Written Assignment After reading the case "Wellington Brewery, "

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reflect on the challenges of the organization. Build a value chain of the organization's activities and identify the strongest and weakest link. Then, based on the information in the case, perform a SWOT analysis. Make sure that there are at least three strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats each. Finally, based on your analysis of the value chainand SWOT, explain what is the most important strategic challenge or opportunity facing the firm and how it could be implemented.

Reading Assignment The text for this course, Strategic Management: Evaluation and Execution, provides the foundation for many of the concepts in the course. It will be supplemented with a case study from MIT this week. Kennedy, R. (2020). Strategic management. Virginia Tech Publishing. https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/99282 This book is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA license. Chapter 4 Chapter 5

Introduction In Unit Three, the external environment was the main focus. This week's material is about the internal factors which affect organizational strategy. A strategist must balance all the internal components to achieve maximum results. This is exceptionally challenging given the turbulent external environments we studied last week. Typical internal resources include labor, proprietary technology, processes, access to raw materials, and strong leadership. In the case study this week, you will apply a value chain analysis and then simultaneously evaluate the internal and external environments in a SWOT.