What are the industry’s driving forces?

I. History of the firm- including references to CEO changes where available (approximately 5 pages)

II. Mission statement analysis (include goals and objectives where available) (approximately 2 pages)
What is the meaning behind the mission statement?

III. Industry and Competitive analysis

A. Dominant economic characteristics of the industry (approximately 3 pages lol please dumb this section down for me I probably wouldnt have done the best in this area but still try to get me an A for the assignment dont need to hit every topic but get close 3 pages isnt much to hit everything)

-stage in life cycle/product innovation
-pace of technological change/process innovation
-importance of economies of scale/experience curves
-institutions that regulate this industry
-changing societal concerns

B. What are the industry’s driving forces? (approximately 2 pages)
C. What are the industrys key success factors? (approximately 2 pages)
D. Five forces analysis of competition. Which forces are the strongest? Weakest? (approximately 2 pages)
E. Which generic strategies are various competitors following? (approximately 2 pages)
Competitive advantage: Cost (lowest cost for customers) or differentiating product (how can we be different) Talk about the variety of product offering and installation services.

Generic strategies:
Look at leaders are they cost or differential leaders, focus leader which is in the middle.

IV. Company Situation Analysis (approximately 5 pages)

A. What are the elements of the corporate strategy? What are the companies stated goals aregenerally 3 to 5 per company.

B. Which generic strategy are they following?
C. How well is the strategy working? (use five signs of a good strategy http://smallbusiness.chron.com/five-signsgood-organization-13875.html)
D. How well does their strategy fit with the current industry conditions? Does it position the firm to deal with the driving forces and key success factors?
E. What are the firms strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats?
F. Does the firm have a distinctive competence? (if not, are there any strengths which could be the basis of a distinctive competence?)

V. Strategic Issues Identification and Recommendations (approximately 3 pages)

A. From the preceding analysis, what strategic issues does the firm face? (These may be threats to the firms survival, opportunities to expand their geographical scope or new product development, management difficulties or technological breakthroughs). List should be extensive; opportunities and threats from the SWOT should be discussed)
B. Recommendations-should follow from the strategic issues you identified, and must include any limitations.

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