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MBA 540 Milestone Three Guidelines and Rubric
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Great work! After
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MBA 540 Milestone Three Guidelines and Rubric
Overview
Great work! After successfully completing analyses of your company’s internal and external business environments, you have now reached the final project milestone.
In this assignment, you will conduct a buy-build-ally analysis of the company and recommend a strategy that the company can implement over the next five years to achieve the targeted growth.
Prompt
Perform a buy-build-ally analysis for your company and recommend actions the company can take to realize the identified opportunity within five years. Use resources such as the company website, which will have pertinent information including its most recent sustainability report, and other relevant sources to help complete this presentation. You can also use the resources in the MBA Library Research Guide to conduct further research about your company.
Create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation to show the results of your analysis and present your recommendations. Use both on-slide text and narration or speaker notes in your PowerPoint slides to convey your information effectively. If narration is not possible, precise and extensive speaker notes should be used, while addressing all of the rubric elements in the presentation. For example, you can use brief, bulleted lists summarizing the highlights of your analysis on the slide and include more detailed explanations in your speaker notes.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Implementation strategy (slides 1–3): Recommend an implementation strategy for your company.Determine whether the company will need to buy, build, or ally with another company. Consider the skills, facilities, products, and services the company will need to capitalize on the identified opportunity.
Use the speaker notes of your presentation to explain the strategy behind your buy, build, and ally recommendations.
Timeline (slides 4–5): Construct a timeline showing what your company should achieve by the end of each year for the next five years.
What to Submit
Create a PowerPoint presentation with on-slide text and narration or detailed speaker notes. Your presentation should be 5 to 7 slides in length. Sources should be cited according to APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.
Milestone Three Rubric
CriteriaExemplary (100%)Proficient (90%)Needs Improvement (70%)Not Evident (0%)Value
Buy, Build, or AllyExceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative mannerDetermines whether the company will need to buy, build, or ally with another companyShows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include determining the buy-build-ally strategy correctlyDoes not attempt criterion30
StrategyExceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative mannerExplains the strategy behind the buy, build, and ally recommendations clearly and rationallyShows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include providing clear and rational reasons for the strategyDoes not attempt criterion30
TimelineExceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative mannerShows a reasonable timeline of what the company should achieve by the end of each year for the next five yearsShows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include creating a reasonable timeline for each year up to five yearsDoes not attempt criterion25
Articulation of ResponseExceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative mannerClearly conveys meaning with correct grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, demonstrating an understanding of audience and purposeShows progress toward proficiency, but with errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, negatively impacting readabilitySubmission has critical errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, preventing understanding of ideas10
Citations and AttributionsUses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with few or no minor errorsUses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with consistent minor errorsUses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with major errorsDoes not use citations for ideas requiring attribution5
Total:100%