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Leading Lean Enterprises Through Change : Bachelor Paper details Identify at least two non-standardized processes within your own organization or one with which you are familiar. Create a 1,050- to 1,400-word analysis of methods that can be used to reduce resistance to process change that addresses the following: Describe the two non-standardized processes selected.

Explain why each non-standardized process should be standardized to help reduce variation. If you believe that a non-standardized process should be used, explain why and how you will control variations in the application of this process. Evaluate challenges/barriers that the selected organization may face in the implementation of the identified lean enterprise improvements. Recommend strategies that your selected organization could use to reduce resistance to change. Explain how management can help organizations facilitate change by empowering employees and getting everyone involved in process improvement.

From the same case that you have chosen for Deliverables 1 to 3, you will advise the CEO on how best to position his organization to be responsive to change in order to take advantage of the strategies you have recommended. 1. Give your opinion as to whether your chosen company’s industry is maturing or declining, based on its evolution history. Justify your answer. 2. Use Porter’s National Diamond to evaluate the relative main advantages and disadvantages of vertical integration versus outsourcing for the company. Support your response. 3. Use the Boston Consulting Group’s growth-share matrix to evaluate the company’s strategic position as of 2013. Note: Refer to Figure 14.2 “The BCG Growth-share Matrix”, located on page 369, chapter 14 of the textbook. 4. Suggest one (1) approach for the CEO to adopt in order to implement the strategies that you recommended in Project Deliverable 3. Include the main changes in decision-making style, main changes in planning structure, and measures of success in your recommendation. Provide a rationale for your response. P.S. this is the next add on paper to the one you just sent to me after this it’s one more paper if you have any questions let me know. Thanks so much you rock

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Assessment brief Scenario Having recently graduated you are employed as a trainee accountant in the finance department of a large organisation. The Director of Finance has asked for a report considering asset investment decisions and capital rationing: the company is considering a major capital investment decision, a replacement of its fleet vehicles and the DOF wants to see any advantages of purchasing over leasing capital assets by the organisation in the environment of risk and uncertainty caused by Brexit. Requirement: Write a report using examples considering the evaluation of the choice between borrowing to purchase and leasing an asset. Your report should consider the following aspects of investment appraisal. How might the before and after tax costs of debt affect the debt decision? How might the decision be considered in an environment where capital availability is limited? What factors should be considered in making a capital investment in an environment of risk and uncertainty?

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1. Provide an in-depth external analysis of the competitive forces and strategic issues shaping Nespresso’s business environment in today’s environment. • Approximately 700 words excluding use of supplementary appendices  • You should select and use any (in your own opinion) relevant strategic models from the course. Explain why you selected these models and apply them to make your analysis. These may include including macroframeworks, scenario analysis Porter’s 5 forces an d i n d u s t r y theory, including disruption analysis and customer analysis/segmentation. Please avoid listing and descriptive content. Give your own judgements instead:It must contain structured critical evaluation with your own judgement and opinion. • Use additional information sources, e.g. company web site, company reports, Internet search, etc. to gather further information and not just the case material, which is not including the latest developments, such as the alliance of Nespresso and Starbucks. 2. Undertake an internal strategic audit of the issues that the Nespresso business faces using appropriate organisational & strategic models to complete your critical assessment. Select several relevant models from the course, such as “purpose, mission and vision analysis”, “strategic capability analysis”, organization analysis”,“culture analysis”, “financial analysis”. Explain why you choose to use each model. Include in this your analysis and judgement of the strategic change s at different levels in the Nestlé coffee business in the past years, initiated by the CEO, including the deal with Starbucks. Assess critically a l l t hose changes and their impact on company performance ( financial and non -financial), not just as described in the case but also based in your own research an developements untill now. U s e t h e c o n c e p t o f “ the exponential organization” to assess the potential for Nespresso to survive and succeed in digital transformation. Advisory notes: • Approximately 800 words excluding use of supplementary appendices. • Your strategic audit should concentrate on the internal aspects of N e s p r e s s o a n d t h e N e s t l é c o f f e e b u s i n e s s as an organisation. You should s e l e c t a n d use any (including your motivation to use these) relevant strategic models from the course. Also explicitly include your judgement of pasts trategic choices by the CEO and how these fit or do not fit into your analysis • Assess whether, in your opinion, the alliance/deal with Starbucks as from 2018 is necessary / desirable to realize the strategy and how it helps in the strategic objectives of the coffee business overall and Nespresso specifically • Include a financial analysis and evaluation of the results of the strategy in the period 2010-2019. Evaluate whether the strategy delivered as promised on financial targets. • Aspire to being critical. Do not outline any theories in an explicit fashion. Simply apply them to the context of the case. • Use additional information sources, e.g. company web site, company reports, Internet search, Annual reports, press releases, etc. to gather further information. 3. Based on sections 1-2, you are required to summarise the strategic options that you judge to be appropriate to Nestlé’s Coffee business interceptor Nespresso now (2019) and make definitive strategy recommendations for the CEO of Nestlé’s coffee business on how Nespresso should develop to sustain its future position in the its industry. Make your own assessment using tools for strategic choices as explained in the course, such as “strategic choices models” (portfolio analysis, TOWS matrix etc), “strategic direction models” (such as Treacy & Wiersema or others) and elaborate on the ways to implement these strategic choices (organic growth, innovation, M&A or any other strategy). You should financially substantiate the feasibility of your recommendations with a summarized, small, but clear business case/forecast. Advisory notes: • Approximately 500 words. No supplementary appendices should be used in this section. It is not appropriate. • Give a sound strategic reasoning behind your selected option or combination of options on the long term. Explain why this is a good choice linked to your preceding analysis and judgement. Use one or more of the models as discussed in the lectures on “strategic decision making” in the course. • You should financially substantiate the feasibility of your recommendations with a summarized business case/forecast.