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Week 10 Discussion


Before  starting this activity, review the Week 8 LEARN (e-Activity) and read  Chapter 10 in the course text book. Doing this will give you the why to  include in your response to the following:

Innovation Applied

Read Chapter 13 Strategic Entrepreneurship and review the Learn video/lecture, then respond to the following:

  • Analyze  the different approaches to innovation discussed in this chapter to  determine which approach you think would be the greatest value to the  greatest number of organizations. Explain your rationale. 
  • Create  one innovative approach that is not discussed in the textbook for  increasing the amount of innovation within a large company. Describe  this approach in detail and explain how companies could benefit from it. 

Assignment 3: Project Execution, Control, & Closure Proposal Due Week 10 and worth 150 points

Due Week 10 and worth 150 points

Your Project Sponsor has approved your project proposal and has asked you to come up with a proposal for the execution, control, and closure for the project.

Instructions:

For this assignment, you will provide a four to six (4-6) page paper, in which you must:

  1. Provide a brief summary of your chosen project.
  2. Identify and discuss your project’s greatest challenges (at least three) and provide a recommendation for addressing each of the challenges.
  3. Examine how you manage your project performance via Earned Value Management (EVM). Identify at least three key EVM metrics you will use for your project.
  4. Discuss your plan to properly close your project when it is over.
  5. Use at least three (3) academic resources for this assignment. These resources should be related to your chosen project and the content provided in Assignment 3. Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Deliverable 7 – Effective Leadership

Competency

This competency will allow you to demonstrate what you have learned about effective leadership by creating a plan to successfully run a small business.

Instructions

You have become comfortable with contemporary leadership competencies and feel it is time to open your own small business. As a future business owner, you know that all organizations must be well managed, and that effective leadership is at the core of ensuring that a business runs smoothly. Reflect on the following questions and write a 3-5 page report to help you solidify your thinking and describe your plan for running a small business.

  • Refer to the DISC behavioral characteristics you identified for yourself in module 01. How will you use two of these characteristics (i.e., values, culture, mission, and vision) to shape your small business?
  • Employees are a business’s greatest asset. Refer to the best leader traits/skills/tactics you identified in module 02. How will you mentor the informal and formal leaders that you hire?
  • Identify the leader theory from module 03 that fits you best. How can this leader theory help you align business goals, customer expectations, and employee objectives?
  • Refer to the challenges to leading change that you selected in module 04. Identify two of these challenges. How will you address these challenges to minimize risk for your new business?
  • Utilizing the facilitative leadership skills you studied in module 05, discuss the three facilitative leadership skills that you think are the most important for your business. How will you incorporate what you learned about facultative leadership into your business so that employees can successfully run meetings and projects?
  • Refer to the leadership skills you presented in module 06, as well as the other concepts you’ve studied in the course (e.g., leader traits, leadership theory, and facilitative leadership skills). How will you use these to ensure effective leadership in your small business?