Benchmark – Strategic Plan Part 7: Executive Summary and Consolidated Plan

For the Strategic Plan assignment, you will work throughout the course to create a market entry plan (entrepreneurial), a market expansion plan for an existing organization, or a mergers and acquisitions plan that seeks to increase your organization’s competitive advantage.

Complete Part 7 of the Strategic Plan assignment according to the directions in the Part 7 (Please check below): Executive Summary and Consolidated Plan section of the “Strategic Plan” resource.

Part 7: Executive Summary and Consolidated Presentation (Topic 8)

Executive Summary

Write a 500- word executive summary that seeks to spark interest in potential investors/stakeholders. The goal of the executive summary is to create an opportunity for investors/stakeholders to consider the full details of your Strategic Plan and then decide to provide support.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

Consolidated Presentation

Create a consolidated Strategic Plan PowerPoint in 25- slides with speaker notes that is directed towards interested investors/stakeholders (3.4). Address Parts 1-7 and include improvements from better understanding of the concepts, strategies, and instructor feedback.

Address the following:

The presentation seeks to explain how your competitive advantage is achieved through your strategic initiative plan. (1.1)
Describe why your organization’s mission and vision seek to promote the greater social good from a Christian perspective. How does your organization or perhaps even your plan accommodate an organization’s responsibilities to the greater social good, from a Christian perspective? (4.1)
Include how your plan address ethics, cooperate social responsibility, and sustainability.
Describe how your plan utilizes your leadership skills to encourage innovation within your organization. (1.4)
Include an explanation of the global and international considerations in your strategic plan.

Provide three to five sources in your presentation.

This assignment uses a rubric ( Please check below).

