Checklist: Address all the items below:
- Write an APA formatted minimum 4-page paper, exclusive of the title and teferences pages.
- Choose and describe a company operating solely in the United States of America (USA) that might be ready to expand globally. Explain what type of global expansion is being considered.
- Assume you are the CEO and the ultimate decision-maker of this USA company. You are confident your current domestic value chain is solid, but you are concerned about the impact on your value chain if you expand to another country or country. Identify what will need to be changed or modified in your company’s value chain prior to the expansion by examining all 21 contemporary value chain model elements. When addressing what changes will be needed for each of the 21 elements, describe what decisions may need to be made, by whom, for what reason, and how the elements are interrelated.
21 Value Chain Elements
- Budgeting
- Competitive advantage
- Corporate social responsibility
- Culture
- Customer need
- External resources
- Financial
- Goals
- Idea generation
- Information management
- Infrastructure
- Leadership
- People – human resources
- People – customers
- People – shareholders
- Political (external)
- Political (internal)
- Product development
- Strategy
- Supply chain management
- Technological considerations
Support your response content with at least three separate applied and cited references. Accepted sources are Library article(s). No other Internet references are acceptable.
You must address all of the checklist items in the attached competency docment. Your paper must be original and will be submitted to Turnitin® for originality review.
- Your submission should provide a clearly established and sustained viewpoint and purpose.
- Your writing should be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful.
- Your submission must be written in Standard English and demonstrate exceptional content, organization, style, grammar, and mechanics.
- A separate page at the end of your submission should contain a list of references in APA format.
- Be sure to include references for all sources and to cite them using in-text citations where appropriate. Your sources and content should follow current APA citation style.
- Your submission should:
- Include a title page
- Be double-spaced
- Be typed in Times New Roman, 12-point font
- Be free of spelling or punctuation errors