Strategic Plan Part 2: SWOT Analysis Paper
Use one of the attached companies
Conduct an internal and external environmental analysis, and a supply chain analysis for your proposed new division and its business model.
Create a SWOT table summarizing your findings. Your environmental analysis should consider, at a minimum, the following factors. For each factor, identify the one primary strength, weakness, opportunity, threat, and trend, and include it in your table.
External forces and trends considerations:
•Legal and regulatory
•Global
•Economic
•Technological
•Innovation
•Social
•Environmental
•Competitive analysis
Internal forces and trends considerations:
•Strategy
•Structures
•Processes and systems
•Resources
•Goals
•Strategic capabilities
•Culture
•Technologies
•Innovations
•Intellectual property
•Leadership
Write a synopsis of no more than 1,050 words in which you analyze relevant forces and trends from the list above. Your analysis must include the following:
•Identify economic, legal, and regulatory forces and trends.
•Critique how well the organization adapts to change.
•Analyze and explain the supply chain of the new division of the existing business. Share your plans to develop and leverage core competencies and resources within the supply chain in an effort to make a positive impact on the business model and the various stakeholders.
Identify issues and/or opportunities:
•Identify the major issues and/or opportunities that the company faces based on your analysis.
•Generate a hypothesis surrounding each issue and research questions to use for conducting analysis.
•Identify the circumstances surrounding each issue; classify the circumstances; attribute the importance of each classification; and test the accuracy of the importance for each classification.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
Companies Companies
United States International
LKQ Corporation Ebara Corporation
Hess Corporation Achmea BV
Quintiles Transnational Corp. The Shizuoka Bank, Ltd.
World Fuel Services Corporation The Toronto-Dominion Bank
Waste Management, Inc. Veolia Environnement
Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. HellaKGaAHueck& Co.
The Southern Company Tingyi (Cayman Islands) Holding Corp.
Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA
BJ Services Company JS Group Corporation
Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. Technip
The Charles Schwab Corporation FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation
American Financial Group, Inc. Sharp Corporation
Brown-Forman Corporation Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd.
Weyerhaeuser Company Reliance Communications Limited
Inergy, L.P. Gas Natural Fenosa
WESCO International, Inc. HCL Technologies Limited
NovelisInc Metso Corporation
AutoNation, Inc. CNP Assurances SA
AK Steel Holding Corporation Tata Consultancy Services Limited
The Pep Boys–Manny, Moe & Jack SvenskaCellulosaAktiebolaget
Exelon Corporation Bank of China Limited
McDonald’s Corporation Shoppers Drug Mart Corp
Holly Corporation Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Coty Inc. West Japan Railway Company
The Pep Boys–Manny, Moe & Jack SvenskaCellulosaAktiebolaget
Emerson Electric Co. National Bank of Canada
Amgen, Inc. FLSmidth& Co A/S
Casey’s General Stores, Inc. UniCredit Group
Experian plc Fiserv, Inc.
Amkor Technology, Inc. Carso Global Telecom S.A.B. de C.V.
McDermott International, Inc. NTN Corporation