The student will have to identify an organizational operational challenge and propose a solution based on an corporate entrepreneurial strategy that will ignite corporate thinking and innovation in order to address it in the most appropriate way. The challenge can be of any type: administrative, distribution, finance, production, customer management, etc. The organization can be an existing organization or a hypothetical organization of any type and in any place. The technological approach must use one or more (in combination if needed) entrepreneurial models and shall address in the solution with creativity and effectiveness. The approach and the expected results have to be documented. The student has the freedom to solve the challenge based on the type of implementation strategy he/she selects. Success indexes shall be associated with the expected results where needed, and the overall implementation approach shall include graphs, charts and or tables that can present the strategy architecture and thinking. There should be a clear delivery of the student’s own creativity on the corporate entrepreneurial strategy selection.
Assignment Components.
A. This should be a 1200-1500 words report, well referenced, that will describe the entrepreneurial strategy used in contribute towards resolving an corporate challenge, and also to demonstrate external reading and analysis.
B. A Power Point presentation of minimum 10-12 slide shall also be submitted. The presentation will highlight the major elements of the assignment.
It is important to critically assess the entrepreneurial strategy selected not only from the student’s experience and beliefs but also from the related literature that indicates or states the need for such decisions. The student has to use tables and charts in order to present the relations between the various elements of corporate operations that will be involved in the strategy execution (activity to goals, goals to metrics, metrics to results, results to next activity, etc). The student shall also use any diagramming technique he/she feels more comfortable with, in order to develop a high lever diagram / figure of the entrepreneurial strategy or the decision process to select the specific strategy.
