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Week 3 individual assignment country analysis
Assignment Overview:
You have already identified industry opportunity (buyer size and growth trends) and industry threats for your client. Now you will turn to country level analyses to find countries with positive opportunity and trends and potential threats.
Each individual on a team will use the PESTEL framework to analyze the POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, TECHNOLOGY, ENVIRONMENTAL AND LEGAL opportunity and threat factors and trends in the external environments of two countries (South Africa and Vietnam) agreed to and assigned by the team in its week 3 work plan.
The grading rubric is here and posted in the Grading Guidelines and Rubrics module in course content.
Resources:
PESTEL and SWOT readings
How to write an Executive Summary.
Research Databases listed in Required Readings:
Assignment Objectives: Your objective is to compare PESTEL Opportunity and Threat in two country markets; specify trends in those Opportunity and Threat factors that are likely to affect the country\’s business and economic environment over the next 3-5 years; and recommend one country as the better new market for your client.
Notes on Data analysis:
1. Be sure you compare the same Opportunity and Threat factors/trends for each of the countries and that any ratings, rankings or aggregate measures you use are in fact measuring the same underlying factors in both countries.
2. Whenever you use a country rating from a source, include a brief summary of the main country conditions (PESTEL factors) that contribute to the ratings. Read the rationale behind any ratings or rankings. For example:
. \”Business Environment\” may be rated more favorable in one country. But what specifically is being measured: the POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, TECHNOLOGICAL, and/or LEGAL indicators are more important and more informative than any summary measure.
Similarly, if you use a Risk Rating, a higher risk rating may not be as important as the types of risk that are being aggregated into a summary ranking.
Assignment format and requirements:
The Introduction to this paper should consist of (a) your statement of purpose; and (b) a description of your Client Company and industry.
The body of the paper (about 10-15 pages double spaced) should be organized around Opportunity factors and trends first, and then Threat factors and trends:
I. Opportunity factors and Trends.
A. Economic Market Opportunity and potential growth: ALWAYS START WITH THE $\’S WORTH OF OPPORTUNITY!
As an initial comparison, you can start with macro level measures from Five Year Economic Forecast, including GDP and Personal Disposable Income (PDI) as indicators of ECONOMIC opportunitythe Buyers potential ability to purchase your company\’s product/service. However, you should try to get as close as possible to indicators of opportunity for your client\’s particular product/service;: For example, if you are selling software to hospitals, look for health care spending; if your client is selling cybersecurity services, look for cybersecurity spending to compare across the two countries. But remember that you must have the same information for both countries in order to compare them!
B. Opportunity support factors are those PESTEL factors and trends that support the Economic market opportunity; e.g..,
1. Political support may consist of existing or pending trade agreements or positive trade relations with the clients home country; government policy that supports funding/advancement of your industry
2. Economic support may consist of tax benefits, low or trending lower tariffs;
3. Social support may consist of favorable attitudes towards U.S. companies or growing interest in your client\’s type of product (e.g., green technology)
4. Etc. for Technological, Environmental, and Legal support factors and trends
5. Include the opportunity to support your client\’s operational needs (which you identified in your company profile)
II. Threat factors and trends
Country PESTEL Threats and trends should be ranked by degree of threat, along with an explanation for your assessment/ ranking; e.g., if you consider political instability to be a greater threat in the country than currency fluctuation (Economic threat), explain why.
III. The Opportunity and Threat factors/trends can be shown in a summary table, but the text should explain how you weighted the factors/trends in order to compare Opportunity and Threat in the two countries.
Include under the appropriate PESTEL the Threats to your client\’s operational needs.
IV. Conclude with a summary recommendation for one country as the better entry option.
VI. Write an Executive Summary for the entire paper (include company and industry description). Aim for approximately 2 pages, double spaced.
VII. Include a Title Page (with your name!) and a Table of Contents placed just after the Executive Summary. Pages should be numbered, starting with page one as the Body of the paper (your statement of purpose), The Executive Summary can be unnumbered or numbered as i, ii…but it is not a part of the body of the paper.
VIII. Include a Reference list, using proper APA format for references and all in-text citations.
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