My assigned company is IBM: I have attached my previous papers for references and this weeks guides and templates. Can anyone please help me with this assignment within the next day or so?

This is part 3 of your strategic plan project. Continue writing about the same company and new division proposal as in the previous 2 parts of the strategic plan (from weeks 2 and 3). See below

Writea 1,050- to 1,400-word strategic objectives summary.Include your balanced scorecard and its impact on all stakeholders, and the communication plan.

Identifykey trends, assumptions, and risks in the context of your final business model.

Developthe strategic objectives for your new division of the existing business in a balanced scorecard format in the context of key trends, assumptions, and risks. The strategic objectives are measures of attaining your vision and mission. As you develop them, consider the vision, mission, and values for your business and the outcomes of your SWOT analysis and supply chain analysis.

Considerthe following fourquadrants of the balanced scorecardwhen developing your strategic objectives:

• Shareholder Value or Financial Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
  • Market share
  • Revenues and costs
  • Profitability
  • Competitive position
• Customer Value Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
  • Customer retention or turnover
  • Customer satisfaction
  • Customer value
• Process or Internal Operations Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
  • Measure of process performance
  • Productivity or productivity improvement
  • Operations metrics
  • Impact of change on the organization
• Learning and Growth (Employee)Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
  • Employee satisfaction
  • Employee turnover or retention
  • Level of organizational capability
  • Nature of organizational culture or climate
  • Technological innovation

Evaluate potential alternatives to the issues and/or opportunities identified in the SWOT Analysis paper and table you completed in Week 3.

Createat least three strategic objectives for each of the four balanced scorecard areas. Baseyour solutions on a ranking of alternative solutions that includes the following:

• Identify potential risks and mitigation plans
• Analyze a stakeholder and include mitigation and contingency strategies.
• Incorporate ethical implications

Develop ametric and target for eachstrategic objective using a balanced scorecard format. Template provided in Materials section.

• Example: a strategic objective in the shareholder or financial perspective is to increase market share. A metric to actually measure this strategic objective ofmarket share increase is, "The percentage of increase in market share."The target is the specific number to be achieved in a particular time period. The target for the metric of "Increase market share" could be "Increase market share by 2% for each of the next 3 years" of an increase of 2% per year for 3 years.)

Outlinea brief communication plan discussing how you will communicate the company's strategic objectives that includes the following:

• Define the purpose.
• Define the audience.
• Identify the channel(s) of communication and why you selected that channel.

Include 1-2 references in your paper to support your claims or provide company information.Students are expected to conduct secondary research using specific databases within the University Library, such as IBIS World and Mergent Online, and so forth.

