Assignment 2: LASA 1 Assignment—The Leader as a Strategist Report
Assignment 2: LASA 1 Assignment—The Leader as a Strategist Report
For this assignment, you will choose an organization to analyze. This organization can be one you are personally familiar with, or one you have observed to be an effective organization, You now become a newly appointed senior leader in that organization.
As a new leader, you must prepare a report for the CEO that assesses the organization’s overall alignment between its vision, mission, values, and strategy. This report should consist of the following sections:
Some primer questions for the SWOT analysis include the following:
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Useful opportunities can come from such things as the following:
Threats
Your response to each part of the assignment should be approximately three pages.
Your final product will be in a word document and be approximately 10–12 pages in length and utilize 4–7 scholarly sources in your research. Your paper should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Assignment 2: LASA 1 Assignment—The Leader as a Strategist Report
Assignment 2: LASA 1 Assignment—The Leader as a Strategist Report For this assignment, you will choose an organization to analyze. This organization can be one you are personally familiar with, or one you have observed to be an effective organization, You now become a newly appointed senior leader in that organization. As a new leader, you must prepare a report for the CEO that assesses the organization’s overall alignment between its vision, mission, values, and strategy. This report should consist of the following sections: 1. An analysis of the strategic cascade of the organization This includes assessing the organization’s strategy and market position. Use the framework implied in Michael Porter’s (1997) article “What is Strategy.” When describing the business strategy of your organization, consider the following questions: • What is the target market (target customer)? • What is your organization's value proposition (How does it deliver value that satisfies the target’s wants and needs?)? • How is your product or service positioned in the market (What specific features and attributes define the product/service and how is its value reflected in its pricing, distribution, marketing communications, etc.?)? • How is your organization sustainably different from your competitors (What is the source of uniqueness and how sustainable is it from being diminished by competitors?)? 2. A strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis...
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