Category: Business Plans

Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to research, evaluate, and discuss the skills required by Project Managers to engage today’s project stakeholders.
Background
The definition of “stakeholders” continues to evolve and expand beyond the traditional categories of employees, suppliers, and shareholders. Stakeholder categories now include such groups as lobbyists, environmentalists, financial institutions, media, and those who just believe they are impacted by the project. According to PMI, trends and emerging practices for project stakeholder management include:
Identifying ALL stakeholders, not just a limited set.
Ensuring that all team members are involved in stakeholder engagement activities.
Reviewing the stakeholder community regularly, often in parallel with reviews of individual project risks.
Consulting with stakeholders who are most affected by the work or outcomes of the project through the concept of co-creation.
Capturing the value of effective stakeholder engagement, both positive and negative.
Assignment Prompt
Once you have read this week’s assigned reading, respond to the following assignment prompts:
Using the University’s Academic Library, conduct a search of the literature related to stakeholder engagement and project manager skills used to effectively manage stakeholder engagement.
Identify and discuss at least two skills that are essential for the project manager to manage stakeholder engagement.
In your discussion, explain what these skills are and why they are important to managing stakeholder engagement. How can these skills positively affect project stakeholder engagement? How can the lack of these skills negatively affect project stakeholder engagement?
Provide at least two suggestions to improve upon the two skills you have discussed in this essay.
Assignment Instructions
Follow these instructions to complete and submit your assignment.
Review the grading rubric attached to this assignment to understand how you will be graded on this assignment.
Compose a short essay (800–1000 words; two-to-three pages in length) that provides a critical and thoughtful response to the prompts presented above.
Review the literature that will serve as evidence to support your response to the prompt. The literature reviewed will meet the following criteria:Use UMGC’s library of online academic databases or PMI’s website to locate at least three scholarly/professional journal articles.
Articles must be contemporary (within the last two years).
Follow APA (7th ed.) style and formatting guidelines to prepare your essay. This will include in-text citations and a References page. The essay will be organized in a logical sequence and include at a minimum level 1 headings.
Demonstrate the mastery of technology skills by meeting the following criteria:Prepare your essay in MS Word with one-inch margins on the sides/top/bottom, double line spacing, and 12-point Times New Roman font. Insert page numbers as required in APA.
Upload your completed essay in MS Word to the Assignment folder.
The assignment is due no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday of Week 1.

Company Situation
Provide an introduction that characterizes the essence of the company situation and sets the stage for the analysis that follows.Calculate the past sales growth rate for the company if there is historical data. If the case has data on historical industry sales, calculate the sales growth rate and determine whether the industry is in the introduction, growth, maturity or decline phase of their life cycle.If there is information such as the revenue of the top 3 competitors for the last few years, combine their sales and calculate the change in sales growth to infer where the industry is in their life cycle.Then discuss this analysis in any of the sections where it is appropriate. Based on the conclusions from the preceding section and the case analysis, determine the stage of the industry life cycle (introduction, growth, maturity or decline). Identify the key company-specific issues with which the companies are dealing.
Financial Analysis.Be sure to distinctly address each of the four areas of financial analysis—Adequacy, profitability, liquidity, Asset Quality —identify each in the topical sentence for that paragraph.See pages 231-232 for the formulas and definitions of the ratios.The financial analysis must be thorough and accurate.Look at trends and compare the company’s performance to industry targets, if available.Evaluate the primary financial indicators, provide supporting data and interpret them to show how they affect the company regarding its present and future strategic performance.( How
Put the calculations of the ratios in a table in the APPENDIX.
Close this analysis by writing a paragraph that draws conclusion about the company’s overall financial situation, prospects and the impact of its financial condition on its potential strategic plans.The fundamental question you are trying to answer is, “What is the overall financial status of the company now, and what does its current financial status mean for its future strategic success or ability to grow sales?”
Common Errors
Incorrect computation of the ratio.
Incomplete computations of the ratios (trends, etc.).
Focusing on the definition rather than the strategic impact that the ratio implies.
SWOT Analysis. Discuss each of the four legs of the SWOT fully—strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in this section.Be clear that events are not the same as attributes.SWOT is about attributes, not events.An attribute describes the characteristics of the company.For example, you might say, “The company isn’t profitable.”True, but what is its weakness attribute?What characteristics of the company drives its lack of profitability?A better way to express it is, “The company has not managed costs in its value chain.This is supported by the sustained increase in cost of goods sold accompanied by flat sales reflecting a weakness that must be overcome to improve profitability.”
Summarize the SWOT analysis in a one-page table and place in the APPENDIX.Discuss the table in the body of the paper.
SWOT is the “integrator” of the analysis.SWOT draws from the findings resulting from the Macroenvironment, Industry Analysis, and Financial Analysis.No new information is provided.Use the terminology in the previous sections.For example, “An opportunity identified in the discussion of the competitive analysis . . .”Another example, “The dumping of foreign products into this industry, identified earlier as a driving force, is a significant threat to incumbents.”

