Week 4 Annotated Bibliography: Museum Site Research This Assignment is due by Day 7 of Week 4. Directions:Please type your answers in the boxes provided. If you need more space, the box will expand as you write—so, there is no need to worry about space. Do not write your answers in a separate document because your Instructor uses the Rubric after each question to grade that section. Also, you may use the Rubric as a guide to make sure you completed the question correctly. Museum Site Research For this Assignment: 1. Find two articles from the library or credible Internet sites that offer evidence to support your choice of museum site. Record a reference for each source using APA style, and write an annotation below the citation summarizing the article (and your point of view) in 2–3 sentences. (Remember, you will use these sources for your Final Project, if you choose this topic.) Insert APA reference #1 below. Insert APA reference #2 below. Insert APA reference #3 below. Question #1 Rubric (for Instructor use only) Points Did the student provide three academically authoritative research sources? _____/12 points Did the student cite these sources using APA format? _____/12 points Instructor Comments: 24 Points _____/24 2. For your first article, identify and analyze evidence that you plan to use to support your choice of the museum site in 2–3 paragraphs. Be sure to incorporate citations in your response. Insert your answer below. Question #2 Rubric (for Instructor use only) Points Did the student identify and analyze evidence to support the museum site choice? _____/17 points Instructor Comments: 17 Points _____/17 3. [Duplicate #2 for each additional source required.] Insert your answer below. Question #3 Rubric (for Instructor use only) Points Did the student identify and analyze evidence to support or refute the museum site choice? _____/17 points Instructor Comments: 17 Points _____/17 4. [Duplicate #2 for each additional source required.] Insert your answer below. Question #4 Rubric (for Instructor use only) Points Did the student identify and analyze evidence to support or refute the museum site choice? _____/17 points Instructor Comments: 17 Points _____/17 Worksheet Total Points Points _____/75 © 2015 Laureate Education, Inc. Page 1 of 3 Final Assignment Grading Rubric Course: MT460 Unit: 10 Points: 125 Copyright Kaplan University Unit 10 Final Assignment: The Strategic Plan Presentation The Final Assignment, due in Unit 10, is your chance to bring it all together. This Strategic Management Presentation is an in-depth case study analysis and strategy for the company of your choice. Final Assignment Guidelines are also available in Doc Sharing. You may choose either a large, well-known Fortune 1,000 company that has information readily available, or a smaller company in your city or town which has information in the local press (the larger company may be easier). Pret.

1. Week 4 Annotated Bibliography: Museum Site Research
This Assignment is due by Day 7 of Week 4.
Directions:Please type your answers in the boxes provided. If
you need more space, the box will expand as you write—so,
there is no need to worry about space. Do not write your
answers in a separate document because your Instructor uses the
Rubric after each question to grade that section. Also, you may
use the Rubric as a guide to make sure you completed the
question correctly.
Museum Site Research
For this Assignment:
1. Find two articles from the library or credible Internet sites
that offer evidence to support your choice of museum site.
Record a reference for each source using APA style, and write
an annotation below the citation summarizing the article (and
your point of view) in 2–3 sentences. (Remember, you will use
these sources for your Final Project, if you choose this topic.)
Insert APA reference #1 below.
Insert APA reference #2 below.
Insert APA reference #3 below.
Question #1 Rubric (for Instructor use only)
Points
Did the student provide three academically authoritative
research sources? _____/12 points
Did the student cite these sources using APA format? _____/12
points
Instructor Comments:

2. 24 Points
_____/24
2. For your first article, identify and analyze evidence that you
plan to use to support your choice of the museum site in 2–3
paragraphs. Be sure to incorporate citations in your response.
Insert your answer below.
Question #2 Rubric (for Instructor use only)
Points
Did the student identify and analyze evidence to support the
museum site choice? _____/17 points
Instructor Comments:
17 Points
_____/17
3. [Duplicate #2 for each additional source required.]
Insert your answer below.
Question #3 Rubric (for Instructor use only)
Points
Did the student identify and analyze evidence to support or
refute the museum site choice? _____/17 points
Instructor Comments:
17 Points
_____/17

3. 4. [Duplicate #2 for each additional source required.]
Insert your answer below.
Question #4 Rubric (for Instructor use only)
Points
Did the student identify and analyze evidence to support or
refute the museum site choice? _____/17 points
Instructor Comments:
17 Points
_____/17
Worksheet Total Points
Points
_____/75
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Course: MT460 Unit: 10 Points: 125
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Unit 10 Final Assignment: The Strategic Plan Presentation

4. The Final Assignment, due in Unit 10, is your chance to bring it
all together. This Strategic
Management Presentation is an in-depth case study analysis and
strategy for the company of your
choice. Final Assignment Guidelines are also available in Doc
Sharing.
You may choose either a large, well-known Fortune 1,000
company that has information readily
available, or a smaller company in your city or town which has
information in the local press (the
larger company may be easier). Pretend that you are a business
and strategy consultant hired by
one of your chosen company’s executives to present the new
strategic plan to the Board of
Directors (BoD).
You will create this project in a PowerPoint presentation
format. The Final Assignment PowerPoint
template is available in Doc Sharing. Use a bulleted list for
each slide (page) and support the bulleted
ideas in the Notes section of the slide. Use the current APA
style and format in the Notes description
section of the slide. Include a References page at the end of the
presentation for the outside sources
you used and integrated in the presentation itself.
Final Assignment Guidelines: Strategic Plan
A strategic plan is designed to be in use for three (3) to five (5)
years. For your Final Assignment, you
will write a strategic plan providing the following information:

