Corporate diversification strategies raise a wide range of strategic management issues. For this week’s critical thinking assignment, read the case study found in your textbook: Case 16: Manchester City: Building a Multinational Soccer Enterprise, p.554 (in the textbook) (attached).

Remember, a case study is a puzzle to be solved, so before reading and answering the specific case and study questions, develop your proposed solution by following these five steps:

1. Read the case study to identify the key issues and underlying issues. These issues are the principles and concepts of the course module, which apply to the situation described in the case study.
2. Record the facts from the case study which are relevant to the principles and concepts of the module. The case may have extraneous information not relevant to the current module. Your ability to differentiate between relevant and irrelevant information is an important aspect of case analysis, as it will inform the focus of your answers.
3. Describe in some detail the actions that would address or correct the situation.
4. Consider how you would support your solution with examples from experience or current real-life examples or cases from textbooks.
5. Complete this initial analysis and then read the discussion questions. Typically, you will already have the answers to the questions but with a broader consideration. At this point, you can add the details and/or analytical tools required to solve the case.

Case Study Questions:

1. Under what circumstances can a company extend its competitive advantage from its home market to an overseas market? Issues concerning the transferability and replicability of the firm’s competitive advantage are critical here.
2. What are the distinctive features of City Football’s strategy? What mode of foreign market entry should City Football adopt? Why? Again, issues of resources and capabilities and the need for local market knowledge, distribution, and political and business connections become critical here.
3. What criteria can companies apply in deciding what new diversification to pursue and which should City Football apply in deciding?
4. What changes in the financial structure, organizational structure and management systems would you recommend?

Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be 6-7 pages in length, which does not include the title page or required reference page, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements.
• Use Saudi Electronic University academic writing standards and APA style guidelines.
• Support your submission with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook and at least two scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles unless the assignment calls for more.
• It is strongly encouraged that you submit all assignments into the Turnitin Originality Check before submitting it to your instructor for grading. If you are unsure how to submit an assignment into the Originality Check tool, review the Turnitin Originality Check—Student Guide for step-by-step instructions.

References MUST be 3 to 5 years old. Older references are not accepted. Use the attached Textbook as one of the refernces

You MUST provide 3 to 4 references, only.

Total pages number is 9 pages including title and references pages.

Instructions: This assignment must be submitted as a Single Sheet Excel document! The Excel file for this assignment contains a database with information about the tax assessment value assigned to medical office buildings in a city. The following is a list of the variables in the database: 

FloorArea: square feet of floor space

1. Offices: number of offices in the building

Entrances: number of customer entrances

Age: age of the building (years)

AssessedValue: tax assessment value (thousands of dollars)

Use the data to construct a model that predicts the tax assessment value assigned to medical office buildings with specific characteristics.

Construct a scatter plot in Excel with FloorArea as the independent variable and AssessmentValue as the dependent variable. Insert the bivariate linear regression equation and r^2 in your graph. Do you observe a linear relationship between the 2 variables?

Use Excel’s Analysis ToolPak to conduct a regression analysis of FloorArea and AssessmentValue. Is FloorArea a significant predictor of AssessmentValue?

Construct a scatter plot in Excel with Age as the independent variable and AssessmentValue as the dependent variable. Insert the bivariate linear regression equation and r^2 in your graph. Do you observe a linear relationship between the 2 variables?

Use Excel’s Analysis ToolPak to conduct a regression analysis of Age and Assessment Value. Is Age a significant predictor of AssessmentValue?

Note: To write the verbiages of your assignment, please use a single text box on the excel page and type your responses. Please see the example I attached below. If you have any questions, please ask not in a private message but in the course question section because my response to your question may help other students also.
Submit your assignment by following the guidance below. 

Save it in your local drive with your first name-last name-week-5 assignment. Please do not type any extensions (such as XLSX or XLS, etc.). The system will automatically add the extension. (10 points)

Please make sure that you answered all 4 questions in this worksheet. (each question is worth 10 points total of 40 points)

Please follow the example I provided for the week 5 assignment and submit it as a single Excel page with the exact structure shown in the examples. (10 deductions for failure to the structure)

Upload the document.

Once uploaded, please open the document from your submission to make sure that this is the document you wanted to submit. Because once I grade the assignment, you cannot resubmit the assignment for a higher grade.

Point distribution for this assignment: each of the questions has 8 points a total of 4*10 = 40 points, and failure to comply, with the format, has a deduction of (10 points). If you do not want to lose unnecessarily any points, please carefully follow the above instructions. The purpose of this assignment is for you to show and as a manager, you can use Excel proficiently to do data analysis. For that reason, if this assignment is submitted in any format other than Excel; it will automatically earn 0.

Overview

You are an HR consultant, hired to resolve issues stemming from communication and coordination challenges between employees of the U.S. branch and the Singaporean headquarters of a software solutions provider. You decide to recommend organization-wide changes to resolve the issues related to communication and coordination. You evaluate the organizational change readiness and send a report on change management models, justifying your selection of a particular model.

Your efforts are appreciated and well received by the VP and the leadership team of the software solutions organization. However, they now want to understand how the training development needs of the workforce can be strategically aligned with the organization’s business needs.

