Organization Analysis & Strategic Recommendations

SCENARIO: Select an organization you are familiar with or have worked for (currently or in the past). You are tasked with analyzing the organization both internally and externally using some of the tools and frameworks you have learned in this course. You are also tasked with recommending changes to the organization’s strategy and structure, in addition to considering associated ethical implications. This assignment requires you to apply SWOT analysis, PESTEL analysis, Porter’s Five Forces of Industry Analysis, Porter’s Generic Strategies, and organization design concepts related to strategy-structure fit. You will prepare a slide deck containing your analysis and recommendations that could be presented to the organization’s Board.

ASSIGNMENT: Your presentation will be 11-14 slides long, not including the title and references slides. It must include the following slides:
Title
Executive Summary
Organization Background
Internal Strengths
Internal Weaknesses
External Opportunities
External Threats
Macro Environment Analysis: PESTEL
Micro Industry Analysis: Porter’s Five Forces
Generic Strategy Recommendations
Organization Design Recommendations
Ethical Considerations
References
If you’ve never used a presentation tool like PowerPoint or Google Slides before, don’t worry! The assignment template below will help you create slides for a basic slide presentation. Then you’ll be able to practice using the presentation technology as you put the finishing touches on your presentation.

Touchstone 4 Template
Touchstone 4 Sample

Before you get started, let’s look at how you’ll be building the presentation, step by step.
A. Directions
Step 1: Choose an Organization
Select an organization (for-profit or non-profit) that you are familiar with. It is especially important that you understand some of the inner workings of the organization; hence, you may find it easier to select a current or former employer.
Step 2: Create Presentation Slides
Use a presentation tool like PowerPoint or Google Slides to outline and organize your presentation. Your presentation must include the following:
Slide Component
Title Slide Your title slide will be the first slide and should include your name, the date, and the name of the organization you selected.
Executive Summary An executive summary should include the main points of your presentation in 1-2 slides (no more than 2). It should also include your recommendations in 1-3 bullet points. As a general rule, it is usually best (and easiest) to write the executive summary last—after the rest of your presentation is completed.
Organization Background The organization background should be brief—no more than 1-2 slides. It should include a brief history of the organization, in addition to the major products or services offered and the markets that are served.
Internal Strengths Using what you have learned about SWOT analysis, identify 4-6 strengths internally within the organization. You may have to make some inferences based on what you know or perceive about the organization.
Internal Weaknesses Using what you have learned about SWOT analysis, identify 4-6 weaknesses internally within the organization. You may have to make some inferences based on what you know or perceive about the organization.
External Opportunities Using what you have learned about SWOT analysis, list 4-6 opportunities facing the organization externally. Opportunities and threats are generally easier to identify than internal strengths and weaknesses, and are typically shared across the same industry.
External Threats Using what you have learned about SWOT analysis, list 4-6 threats facing the organization externally. Opportunities and threats are generally easier to identify than internal strengths and weaknesses, and are typically shared across the same industry.
Macro Environment Analysis: PESTEL Applying the PESTEL framework to the organization, identify 1-3 factors for each of the following: Political Factors, Economic Factors, Sociocultural Factors, Technological Factors, Environmental Factors, Legal Factors.
Micro Industry Analysis: Porter’s Five Forces Analyze the industry the organization competes in by applying what you have learned about Porter’s Five Forces of industry analysis. You should list 2-3 observations for each of the following factors: Threat of New Entrants, Threat of Substitutes, Supplier Power, Buyer Power, and Industry Rivalry.
Generic Strategy Recommendations Given what you have learned from your internal and external analysis of the organization, are they pursuing the right strategy? If so, why? If not, what might you recommend? Is the recommended (or current) strategy the right “fit” for the environment in which the organization competes? Be sure to select one of Porter’s three generic strategies and provide your rationale: Cost Leadership, Differentiation, or Focus.
Organization Design Recommendations Is the organization optimally designed (structured) for either your recommended or their current strategy? For example, if they are pursuing a Cost Leadership strategy, do they have a low-cost operating model? The objective here is to determine and demonstrate the degree of “fit” between strategy and structure.
Ethical Considerations What are some of the ethical considerations for your recommended (or current) strategy? Is the organization positioned for long-term sustainability? Are there issues which may ultimately affect the organization’s ability to attract and retain talented employees or maintain the credibility of their brand? Are there potential ethical dilemmas in executing any recommended changes? The need to potentially layoff thousands of workers or stop paying for benefits such as healthcare to lower operating expenses, for example?
References This touchstone requires you to use at least four sources, including the course tutorials. Ideas for outside sources include (but are not limited to) organization websites, annual reports, or news articles from reputable magazines or newspapers. Following APA formatting, your sources should appear in alphabetical order.
Step 3: Add Speaker Notes
For this assignment, you are not actually giving a presentation, but rather just preparing a slide deck that summarizes your findings and recommendations.
An important step in the preparation of a speech is writing speaker notes. Add your speaker notes to explain your analysis using information from your sources. If you were giving an oral presentation, these notes wouldn’t be visible to your audience when you’re in Presenter View. But you would be able to see them, and they would guide you through your presentation.
Your speaker notes will be used to evaluate your project, so make sure you write in complete sentences and pay attention to spelling and grammar. Also, make sure you’re citing the information from your sources using in-text citations in APA style. These citations should include the author’s last name and the year of publication for the source, for example, (Mitchell, 2014).

