For this group activity, you and your group will have two weeks to complete a presentation and
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For this group activity, you and your group will have two weeks to complete a presentation and 1-2 page summary paper. First, decide as a group on a well-known firm Volkswagen. The information should be available online and your group members should not have already written/researched them earlier in the course. Brainstorm the key internal and external issues with the firms four different operating divisions. Use this information to help develop your final project next week. You may want to collect this information into an informal SWOT analysis. (A SWOT is not required as part of the paper.) Then evaluate the four divisions using the Boston Consulting Group Matrix found Chapter 8 of the textbook. Based on this tool and the learning from the whole class, select any two specific strategies from the reading and apply and implement to better manage its divisions. Build a presentation using this information with the following eight slides: (1) Title with names of group members, (2) Brief introduction of the case, (3) BCG Matrix, (4) Strategy #1 with justification, (5) Strategy #2 with justification, (6) Implementation Plan, (7) Conclusion, and
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