SML7012 Strategic Leadership

SML7012 Strategic Leadership
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Assignment Task 1
Read the following Scenario, and prepare a Report with the guidelines provided.
Scenario: Scenario: 
Your first assignment is to help save a company that is facing considerable loss.  It is losing money and market share.  Unless you come up with an effective strategy for its revival, the company will have to fold. (Company facing serious challenging)

You will write a formal report and you may use graphics and charts in the report that will be sent ahead of the Board meeting to each member of the Board. The report should include full citations for all references (using the Harvard Referencing System format), to support your claims and approach. The body of the report should be clear, concise, and compelling.

Your report should include the following aspects:

1.Executive Summary. (Write it after finishing all report) -250 words

2.Company Introduction -250 words

3.Focus on the relationships between strategy, stakeholder expectations (how the plan will fulfill major stakeholders’ expectations), and organizational performance, choosing a theory of strategic management to explain those relationships and expectations. Justify to the Board why you settled on this approach rather than some other one. -750 words

4.Identify and evaluate the impact of external factors on strategic management in international context, particularly economic, political, and cultural factors. -250 words

5.formulate a new strategy, as below:

5.1Create the analysis of the environments (SWOT) 

5.2formulate a new strategy to face the challenges and meet organizational objectives.

5.3Critically evaluate the strategy and justify why this is the best way forward. -1250 words
 
6.Explain how your business strategy encourages and supports innovation and change and evaluate your strategy against competing strategies based on its contribution to the success of your organization -250 words

7.Develop an implementation plan for the strategy you have developed and document how your plan will fulfill major stakeholder expectations -1000 words

7.1current situation of the organization
7.2 Strategy implementation process as below:
7.2.1 what is our winning aspiration?
7.2.2 Where will we play?
7.2.3 How will we win?
7.2.4 what process need to be in place?
7.2.5 what budget do you need?
7.2.6 what management systems & culture are required?
 
8.Recommendations and Conclusion -500 words
Assignment Task 2:
Scenario:
For the above strategy how would you restructure the organization which enables it to overcome the challenges and improve innovation, collaboration and coordination?

Develop and submit a strategic restructure plan. Include current organization chart and proposed organizational charts and describe the changes in detail.

1.Analyse the current organizational structure and evaluate its effectiveness in meeting organizational objectives. Describe the reasons why a restructure is required to enable the new strategy implementation. Include current organization chart and proposed organizational chart. Describe the proposed structural changes and its benefits in detail. – 1000 words

2.Critically evaluate the restructure plan addressing possible issues and negative consequences and ways to overcome them. – 500 words