Business administrationand environments continuously change. Industry changes include new competitors, changing technology, different services and products, government regulation, naturals disasters, and more.

Organizational managers must be prepared and able to adapt to these changes by modifying strategic plans that allow the organization to achieve strategic goals. Most strategic plans are developed by executive- and senior-level managers with input frommiddle managersand other key employees. This means that when its time to modify these plans, there are several people involved, so everyone needs to be familiar with the organizations plans.

Organization Selection and Research and research the strategies used by the organization. Annual reports and company websites are a good source of this information.

Use your research about your selected organization to answer the following questions:

• What are some business-level and corporate-level strategies the organization is pursuing?
• What industry changes do you think a middle manager in the business operations department would need to consider when modifying these strategies?

Include citations for sources used in your responses and references at the bottom of your post. This information may be useful to you in other parts of this course.