Strategic Analysis of Fun Time Superstore: Unlocking Long-Term Performance

MGMT 475.WB1 Fa 22CAPSTONE CASE PROJECT Fun Times Superstore This capstone case project is your opportunity to demonstrate how well you understand and can apply the concepts and analytical tools covered in this course. Over the next few weeks, you will apply all that you have learned in MGMT 475 to analyze a company’s situation and make a recommendation about the one strategic change you conclude needs to be implemented to best improve long-term performance. This project will occur over several phases through which you will analyze, report, get feedback, and have opportunities to refine and improve your work. Each phase will provide instructions and a structure for what you are to do and report. This will simplify the task of writing and focus your time on good analysis. The final product, due on December 9th, is a final complete report on your analysis, conclusions, and recommendation. *NOTE ! - The feedback you will receive after the two interim reports will be brief and mostly about correcting where I see you are not on the right track. I will not be giving detailed explanations about concepts and methods again as we have been over each several times by this point. That is, it is too late at this point for me to re-teach what we’ve already been over. As needed, you will need to go back on your own to review lessons, prior feedback, etc. I will simply point out where you are making errors or skipping important parts of your analysis. It is the PROCESS and application that is most critical. I am not looking for you to arrive at any one specific analysis and conclusion…but you must demonstrate that you understand and can adequately apply all that we have covered in this course. Grading: This project is worth 110 points and will be based on the quality of two interim reports (5 pts each) and your final paper (100 pts). Quality will be assessed based on the degree you demonstrate an accurate understanding of the course’s key concepts and analysis processes, your ability to apply them, your ability to comprehend and apply improvements taken from discussion feedback, and of course, your ability to follow instructions and submit a complete, professional final report. -------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- Assignment -- READ THIS CAREFULLY: Failure to follow instructions precisely will end up costing you points This last phase of the course involves THREE separate assignments: Interim Report #1 - due by 11pm 11/18 Interim Report #2 – due by 11pm 11/30 FINAL CASE ANALYSIS REPORT – due by 11 pm 12/9 Step 1 – review, carefully, this entire set of instructions. Know where you are going and what is expected and by when. (Begin with the end in mind!) Step 2- Read the Fun