Section 1: Organizational Issue
- Describe the organizational issue that you have identified for your Final Project.
- Explain the scope of the issue.
- Explain how the issue you identified may impact the organization from an internal perspective.
Section 2: Internal Environmental Analysis
- Perform a SWOT analysis on the organization you selected and analyze the results.
- Provide two to four questions you might need to ask key stakeholders in the organization in order to obtain additional information that would help in refining your analysis.
Section 3: External Environmental Analysis
PESTEL Analysis
Porter's Five Force Analysis
Advantages and Disadvantages of PESTEL analysis for Apple
Advantages and Disadvantages of Porter's five forces analysis for Apple
Advantage of Porter's analysis over PESTEL analysis
Questions
First: What are the financial impacts of the operational procedure of Apple at global level? The answer to this question is not clearly explored using the above mentioned two analytical frameworks.
Second: How to determine the demographic impact on the commercial activities of Apple? Since commercial activities are vital for determining the success of company, this information must be explored for designing of robust strategies, which are not being explored using PESTLE and Porter' five force analysis.
Section 4: Resource Allocation
Resource Allocation and its Impact on an Organization
Apple's Resource Allocation Decisions
1. Suppliers and Human Resources
2. Elements going into the Product
3. Financial Resource Allocation
Steps that Apple can take to better Resource Allocation to resolve Issues
1. Invest more in Innovation
2. Invest more in Talented Human Resources
3. Analyze their product line and Invest in Research and Development
Possible Questions to Stakeholders
1. Could Apple source the products globally but assemble its products in the USA by training its human resources and thus develop talented personnel and retain jobs in the country?
2. Is it possible to develop low cost manufacturing units to manufacture products in the USA and gain a competitive edge by marketing their products as "Made in USA"?
3. Could they invest in R&D and attempt to manufacture superior products from raw materials that are available in the USA and thus reduce the cost of components?
4. Could they divert their financial resources by choosing to invest in innovation rather than paying out dividends to shareholders?
5. Given the competitive nature of the market and observing how Apple's key decisions have led to rapid market share and share value depletion, how can Apple continue to run its business to create value for its stakeholders in the next 5 to 10 years?
Section 5: Change Management
Propose an organizational change that could be made to address the organizational issue you identified. Be specific and use citations from the literature to justify your proposal.
Explain which change management model(s) you might use to implement your proposed change, and why.
Identify internal and external stakeholders and explain how you would manage relationships with these stakeholders.
Explain how you could involve stakeholders from the organization in each stage of the change management model's process.
Explain how you might know whether the model you chose was successfully implemented.
Provide two to four questions you might need to ask key stakeholders in order to obtain additional information that would help in refining your proposed change.
Please add an executive summary. Also, check the entire final project word file in the form of the writing Style and Presentation
Attachment:- Executive Summary.rar