The strategic management plan for Pepsi should include the concepts and ideas covered throughout this course. The following points need to be addressed in your strategic management plan: • Explain the strategic management process within the global environment. • Describe the role of corporate governance in strategic decision making. • Conduct various environmental analyses as they relate to an organization. • Identify challenges in strategy implementation. • Create strategies and potential strategic alternatives for different situations. • Integrate and apply knowledge gained in other courses in the business administration curriculum. • Use effective communication techniques. • Include anything else that you deem important to support your strategic management plan. Please use my table of contents to help: I. Opening/Introduction A. Write a complete and full paragraph include the importance of business success is related to business strategy. Also, introduce a publicly traded, fortune 500 company and its current type of business. Mention the current growth patterns by using Datamontior.com. HCA Holdings is one company that is publically traded and has seen an increase in stock. II. Discuss the companyÂ- corporate strategy and explain what business the organization is in or wants to be moving. A. Visit the companyÂ- website and explore the corporate strategy and if the company is staying the course or making a move into a new industry or using a new strategy. III. Describe your growth objectives for this organization. A. With the use of the information from Datamontior.com and the companyÂ- website, determine how the company is growing and what methods and objectives they have used. IV. Provide an explanation of the different types of growth strategies. A. Identify the different types of growth strategies a company can use and why it would be beneficial for a company to employ such strategy. Include strategies, market penetration, market development, alternative channels, product development, and new products for new customers. 1. Use examples. B. Identify integrative growth strategies here. 1. Growth can occur through acquisition, whether it occurs, horizontal, backward, or forward and what the advantages of each are. Use examples. V. Determine which type of growth strategy you would utilize for this organization, and explain why. A. After examining the company, identify the different types of growth strategies and compare it to alternative growth strategies to determine which strategy changes could benefit the company, if any. 1. Use examples to support my assumptions. VI. Explain how your growth strategy will help this organization fulfill its growth objectives. A. HCA Holdings is in the healthcare industry. With the governmental changes in healthcare going into effect, HCA will need to change with the times. By having a strategy for continued growth, they will continue to see their stock rise and keep all their facilities open. One area of growth will come through acquisitions. VII. Conclusion A. Have at least a full paragraph explaining what I gleaned from the assignment and how the companyÂ- use of strategic management has moved it forward and my ideas and impressions of how the company should utilize strategic management in the future to produce continued revenue and profits.