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Evaluating Information from Core Business Functions and the Value Chain at FORD Company

Study of Ford�s strategic position using business function analysis.

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Running head:EVALUATING INFORMATION FROM CORE BUSINESS FUNCTIONS1Evaluating Information from Core Business Functions and the Value Chain to EnhanceKnowledge of Organizational Strategic Position and Directionat FORD CompanyByName:UniversityDate:Analyze the role of knowledge management in the strategic development of Ford MotorCompany. In your response, address the following key aspects:1.The concept of knowledge management and its importance for competitive advantage.2.How Ford's use of information and knowledge has contributed to its strategic decision-making, particularly in terms of innovation and market positioning.3.The relationship between human, structural, and relational capital in enhancing Ford’sorganizational capabilities.4.The role of strategic capabilities in ensuring Ford's ongoing success in a rapidly evolvingbusiness environment.5.Recommendations for Ford to improve its knowledge management and strategiccapabilities to maintain a competitive edge.Word Count: 1200-1500 words

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EVALUATING INFORMATION FROM CORE BUSINESS FUNCTIONS2Executive SummaryThe idea that organizations are shaped in fundamental ways by the nature of their environmentsin which they are embedded is now. There are open systems of the organization and the processof administration. Therefore, the organization environment paradigm has emerged to occupy animportant though not universal accepted, position in organization sociology. A strategy-policyperspective has also moved to the center stage in the fields of management and business policy.Therefore, like the growth of organization environment models, the strategy policy frameworkhas taken root since it appears almost self-evident at a sufficiency high level of generalizations.Hence, both frameworks can degenerate into purely situational arguments if the level ofabstraction is made to be too low. Such frameworks are not, however identical. They differparticularly in the phenomena regarded as worthy of explanations, in the manner in which theinformation and environmental contingency is modeled, and in the role organizational structureplays in the entire process of adaptation.

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EVALUATING INFORMATION FROM CORE BUSINESS FUNCTIONS3IntroductionThe Strategy ConceptCompany backgroundFord Motor Company is regarded as one of the largest automobile manufactures in the world.The company incorporatedprocesses that enhancea big scale production of automobiles and amassive management of the industrial and hardworking force by applying the assembly lines.The goal of the company is to boost continually car and auto related products and services inorder to make customers’ satisfied. Thecompany’smission statement is to offer qualityautomobiles and customer satisfactionand enabling it to prosper and achieve reasonable profitsfor their stakeholders. The company has been transforming to be a global merging firm andcustomer driven organization in an extremely competitive global market. Besides, thecompanyas a team to boost their structure raises quality and quickenstheir product line developmentprocess in order to deliver more exciting new cars faster.The concept of strategy is linked with the use of the managerial discretion argument, andsome treat strategic choice as a school of thought. Therefore, for an organizational to besuccessful, knowledge management strategy must identify the keyneeds and issues within anorganization,and offer a framework for addressing such issues (Carl & Hal, 2012). There arevarious modelsfor building up an information administration method each upheld by anall-encompassingmodel. These can becategorized in two approaches, which are thetop-down, aswell as bottom-upstrategies. The top-down methodology is the general vital course of theorganization used to recognize the key aspect of knowledge management, which is reflected in aprogression of exercises to meet the objective. Further, the second approach, which is the
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