Now it is time to apply lessons learned from this week's case analysis and Discussion about competitive force assessment, this week's readings, and other resources, to help you think about how you might answer the question, how will you win? (How will you create unique value?)
To prepare for this Discussion:
Review all required readings, including the Weekly Briefing, which provides additional guidance on how to complete the Assignment.
Review this week's case study and peer discussion and reflect and make notes on the following: What insights did you gain, and what did you learn from this week's resources your case analysis and peer discussion that you can apply to your Strategy Playbook for your chosen organization? What conceptual and strategic differences are important between the case example and your organization (focus on the concepts analyzed this week)? What assumptions do you need to make in order to use the strategy concepts appropriately?
Identify and review all relevant readings from the MBA Capstone Program Bibliography. Given your chosen organization, what concepts, tools, and readings from the Program Capstone Bibliography are most relevant to helping guide how you might recommend improving the company? How and why are they relevant?
Locate and maintain access to publicly available information about your organization.
Respond to two or more of your peers in one or more of the following ways:
Comment on what you learned from your colleague's analysis that is new to you and that will help you improve your Strategy Playbook.
Offer constructive ideas for how your colleague might extend or improve his or her summary analysis.
Provide your observations about your peers' comments based on your synthesis of several of the original posts, explaining how those posts better inform what your peer wrote.
Note: For the third response option, exemplary responses should provide a synthesis of multiple peers' insights, findings, and analyses.
Recommended Best Practice: Read through many of the posts and responses as you will learn more about your own work by seeing a variety of posts and responses to various peers. Please respond to peers who have not received peer comments when possible.