27 Apr Strategic Plan for Tesla
Order Instructions
Course Objective:
• Develop the skills to assess the success of the plan.
• Evaluate strategic initiatives to leverage opportunities and mitigate threats to small businesses.
• Demonstrate how to build a competitive advantage through functional level strategy
Prompt:
Prepare a strategic plan that contains the following sections:
• Executive Summary
• Company Overview (with ticker symbol)
• Company History
• Products and or services
• Operations
• Vision
• Mission Statement
• Corporate Values & Culture
• SWOT Analysis
• Competition
• Management team/Leadership
• Financial Outlook
• Strategies
• Conclusion
Instructions:
• Paper must be written in 7th Edition APA format using headers, headings, in-text references, reference page, 1′ margins (use template provided below)
• Make sure you use adequate, credible and reliable APA source citations to support your work.
• This strategic plan will incorporate what you have learned over the past 7 weeks. Your company selection must be listed on either the NASDAQ or NYSE.
• To confirm your company is on the NYSE and or NASDAQ please use the following links to conduct a search
o Nasdaq Company Search
o NYSE Company Search
• You may review the sample strategic plans shared in the resource section and use them as a guide in developing your strategic plan. Please keep in mind that you must still meet the 20% similarity scan requirements upon submission. Submittals of assignments/papers to previous courses are not accepted.
• Review the examples listed below prior to submittal.
DO NOT SIMPLY COPY AND PASTE MATERIAL FROM THE COMPANY WEBSITE.
Important Notes:
• You must include a minimum of 6-9 sources and 3-4 must be from a peer-reviewed source (library/journal articles)
• Your paper should be in essay format; not bullet format.
• Minimum 12 full pages of content (Word Document) of strategic material (does not include cover page, executive summary nor reference pages); DO NOT GO OVER 14 pages of actual CONTENT (max content).
• All charts, graphs and pictures are to go in appendix (not a substitute for content)
• Once you submit your document to the assignment folder it will automatically be loaded to TURNTIN.COM within the course.
• Strategic Plan requires a similarity scan of 20% or less (the following will be excluded: headers, bibliography, etc. prior to instructor grading paper – focus on content of scan percentage)**
• Due Day 7, Week 7 by 11:59 pm ET.
Please make sure you review the below links on what constitutes a paragraph, when to use a comma and the use of 1st person PRIOR to submitting your week one written assignment:
• APA 7th Edition
