Strategic analysis of Chipotle (Chipotle Mexican Grill)
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July 26, 2018The post has two assignments
1:Risk Assessment
Order Description
Homework 4
Assignment Instructions
Using a combination of the assigned readings and researched outside sources, respond to each of the following with one or more fully developed paragraphs. Cite all sources.
Type out your responses in a Word document and submit as an attachment. This assignment is automatically submitted to Turnitin with your submission.score 10% or less
1. Discuss some general considerations for sampling and sample preparation and for the special issue of handling sampling ‘nondetects.’
2. Explain why the analysis of cofactors (the physical and chemical characteristics of the media containing the contaminant of interest) is important.
3. Your textbook provides an equation which can be used to normalize exposure data for numerous chemicals, TU = C/EC50. Briefly discuss the equation, and explain why it is useful. If TU is very large, what does this tell you?
4. Explain in what situations the use of biochemical biomarkers may be preferable to body burden in exposure analysis. Find a published journal article which uses either biochemical biomarkers or body burden for exposure analysis. Briefly summarize the article. Based on your readings, does the choice of biochemical biomarkers or body burden seem reasonable in the study? Explain.
5. Explain the importance of establishing confidence limits for environmental risk models.
2:Strategic Analysis
Order Description
Complete a portion of a strategic analysis of Chipotle (Chipotle Mexican Grill)(Ticker CMG).
You have been hired as a consultant at the company you have been researching. This report is an in-depth look at the strategy and corporate management. This paper is designed as a report with recommendations that the executive team will use to enhance the existing strategic management.
Only complete the highlighted components (7-11) The other components have already been completed.
Please answer all questions in each component specifically with a separate heading for each.
Try for two sources per component if possible.
All communication through email. Thank You Please see attached documents
MBA 700: Strategic Analysis Final Project Guidelines and Grading Guide
Overview
The final project for this course requires students to use concepts from each module, answer questions about their chosen company, and complete a strategic analysis of that company in a variety of areas. Milestone drafts of your answers are assigned in several modules leading to the strategic analysis final project submitted in Module Nine.
You have been hired as a consultant at the company you have been researching. This final report is an in-depth look at the strategy and corporate management based on your detailed research completed throughout the semester. This paper is designed as a full report with recommendations that the executive team will use to enhance the existing strategic management. This project is divided into five milestones, submitted in Modules One, Four, Five, Seven, and Nine (final deliverable).
Main Elements
Your report should include, as a minimum, the following 11 components:
1. Strategy and the Strategic Management Process at your Chosen Company
Describe the industry you are investigating. Identify the company you are researching along with the mission, vision, values, and strategic plan. Be sure to answer the following questions:
• Describe the industry in which the company operates.
• What is the company’s stated strategy? Is it a winning strategy?
• How does the company’s mission statement compare to those of its competitors?
• How do the mission, vision, and values support strategic objectives or performance targets of your company?
• What do the mission, vision, and value statements say about the company and its leadership?
2. External Environment and Competitive Position
Complete an industry analysis and a five forces model analysis including an assessment of the company’s closest rival. Be sure to answer the following questions:
• What are the driving forces of change in the industry in which your company competes? How has your company changed its strategy to address driving forces?
• Where does the company stand within the industry based on the five forces model of competition analysis?
• Which of the five forces exert the most pressure on the company? What has the company done to relieve this pressure?
• What are your recommendations to further reducing pressure from these forces?
3. Internal Environment and Competitive Position
Complete a SWOT analysis and a value chain analysis of the company you have chosen. Be sure to answer the following questions:
• How well has the company performed to stated strategic objectives or performance targets? Support your assessment with factual data.
• Compare the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the company to those of its competitors. How do the vision and values affect how the company will respond to each?
• What is the core competency of the company? How does this affect its standing within the industry?
• How has the company used its value chain activities to improve its competitive position?
• What are your recommendations in regard to the company’s competitive position and value chain activities?
