Week 2 – Assignment 2: Assess Company Performance

One of the reports that you will use to determine your overall success in round 1 is the “Balanced Scorecard” report. This will provide the best overall picture of how your company performed that year. There are also other good reports to view, and you are encouraged to look at multiple reports to analyze performance.

In your MBA program you learned about how operations relate to business strategy and you learned how to manage business operations based on a global supply chain with diverse and geographically-dispersed suppliers and customers.

There are several ways to assess your company’s performance in the simulation, including the following:

Cumulative Profit

Ending Market Share

Average ROS

Average Asset Turnover

Average ROA

Average ROE

Ending Stock Price

Ending Market Capitalization

For this assignment, discuss each of these eight performance measures in terms of what they measure and how they determine company performance. Then, relate them specifically to the company that you are working with by providing an example for each in regard to that company. Then, you will rank these in order of importance in terms of measuring performance and explain why they are ranked the way they are. Choose three measures to base company performance on, given your company in the simulation, and discuss why you chose these measures. Finally, you will choose your strategy for your company in this simulation, whether it is a differentiation strategy or a cost strategy.

Length: 3-5 pages not including title page and references

Your response should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Please use at minimum of three outside scholarly sources for support.