competitive analysis

Sections Requirements
Executive Summary Include a clear, specific and brief synopsis of each plan section, and brief financial highlights pages.
Company Organization Describe how your team allocated responsibility for decision-making. Include an organization chart.
Competition How did the results of competitive companies impact your decision-making? Provide specific examples and data. Include a SWOT analysis.
Industry Analysis Discuss the industry your business is a part of. Do some outside research and report on. Research industry averages for profitability in your marketplace. How fast is your industry growing? Apply Porter’s 5 Forces model. (Porter, 2008)
Detailed Results Detail your Final Results. This would include Sales, Financials, Profit, ROS, Stock Price and Star Summary Results. Show the progression from year 1 until the end of the Simulation by year. Use detailed and specific data here. Expressly explain what went well and what did not go so well.
Strategic Recommendations If you were running your company for the next five years, what strategic planning recommendations would you make and why? Strategic planning recommendations made are clearly supported by research and long-term and short-term organizational goals. Actionable market, competitive and financial guidance to the board supported by research, facts, and figures, not generalizations, clearly shows the appropriate use and application of quantitative and qualitative research in the market, competitive, and financial analysis and recommendations.
Team Effectiveness How well did your Team work together? How might you Team have improved their performance?
Team Charter Assessment Review your initial team charter. Look at each and explain what was met and was had changed or was missed including the initial strategy, market segment, Project Management Plan, Conflict Management Plan, Team Rules, Ethical Responsibility and Critical Success Factors.
Conclusion Whether your company made millions of dollars in profit for its shareholders
or had to be saved from bankruptcy by an emergency loan – or both – explain what your team leaned and any insights your team may have had. What would you do differently the next time?
Paper
Organization Use the “Sections” as the Headings to organize the paper.
Include a Title page, Table of Contents and a Reference Page.
Format of the paper Prepare other materials (Gantt charts, diagrams, etc.) to support your conclusions and recommendations.
Paper length: 1,400 word.
Font face: Times New Roman
Font size: 12 points
Line spacing: single spaced
Margins: Left, Right, Top and Bottom must not exceed 1 inch
APA Format The paper must be APA format. If you quote or paraphrase from external sources, you must cite the sources in the body of your documents and add the source to a separate reference page. Use APA citation format for all assignments submitted for DeVry courses. This paper should have at least 6 sources.