5. • Company Background
Identify the Fortune 1000 organization that you have chosen for
your strategic plan. Provide a
brief background of this organization including its products,
services, and customers. Include
the organization’s strategic planning model and include the
history of successes and failures
associated with its processes.
• Company Vision Statement and Mission Statements
What is the company’s vision statement and mission statement
along with its purpose, values,
goals, and philosophy? How do these support the organization
to realize its goals and
objectives?
• Leadership and Organizational Culture
Discuss how the new grand strategy will affect the company
leadership infrastructure, and the
organizational structure and culture. How can the company
move to a more agile and virtual
organization? How will the company manage the strategy-
culture relationship due to the new
change?
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• Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, and Policies
Empowering Action
What is the company’s stakeholder approach to social
responsibility? What types of social
responsibility does the organization practice and tout? What are
the major trends in today’s
corporate social responsibility? How does the company create
and utilize policies to empower
employees to become socially responsible inside and outside of
the organization? Describe
the company’s code of conduct (ethical principles and
guidelines) and how the executive and
management team practice these?
• External Analysis (Opportunities and Threats) and Global
Environment
Describe the company’s external environment including the
remote environment (economic
factors, social factors, political factors, technological factors,
ecological factors, and
international environment). How does the company currently
contend with the external forces
and operating environment? What is the company’s global
strategic plan and how does it use
firms in foreign markets for global reach?
• Internal Analysis (Strengths and Weaknesses), Strategic
Control, and Continuous

7. Improvement
Define the company’s internal environment. What Balanced
Scorecard software or other
strategic control software would you recommend to the
company to manage, monitor, and
sustain the implementation i.e. continuous improvement? Please
explain the choice of
software and illustrate the use of controls to guide and monitor
strategic implementation.
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Describe the concepts of incremental and breakthrough
innovation, and the risks to be aware
of. Define the new strategy as being either an incremental or
breakthrough innovation process
and how this supports the idea of continuous improvement. Is
your recommended strategy
entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial in nature? Please explain the
benefits.
• Strategic Analysis and Choice
Explain why a grand strategy is more beneficial to the company
than a generic type of
strategy.
• Generic and Grand Strategies
Generic strategies are low-cost leadership, differentiation,
speed-based, and marketing
focused. Grand strategies include concentrated growth, market
development, product
development, innovation, horizontal acquisition, vertical

8. acquisition, concentric diversification,
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turnaround, divestiture, liquidation, bankruptcy, joint ventures,
strategic alliances, and
consortia. Discuss the grand strategy chosen that will sustain
and grow the company for many
years to come and to keep competitive in its market place.
• Long Term Objectives and Strategies
What are the company’s long term objectives in support of its
overall grand strategy? What
generic strategies has it entertained in the past and in current?
Recommend a new grand
strategy for long term growth and explain why you as a
consultant have chosen it.
• Short-term Objectives, Functional Tactics, and
Implementation
Discuss the implementation of the new grand strategy. What are
the short term objectives
required to support the new strategy? What functional tactics

9. will support this implementation?
• Restructuring, Reengineering, and Refocusing
Discuss the type of restructuring and or reengineering that must
take place to support the new
grand strategy designed and proposed as well as its
implementation. Emphasize the most
critical activities that will enable the strategy to function
optimally and effectively. Will the
refocus entail business process outsourcing and/or modular
organization? The idea is to
transform the company into an agile, virtual organization.
Include a short Introduction and Conclusion in this Final
Assignment PowerPoint presentation.
Utilize current APA citation, format, and style. The presentation
content should be twelve (12) to
fourteen (14) slides; if more, feel free to include them.
Be sure to keep each slide to five bullets or less with ten or less
words per bullet. You can fully
describe and APA cite each in the Notes section of the
PowerPoint slide itself. Use formal title and
References slides per APA.
When completed with the Final Assignment, submit your
Assignment to the Unit 10 Final Assignment
Dropbox in a PowerPoint .ppt or .pptx document.

10. Final Assignment Grading Rubric
Course: MT460 Unit: 10 Points: 125
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MT460 Unit 10 Final Assignment Grading Rubric
Maximum
Percent Criteria
Maximum
Points
50%
Content
Develop a strategic plan.
Modify a Fortune 1000 company's
strategic planning mode to include an
entrepreneurial mode.
Create a new grand strategy for long
term growth
Create presentation in PowerPoint
format.
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30%
Analysis and Critical Thinking
• Company Background
• Company Vision and Mission
Statements
• Leadership and Organizational
Culture
• Corporate Social
Responsibility, Business Ethics,
and Policies Empowering
Action
• External Analysis
(Opportunities and Threats)
and Global Environment
• Internal Analysis (Strengths
and Weaknesses), Strategic
Control and Continuous
Improvement

12. • Innovation and
Entrepreneurship
• Strategic Analysis and Choice
• Generic and Grand Strategies
• Long-Term Objectives and
Strategies
• Short-Term Objectives,
Functional Tactics, and
Implementation
• Restructuring, Reengineering
and Refocusing
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15% Writing Style, Grammar, PPT number of slides (xx) 19
5% APA Format and Citation Style 5
100% Total 125