Financial Objectives Customers Objectives Internal Business Process Learning and Growth Measures Targets Business Model and Strategic Planning Outline BUS/475 Version 6 1 University of Phoenix Material Strategic Planning Outline I. Title Page II. Table of Contents III. Executive Summary IV. Strategic Plan Part 1: Existing Business or New Business Division; Vision, Mission, and Value Proposition V. Strategic Plan Part 2: SWOTT Analysis - Internal and External Environmental Analysis; Supply and Value Chain Analysis VI. Strategic Plan Part 3: Assumptions, Risk and Change Management Plan; Summary of Strategic Objectives; Balanced Score Card and its impact on stakeholders; the Communication Plan VII. Strategic Plan Part 4: Implementation Strategies and Tactics VIII. Conclusion IX. Reference Page Strategic Plan Part 2 SWOT Analysis Paper Shirley Torres BUS/475 Tosh Stuart Impacting factor INTERNAL Strengths weakness opportunities threats ENVIRONMENT Strategy It has a clear strategy involving; its cloud, data analytics, building mobile security in Structures businesses Strategic Process and systems acquisition Leading provider of It services resources Stagnant growth resulting from weak client spending, sluggish demand in the software sector. Goals Strategic capabilities Expansion Strategic in strategic initiatives imperatives are growing into at a healthy interesting rate, but its new areas core New business partnerships are not with Microsoft and Apple will strengthen the business with codeveloped cloud based middleware and apps Culture Focus on growing the profitability levels has led to reduction of the total employee benefits as compared to its competitor. This has led to a poor attitude among the employees as they feel that the company is not looking into their needs. The overall effect is inefficient performanc e due to low motivation levels. Technologies Open power program provide base technologie s to overseas firms hence new overseas Innovations Intellectual property partnership Expansion The company is well known for its intellectual property managemen t all over the world. Therefore, businesses often seek its services to ensure the protection of their intellectual property and continuing enforcing them via consultation and market Leadership study. Brand reputation EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT Legal and regulatory Different legal systems in countries of operations. The company needs to meet the legal restrictions to be allowed to operate in a country. This uses up a lot of money as it tries to fulfill the restrictions and to hire employees whose focus is solely on ensuring compliance with set standards in countries. Global Discovery of new markets in the international markets. Economic Economic slowdown in the US and Europe. Stronger dollar that is adversely affecting the amount of overseas revenue. High rates of Technological technological development. The company needs to invest a lot of funds in research and development to ensure that it keeps up to date with the technological changes. Innovation New products and services will increase revenue Innovatio n encourage s long term planning Expand services and software Social divisions Growing information on demand tools market Environmental/ecologic IBM's al dependence on large business is also a double edged sword. Intense competition means that business have to come up with alternatives for raising revenue .This means that for a business to survive, it needs to design products for the smaller Competitive analysis Increasing firms. Expensive demand of cloud service based software. and IBM's has an software opportunity to enter and conquer solutions Intense competitio new markets by n in the fulfilling these cloud needs. computing market Stiff competitio n in predictive analytics Identify economic, legal, and regulatory forces and trends. The economic trends in the world are changing with slow growth rate in the Western counties and higher growth rates in the developing economies such as China and India. International companies are now moving to invest in the developing countries to benefit from new markets and cheaper labor. The evidence can be seen with China growing at an average rate of 7.5% and U.S.A averagely at 3%. Demographics change is another economic trend in the world. The aged population is growing at a rate of 200% and above annually while the young generation grows very slowly especially in the developed markets. The change means that companies need to come up with a diversified line of products to take care of the aging population while at the same time trying to recruit young workers into their companies. Also, information technology development in the world is making it easier for people to acquire goods and services at any time anywhere in the world. To compete effectively, all the businesses need to adapt to selling products both through the internet and physical stores to serve all the customers. There has been tightening of legal and regulations in many countries. The governments are introducing legal systems to protect the local companies from adverse competition that comes with international companies. The rules also protect the rights of workers by ensuring that they earn a decent wage. They also advocate for other benefits such as health care and work injuries insurance. An example of a regulatory framework is where the government strives to ensure that no company monopolizes the economy as that would lead to unfair competition. Population is Critique how well the organization adapts to change. IBM has been able to adapt to changes in the past though in a very slow manner. For example, it took the company several years to change from being a production based company to service delivery in the market. The inability of the management to make the right decisions to change with the trends in the market, led to the 1990 crisis in the company. In the year 1993, the company registered the hugest loss in its history. It was however able to recover through the introduction of a new CEO to head the management. The fact that the company did not detect the major problem till it was too late shows that it is not quick to change. Currently, the sales of the company are declining and the company is facing major competition from Google and other companies. For example, it was unable to win back an important government contract as its products had lower quality as compared to Amazon. IBM is yet to make any changes to recover from the falling profits. It will be interesting to watch how IBM plans to keep up with the changes in the environment in the near future. Analyze and explain the supply chain of the new division of the existing business. Share your plans to develop production-based leverage core competencies and resources within the supply chain in an effort to make a positive impact on the business model and the various stakeholders. IBM has been able to adapt an integrated supply chain for all of its businesses. The supply chain involves all the aspects of the company right from procurement of inventory, manufacturing of products, a logistics department and customer relations and fulfillment. It is within the same supply chain that inventory management is conducted to ensure efficiency in the company. To make a positive impact in the company, the company should carry out training of all stakeholders. Train the suppliers to ensure they understand the need to provide quality products, talk to employees so that they can better serve the customers and take an interest in employee needs to discover what products are needed in the market. Following the above steps will create higher value in the organization and lead to higher revenues. Identify issues and/or opportunities: 1. The greatest opportunity available for the company is entry into new markets. Globalization has made communication easier and it is possible to buy products from anywhere in the world. Therefore, through advertising, the company can serve customers from anywhere. Hypothesis: New markets do not represent an opportunity for IBM. Question: What types of products will IBM provide to new markets? 2. Intense competition is a major threat to IBM. There are numerous companies producing the same products and supplying them to the same market. IBM has to come up with specific activities to make them more competitive. Hypothesis: There is no intense competition for IBM. Question: How many companies are in the tech business? References IBM Strategy and Transformation for Cloud Adoption - United States. (2016). Www935.ibm.com. Retrieved 17 April 2016, from http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/en/businessservices/ibm-strategy-and-change-services-for-cloud-adoption.html Our digital future - the future is now. (2012). Management consulting - Australia. Retrieved 17 April 2016, from http://insights-on-business.com/gbs-australia/our-digital-future-the-future-isnow/ Five forces reshaping the global economy: McKinsey Global Survey results. (2010). McKinsey & Company. Retrieved 17 April 2016, from http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategyand-corporate-finance/our-insights/five-forces-reshaping-the-global-economy-mckinsey-globalsurvey-results Running Head: IBM 1 Strategic Plan Part IBM Shirley Torres BUS/475 Tosh Stuart IBM 2 IBM, expanded as worldwide industry Machines is individual of the most well-known American related MNC. IBM was headquartered at American. IBM is stated as the earth's fourth biggest technology corporation. This is individual of the small companies which time back it's beginning to the nineteenth century. The company creates as well as sells computer hardware along with software as well as gives infrastructure, along with consulting services. In the current past, the company had its most important challenges even throughout the gloominess times as well as has productively undertaken individual of the excellent turning points in the industry front. Currently, it IBM stands as the second biggest employing organization with an estimate of around 4, 00, 000 workers around the world. [ CITATION IBM14 \\l 16393 ] 1. Since the international world is becoming obsessed through \"eco-friendliness\