Strategic Planning

Reflection
Competency 2 – Develop business strategies to create sustainable competitive advantage for an organization.
This reflection activity is comprised of two sections, collectively totaling a minimum of 500 words. Complete your reflections by responding to all prompts.
This competency focuses on external environment scanning and strategic choice and evaluation.

Factors Influencing Strategic Planning
Consider a company you are familiar with. Discuss what might be in the organization’s external, general, or industry environment that would influence strategic planning for that company.

Business Level Strategy vs. Corporate Level Strategy
​​​​​​​Discuss the differences and relationship between a business-level strategy and a corporate-level strategy. Use examples from your own company (or a company you’re familiar with) to illustrate this differences and relationship.

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Reflection
Competency 3 – Justify an organization’s strategic plan to gain stakeholder support. This reflection activity is comprised of two sections, collectively totaling a minimum of 500 words. Complete your reflections by responding to all prompts.

This competency focuses on the creation of an implementation plan and associated change management.

Examining How Case Management Failed

Think of an example within a company where change was attempted but failed. Using the concepts presented in this module’s readings, discuss what contributed to the failure and what might have been done to prevent it.

Alleviating Stakeholder Concerns

​​​​​​​Think of a change in a company you are familiar with. Who were the stakeholders in this change? Discuss what concerns different stakeholders might have and how communication is needed to address those concerns.

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