20 Sep Your presentation should be in the form of a PowerPoint

Scenario
You have a family “Quik Stop” (Gas Station/Convenience store) chain that has been left to you in your great uncle’s will. You’ve come to realize, through financial projections, target market studies, and start-up investment analysis, this is not the business of the future. But, it does have real estate, positive cash flow, and can be viewed as the seed of a new enterprise.

What will you propose to do with these businesses to assure that they will still be viable operations 10 to 20 years from now?
How can you reinvent the business to better support the seven areas of opportunity outlined in our final class reading, An Agenda for the Future of Global Business?
Your presentation should be in the form of a PowerPoint and include content from each week. Your work needs to demonstrate an understanding of key ideas and concepts while engaging the viewer in a creative and persuasive presentation.

You can approach this project in one of two ways:

Take what you have (business and locations) and reinvent the business so it is better positioned for the future, or
Work with a clean slate. Assume that the existing business is nothing more than seed capital and the world is your oyster.
Don’t confuse this project with a business plan. It is a forum to demonstrate class content. I am not interested in financial projections, target market studies, start-up investment analysis, (etc.) since we assume that work has been completed already. What we covered in the course, loosely described, was the following information:

The notion of a flat world.
The ramifications of globalization
The social, moral and ethical responsibilities of business.
The impact of technology
The shift in marketing as a result of the above.
The responsibility of business leadership to both secure the prosperity of their business as well as secure the conditions for sustained prosperity (Reeves & Harnoss)
Your presentation should be in the form of a power point and include content from each week.  I have also had students use Microsoft Sway, which is also fine. Your work needs to demonstrate an understanding of key ideas and concepts while engaging the viewer in a creative and persuasive presentation. You must have utilized a minimum of 5 separate sources, using APA formatting. In order to “narrate” each slide, I would recommend the use the comment sections of the slide. If you are unfamiliar with how to cite images I would suggest this resource (Links to an external site.) or this one (Links to an external site.) from EasyBib.

Your presentation should also include an introduction and conclusion as well as a final slide that summarizes the ways that you believe that the knowledge you have gained will be helpful in your career. Since many students have asked, I would expect your PowerPoint to be somewhere in the 12-15 slide range.

Harnoss, Martin, Reeves, Johann. An Agenda for the Future of Global Business. Harvard Business Review, 28 Feb. 2018, hbr.org/2017/02/an-agenda-for-the-future-of-global-business.