You decide to prepare a presentation, detailing the training requirements for the employees and leadership of the U.S. branch, as well as leadership at the Singaporean headquarters. The strategy will target the identification of training that will improve communication and understanding between employees at the U.S. branch and leadership at both locations. Such a training strategy will facilitate interaction between both locations and align with the business strategy of expanding to the U.S. market.

Prompt

Create a PowerPoint presentation with narration to explain the methods of strategically aligning skill development with business strategy in the course scenario.

Note: Remember to use both on-screen text and narration or speaker notes in your PowerPoint slides to convey your information effectively. If due to technical challenges, narration is not possible, precise and extensive speaker notes should be used, while addressing all the rubric elements in the presentation. For example, you can use brief, bulleted lists on the slide and include detailed explanations in your narration or speaker notes.

Specifically, you must address the following criteria in your presentation:

1. Describe the skills required for managers to enable change in the organization (Singaporean headquarters and U.S. branch). (2–3 slides)

a. Use the company data provided in the form of Leaders’ Self Evaluations to complete this step.

b. Why could there be resistance to change implementation within the organization?

c.Which skills do managers need to help address such resistance?

2.Explain the methods of aligning training strategy with business strategy. (2–3 slides)

a .How can training support the strategic goals of the organization (Singaporean headquarters and the U.S. branch)?

b. What customization is required to align the training at the U.S. branch to the business strategy defined at the Singapore headquarters?

c. How can training enable the U.S. branch employees to adapt to the work culture of the Singaporean head office?

d. What are the learning objectives that will enable the American employees to meet the business goals defined for the U.S. branch?

3. Describe two strategic workforce development goals for the U.S. branch. (2–3 slides)

a.Use the Employee Engagement Surveys to identify the strategic workforce development goals.

b. Which data points identify the development goals of the U.S. branch employees?

c. How can training help meet the development goals of the U.S. branch employees?

DR7: Different Types of Technical Reports

Jake Wobbrok’s paper “Catchy Titles Are Good: But Avoid Being Cute” gives great advice for writing an academic research paper, particularly for the Human Computer Interaction field where he does most of his research.

What advice from Wobbrock’s paper would you change for writing technical reports in a business and professional setting? Choose ONE of the sections in Wobbrock’s paper (Abstract, Introduction, Related Work, etc.) and describe how the advice for this section (and maybe its title or even existence) would be different for a technical report written in a business and professional setting. (Keep your answers short. You do not need to address every piece of advice in the section that you choose.)

THEN “Reply” to a classmate’s DR7 = Collaborative Comment 7

DR8: Graphics in Your Technical Report

After reading the first three pages from Technical Communication Chapter 12: Creating Graphics, you might be thinking about including a graphic in your technical report.

• • What information might a graphic convey in your technical report?
  • What type of graphic might you include and why would you use that type?

(Note: Your technical report does not need to include a graphic, but at least explore the possibility here.)

THEN “Reply” to a classmate’s DR8 = Collaborative Comment 8

DR9: Technical Reports Only for STEM?

As implied by NISO’s “Scientific and Technical Reports” instructional report, technical reports seem to ONLY be used for STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) to investigate number-based problems. But can they be used in other fields, like business, education, or the social sciences (psychology, government)? Explain.

THEN “Reply” to a classmate’s DR9 = Collaborative Comment 9

Reply the below classmate post

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COLLAPSE

Corporate diversification strategies raise a wide range of strategic management issues. For this week’s critical thinking assignment, read the case study found in your textbook: Case 16: Manchester City: Building a Multinational Soccer Enterprise, p.554 (in the textbook).

Remember, a case study is a puzzle to be solved, so before reading and answering the specific case and study questions, develop your proposed solution by following these five steps:

1. Read the case study to identify the key issues and underlying issues. These issues are the principles and concepts of the course module, which apply to the situation described in the case study.
2. Record the facts from the case study which are relevant to the principles and concepts of the module. The case may have extraneous information not relevant to the current module. Your ability to differentiate between relevant and irrelevant information is an important aspect of case analysis, as it will inform the focus of your answers.
3. Describe in some detail the actions that would address or correct the situation.
4. Consider how you would support your solution with examples from experience or current real-life examples or cases from textbooks.
5. Complete this initial analysis and then read the discussion questions. Typically, you will already have the answers to the questions but with a broader consideration. At this point, you can add the details and/or analytical tools required to solve the case.

Case Study Questions:

1. Under what circumstances can a company extend its competitive advantage from its home market to an overseas market? Issues concerning the transferability and replicability of the firm’s competitive advantage are critical here.
2. What are the distinctive features of City Football’s strategy? What mode of foreign market entry should City Football adopt? Why? Again, issues of resources and capabilities and the need for local market knowledge, distribution, and political and business connections become critical here.
3. What criteria can companies apply in deciding what new diversification to pursue and which should City Football apply in deciding?
4. What changes in the financial structure, organizational structure and management systems would you recommend?

Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be 6-7 pages in length, which does not include the title page or required reference page, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements.
• Use Saudi Electronic University academic writing standards and APA style guidelines.
• Support your submission with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook and at least two scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles unless the assignment calls for more.
• It is strongly encouraged that you submit all assignments into the Turnitin Originality Check before submitting it to your instructor for grading. If you are unsure how to submit an assignment into the Originality Check tool, review the Turnitin Originality Check—Student Guide for step-by-step instructions.
• Review the grading rubric to see how you will be graded for this assignment.