Description
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Develop a strategy playbook for a selected organization. You may be familiar with the concept of a playbook as it relates to a sports team, but what might that mean for a business? The Strategy Playbook for Exceptional Results is a roadmap, of sorts, that can help an organization achieve excellence, respond to challenges, and attain short-term and long-term goals. The organization you choose for this exercise could be an organization for which you have worked (or hope to work in the future) and for which there is adequate information available to complete all necessary sections of the playbook. For the Module 1 Assignments, you will begin work on the Strategy Playbook for Exceptional Results that you will build. In this playbook, you will draw upon the knowledge and skills you have gained to provide your selected company’s leadership with an analysis of the organization, as well as your recommendations for changes the company could make over the coming years to improve its organizational performance.
Important Note: This playbook could be a helpful tool for any organization that is experiencing a problem, either internal or external. Please note that your selected organization may not be currently experiencing any known issues; however, you could bring to the table certain common issues. For example, your organization could be experiencing a decline in sales and losing its once abundant target market, or, internally, the organization could be experiencing a high turnover in the operations department, and the recent climate survey showed a decline in morale throughout the organization. These examples are not all-inclusive to an organization, but they may be present in some form. For the purposes of this exercise, you are at liberty to use your creativity to craft an issue the organization is facing. Be sure to consider the different functional areas, or business units, within the organization to ensure that you are doing a thorough analysis.
With those thoughts in mind, your task for the final playbook is to use the knowledge and skills you have developed to perform an analysis of the organization selected, assess its readiness for change and improvement (Section 2), and then develop strategic recommendations for how the organization can overcome its challenges and achieve greater organizational performance (Section 3).
EXERCISE:
Be sure to select an organization other than Walmart, Amazon, or Apple.
1: Organizational Culture
Provides a thorough and detailed classification of the current organizational culture of their selected organization, including how ethics, values, diversity, and social responsibility play a role in the culture, and two or more examples to support their response. (BODY TEXT AUTHORITY)
2: Organizational Culture and Market Position
GIVE a thorough and detailed examination of the benefits of organizational culture to their company’s position in the market. (BODY TEXT AUTHORITY)
3: Conditioning and Culture
Provides a thorough and detailed analysis of how conditioning and culture could challenge their organization’s strategy. (BODY TEXT AUTHORITY)
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