Benchmark – Strategic Plan Part 7: Executive Summary and Consolidated Plan

	1 Unsatisfactory 0.00%	2 Less than Satisfactory 74.00%	3 Satisfactory 79.00%	4 Good 87.00%	5 Excellent 100.00%
100.0 %Content
15.0 %Executive Summary: Thesis Development and Purpose	Executive summary lacks any discernible overall purpose or organizing claim.	Executive summary is insufficiently developed or vague. Purpose is not clear and lacks references to every component of the strategic plan.	Executive summary is apparent and appropriate to purpose.	Executive summary is clear and forecasts the development of the paper. Thesis is descriptive and reflective of the arguments and appropriate to the purpose.	Executive summary is comprehensive and contains the essence of the paper. Thesis statement makes the purpose of the paper clear and serves as the foundation for a plan to achieve the stated vision.
10.0 %Executive Summary: Argument Logic and Construction	Statement of purpose is not justified by the conclusion. The conclusion does not support the claim made. Argument is incoherent and uses noncredible sources.	Sufficient justification of claims is lacking. Argument lacks consistent unity. There are obvious flaws in the logic. Some sources have questionable credibility.	Argument is orderly, but may have a few inconsistencies. The argument presents minimal justification of claims. Argument logically, but not thoroughly, supports the purpose. Sources used are credible. Introduction and conclusion bracket the thesis.	Argument shows logical progressions. Techniques of argumentation are evident. There is a smooth progression of claims from introduction to conclusion. Most sources are authoritative.	Argument is clear and convincing and presents a persuasive claim in a distinctive and compelling manner. All sources are authoritative.
5.0 %Executive Summary: Mechanics of Writing (includes spelling, punctuation, grammar, language use)	Surface errors are pervasive enough that they impede communication of meaning. Inappropriate word choice or sentence construction is used.	Frequent and repetitive mechanical errors distract the reader. Inconsistencies in language choice (register) or word choice are present. Sentence structure is correct but not varied.	Some mechanical errors or typos are present, but they are not overly distracting to the reader. Correct and varied sentence structure and audience-appropriate language are employed.	Prose is largely free of mechanical errors, although a few may be present. The writer uses a variety of effective sentence structures and figures of speech.	Writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English.
10.0 %Consolidated Presentation: Details of Strategic Plan 3.4: Clearly and persuasively articulate business decisions to relevant stakeholders.	The consolidated presentation does not explain details of the strategic plan.	The consolidated presentation explains details of the strategic plan. Speaker notes are not included and the subject knowledge is unclear or inconsistent. The plan does not articulate the business decisions to relevant stakeholders clearly and persuasively.	The consolidated presentation explains details of the strategic plan. Speaker notes are included and some subject knowledge is evident. The plan partly articulates the business decisions to relevant stakeholders clearly and persuasively.	The consolidated presentation explains details of the strategic plan. Speaker notes are included and subject knowledge is competent. The plan articulates the business decisions to relevant stakeholders.	The consolidated presentation explains details of the strategic plan. Speaker notes are included with relevant examples and applicable insight. Plan demonstrates comprehensive subject knowledge and understanding. The plan articulates the business decisions to relevant stakeholders clearly and persuasively.
10.0 %Consolidated Presentation: Competitive Advantage 1.1: Create strategic plans to improve an organization?s competitive advantage.	An explanation of your competitive advantage is not included.	An explanation of your competitive advantage is included. Subject knowledge is unclear or inconsistent.	An explanation of your competitive advantage is included. Some subject knowledge is evident.	An explanation of your competitive advantage is included. Detailed examples and evidence are included. Subject knowledge is competent.	An explanation of your competitive advantage is included. Plan includes relevant examples and applicable insight. Plan demonstrates comprehensive subject knowledge and understanding.
5.0 %Consolidated Presentation: Christian Perspective 4.1: Articulate an organization?s responsibilities to the greater social good from a Christian perspective.	An explanation of why your organization?s mission and vision seek to promote the greater social good from a Christian perspective is not included.	An explanation of why your organization?s mission and vision seek to promote the greater social good from a Christian perspective is included. An explanation of how your organization or perhaps even your plan accommodates an organization?s responsibilities to the grater social good, from a Christian perspective is not included.	An explanation of why your organization?s mission and vision seek to promote the greater social good from a Christian perspective is included. An explanation of how your organization or perhaps even your plan accommodates an organization?s responsibilities to the grater social good, from a Christian perspective is included with limited detail	An explanation of why your organization?s mission and vision seek to promote the greater social good from a Christian perspective is included. An explanation of how your organization or perhaps even your plan accommodates an organization?s responsibilities to the grater social good, from a Christian perspective is included with detail that demonstrates an understanding of the content from a Christian perspective.	An explanation of why your organization?s mission and vision seek to promote the greater social good from a Christian perspective is included. An explanation of how your organization or perhaps even your plan accommodates an organization?s responsibilities to the grater social good, from a Christian perspective is included with detail that demonstrates a deep understanding of the content from a Christian perspective.
