Business Unit Analysis

Directions: Create a Feasibility Study for Harley-Davidson using the following outline:

Part I: Differentiation Strategies

The analysis of current strategy and competitor analysis you conducted last module impressed the senior vice president. She now needs you to delve into the brands and analyze them by conducting a business unit analysis and presenting your findings in a three-part PowerPoint presentation.

 

Research the Harley-Davidson (H-D) Web site for each brand, and review the annual report for relevant details of the size, scope, target market, services and amenities, and other salient points of differentiation. Include these details in Part I of your PowerPoint presentation.

 

From the research and analysis of the business units, identify:

• A description of each brand or business unit that provides a clear picture of the brand and its place in the overall portfolio of Harley-Davidson.
• The target market of each brand.
• How the brands are alike and how they differ.
• A preliminary analysis of any gaps that exist in the portfolio that might lead to opportunities to add to the brands.
• Your analysis of possible merger/acquisition/joint venture possibilities and what would be achieved or accomplished through the merger/acquisition/joint venture.

Part II: SWOT Analysis

Perform a SWOT analysis for Harley-Davidson and include this information in Part II of your PowerPoint presentation.

• Based on the internal analyses of the SWOT analysis, assess the functional areas, resources, capabilities, and strengths H-D possesses. Please be sure to cover the following functional areas in your assessment:
  • Marketing: New product development, integrated marketing planning, marketing communications, and building customer loyalty.
  • Operations: Quality, service, and consistent execution.
  • Human Resources: Hiring, training, developing talent, and performance planning. Avoided lawsuits and bad PR due to its hiring practices. Is ethical in its HR practices.
  • Executive Leadership: Industry knowledge and experience, vision about where the industry is heading, and strategy execution.
  • Supply Chain Optimization: Strategic sourcing of input, vendor management, integrated IS, and joint forecasting with suppliers.
  • Corporate Responsibility and Ethics: Concern for corporate citizenship and the environment. Present any potential ethical concerns as well.
  • Safety and Quality: How the motorcycle industry is dealing with safety and quality issues.

Part III: Growth and Profitability Strategies

In addition, the executive board is interested in your ideas about bold strategies for the future. The strategies you recommend will have to contribute to growth and profitability, as outlined in the Annual Report.

You will want to pay special attention to exploring vertical integration, strategic alliances, and the internal growth of new brands entering new geographic markets, and/or additional acquisitions.

Consider the following:

• Is Harley-Davidson, Inc., (H-D) competing in the right businesses, given the opportunities and threats present in the external environment? If not, how can H-D realign its diversification strategy to achieve a competitive advantage?

  This may include additional diversification to take advantage of opportunities such as further vertical integration.

• Is the corporation managing its portfolio in a way that creates synergy among its businesses? If so, what additional businesses should it consider adding to its portfolio?

After you have reviewed the growth and profitability strategies, create a list of possible strategies to present a full range of ideas.

 

Part III of your presentation should include your complete list—all potential ideas—for the senior vice president. This is your chance to be creative.

Next, rank your ideas from best to worst. To do this, keep in mind several things such as fit with current strategy, resources and capabilities, and difficulty of execution.

 

For each of your top five ideas, add the following:

• Briefly describe the strategy.
• Why you picked it as one of the top five.

For each of your top five ideas, add the following:

• Briefly describe the strategy.
• Why you picked it as one of the top five.

Think about such things as:

• Does the strategy build on current competencies and foster horizontal relationships among brands? In other words, what can be leveraged or shared? What are the pros and cons of this strategy?

Your PowerPoint Feasibility Study presentation will also include slides pertaining to the following assessments:

• • Part I: Identification of size, scope, target market, services, amenities, and points of differentiation.

 

• • Part II: SWOT analysis that includes marketing, operations, human resources, executive leadership, supply chain optimization, corporate responsibility, ethics, safety, and quality.

 

• Part III: Growth and profitability strategies, including your top five strategic ideas and support.

Submit the PowerPoint Feasibility Study presentation to the senior vice president so that she can review the alternatives and provide you with feedback about your ideas.

 

#1

Describe the types of multimedia or interactivity elements you have enjoyed or used at various websites. Did the multimedia and interactivity elements support the website’s purpose? If so, how? If not, why not?

 

#2

Respond to the following questions:

Using the checklists to guide you, share with your fellow students how you differentiate between proofreading/editing and revising.  Now that you’ve spent weeks working on your writing, what process or processes have you found that work most for you? Which work least? How are you preparing to submit the final draft of your research essay? What do you think are your strengths and weaknesses as a writer? What revision processes would you recommend to your fellow students?  Would you recommend CSU’s Success Center?  Why or why not

 

 

• What general areas should always be inspected for possible fingerprints? Explain.
• What is the documentation process regarding the lifting of fingerprints? Explain in detail.
• What are the 2 general types of surfaces in which investigators must lift fingerprints? Explain.

In Week 10, you considered how ethical, moral, and legal dilemmas can provoke internal conflict when a nurse’s values are not in alignment with the apparent demands of a situation or with others’ values, as well as external conflict that can arise as these dynamics are played out. Of course, conflict can also emerge through seemingly simple issues of little consequence—little consequence, that is, except when they are not properly managed.

Nurse leaders need to be familiar with conflict management styles and the impact these styles can have on interpersonal dynamics, and, ultimately, patient care. For this Discussion, you evaluate a situation marked by conflict and consider how conflict management strategies could be applied to promote positive results.

