...recommend and defend an optimal solution (University of Phoenix, 2010, para. 2). The Global Communications (GC) scenario identifies several issues for the student to analyze and solve using the lessons learned from the course. This paper identifies the major issues that GC is facing. These issues will be analyzed and the perspectives and ethical dilemmas of the stakeholders will be identified. An examination of the problem statement will reveal what improvements GC would like to see in three years. Alternate solutions will be presented and analyzed for validity. An appropriate risk will be assessed on the selected solutions and mitigation techniques explored. From this evaluation an optimal solution will be selected and a plan to implement explored. Finally, a plan to evaluate the results will be presented. Situation Analysis Issue and Opportunity Identification This is a challenging time for GC, the mega-giant telecommunications company headquartered in Centralia, USA. The telecommunications industry is flooded with competition and the industry is waning. In the past three years, GC stocks have decreased in value more than 50 percent. To combat this decline in profits, senior leadership and board members of GC have announced a strategy that they hope will bring GC back into the forefront as an industry leader both domestically and internationally. GC plans on introducing new technologies such as wireless and satellite...
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...recommend and defend an optimal solution (University of Phoenix, 2010, para. 2). The Global Communications (GC) scenario identifies several issues for the student to analyze and solve using the lessons learned from the course. This paper identifies the major issues that GC is facing. These issues will be analyzed and the perspectives and ethical dilemmas of the stakeholders will be identified. An examination of the problem statement will reveal what improvements GC would like to see in three years. Alternate solutions will be presented and analyzed for validity. An appropriate risk will be assessed on the selected solutions and mitigation techniques explored. From this evaluation an optimal solution will be selected and a plan to implement explored. Finally, a plan to evaluate the results will be presented. Situation Analysis Issue and Opportunity Identification This is a challenging time for GC, the mega-giant telecommunications company headquartered in Centralia, USA. The telecommunications industry is flooded with competition and the industry is waning. In the past three years, GC stocks have decreased in value more than 50 percent. To combat this decline in profits, senior leadership and board members of GC have announced a strategy that they hope will bring GC back into the forefront as an industry leader both domestically and internationally. GC plans on introducing new technologies such as wireless and...
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