the previous homework.
Research the company on its own website, via the public filings in the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database, in the Strayer University Library (Nexis Uni home page), and using any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.
Instructions
You will create a 20 slides presentation to the C-level executives of the company to outline your strategic plan to help the company maintain a competitive advantage. For this homework, use the company and department you have used for the first three homeworks; review and incorporate any feedback from your professor on the previous three homeworks. Create a PowerPoint presentation, along with speaker notes, that outlines your strategic plan and includes the following:
I. Summarize your analysis of the company based on your work in the previous three homeworks in order to provide context for your strategic plan. Include the following about the company at a minimum:
1. The business mission and vision statements (Getting to Know the Organization homework).
2. The internal strengths and weaknesses (Getting to Know the Organization homework).
3. The greatest external opportunity and threat (Addressing Organizational Challenges as a Manager homework).
4. Analysis and implications of the SWOT matrix (Executing Strategies and Management Responsibilities homework).
5. Your chosen alternative strategy, strategic plan, and management responsibilities (Executing Strategies and Management Responsibilities homework).
II. Justify your strategic plan from the Executing Strategies and Management Responsibilities homework to help the company maintain a competitive advantage.
III. Determine the impact of the selected strategy on the affected stakeholders. Outline a communication plan to make the information known to each of the identified stakeholders.
IV. Examine the role of other departments such as human resources, marketing, legal, manufacturing, and finance to promote the success of the implementation of the strategic plan.
V. Communicate the ethical challenges associated with your recommended strategy and strategic plan and discuss how you will address them.
VI. Recommend a plan to evaluate the effectiveness of the selected strategy.
VII. Develop an executive-level PowerPoint presentation with 20 slides, speaker notes, and appropriate graphics or video.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
1. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this homework is:
1. Create communications that effectively articulate information related to business management decisions.