What is Business Strategy?

Strategic Management MBA695 Journal Discussion Unit 1 Week 1 Readings and Materials Textbooks: Dyer, Godfrey, Jensen & Bryce: Chapter 1: What is Business Strategy? Horwath: Introduction and pp. 1 22 and 84-86. Documents: Porter, M. E. (1996). What is strategy? Harvard Business Review, 74(6), 61-78. (in Business Source Premier) PowerPoint PowerPoint Presentations: Dyer et al Chapter 1 Directions: Journal Discussion (30 points)- Select 2 companies in the same industry (example: Target and Walmart; Ford and Chrysler; Verizon and T-Mobile). Using sources to support your thoughts, describe what you feel are the differences in strategy/focus each company uses, the unique value each tries to communicate to customers, and how successful you feel each company has been at implementing and communicating their strategic advantages. Use the course materials and the journal reading to explain how the concepts of the course can be related to your workplace or personal experience. Do not summarize the reading and/or course concept(s), but perhaps comment on concepts directly applicable to your workplace. The journal discussion should demonstrate in your post that you have thought through a topic or two and can relate them to your experience. Be sure the web sites you use are academically sound. YOU CAN CITE AND USE THE ATTACHED DOCUMENTS AS REFERENCES. Text Books and Materials Title: Strategic management: Concepts and tools for creating real world strategy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons Edition: 2 Authors: Dyer, J., Godfrey, P., Jensen, R., & Bryce, D. Publisher: Wiley, 2017 Title: Elevate: The three disciplines of advanced strategic thinking Edition: 1 Authors: Horwath, R. Publisher: John Wiley and Sons, 2014
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Stakeholder analysis in the Construction Industry (or Project Management)

Stakeholders are people who have an interest in a commercial entity including those within the organization and outside. These include the boss, senior executives, customers, suppliers, government, your co-workers, the team and others. All these people are important in the implementation and success of strategy. Stakeholder analysis is an important aspect to the financial management of a company. What do you understand by the phrase stakeholder analysis? Attempt a stakeholder analysis of an organization that you are closely associated with – the Construction Industry or Project Management Consider the strategic tool of stakeholder analysis to: Identify people or groups and institutions that will influence your initiative Anticipate the kind of influence, positive or negative, these groups will have on your initiative Develop strategies to get the most effective support possible for your initiative and reduce any obstacles to successful implementation of your program. Instructions: You will need to do an in-depth literary search on the topic in order to create a fully-developed response. You will need to include in-text citations and a references list for external references used in supporting your points for this question. You should have no fewer than 7 references for your response to this particular question, 4 of which must be from peer-reviewed sources.
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Discuss Challenges encountered by people with intellectual disabilities

This assessment requires you to write a 3500 word essay on challenges people with intellectual disabilities in adolescence encounter in their everyday life. In order to do so, you are asked to: Identify and discuss one or two challenges people with intellectual disabilities experience in adolescence (if two challenges, then these need to be inter-related), Suggest (through the use of evidence-based practices) how these challenges can be overcome.

Which components of Canada’s real GDP are increasing?

Canadian economy grows at 3 per cent in 2017, fastest pace in 6 years https://globalnews.ca/news/4058301/canada-q4-2017-gdp-growth/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/imf-canada-economy-g7-1.4347737 https://globalnews.ca/news/4087122/nafta-termination-canada-provinces-effect-moodys/ 1. Which components of Canada’s real GDP are increasing? Please explain. 2. Describe what the role of international trade is in the growth of Canadian GDP? 3. What do you think will be the effect of NAFTA termination on Canadian Economy in general? According to the article which Canadian provinces will be most (least) affected if NAFTA is terminated? Why? Use references incite as well as mention at the end