AC552-2: Determine appropriate reorganization or restructuring approaches to solve the strategic problems of firms.
Access the case study in the textbook, “General Motors Hedges Its Bets with an Investment in Ride-Hailing Firm Lyft” pp. 579–581.
In this case, you will have an opportunity to review the General Motors alliance with Lyft. The case illustrates how business alliances can manage risk and leverage financial and nonfinancial resources.
You will assume the role of a manager and will be presenting your analysis of the General Motors partnership with Lyft to the Board of Directors. Create a 7–10 slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation analysis of the company.
The format must include these headers:
- Title page
- Company and Situation: Describe the company and situation
- To begin your case study analysis, discuss the critical incidents that have contributed to the current position of the company. Here you must identify the most important facts surrounding the case.
- Does the problem or challenge facing the company come from a changing environment, new opportunity, a declining market share, or inefficient internal or external business processes?
- Strengths, Weaknesses, and Alternatives: Identify strengths and weaknesses as well as alternatives
- Examine the value creation functions of the company and specify alternative courses of action.
- List the courses of action the company can take to solve its problem or meet the challenge it faces. What changes to organizational processes would be required by each alternative? What management policy would be required to implement each alternative? State what the company should have done and not what they should do.
Remember, there is a difference between what an organization “should do” and what that organization actually “can do.” Some solutions are too expensive or operationally difficult to implement, and you should avoid solutions that are beyond the organization’s resources.
Important: Identify the constraints that will limit the solutions available. Is each alternative executable given these constraints?
- Implementations: Analyze implementations
This portion of the case study analysis requires that you identify and analyze the structure and control systems that the company is using to implement its business strategies. Evaluate organizational change, levels of hierarchy, employee rewards, conflicts, and other issues that are important to the company you are analyzing. State what the company did and not what they should do. - Recommendations: Make recommendations
The final part of your case study analysis should include your recommendations for the company. Every recommendation you make should be based on and supported by the context of your case study analysis, i.e., what you have already written. - References: Reference page
Check for correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and usage. Citations should use current APA style.
Your analysis of this case and your PowerPoint submission should reflect an understanding of the critical issues of the case; integrate the material covered in the text and present concise and well-reasoned justifications for the stance that you take.
