SWOT/competitive Analysis on a popular healthcare facility

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You will be picking and analyzing a current health services organization in terms of its current situation and focus on its customers.

Pick a health services organization that you may work for or with which you are familiar.  It can be a local or national organization.
Research the organization by visiting its website and, if possible, its location.
Research the industry in which your organization operates, e.g. nursing homes, private physician practice.
Using your findings, conduct a SWOT analysis of your organization. Use the SWOT Analysis Worksheet provided under Course Content
Conduct a competitive analysis of your organization.  Use the Competitive Analysis Worksheet provided under Course Content. 

Ethnography

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Prompt

Cultural anthropologists rely on ethnographic research methods, such as participant-observation and semi-structured interviews, to understand human behaviors and cultures. For this essay, you are required to conduct an ethnographic study of a location you are particularly familiar with (a caf, a gym, a store, etc.). Questions that you might want to address include (but are not limited to): who uses this particular location, and for what purpose? How do people interact, and what do they share? How is space occupied (by gender, age, etc.)? What habits do people have, what do they talk about, and how? Based on direct observation and two interviews with people who regularly come to this place, students will describe and analyze peoples behaviors and interactions, and the specific culture of this place more generally.

Sources and Formatting

This essay should rely on direct observation, two interviews with people who regularly use this place, and one peer-reviewed article. For this assignment, your textbook is not considered a peer-reviewed article. The source should be properly cited in ASA style and cited at the end of your essay. You also need to list the questions (at least 8) you used for your interviews at the end of your essay.

This essay must also be at least 1,000 words long.

Business Strategy and Forecasting as Competitive Advantages

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Please have a great command of English with great grammar.

Consider a business with which you are familiar, and which has at least one known, significant competitor. Write a paper that includes the following sections, organized using APA headings (not the Part letter).

Part A: Introduce the paper with the background and information about the business, and the thesis for your paper (1 paragraph).

Part B: Explain, using Teeces (2010) research article as a basis for your assignment:

  1. The business model.
  2. The business strategy by:
    • Segmenting the market.
    • Creating a value proposition for each segment.
    • Describing the apparatus to deliver the value.
    • Creating the preventative methods to avoid being imitated (p. 180).
  3. The businesss competitive advantage, using Teeces definition and explanation as support (35 paragraphs).

Part C: Describe the main advantage your business’s main competitor has against the business.

  1. Analyze, using the Red Queen effect articles, [Derfus, Maggitti, Grimm, and Smith (2008) and Giachetti, Lampel, and La Pira (2017)], your business’s potential problem caused by its competition’s solution to the Red Queen effect.
  2. Include in your analysis one paragraph that synthetically presents each of the Red Queen articles’ main themes, research findings, and implications. Explain how the concepts of Red Queen effect have grown from 2008 to 2017 (at least 2 paragraphs).
  3. In one paragraph, explain your one recommended action as a solution to the problem caused by the competitor’s action. Describe whether or how it could increase competitiveness.

Part D: Conclusion. Summarize the main points of your paper and leave the reader with a thought to go forward with as an implication or recommendation from your ideas and analysis.

Part E: References.

  • Include a list of all references used.
  • Use at least 4 references: the three required readings, and one supporting your information about your selected business.
  • Use APA 6th edition on your paper and submit a paper free from errors and of high academic quality.

Refer to the scoring guide to ensure you have covered all the requirements.

References

Derfus, P. J., Maggitti, P. G., Grimm, C. M., & Smith, K. G. (2008). The red queen effect: Competitive actions and firm performance. Academy of Management Journal, 51(1), 6180.

Giachetti, C., Lampel, J., & Li Pira, S. (2017). Red queen competitive imitation in the U.K. mobile phone industry. Academy of Management Journal, 60(5), 18821914.

Teece, D. J. (2010). Business models, business strategy and innovation. Long Range Planning, 43(23), 172194.

Wk3

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Please search about 15 to 20 potential project in regards to supply chain management. I have attached the slides from this week meeting for reference. The template is attached what that assignment need to be done on.    

By completing this assignment, you will record your activities for the discovery of a potential project topic, and you will narrow the search to two possible project topics of interest.