Case Study: Harley Davidson (HD)<\/p>\n
Read the case study located on page 176 of the section titled Case Studies<\/strong> in your textbook and prepare a 7- to 10-page report in a Microsoft Word document, based on the following situation:<\/p>\n You have been asked to consult with Harley Davidson (HD) on three major strategic issues. In preparation of making recommendations for those issues. <\/p>\n You should write a report that addresses the following key strategic issues:<\/p>\n Based upon your analysis, provide Harley Davidson with your recommendations related to their three major issues:<\/p>\n Support your responses with examples.<\/p>\n Cite any sources in APA format.<\/p>\n Submission Details<\/p>\n Name your document SU_MGT4070_W3_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.<\/p>\n Submit your document to the W3 Assignment 2 Dropbox<\/strong> by Tuesday, December 23, 2014<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Harley Davidson products are viewed as leisure items rather than necessities. How should HD push sales in a down economy? Should (or can) HD market their products as something other than leisure items?<\/td>\n HD\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s target market is difficult to manage. In recent years HD has attempted to broaden its age 29-55 male market by including younger riders and women. Is this the correct target market for HD? If so, should marketing be segmented? How? Would marketing to different segments water down HD\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s image?<\/td>\n HD\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s product demand is difficult to manage. Recently overseas competition has refocused their product lines from the low end of the market to the more median price range. As they did this, they also broadened their product lines. How should HD manage their products? Should HD have a product line to meet the needs of the entire market or should they focus on one area of the market? If they follow a market focus strategy, what should their new target market be?<\/td>\n Case Study: Harley Davidson (HD) Read the case study located on page 176 of the section titled Case Studies in your textbook and prepare a 7- to 10-page report in a Microsoft Word document, based on the following situation: You have been asked to consult with Harley Davidson (HD) on three major strategic issues. In preparation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_joinchat":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n Assignment 2 Grading Criteria<\/strong><\/td>\n \n \n Discussed the interaction among the economic, political, sociocultural, and technological sectors of the business environment.<\/td>\n \n \n Summarized Harley Davidson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s current strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.<\/td>\n \n \n Characterized important industry and resource factors and trends. Assessed the internal environment of HD to determine core competencies based on resources and capabilities.<\/td>\n \n \n Appraised the effects of HD\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s size, speed of strategic decision making and implementation, innovation, and quality on their ability to take competitive action.<\/td>\n \n \n Summarized what HD\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s corporate-level strategy has been historically and justified answer with examples.<\/td>\n \n \n Explained how this strategy will stand up against the competition and conditions in the industry.<\/td>\n \n \n Examined whether following an acquisition or merger strategy would be a good idea and identified potential problems to watch for if an acquisition strategy was pursued.<\/td>\n \n \n Discussed the uncertainties and risks of doing business in different regions throughout the world.<\/td>\n \n \n Discussed whether HD would be wise to pursue a cooperative strategy. Also identified the type of cooperative strategy that would be best, explained why would it be best, and suggested with whom HD should pursue this strategy? If a cooperative strategy was not a good idea for HD, explained why not.<\/td>\n \n \n Provided a well-reasoned, well-justified recommendation for HD\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first issue:<\/p>\n \n \n Provided a well-reasoned, well-justified recommendation for HD\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s second issue:<\/p>\n \n \n Provided a well-reasoned, well-justified recommendation for HD\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s third issue:<\/p>\n \n \n APA components<\/td>\n \n \n Written Components.<\/td>\n \n \n Total:<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n \n