4. Competitive Strategy
Summarize the generic strategy employed by the company and how it helps the company achieve sustained competitive advantage.
• Which of the generic competitive strategy options is your company pursuing?
• Explain how your company is pursuing this generic strategy. How does it fit value chain activities specifically to support its generic strategy?
• How does pursuit of this strategy help your company achieve sustained competitive advantage?
• What are your recommendations in regard to the company’s pursuit of a generic strategy or how it uses its value chain in this pursuit?
5. Strengthening Competitive Position
Summarize how the company strengthens its generic strategy through complementary strategic moves. Be sure to answer the following questions:
• Outline what the company has done to fit its strategy to the industry and company situation.
• Has your company responded offensively or defensively, or both, to improve its strategic position? How?
• Has your company pursued complementary strategic options? Explain your answer.
• What are your recommendations for your company to pursue future complementary strategic options to strengthen its competitive position?
6. The Global Marketplace
Summarize company operations in foreign markets and competitive advantage possibilities. Be sure to answer the following questions:
• Describe which method(s) has been used to enter foreign markets.
• How has the company gained competitive advantage through competing internationally?
• What are additional actions that the company could take to gain a competitive advantage in foreign markets?
7. Corporate Strategy: Business Diversification
Summarize the company’s methods to diversify into related or unrelated businesses. Be sure to answer the following questions:
• Which diversification strategy is used—diversification into related or unrelated businesses, a mix of both or none, and/or divestiture and retrenchment?
• How has this helped or hurt the company?
• Offer a future proposal for business diversification and describe how it will help the company’s strategic position.
8. Ethics, Social Responsibility, and Environmental Sustainability
Summarize the corporate ethics statement, statement about social responsibility, and sustainability statement. If none exist, report what you believe are these unwritten statements or code of conduct based on what the company says about itself. Be sure to answer the following questions:
• Does company practice conform to its ethics statement or code of conduct? Where does practice diverge from the statement?
• Does the company have a comprehensive, proactive social responsibility statement? Does company practice support this statement?
• Does the company follow environmentally sustainable business practices? Does this help or hurt the company? How?
• Offer suggestions for improvement in the above areas.
9. Strategy Execution: Building the Capability to Execute Strategy
Summarize the company’s strategic plan based on its internal resources, capabilities, and structure. Be sure to answer the following questions:
• How do the company’s hiring and training practices support its strategy?
• How is the company structured?
• Would a different structure work to better implement the strategic plan? Why? If not, why does the current structure work?
• Offer any additional changes that may help the company to deliver its strategic objectives.
10. Strategy Execution: Managing Internal Operations
Summarize an employee’s experience within the company and its leadership. Be sure to answer the following questions:
• What best practices can you derive from the company?
• How has the company used information systems to better execute its strategy?
• How does management motivate their teams?
• Review the compensation packages of the executive team of the company.
o What are the monetary and non-monetary elements of the top three executives?
o Rate the company within the industry based upon its compensation packages.
• What future changes in these areas do you see for the company? Offer any suggestions for change in the above areas.
11. Strategy Execution: Leadership
Summarize your recommendations to the CEO and board of directors on how to improve strategy for your chosen company. Be sure to answer the following questions:
• What will this company be doing differently in three to five years to become more competitive based on your recommendations in previous components? (“no change” is not an option)
• What do you recommend the company’s leadership focus on to achieve this strategic position?
Write the paper in your own words. Include your own critical analysis and remarks in the paper. If you copy and paste any quotes from the search results, make sure to put those in quotation marks and provide a citation and reference for the source.
Following are general format guidelines:
• Cover Page
• Abstract (Executive Summary)
• Table of Contents
• Components (11)
• References
• Appendices
Final Product Rubric
Requirements of submission: Written components of project must follow these formatting guidelines when applicable: double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and discipline-appropriate citations. The main body of the term paper (excluding cover page, executive summary, table of contents, appendices, and references) should be between 14 and 16 pages.
Instructor feedback: Students can find their feedback in the grade book as an attachment.
