The Assignment: Mr. James Quincey, CEO of The Coca-Cola Company (Coke), and his executive team are aware of your skills in strategic analysis. They are asking you to help them assess the situation and

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The Assignment:

Mr. James Quincey, CEO of The Coca-Cola Company (Coke), and his executive team are aware of your skills in strategic analysis. They are asking you to help them assess the situation and to recommend a competitive strategy for the company for the next five years. Please prepare an OUTLINE report for them giving your assessment of the operational situation and your recommendations, considering both strategy formulation and implementation issues.


The following two links provide additional financial information about the focal company, Coca-Cola

, including latest income statements and balance sheets, both up to the year-end of 2021. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/KO/cocacola/financial-statements

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/KO/cocacola/balance-she


Further Instructions & Specifications:

In addition of these Final Assignment Instructions, please strictly follow the “Structure of Final Assignment Case Analysis Report” enclosed in the end of this document for specific sections and exhibits to include in your case analysis report. Within the case, possible issues, questions, opinions, and even courses of action may have been provided. You may choose to use them or not based on your own judgment; you do not even need to agree with them. Please remember that the creative thinking and unique thoughts shown in your strategic alternatives are key to developing an excellent case analysis report. Keep in mind that your task is to conduct strategic analysis for the company following the provided guidelines, not to resolve a particular issue raised in the case (e.g., a particular debate or an innovation project proposed in the case), even though they might be highly relevant to your analysis.

The paper (excluding all exhibits and title pages) must be put on a maximum of three pages (3) in single-space with 12-point Times New Roman font and one-inch (2.54cm) margins on all sides. No text beyond the three pages will be taken into consideration for the grading purpose. The body text of the paper should all be presented in bullet points format only, no paragraphs and lengthy sentences (e.g., over two lines) are accepted (subject to 5% penalty otherwise). The sub-points belonging to a major bullet point, if you use this format, can be put in a smaller 11- point font. Please use the same section headings such as “External Assessment” as given in the “Structure of Final Assignment Case Analysis Report”; do NOT create other headings. Papers that grossly violate guidelines will receive a failing grade or serious penalty at the instructor’s discretion. Please keep an eye on spacing between lines (keeping everything single- spaced), so you can save some space for text. The most important thing is to get it done right (nice and clear and concise), not to elaborate on your points too much.


External Research:



You are not required to conduct any further external research on the company and its industries


. Be sure to provide references on a separate page for any search beyond the case and attach this page at the end of the paper. This page may contain only references and can be in addition to the text-pages and exhibits.