Questions:

Critically evaluate is the company used the design thinking process to encourage and speed up its innovation. Support your answer using evidence from the case. (10 marks)
Critically evaluate the viability of the company by using a business model canvas. Use evidence from the case. (10 marks)
Critically analyze the risks you think the company might face in the future. Explain your answer. (10 marks)
Critically analyze if the company is using a push / pull strategy. Use evidence from the case. (10 marks)
Critically evaluate the sources of innovation used by the company to innovate. Use supporting evidence from the case to evaluate how these sources helped the company. (10 marks)
Critically analyze which of the 3 innovation models is the company using. Use supporting evidence from the case. (10 marks)

BUSINESS PLAN
Your Business Plan must be at least 10 pages and consist of the following:
Title page
Minimum of ten pages of content
Reference pageNote: Please, do not copy a business plan from an existing company. The purpose of this business plan is to emphasize essential concepts within BUSW 390.
Check more information in the attached file

please answer thefollowing as team maneger part
Virtual work dynamics (5 marks- 700 words)
• How did you create a virtual office?
o What are the technical challenges that you faced in your work?
o Give some examples of work ethics/ culture in China.
• How did you utilize vacation time and holiday time?
• What are the challenges that your team faced in communication?
o Specify how space, time, and culturaldifferences affected the communication process.
• How did you overcome those challenges? (discuss from different roles’ perspectives).
rubric is attachad my part is the third question

***500 Word discussion post.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESPOND TO YOUR CLASSMATES
How can you, as an the author, improve your writing focusing these factors?
Give examples for each factor. Demonstrate your understanding of how improving these skills help develop your writing.
tone
vocabulary
sentence structure
avoiding assumptions and generalizations
point of view

***Please remember:
PROOFREAD your work. Do not lose points for grammatical, spelling, or sentence structure errors.
Be sure to use in-text citations. Since you will be quoting the from the Power Point as to how you can improve your work, then you will be citing as follows: EXAMPLE FORMAT: (Smith, 2018, p. 200)
Full Power Point example citation is as follows:
Roberts, K. F. (1998). Federal regulations of chemicals in the environment [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from http://siri.uvm.edu/ppt/40hrenv/index.html
Vanessa Cardwell is the author of your Power Point slides. You may use 2022, as the date of retrieval.

please find attached file for instructions
Please do not use CHATGPT
no need for references
the answers should not exceed 1 page

i want a 2 page Email explaining how to develop the company with Brand logo and theme and profile change plus getting classified localy find new leads and intering govermental bids and changing company size to the bigger by adding more deals and changing the company theme and sales stratigy.

Based on the knowledge and skills you will have learned upon completion of the program you arecurrently taking at Seneca College, utilize your research skills and submit a job Ad that you areinterested in AND that you would qualify for. Make sure you meet all of the Canadianrequirements of this job ad NOTE: Additionally, You MUST ensure you meet the educational andexperience areas

A) Please see the question below , it is a discussion (Not more than 500 words ),follow APA Style ,In text citation and references .
B) Requirements:
1/Refer to the rubric attached and I WANT 100 (KINDLY do your best)
2/You should write about an imaginary company and what it does and name it.
3/ To answer Q1, explain the differences organization vision and a change vision.
4/ To answer Q2 you should follow the 5 steps check list (attachment 1 and 2) ( step 1 write about what it does need to do to change and if they are not going to do it what are the consequences ) ,step 2 write about do they feel the need for the change ,how can the be informed about this, are employees on board, step 3 what the employees benefit from the change or do not benfit, step 4 how this change going to make the employees or the company itself may be more productive or less productive and how they will convince the employess Step 5 how are they going to overcome obstacles
5/ To answer question 3 follow attachment 3. The rubric will help you .
C) Questions
Vision Checklist
Discuss the difference between an organization vision and a change vision.
Then with a fictitious Middle Eastern organization in mind, following the 5 step “checklist for change” to briefly explain your fictitious change scenario.
Finally share a change vision to support this fictitious change scenario.
As you participate in the discussion, ensure you provide feedback on the strengths and weaknesses of the change visions shared by your classmates.