This assessment will measure your ability to:
Assessment criteria
This assessment will measure your ability to:
Analyse the role of vision, mission and goals for BHPs strategy process (25%)
Identify BHPs sustainable competitive advantages and their contribution to BHPs strategy (35%)
Discuss how sustainability goals influence BHPs strategy (25%)
Write in an academic and professional manner, using APA7 style (15%)
Task details
You will critically review BHPs current strategy, operations, sustainability goals and so on as outlined on its website: HYPERLINK "https://www.bhp.com/about/strategy" t "_blank" Our strategy. Using the learnings from Week 1 and 2, you will critically evaluate how BHPs mission, vision and goals are reflected in its strategy.
You will then identify and assess BHPs core competencies and competitive advantages and how they influence the companys strategy. You are strongly encouraged to use the resource and capability analysis framework we discussed in Week 2, Topic 1.
Finally, you will discuss how sustainability and operating ethically affect the strategic planning process and implementation for BHP.
Instructions
Your report-style assignment should be written in English with structured sentences that conform to academic writing principles and guidelines, with particular attention to correct and thorough referencing of literature and other sources throughout.
The vast majority (80%+) of your references must come from high-quality academic journals ranked 3/4/4*
You can structure your report in the following format:
Introduction
Introduce your assignments aim and importance and how you will structure your report. By reading your introduction, the reader should be able to get a very good (but brief) understanding of what you will be discussing, how it is structured and a couple of key messages that you want to convey to the reader.
Analysis of BHPs vision, mission and goals and their influence on the companys strategy
Discuss and clearly present how BHPs vision, mission and goals influence its strategy.
Provide examples to reinforce your perspective.
How core capabilities and competitive advantages affect BHPs strategy
What are BHPs core competitive advantages and competencies?
How sustainable are these advantages and capabilities?
Critically examine and thoroughly discuss how BHPs core competencies and capabilities feed into its strategic plans.
BHPs ethics and sustainability and their link to strategy
Assess how important ethics and sustainability are for BHP.
How and to what extent do ethics and sustainability impact the strategic process and direction of BHP?
References
Use APA7 referencing style in text and in the list of references. For more information,
A minimum of eight (8) high-quality journal article references are required as evidence of basic research skills.
The reference list is not included in the word count. In-text citations are included in the word count.
Academic Integrity Statement
Note :-Only latest and high quality journals .