Internal Environmental Analysis Strategy Analysis and Strategy Selection by 09/30/17

Analysis Report due for The Children's Place (NASDAQ: PLCE). MUST BE COMPLETED BY SUNDAY, 9/30/2017 PST Rules: Third person writing is required, contractions are not used in report, You are expected to paraphrase and are NOT to use direct quotes, You are responsible for APA only for in-text citations and a reference list. Cite the page or paragraph number, If information is taken from a source document, it has to be cited and referenced with a page or paragraph number. A reference within a reference list cannot exist without an associated in-text citation and vice versa, When using a source document, the expectation is that the information is cited and referenced with a page or paragraph number. Step 1 - Create a double-spaced, 12-point font Word or Rich Text Format (RTF) document. The final product cannot be longer than 16 pages in length, which includes all tables and matrices but excludes the title page and reference page. Those items identified in the technical analysis should appear under the appropriate heading in the paper. Do no use an Appendix. Follow the following format using these topics as headings: • Title page with title, your name, the course, the instructor’s name; • Company Background/Information • Internal Environmental Analysis • Strategic Analysis & Strategy Selection • Reference page Under the appropriate heading, include the following: • Background analysis including vision and mission statements and objectives • Internal Environmental Analysis • Corporate Level Strategy • Business Unit Level Strategy • Functional Level Strategy • Explain how these strategies align with the company’s vision and mission statements; • Assess the company’s interactions with its stakeholders, the organizational structure, the organizational culture, and communication/decision making among managers within human resources, marketing production, operations, finance and accounting, R&D, and computer information systems, which can be accomplished by viewing the company’s website, interviews, and surveys. • Financial analysis for the last reported fiscal year: • Use the company’s income statement and balance sheet to calculate key, but no less than 10 key financial ratios to the business. There must be a mix of the different ratios so that the ratios do not all come from the same category. Show the calculations. • Using Excel or a Word table, record key financial ratios in the first column; • Research the industry average financial ratios for the same ratios above and record in a second column. If you cannot find an industry average, then select another ratio; [Ratios presented should not all come from the same category] • In the third column, indicate whether the financial ratio is a strength, a weakness or a neutral factor. • Explain the results and compare and contrast the company financials to the industry. • Technique Analysis: develop and explain an IFE, BCG matrix, Grand Strategy Matrix, and QSPM. The expectation is not to copy from the Internet but to develop one's own. The various tools are to appear in the appropriate area of the paper and not in one section of the paper. • Strategy Analysis: Identify and explain company strengths and weaknesses. Discuss success factors and what the company must do to perform successfully in the industry? Discuss what strategies would allow the company to capitalize on its major strengths. Discuss strategies that would allow the company to improve upon its major weaknesses • Generate a minimum of three possible alternative strategies for the company; • Identify and discuss cultural factors that should be considered in analyzing and choosing among the alternative strategies; • Prioritize and explain the selection of alternative strategies • Recommend the best one or two strategies among the alternative strategies and explain why these strategies are the best; Step 3: Create an introductory paragraph. Step 4: Write a summary paragraph.