Develop critical thinking skills asking the key questions necessary to understanding the organization’s strategic situation.

Here is some guidance regarding the course paper assignment.

What are the purposes of the paper?
Understand how organizations form around central purposes.
Articulate, recognize, and apply the principal tenets of core management theories.
Learn how to deconstruct an organization’s circumstances from multiple perspectives – i.e., economic, political, financial, historical, and organizational.
Develop critical thinking skills asking the key questions necessary to understanding the organization’s strategic situation.
Improve writing skills through instruction, practice, and evaluation.
Articulate analysis clearly and defend your paper’s perspective in written forms of communication.
Perform systematic analysis.

What is the paper about?
Choose a publicly traded company that is in some distress or operating in an interesting environment, and then perform a thorough strategic analysis of the company. The objective of this assignment is to give you scope to apply relevant concepts and frameworks learned in class to analyze a real-life and still-evolving company situation. Your analysis should cover a time frame that will enable you to effectively assess the company’s current situation.
How should I select a company to write about?

Select a publicly traded company. Doing so provides the advantage of more information being readily available about the company (as opposed to privately held companies that have less rigorous public reporting requirements).
Pick a company that readily lends itself to review, and analysis based upon their current business processes and related technologies.
What aspects of the company must be covered in the paper?
An analysis of the organization’s goals and objectives.
An assessment of the organization’s key financial ratios.
An analysis of the external environment.
An analysis of the internal environment.
An assessment of the organization’s intellectual assets.
An analysis of the organization’s business level strategies.
An analysis of the corporate level strategies.
An analysis of the organization’s international-level strategies.
Strategic recommendations based on the results of your anal
What other elements must be included in the paper?

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