M2 Case Group Assignment: "External Analysis" Your instructor formed Case Groups that can be found under the "People" link on the left-hand menu. The Case Group prompts are aimed at helping you compile information for the Case Group Presentation. To capture your individual takeaways from the discussion, do not forget to use the Individual Case Groun. Presentation Worksheet. In this module, your team will respond to the prompt below: 1. "External Analysis" Case Group Post Instructions: - Post your notes on the following prompts: 1. What are the macro-environmental factors impacting your company's industry? How are they likely to affect industry conditions? 2. Who are your key rivals and what are their strengths and weaknesses? 3. Apply the following models to evaluate the key opportunities and threats in the industry? - Porter's five force model - Life cycle - Strategic group analysis - You should have clear understanding of the company's current and future oxfomal environment: the macro onvironment, the industry, including key rivals. The key relevant data in the case that supports your. understanding. - You should gonerate a set of Opportunitios and Threats in the extemal environment. The dota and rationale supporting your assessment. - You should have an understanding of the financial health of the case company based on the ratio analysis. Data on the key ratios and comparison to industry averages. - You should generate a set of Strengths and Weaknesses of the firm. The data and rationale supporting your assessment. - You should have a clear picture of the firm's business model and strategy. How the functional-level actions contribute or do not contribute to this strategy. Rationale to support your assossmont. Prompts: a. Is the firm vertically integrated such that it gains a competitive advantage in its core business? Are there potential gains if it is Case Group currently not vertically integrated? Presentation b. What is the firm's diversification strategy, Rubric: Intemal or what should it be? Does it, or could it contribute to the firm's competitive advantage in its core products? c. Are there potential synergies across businesses? Are they appropriately leveraged? d. What is your assessment of the firm's growth mode (acquisition, JV, internal growth)? e. What and how can corporate-level decisions enhance a firm's competitive advantage? f. Assess the firm's current approach to international growth (or what should it be if it is currently not global) and how it balances the dual needs of standardization and localization. 9. Assess its mode of expansion (JV, wholly owned etc.) Dosired Outcomes: - You should have a good sense of the firm's muit-business strategy if it operates in muitiple industries, if not, start thinking of the value to entering other industries: - You should have an understanding of the firm's global operations, if any; Value to expanding giobally; polential intemational markets and approach to expanding, both intemational strategy, and mode of entry. Rationale for these assessments. Prompts: a. Read: All the previous FOUR Case Group Discussion posts (Mission; Extemal Analysis; (Relates to Internal and Business Strategy; Corporate and Case Group Global Strategy). Presentation b. Use: Individual Case Group Worksheets to Rubric: Integrate, synthesize, and as a group, complete Issues/Problem the chart (shown in Module 5). Definition and c. Share/Post: Upload your chart to the Issue and Fommulation of Recommendations Group Post. Strategic Recommendations) Desired Outcomes: - Discuss views and develop the group's view of the opportunities and threats, and strengths and weaknesses of the case company. - Discuss the SWOT and identify the key strategic issues confronting the firm; - Develop short-term and long-term recommendations for the strategic issues - Develop a list of questions for the instructor, in preparation for the meeting. M2 Case Group Assignment: "External Analysis" Your instructor formed Case Groups that can be found under the "People" link on the left-hand menu. The Case Group prompts are aimed at helping you compile information for the Case Group Presentation. To capture your individual takeaways from the discussion, do not forget to use the Individual Case Groun. Presentation Worksheet. In this module, your team will respond to the prompt below: 1. "External Analysis" Case Group Post Instructions: - Post your notes on the following prompts: 1. What are the macro-environmental factors impacting your company's industry? How are they likely to affect industry conditions? 2. Who are your key rivals and what are their strengths and weaknesses? 3. Apply the following models to evaluate the key opportunities and threats in the industry? - Porter's five force model - Life cycle - Strategic group analysis - You should have clear understanding of the company's current and future oxfomal environment: the macro onvironment, the industry, including key rivals. The key relevant data in the case that supports your. understanding. - You should gonerate a set of Opportunitios and Threats in the extemal environment. The dota and rationale supporting your assessment. - You should have an understanding of the financial health of the case company based on the ratio analysis. Data on the key ratios and comparison to industry averages. - You should generate a set of Strengths and Weaknesses of the firm. The data and rationale supporting your assessment. - You should have a clear picture of the firm's business model and strategy. How the functional-level actions contribute or do not contribute to this strategy. Rationale to support your assossmont. Prompts: a. Is the firm vertically integrated such that it gains a competitive advantage in its core business? Are there potential gains if it is Case Group currently not vertically integrated? Presentation b. What is the firm's diversification strategy, Rubric: Intemal or what should it be? Does it, or could it contribute to the firm's competitive advantage in its core products? c. Are there potential synergies across businesses? Are they appropriately leveraged? d. What is your assessment of the firm's growth mode (acquisition, JV, internal growth)? e. What and how can corporate-level decisions enhance a firm's competitive advantage? f. Assess the firm's current approach to international growth (or what should it be if it is currently not global) and how it balances the dual needs of standardization and localization. 9. Assess its mode of expansion (JV, wholly owned etc.) Dosired Outcomes: - You should have a good sense of the firm's muit-business strategy if it operates in muitiple industries, if not, start thinking of the value to entering other industries: - You should have an understanding of the firm's global operations, if any; Value to expanding giobally; polential intemational markets and approach to expanding, both intemational strategy, and mode of entry. Rationale for these assessments. Prompts: a. Read: All the previous FOUR Case Group Discussion posts (Mission; Extemal Analysis; (Relates to Internal and Business Strategy; Corporate and Case Group Global Strategy). Presentation b. Use: Individual Case Group Worksheets to Rubric: Integrate, synthesize, and as a group, complete Issues/Problem the chart (shown in Module 5). Definition and c. Share/Post: Upload your chart to the Issue and Fommulation of Recommendations Group Post. Strategic Recommendations) Desired Outcomes: - Discuss views and develop the group's view of the opportunities and threats, and strengths and weaknesses of the case company. - Discuss the SWOT and identify the key strategic issues confronting the firm; - Develop short-term and long-term recommendations for the strategic issues - Develop a list of questions for the instructor, in preparation for the meeting