Readings: Chapters 5-7 Critical Topic Areas For This Module Include:

• How is a competitive advantage achieved?
• What strategic options are available to accomplish the mission?
• What are the global strategic options that companies can utilize?

Review the Company/Case Analysis requirements. Prepare the following sections for this assignment (note: the purpose of this assignment is to ensure successful progress is being made toward completion of the final Company/Case Analysis and to provide an initial review by the professor of the APA requirements):

• Cover page
• Historical background of the company (3-5 pages)
• Discuss the distinguishing features (Market size, Market growth rate, Industry strength, etc.) of the industry that the company is in.
• All papers must be typed, double spaced, 12-font, plus attachments, saved in a Word Document--loaded into Blackboard
• Review the Sample A-Paper posted in the Additional Resources section of Blackboard. Also review the recommended APA sites.
• Review the rubric posted in Blackboard for the assignments/analysis. Specifically 5-points will be deducted for each statement missing source documentation (note this is plagiarism as well), each misspelled word, and each grammatical error; before the assignment/analysis is graded for content.

The name of the course is BUSINESS POLICY/ STRATEGIC PLANNING.