Critical Elements Exemplary Proficient Needs Improvement Not Evident Value
Main Elements Includes all of the components and requirements and cites multiple examples to illustrate each element
(23-25) Includes most of the main elements and requirements and cites many examples to illustrate each element
(20-22) Includes some of the main elements and requirements
(18-19) Does not include any of the main elements and requirements
(0-17) 25
Inquiry and Analysis
Provides in-depth analysis that demonstrates complete understanding of multiple concepts
(18-20) Provides in-depth analysis that demonstrates complete understanding of some concepts
(16-17) Provides in-depth analysis that demonstrates complete understanding of minimal concepts
(14-15) Does not provide in-depth analysis
(0-13) 20
Milestone Submission and Incorporation of Feedback
Meets each milestone’s requirements and addresses all instructor feedback through incorporation or clarifying questions/dialogue with instructor
(9-10) Meets each milestone’s requirements and incorporates some of the instructor’s feedback throughout the progression of the project
(8) Student completes and submits all milestones by the due date
(7) Student submits incomplete milestones or does not submit by the due date
(0-6) 10
Critical Thinking Draws insightful conclusions that are thoroughly defended with evidence and examples
(18-20) Draws informed conclusions that are justified with evidence
(16-17) Draws logical conclusions, but does not defend with evidence
(14-15) Does not draw logical conclusions
(0-13) 20
Research Incorporates many scholarly resources effectively that reflect depth and breadth of research
(14-15) Incorporates some scholarly resources effectively that reflect depth and breadth of research
(12-13) Incorporates very few scholarly resources that reflect depth and breadth of research
(11) Does not incorporate scholarly resources that reflect depth and breadth of research
(0-10) 15
Writing
(Mechanics/ Citations) No errors related to organization, grammar and style, and citations
(9-10) Minor errors related to organization, grammar and style, and citations
(8) Some errors related to organization, grammar and style, and citations
(7) Major errors related to organization, grammar and style, and citations
(0-6) 10
Earned Total
Comments: 100
Tesla strategic Selection
Post is of two assignments
Individual Case
Part I: STRATEGIC ANALYSIS (use databases (e.g. Business Source Complete, Mergent Online)):
Length: 4 pages
Q1 What factors in the general environment, and in the industry in which Tesla competes are affecting Tesla’s strategy selection?
Q2 What tangible, intangible, and organizational capabilities does Tesla possess? Which of these may be providing Tesla: (a) a competitive advantage? (b) a sustainable competitive advantage? (This in part supports Q3)
Q3 What core competencies does Tesla possess?
Q4 Which business level strategy(ies) does Tesla pursue?
Q5 What is Tesla’s overall corporate level strategy?
Part II: QUANTITATIVE: (use databases (e.g. Mergent Online))
Length: 2 pages and all figures and charts in Appendices
Q6 Do a search for Tesla’s (TSLA) current financial performance. Plot percent change in stock price for the last two years, 5 years, and ‘lifetime’ compared to the S&P 500 and automotive industry competitors Ford (F.N), Toyota (TM.N), Honda Motor Company (HMC.N), and General Motors (GM.N). Report the results. What do you see? Include the 5 year plot in an appendix (with proper reference(s)).
Q7 Calculate, interpret, and compare the following financial ratios for Tesla and General Motors, based on end of fiscal year 2016 data: Current Ratio, Total Debt Ratio, Inventory turnover, ROA, ROE. Use the formulas provided in your textbook and use standardized company financial data from Mergent On-line. Include your formulas and calculations in an appendix.
Q8 Develop a common sized income statement and balance sheet for each of Tesla and General Motors for the last 3 fiscal years. Do you see any trends? Compare. Include the common sized statement and balance sheet in an appendix.
