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Analysis of Fundamentals: Goals, Strategy, Market, Competitive Technology, Regulatory, and Operating Characteristics

Case Study Instructions: Overall
In this topic you will select a publicly traded company and submit the name of the company to the instructor for approval by the end of the topic. Note: You will need to have this step finalized before you can complete the assignment detailed below, so it is in your best interest to select and obtain approval as soon as possible.
Select a company that is public and enjoys extensive analyst coverage (e.g., Apple, GE, Southwest Airlines, Walgreen, Exxon Mobile) to insure access to sufficient financially oriented material regarding your chosen company. The more information available, the easier it will be to perform the financial analysis.
As you move through the nine steps in conducting your analysis, you will research the market at each step for relevant data on your chosen company, including analyst reports and market information. Disclose all assumptions you are making in the case study (e.g., revenue growth projections, expense controls) and provide supporting reasons and evidence behind those assumptions. As your case study analysis develops over the span of the course, you will synthesize the research data and outcomes of the nine-step assessment process in order to assess the long-term financial health of the chosen company.
Component 1:
For this assignment, apply the following two steps of the nine-step assessment process to develop a 500-word analysis of the company you have selected and which has been approved by your course instructor:

  1. Analysis of Fundamentals: Goals, Strategy, Market, Competitive Technology, Regulatory, and Operating Characteristics
  2. Analysis of Fundamentals: Revenue Outlook

Note: You will be required to resubmit this assignment, revised to incorporate all instructor feedback, along with the other three component assignments as one comprehensive submission in Topic 8. To save time later in the course, consider addressing any feedback soon after this assignment has been graded and returned to you.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide,

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Strategy

Strategy: 90% execution and 10% planning, which is most important to hire. My hypothesis is that business success is 90% execution and 10% planning. It seems execution is vital to success, but do you agree with the 90-10% split? You are a manager who has the choice (only one) of, a) hiring a super strategic planner and an average implementer, or b) hiring a super implementer and an average strategic planner. The choice you make directly impacts your job and pay. What choice do you make? Why?

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strategy

  1. What strategies are being followed by the main narco-trafficking organisations (NTOs)? What are the (two largest) NTOs’ objectives? 
  2. Who are their key stakeholders and what are their expectations? Which diversification strategies applied at which stages of the NTOs’ life cycles/evolution?
  3. What strategic options are available to NTOs (at the time of the case study)? How is the current external situation changing?
  4. How might these strategic options be evaluated?
  5. What strategic options are open to the government? And which strategic choices should the President make?