COMPANY SELECTED: JOHNSON & JOHNSON

Explain your recommendation by addressing the following selection:

1. Current market: Describe the current market of the selected organization.
   1. What types of products does this organization manufacture?
   2. Who are its customers?
   3. In which industry does it compete?
2. Financial situation: Analyze the organizations financial situation, including revenue, expenses, and profitability.
3. Recent developments: Visit your selected organizations website and review its news and announcements over the past year. What notable recent events has the organization experienced that might make it more or less attractive to your organization as a buyer? Explain.
4. Buyer rationale: Justify why this potential buyer is the best option for the life sciences organization. Use data from your research to support your rationale.

Acquisition road map: Develop an acquisition road map as a tool for sharing the project with the strategic planning team and the guiding coalition.

Specifically, you must address the following

1. Acquisition-related tasks:
   1. Describe the tasks and steps that have already been taken toward an acquisition since you were appointed to the strategic planning team.
   2. Recommend the tasks and steps that would need to happen over the next one to two years to evaluate and complete an acquisition. For each task and step, provide estimates for how long it will take to accomplish it, the responsible parties, and any dependencies.