{"id":1460,"date":"2023-02-16T05:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T05:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/discussion-number-2\/"},"modified":"2023-02-16T05:36:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T05:36:00","slug":"discussion-number-2","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/discussion-number-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion number 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The global business environment is constantly evolving based on the forces in the general and task environment. In order to sustain the company and maintain a competitive foothold, organization leaders must consistently analyze the global environment and adjust their strategy as needed. Managers play an important role in implementing strategies to achieve a company\u2019s mission and goals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Research a company with stockholder (annual) reports available. These reports can usually be found on a company\u2019s website. Use the report to answer the following questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is (are) the main industry(ies) in which the company competes?<\/li>\n<li>What business-level strategy does the company seem to be pursuing in this industry? Why?<\/li>\n<li>What corporate-level strategies is the company pursuing? Why?<\/li>\n<li>Have there been any major changes in its strategy recently? Why?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Share how your understanding of the above questions can apply to a SWOT analysis.&nbsp;(For example, if you recognize that a major change in strategy revolves around expanding into foreign markets, that relates to the opportunities component of a SWOT analysis.)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Your total response should be a minimum of 175 words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global business environment is constantly evolving based on the forces in the general and task environment. In order to sustain the company and maintain a competitive foothold, organization leaders must consistently analyze the global environment and adjust their strategy as needed. Managers play an important role in implementing strategies to achieve a company\u2019s mission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[239],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/1460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/1460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}