PART III: STRATEGIC RECOMMENDATIONS
Format: 4 pages
Hypothetical situation: You are part of Tesla’s top management team (TMT). The TMT has agreed, in consultation with the Board of Directors, that Tesla has an important role to play in helping realize a global vision where every man, woman, and child in the World is empowered by their products to lead a healthy and productive life. You and Elon Musk’s other top advisors have been asked to develop strategic alternatives for expanding Tesla’s involvement in this quest and have been asked to submit a brief for review. In this brief you will:
Q9 Recommend a mission statement for Tesla that would be in-line with this vision.
Q10 Propose three strategic alternatives that are in-line with this mission statement that are based in the business level, corporate level, or international level strategies covered in this course (and the forms these may take).
Q11 Analyze each of these alternatives. (What are the strengths and weaknesses of each alternative?)
Q12 Recommend one of the alternatives. (Why are you recommending this alternative?)
PART IV: APPENDICES
• 5 Year chart showing % change in stock price for Tesla, Ford, Toyota, Honda, & General Motors
• Financial ratios for Tesla & General Motors (show formula used and detailed calculations); do not download/copy ratios from websites. Calculate the ratios yourself.
• Common sized income statements for Tesla & General Motors (as % total revenues)
• Common sized balance sheets (as % total assets)
PART V: REFERENCES (APA)
Grading rubric for Individual Project
• Completeness (25%) – Did the student answer all of the questions distinctly and clearly? Did the student support his/her answers? Were references included as appropriate?
• AOL Written communication rubric (25%). Posted on Blackboard.
• Quality (50%) – Does the student show understanding of the concepts and an ability to apply the concepts? Did the student show an ability to synthesize or integrate the material? Did the student think ‘out of the box’ in responding to the questions (where appropriate)?
2:Rights and law
Paper details:
3.5
Check this video. It makes some important and controversial points. Make sense of the key arguments and then read around the criticisms.
3.6
The concept of ‘best interests’ is often invoked to morally justify making decisions for those who are temporarily or permanently unable to exercise autonomy.
Legally, the concept of best interest will ordinarily apply in emergency, life-threatening situations where a patient is unable to give consent to treatment.
‘Best interests’ is one of the basic principles of the Mental Capacity Act (2005), which states that: “An act done, or decision made, under this Act for or on behalf of a person who lacks capacity must be done, or made, in his best interests” (Section 1 (5)). Check some of the documents here (SCIE 2017) and then consider the following case:
Airedale NHS Trust v Bland (1993) AC 789 HL applied the concept of ‘best interests’ in support of the withdrawal of treatment from a man in a persistent vegetative state. Tony Bland was a victim of the 1989 Hillsborough Football Stadium disaster, and medical evidence was unanimous that there was no prospect whatsoever of him ever making any recovery from his persistent vegetative state.
With the agreement of his parents, the NHS Trust applied to the High Court for declarations that life-sustaining treatment (including feeding and hydration) could lawfully be discontinued and that any further medical treatment would be for the sole purpose of enabling Mr Bland to die peacefully and with dignity. The High Court agreed but the Official Solicitor, acting on behalf of Tony Bland, appealed against the decision, arguing that withholding feeding was equivalent to starving the patient to death (and thus amounted to murder or manslaughter).
The case was eventually decided by the House of Lords, who accepted the majority view of the medical profession that artificial feeding and hydration could be regarded as a form of medical treatment. Treatment could be withdrawn, they stated, when its continuance was no longer in the best interests of the patient. Therefore, Tony Bland’s treatment (including feeding and hydration) could be lawfully discontinued in order to allow him to die.
In this case, the question was not whether it was in Mr Bland’s best interests to die, but whether it was in his best interests to have his life prolonged by the continued provision of medical treatment.
However, it is arguable whether Tony Bland actually had ‘best interests’, as he was insensate. A counter-argument is that one does not necessarily have to be aware of interests for them to be morally relevant, and therefore respect for an insensate individual should (and does) persist both prior to and following death. Was the use of ‘best interests’ in the case of Tony Bland appropriate?
Create an argument either FOR or AGAINST the decision on the How well made are they? What should we add or consider too? What has been missed?
http://www.scie.org.uk/almost-there