ITM 3302 – Disaster Prevention and Recovery

Week 6 Topic - Diversification

Our topic this week is about corporate-level strategy and how companies diversify. Please respond to the following questions:

You will need to use the corporate websites, and other academically credible sources (not Wikipedia) for this exercise:

Does your approved company have moderate to high levels of diversification, If YES, please answer the questions below. 

OR

If NO, perform a search on a US-based, publicly-traded company that has moderate to high levels of diversification, than answer the questions below,

1. Provide the link to the corporation's website, where relevant facts about the corporation or investor information are posted.

2. Is the diversification Related Constrained or Related Linked? Why?

3. What is the dominant business? How much revenue does the dominant business generate?

4. What do you believe is the most interesting or unique aspect of the diversification?

Important:
a) Make sure you read your classmates' posts, so you don't report on the same company.
c) Be sure to relate your post to Chapter 6 of your e-text and/or other credible source(s) with proper APA in-text citations and References.  Failure to properly cite sources will result in a zero.

 

 

E-text is Strategic Management: Concepts, Competitiveness and Globalization, 12 th edition, ISBN # 9781337413572

 

 

 

ITM 3302 – Disaster Prevention and Recovery

 

Term Project A

 

Using the disaster to which you were assigned, conduct research, using only credible sources.  Using MS Word, write a 5-page comprehensive paper, which includes the following discussion:

 

1.       Overview

 

•         Type of disaster

•         Description of disaster

•         Dates occurred

•         Where did it occur?

•         Regulatory impact

 

1. Social Impact

 •         Displacement of residence

•         Education system

•         Health issues

•         Other social services

 

Your paper should be double-spaced and follow  APA format.  Pay particular attention to your spelling and grammar.  In addition, this paper will be submitted via Turnitin.  Remember plagiarism is unacceptable

The following table highlights the disaster to which you have been assigned  for your Midterm and Final Projects.

Disaster for your Project	Student Name
Hurricane Sandy 2012
Hurricane Katrina 2005
911 Terrorist Attack 2001
Sony Cyberattack 2014
Japan earthquake and tsunami of 2011
Target data breach 2013
BP Oil Spill 2010
2004 Boxing Day Tsunami
Haiti Earthquake 2010
Ebola Virus 2014
H1N1 (Swine Flu) 2009
PayPal Hacking 2015

 

It can be any one of the topics I need this one by next Saturday, June 19