5.0 %Consolidated Presentation: Ethics, Cooperate Social Responsibility, and Sustainability	An explanation of how your plan intends to address ethics, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability is not included.	An explanation of how your plan intends to address ethics, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability is included.	An explanation of how your plan intends to address ethics, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability is included with limited detail.	An explanation of how your plan intends to address ethics, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability is included with detail that demonstrates an understanding almost all of the following: ethics, cooperate social responsibility, and sustainability.	An explanation of how your plan intends to address ethics, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability is included with detail that demonstrates a deep understanding all of the following: ethics, cooperate social responsibility, and sustainability.
10.0 %Consolidated Presentation: Leadership and Innovation 1.4: Practice leadership skills necessary for encouraging innovation within organizations.	A description of how your plan utilizes your leadership skills to encourage innovation within your organization is not included.	A description of how your plan utilizes your leadership skills to encourage innovation within your organization is included.	A description of how your plan utilizes your leadership skills to encourage innovation within your organization is included with limited detail,	A description of how your plan utilizes your leadership skills to encourage innovation within your organization is included with adequate detail.	A description of how your plan utilizes your leadership skills to encourage innovation within your organization is included with detail that demonstrates a deep understanding.
5.0 %Consolidated Presentation: Global and International Considerations	An explanation of the global and international considerations within your strategic plan is not included.	An explanation of the global and international considerations within your strategic plan is included. , but lacks any detail of substantive value.	An explanation of the global and international considerations within your strategic plan is included with limited detail.	An explanation of the global and international considerations within your strategic plan is included with adequate detail.	An explanation of the global and international considerations within your strategic plan is included with detail that demonstrates a deep understanding.
5.0 %Consolidated Presentation: Presentation of Content	The content lacks a clear point of view and logical sequence of information. Includes little persuasive information. Sequencing of ideas is unclear.	The content is vague in conveying a point of view and does not create a strong sense of purpose. Includes some persuasive information.	The presentation slides are generally competent, but ideas may show some inconsistency in organization or in their relationships to each other.	The content is written with a logical progression of ideas and supporting information exhibiting a unity, coherence, and cohesiveness. Includes persuasive information from reliable sources.	The content is written clearly and concisely. Ideas universally progress and relate to each other. The project includes motivating questions and advanced organizers. The project gives the audience a clear sense of the main idea.
5.0 %Consolidated Presentation: Layout	The layout is cluttered, confusing, and does not use spacing, headings, and subheadings to enhance the readability. The text is extremely difficult to read with long blocks of text, small point size for fonts, and inappropriate contrasting colors. Poor use of headings, subheadings, indentations, or bold formatting is evident.	The layout shows some structure, but appears cluttered and busy or distracting with large gaps of white space or a distracting background. Overall readability is difficult due to lengthy paragraphs, too many different fonts, dark or busy background, overuse of bold, or lack of appropriate indentations of text.	The layout uses horizontal and vertical white space appropriately. Sometimes the fonts are easy to read, but in a few places the use of fonts, italics, bold, long paragraphs, color, or busy background detracts and does not enhance readability.	The layout background and text complement each other and enable the content to be easily read. The fonts are easy to read and point size varies appropriately for headings and text.	The layout is visually pleasing and contributes to the overall message with appropriate use of headings, subheadings, and white space. Text is appropriate in length for the target audience and to the point. The background and colors enhance the readability of the text.
5.0 %Consolidated Presentation: Language Use and Audience Awareness (includes sentence construction, word choice, etc.)	Inappropriate word choice and lack of variety in language use are evident. Writer appears to be unaware of audience. Use of primer prose indicates writer either does not apply figures of speech or uses them inappropriately.	Some distracting inconsistencies in language choice (register) or word choice are present. The writer exhibits some lack of control in using figures of speech appropriately.	Language is appropriate to the targeted audience for the most part.	The writer is clearly aware of audience, uses a variety of appropriate vocabulary for the targeted audience, and uses figures of speech to communicate clearly.	The writer uses a variety of sentence constructions, figures of speech, and word choice in distinctive and creative ways that are appropriate to purpose, discipline, and scope.
5.0 %Consolidated Presentation: Mechanics of Writing (includes spelling, punctuation, grammar, language use)	Slide errors are pervasive enough that they impede communication of meaning.	Frequent and repetitive mechanical errors distract the reader.	Some mechanical errors or typos are present, but they are not overly distracting to the reader.	Slides are largely free of mechanical errors, although a few may be present.	Writer is clearly in control of standard, written, academic English.
5.0 %Consolidated Presentation: Documentation of Sources (citations, footnotes, references, bibliography, etc., as appropriate to assignment and style)	Sources are not documented.	Documentation of sources is inconsistent or incorrect, as appropriate to assignment and style, with numerous formatting errors.	Sources are documented, as appropriate to assignment and style, although some formatting errors may be present.	Sources are documented, as appropriate to assignment and style, and format is mostly correct.	Sources are completely and correctly documented, as appropriate to assignment and style, and format is free of error.
100 %Total Weightage

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