Engineering Analysis (Last Stage Blades LP Turbine)

Good afternoon, I look forward to working with you on this assignment and thank you again for the support.

I have attached the following proposal to my professor as a Technical Analysis – Edited.
The professor gave the following feedback I would like to incorporate into the paper along with following theguide lines stated in the proposal.
The “problem” sounds like it is whether or not to change out the last row of LP turbine blades. – This isCorrect.
Your anaylsis will document how you reached this descision. – Yes
Please explain full detail on each component apart of the route inspection.
Add photots with descriptions to support paper.
Please include Cited References – This section should properly list all references used in the preparation of the report with the Council of Science Editors (CSE) sequential-style citation format. Consider using the
Endnote feature of MS Word for assistance in creating the citations in your report.

Back Pain

Discussion Question/Prompt
Read the following case study and answer the posed questions

Case #1: 49-year-female assembly worker at automotive manufacturer presents to your clinic complaining of increasing back pain over the last week. Back pain is in the central low back region and radiates into both gluteal regions – no leg pain. Has been off work for the last 6 months with no improvement in pain.
Create a list of possible differential diagnoses?
Discuss the evidence you would need to obtain to rule in or rule out each differential?
What additional aspects of the history and physical examination could provide relevant information to help in the diagnosis?
Case #2: A 65-year-old Caucasian female has a follow-up appointment with a family orthopedist after visiting the emergency department for a wrist fracture. The orthopedist then turns her case over to you to schedule a bone mineral density (BMD) testing. Results of the BMD test show a T-score of -3.0, indicating osteoporosis. Her past medical history includes mild hypertension which is currently managed with propranolol. She also takes a daily multivitamin. She drinks and smokes occasionally and she has no children or spouse.
What is the difference between degenerative bone disease and osteoporosis? Explain the pathology of each.
What treatment options should be discussed with the patient?
What lifestyle changes should be recommended to the patient?
Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis, and include peer-reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

Write an essay in which you analyze and discuss the most important lessons that both Grant and Jefferson learn as the novel concludes. You should review specific scenes, marking the text with notes, and highlighting quotes to incorporate in support of your essay.

Several themes emerge in Ernest J. Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying (individual
responsibility, dignity, self-worth, love and redemption, community values, justice, maturity,
personal heroism, understanding, education, manhood, etc.).
Write an essay in which you analyze and discuss the most important lessons that both
Grant and Jefferson learn as the novel concludes. You should review specific scenes,
marking the text with notes, and highlighting quotes to incorporate in support of your
essay.
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Prompt 5 Chelsey Minnis imitation

First, read Chelsey Minnis’s poem “Bad Bad”:
Prompt 5: Chelsey Minnis, “Bad Bad” imitation
Your assignment for Prompt 5 is to write a love poem in the style of Minnis.
Requirements:
 It should be a long poem – at least 10 pages;bbbbbbbbbb
 But the per page word limit is 20-50 max;
 You must use (nearly) every character space on the page – that is, you should use the
page as a screen and each character space ———–like this, I mean———needs to
include some information, so that |||||||||| even an empty space starts to
accumulate significance;
 To supply the language, the terms of your love / hate / bitterness / desire, use a
minimum of 3 non-literary lexicons (a specific set of terms related to a particular field) –
that is, use your densest material, your weightiest textbooks from physics, or packaging
science, or organic chemistry, or Javascript, etc. At least one of these sources needs to
be an instruction manual that came with a product (like the terms and conditions that
came with your earbuds, or the like). In other words, you’re looking for storehouses of
language that you don’t think of as “poetic,” that you wouldn’t normally reach for to
express your feelings.
 As you compose the piece, try to alternate or braid the lexicons together – balance the
terminology, in other words, so the piece doesn’t lean too much in one direction. Use
your poetic license.
So, first gather your source material – stack up the heavy textbooks on your desk within your
reach, then write your long poem, figuring out how to fill the page.

