Assignment Description

Your assignment as a BA team is to choose a company; to get an understanding of the company from the perspective of:

$$ Financial status $($earnings$,$ profitability, expenditures on IT and Operations$)$

$$ Market share

$$ Competitive analysis

$$ Current major strategic initiatives underway $($or recently completed$)$

$$ Organizational structure and head office structure

$$ Executive team

$$ Overall Corporate and the IT & Operations $($IT & Ops$)$ Mission statement

$$ Overall Corporate and the IT & Operations vision

You must select a company that is represented on the TSX$-60$ list of Canadian companies.

Your competitive analysis must compare your chosen company against three other companies:

$$ Within the same industry segment

$$ From the list of companies in the TSX$-300($and the TSX$-60)$

$$ From companies in the DOW$30$ index

Use of the following tools is required for competitive analysis:

$$ SWOT analysis

$$ PESTEL analysis

$$ Balanced Scorecard

Learning Outcomes

After completing this assignment, you will be able to

$2\mathrm{.}0$ Organizational and Project Management

$2\mathrm{.}1$ Organize a team to dissect a project into manageable tasks.

$2\mathrm{.}2$ Apply best practices to research topics and determine project scope and objectives.

$2\mathrm{.}3$ Construct professional$-$level business and technical documentation.

$2\mathrm{.}4$ Carry out a SWOT analysis of an organization.

$2\mathrm{.}5$ Construct an actionable RACI matrix to manage role$-$based project processes and activities.

Tasks$/$Deliverables

$$ RACI

$$ List of team members including roles and responsibilities

$$ Signed group contract.

$$ Overview of the company you selected which includes financial status, market share...

$$ Competitive analysis$/$SWOT $$ must be on your company and the three competitors...

Our chosen company is Shopify for this assignment