Posted: December 8th, 2015

Target corporation strategic planning process.

Business policies and strategies Class:

Each student will submit a paper with a more detailed case analysis of the company analyzed in their final presentation. Final papers should be between 1500 – 2000words.

Target corporation strategic planning process.
* Executive Summary.
– company vision mission.
– company goals.
– company policies/ values.
– corporate and competitive strategies used.

* External Analysis
– Industry Competition- Five forces
– General External Environment, opportunities and threats in the following environments:
* Economic
* Demographic
* sociocultural
* Political- Legal.
* Technological
* Internal analysis – strengths and weaknesses including
– Strategic managers
– corporate structure
– corporate culture
– production – operation
– marketing
– R&D
– Human resource Management
– Information systems.

* Financial analysis
– specific instructions on how the financial analysis.

* Strategic Alternatives
Alternative # 1
– what?
– How?
– Who?
– When?

Alternative # 2
– what?
– How?
– Who?
– When?

Alternative # 3
– what?
– How?
– Who?
– When?
* Recommendation
– recommended alternative
Reasons why this alternative was chosen
Reasons why other alternative were rejected.

* Implementation
– changes in organizational structure.
– changes in organizational culture.
– funding.

* strategic issues # 2
– what is the issue?
– why is this an issue?
Alternative # 1
– what?
– How?
– Who?
– When?

Alternative # 2
– what?
– How?
– Who?
– When?

Alternative # 3
– what?
– How?
– Who?
– When?
* Recommendation
* Implementation

Please use this references
References:

http://ivythesis.typepad.com/term_paper_topics/2009/08/strategic-analysis-target-corp-.html.

http://www.euromonitor.com/target-corp-in-retailing/report

http://supplierregistration.target.com/Supplier/supplier_registration_checklist.aspx

https://prezi.com/9yyb_zt8unqa/copy-of-strategic-analysis-target-corporation/

And you can add other sources but it should be more than 3-4 sources