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The Assignment: Mr. James Quincey, CEO of The Coca-Cola Company (Coke), and his executive team are aware of your skills in strategic analysis. They are asking you to help them assess the situation and
FINAL TAKE-HOME INDIVIUAL ASSIGNMENT Policy Take-home Final Assignment Case Instructions The Assignment Mr. James Quincey, CEO of The Coca-Cola Company (Coke), and his executive team are aware of your skills in strategic analysis. They are asking you to help them assess the situation and to recommend a competitive strategy for the company for the next five years. Please prepare an OUTLINE report for them giving your assessment of the operational situation and your recommendations, considering both strategy formulation and implementation issues. The following two links provide additional financial information about the focal company, Coca-Cola, including latest income statements and balance sheets, both up to the year-end of 2021. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/KO/cocacola/financial-statements https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/KO/cocacola/balance-she Further Instructions & Specifications In addition of these Final Assignment Instructions, please strictly follow the “Structure of Final Assignment Case Analysis Report” enclosed in the end of this document for specific sections and exhibits to include in your case analysis report. Within the case, possible issues, questions, opinions, and even courses of action may have been provided. You may choose to use them or not based on your own judgment; you do not even need to agree with them. Please remember that the creative thinking and unique thoughts shown in your strategic alternatives are key to developing an excellent case analysis report. Keep in mind that your task is to conduct strategic analysis for the company following the provided guidelines, not to resolve a particular issue raised in the case (e.g., a particular debate or an innovation project proposed in the case), even though they might be highly relevant to your analysis. The paper (excluding all exhibits and title pages) must be put on a maximum of three pages in single-space with 12-point Times New Roman font and one-inch (2.54cm) margins on all sides. No text beyond the three pages will be taken into consideration for the grading purpose. The body text of the paper should all be presented in bullet points format only, no paragraphs and lengthy sentences (e.g., over two lines) are accepted (subject to 5% penalty otherwise). The sub-points belonging to a major bullet point, if you use this format, can be put in a smaller 11- point font. Please use the same section headings such as “External Assessment” as given in the “Structure of Final Assignment Case Analysis Report”; do NOT create other headings. Papers that grossly violate guidelines will receive a failing grade or serious penalty at the instructor’s discretion. Please keep an eye on spacing between lines (keeping everything single- spaced), so you can save some space for text. The most important thing is to get it done right (nice and clear and concise), not to elaborate on your points too much. External Research You are not required to conduct any further external research on the company and its industries. Be sure to provide references on a separate page for any search beyond the case and attach this page at the end of the paper. This page may contain only references and can be in addition to the text-pages and exhibits. Continue to see the Structure of Final Assignment Case Analysis Report” Structure of Final Assignment Case Analysis Outline Report Note: These guidelines are intended to help you get the structure right on the case report; meeting them does not guarantee a quality work. Please use the same sections headings (e.g., Key Issues, Current Strategy, etc.) in your paper. Please insert only bullet points (including short sentence) for each section; each point shall be no more than two lines (3-5 words beyond the second line is acceptable in rare cases). If you choose to fill in your points directly on this template, please make sure you remove all instructional words (other than the section titles) for clear presentation. Limit the text to 3 pages (12 font, single-spaced, 1” (2.54cm) margin on all sides), excluding cover pages, tables and exhibits. Key Issues (preferably 3-6 issues each in one bullet point;) Obvious and pressing issues, hidden problems, and long terms challenges facing the company. These issues set a direction in terms of where your strategic alternatives should focus. Please describe them (and number them) in order of importance. External Assessment. Top Three most important opportunities/threats in total, not three each. A table of external analysis (no need to include in the report) will be highly helpful for you to identify good opportunities and threats. Advice: focus on the strategic group of which the focal company is a member, NOT the case company. DO NOT talk about the case company in describing the opportunities/threats. Do NOT give recommendations here as to what firms can do or should do with respect to these opportunities and threats. One sentence describing the strategic group (similar strategy and competitors) Opp/threat #1: One sentence that clearly specifies the opp/threat for the strategic group; 1-2 bullet points following the sentence to provide evidence for the opp/threat Opp/threat #2: ditto Opp/threat #3: ditto Internal Assessment. Top Three most important strengths/weaknesses in total, not three each. Str/weakness #1: One sentence identifying the strength/weakness; 1 subpoint providing evidence; 2-3 separate bullet point arguments explaining the V, R, I evaluation of the strength. If it is a weakness, 1-2 points to discuss whether it can be transformed into a strength in the future. Str/weakness #2: ditto Str/weakness #3: ditto Financial Diagnosis – Exhibit 1 for this section 3-6 bullet points to interpret the ratios in the Exhibit 1. Use various comparisons (e.g., temporal changes) and financial ratios to diagnose the company’s financial situation. Remember to comment on the company’s overall financial health and capacity to carry on future investments that might be part of your strategic alternatives. Current Strategy Note: focus on what the company is currently doing; do NOT discuss what it can or should do in the future Business strategy (one sentence defining the strategy such as differentiation, followed by 1-3 bullet points of explanations) Functional strategy (2-3 separate points for major functional practices such as marketing initiatives); Global strategy and corporate strategy, whenever the case provides information Implementable Strategic Alternatives (a total of TWO alternatives; the most important section!) Note: (1) Business level strategies are expected, while corporate level strategies are accepted. Please do not propose functional level strategies (HR, marketing, etc.) as explained in Chapter 4, which focus on operational changes that aim to improve internal efficiency and effectiveness. Business strategies represent major moves in the way the company competes on the market. They often involve significant investments or divestments that carry long term impact on the company’s competitiveness. These strategies are externally oriented, often answering the question of what to serve, who to serve, where and how to compete. Business level strategic alternatives, often developed based on existing/potential strengths/weaknesses and available environmental opportunities/threats, should deal with key issues (including the pressure for growth). Two alternatives need to be significantly distinctive, yet they all need to generate significant revenue or market growth to the company, which means that simply divesting (stop doing) something may not suffice. Both strategies should go beyond a general goal (e.g., going international or developing a new product) and discuss what the company needs to do exactly (e.g., which country to enter and in what ways? what kind of new product you are talking about exactly?). Remember you do NOT have to use generic strategy terms such as low cost or differentiation to describe your strategy. In fact, you can easily run into cliché ideas if you simply play around these terms rather than explaining specific strategy actions. For example, a strategy of Westjet building leadership in tourism travel segment does not need mentioning any of those generic terms. Both alternatives should be plausible and appealing, supported with solid reasoning and strong arguments. If your two alternative ideas can be easily combined, you probably need to combine them and develop a new alternative. In addition, both strategies should either depart significantly from the firm’s current strategy or add substantive value to the current strategy, showcasing your own contributions. Keep in mind that using status quo or current strategy (that is, continue to do what has been doing) as a strategy alternative demonstrates weak creativity; I need to see your OWN original ideas. Selling off the company is not an option of strategy in the exam. Lastly, a good advice to review your proposed strategy: Do you think the CEO of the firm will find your strategy alternatives useful and implementable? If they do not make sense to the firm (such as ask McDonald to sell luxury hand bags), then you will want to go back and develop some new ones. Alternative #1: One sentence specifying the strategy, followed by 3-5 bullet points of explanations of what it is exactly in terms of specific strategic actions expected from the firm, with respect to the analysis in previous sections Alternative #2: ditto Criteria and Evaluation of Alternatives by Criteria (second most important section) – Exhibit 2-3 for this section One sentence to list 3 criteria (e.g., NPV), and 1-2 sentences to justify your choice of these criteria (that is, why these, not others?) Then, separate points in correspondence to the three criteria, each point using one criterion to compare the two alternatives with clear conclusion (which one is better) and justifications (why). Recommendation and its Implementation 1-2 points to summarize the evaluations and recommend one strategy based on the evaluation 1-2 points to discuss major issues/challenges regarding the implementation of the strategy 1-2 points to discuss the limitations of the recommended strategy with respect to the identified key issues. Offer suggestions on possible solutions if you can. Exhibits (append all exhibits to the end of the paper in the following order) Exhibit 1: Financial Analysis. A table that presents financial ratios of multiple categories, such as profitability, leverage, liquidity, etc., as well as any useful historical comparisons such as sales increase/decrease. No specific ratios are mandatory. All depends on your analysis and needs. Exhibit 2-3: Two Exhibits of NPV corresponding to the two strategic alternatives respectively; put key assumptions, with brief justifications, either at the bottom of the tables or on a separate page. Please refer to the Westover Inn case in your case package for a template of NPV.

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