Syntactical Development

For this assignment, you will calculate the Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) for a portion of a language of a 4-yr-old child, and you will identify which stage of language development she is in. Follow the directions below and utilize the rubric to guide your work.

All the form for this assignment is in the module and must be used for all submissions.

Directions:
1. Watch the MLU Overview

2. Watch the video of the MLU Explanation with Examples ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LqxcyltG0c ) and follow along with the Exemplars (Please Download Exemplars and fill in). This will walk you through the process of calculating MLU.
3. Calculate the MLU for the transcript of the 4 yr-old ( Please Download transcript of the 4 yr-old file and fill in) This transcript has 100 utterances, however you only use the first 10 utterances for this assignment.
4. Look at Brown’s Stages of Language Development ( PleaseDownload Brown’s Stages of Language Development) and determine which stage this 4-yr-old is in according to the MLU you calculated.
5. Look at Brown’s Stages of Language Development and identify 2 morphological structures from the transcript that are expected for her age. You can use all 100 utterances for this task.
6. Provide 2-4 sentences describing your experience with this assignment.

Marketing Data Analysis

Strategic
Marketing Plan-READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS
SEE ATTACHED SHEET FOR DETAILS
Part B: Marketing Data Analysis
Internal Data
Evaluate internal sources of information available to
you inside the organization and what information you will receive from each
source. Identify 3-6 sources of internal data. Insert or remove rows as needed.

Secondary Data
Evaluate secondary data sources and the specific
information you need from each source. Insert or remove rows as needed.

Primary Data
Evaluate
primary
data needs to create and evaluate the marketing plan. Insert or remove rows as
needed.

Customer Relationship Management
Establish customer touchpoints and develop
appropriate CRM events for customer acquisition, retention, and profitability. Insert
or remove rows as needed.
Part C: Market Strategy, Marketing Channels, Implementation,
and Monitoring
(Due in Competency 3 Assessment)
New Target Markets
Determine any new markets for your strategy and describe
how you will provide value to each target market.

Marketing Mix for
New Target Markets
Determine adaptions for each new target market.
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Products
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Price
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Distribution
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Traditional Promotion
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Online Promotion
Marketing Implementation
Create the implementation for your marketing plan. Describe
how you will organize and implement the plan, such as whether it will be organized
by market, geography, and who is responsible for marketing decisions.
Marketing Communication Channels
Evaluate the marketing communication channels you
will use to reach selected audiences. Include Internet and traditional
communication channels to convey key messages. Describe the advantages and
disadvantages of each channel you select. Insert or remove rows as needed.

Strategic Actions
Develop specific activities required to implement the
marketing plan. Identify the person or role who will be responsible for each
action, when it will be complete, and what standard or metric indicate that the
activity is complete. Insert or remove rows as needed.

Monitoring
Develop the measurement to identify how you know you
have been successful for each strategic action. Specify the measures to track
performance against goals. Identify standard reports from your online and
traditional marketing efforts. Insert or remove rows as needed.

Learner-Centered Curriculum

A curriculum audit is a thorough investigation of a school district’s policies, organizational structure, financial operation, and use of assessment data. Audits are completed to compare a school district’s performance against others in the following five areas:
Control of resources, programs, and personnel
Establishment of clear and valid objectives for students
Internal consistency and rational equity in program development and implementation
Use of the results from district-designed or adopted assessments to adjust, improve, or terminate ineffective practices of programs
Improve productivity (Curriculum Management Systems Incorporated, 2012)
Review the examples (**ATTACHED**) of curriculum audits included in the Learning Resources. You may also find additional examples on your own district’s website.
For this Assignment, create a curriculum audit checklist that is in line with the learner-centered approach. Consider the following points when creating your curriculum audit checklist:
What are the range and extent of the curriculum, programs, and services?
Are there clear documented expectations for faculty in selecting curriculum content?
Is the environment relevant for learners’ transformation?
How are performance results and successes measured?
Are there plans for effective control of the system? Are the plans thorough in scope and quality?
Are there consistent outlets for on-campus and off-campus support and other resources available to enhance the curriculum?
Are the resources maximized for productivity?
PLEASE REFERECE THE FOLLOWING RESOURCE, ALONG WITH THE ONES ATTACHED IN THE ASSIGNMENT:
Armstrong, S. L., Stahl, N. A., & Kantner, M. J. (2015). Investigating academic literacy expectations: A curriculum audit model. Journal of Developmental Education, 38(2), 2–23.

**The assignment does not have to be in the format of a paper. It can be in the format of a chart/checklist.**