Evaluate three types of business strategies and determine which is most appropriate for the business you choose based upon your grand strategy.

Discuss your company or choose an existing company, and imagine you have been brought in to help them restructure. In 8-10-pages, address the following:

Briefly identify the company and provide a short explanation of why the company is seeking to restructure.

Write a grand strategy plan addressing the 15 elements of grand strategy:

Concentrated growth

Market development

Product development

Innovation

Horizontal acquisition

Vertical acquisition

Concentric diversification

Conglomerate diversification

Turnaround

Divestiture

Liquidation

Bankruptcy

Joint ventures

Strategic alliances

Consortia, Keiretsus, and Chaebols.

Evaluate three types of business strategies (low-cost, differentiation, and speed-based) and determine which is most appropriate for the business you choose based upon your grand strategy. Justify your choice. A combination of business strategies is acceptable if you detail the reasoning behind your approach.

Describe how you would implement your business strategy and assess the functional tactics you would implement.

Make sure you include a minimum of one graph that supports the researched data-driven arguments and why it is important.

The length and formatting requirements include:

8-10 pages in length, not including cover and reference pages. Include a cover page, section headers, an introduction, a conclusion, and a reference page.

Formatted according to the CSU Global Writing Center’s APA resources (Links to an external site.).

Cite a minimum of 10 sources, five of which should be academic peer-reviewed scholarly sources to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. The CSU Global Library is a great place to find these resources.

If you need assistance with your writing style or you need writing tips or tutorials, visit the CSU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.).

Throughout this course, be sure to use the Business Management Administration Research Guide in the CSU Global Library (Links to an external site.). Here you can:

Locate a variety of sources dealing with ethics, CSR, and business management.

Gather information specific to different aspects of business ethics.

Access writing and citing help.

Evaluate three types of business strategies and determine which is most appropriate for the business you choose based upon your grand strategy.
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