1. Analyze Singing Valley’s strategy and it problem. At the minimum, include the following in your response:

An analysis of the five forces of the Singing Valley Market. Make an justify any necessary assumptions about its market.

A statement of Singing’s Valley’s competitive strategy.

A statement of the problem.

Develop two innovative ideas for solving the Singing Valley Problem. For each idea, provide:

A brief description of the idea.

A process diagram (like figure 1-15) of the idea. Figure 1-15 was produced using Microsoft Visio; if you have access to that product, you’ll save time and have a better result if you also use it.

A description of the information system needed to implement the idea.

2. Explain how each of the four nonroutine skills—

Abstract reasoning, systems thinking, collaboration, and experimentation—can be used by an employee at Singing Valley to develop solutions for Singing Valley’s problem.