To prepare:

• Consider a conflict situation you witnessed or were engaged in within your practice setting. Then, proceed as follows:

o   Think about who was involved, how it was resolved (if it was), and how it might have been handled more effectively.

o   Identify the conflict management style(s) employed by various individuals, including ineffective responses or no response to the situation.

o   Evaluate your personal response to this conflict.

• What do your thoughts and actions in this and other conflict situations reveal about your typical approach to conflict?

On the Week 11 Discussion Board, post a response APA format , 2 scholarly references

1. a description of how you handled or avoided a conflict, as well as the results of your approach.
2. Explain how would you respond to this conflict today and/or what steps you would take to improve your comfort level and skill for managing conflict in the future (including specific conflict management strategies you would use).
3. Explain how conflict management relates to your effectiveness as a leader.

 

With the increase of health information technology used to store and access patient information, the likelihood of security breaches has also risen. In fact, according to the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ):

In the United States, there was a whopping 97% increase in the number of health records breached from 2010 to 2011… The number of patient records accessed in each breach has also increased substantially, from 26,968 (in 2010) to 49,394 (in 2011). Since August 2009, when the US government regulated that any breach affecting more than 500 patients be publicly disclosed, a total of 385 breaches, involving more than 19 million records, have been reported to the Department of Health and Human Services.

A large portion of those breaches, 39%, occurred because of a lost, stolen, or otherwise compromised portable electronic device—a problem that will likely only get worse as iPads, smartphones, and other gadgets become more common in hospitals. (CMAJ, 2012, p. E215).

Consider your own experiences. Does your organization use portable electronic devices? What safeguards are in place to ensure the security of data and patient information? For this Discussion you consider ethical and security issues surrounding the protection of digital health information.

To prepare:

• Review the Learning Resources dealing with the security of digital health care information. Reflect on your own organization or one with which you are familiar, and think about how health information stored electronically is protected.
• Consider the nurse’s responsibility to ensure the protection of patient information. What strategies can you use?
• Reflect on ethical issues that are likely to arise with the increased access to newer, smaller, and more powerful technology tools.
• Consider strategies that can be implemented to ensure that the use of HIT contributes to an overall culture of safety.

 

Post  1 page response APA format ( at least 3 references)

1. an analysis of the nurse’s responsibility to protect patient information and the extent that HIT has made it easier or more difficult to protect patient privacy.
2. Comment on any security or ethical issues related to the use of portable devices to store information.
3. Assess the strategies your organization uses to safeguard patient information and how these promote a culture of safety.
4. Describe an area where improvement is needed and one strategy that could address the situation.

 

In order to effectively manage their own health, individuals need to have competencies in two areas—basic literacy and basic health literacy. What is the difference? Basic literacy refers to the ability to read, even simple language. Health literacy is defined as, “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions” (National Coalition for Literacy, 2009). Unfortunately, according to a Department of Education report on health literacy, only 12% of adults aged 16 and older are considered to have a proficient level of health literacy (U.S. Department of Education, 2006). Acquiring health literacy skills has become more complicated with the explosion of online health information, some credible and some misleading.

In this Discussion, you focus on how to help individuals find credible information on the Internet and develop strategies nurses can use to increase the health literacy of their patients.

To prepare:

• Think about the nurse’s role in improving the health literacy of patients.
• Consider the many ways patients access health information, including blogs, social media, patient portals, websites, etc.
• Reflect on experiences you have had with patients who self-diagnose using online medical sources.
• Using the Internet, the Walden Library, or other trustworthy sources, identify a resource that you could introduce to patients to help them evaluate the credibility of health information found online.
• What are some strategies you could employ to improve the health literacy of patients?

Post 1 page APA format (at least 3 references)

1. Your assessment of the nurse’s role in improving the health literacy of patients.
2. Then, identify the resource you would recommend to patients for evaluating online health information and why it would be beneficial.
3. Describe additional strategies for assisting patients in becoming informed consumers of online health information.

How do jails differ from prisons? What is the relationship between jails and prisons, as they relate to community corrections? What would happen if jails and prisons were combined into one large correctional facility? Explain.

Discussion:      How was ancien regime French society structured? Why does Sieyès denounce the first and second estates? What is the ultimate goal of this pamphlet – i.e., what doesSieyès want to achieve? Why is this pamphlet so revolutionary? (perhaps think about the meaning of the term “revolution”).  Discussion of De Gouges, The Declaration, and Robespierre documents:     Compare the ‘moderate’ (1789-92) and ‘radical’ (1792-94) phases of the Revolution.  Who were the main beneficiaries of the moderate phase?  To whom did the “rights of man” belong?  Who was excluded?  Did Robespierre successfully justify the violence and bloodshed of the radical phase?  Did the Terror save or violate the Revolution’s ideals?

Explain the consensus and conflict views of crime. Compare and contrast the two.

Provide an argument for the United States either having a consensus of conflict society.

Discuss several examples to support your position. These can be laws or criminal cases.

Employee Motivation and Organizational Behavior

Research, analyze and interpret how employee motivation affects organizational behavior as well as three strategies an organization can do to increase employee motivation.

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

• Write between 750 – 1,250 words (approximately 3 – 5 pages) using Microsoft Word in APA style, see example below.
• Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
• Include cover page and reference page.
• At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.
• No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.
• Use at least three references from outside the course material, one reference must be from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the three reference requirement.
• Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.

References must come from sources such as, scholarly journals found in EBSCOhost, CNN, online newspapers such as, The Wall Street Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as, Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, blogs, etc. are not acceptable for academic writing.

A detailed explanation of how to cite a source using APA can be found here (link).