For this week’s individual case assignment, I ask that everyone first read the preceding section in the text entitled ‘How To Conduct a Case Analysis’.  If this is your first exposure to working with analyzing a business case, it can seem daunting.  However, I plan to role this out with you in conjunction with our progress with the text.  For example, we will take an incremental building block approach.

Use the format posted in the announcement section (nine sections) of the course.  Include all detailed information for sections  1 through 5.  Based on section 5, you will have your focus for section 6.

Key Issues To Be Addressed:As you will see in the case, many changes have occurred in the marketplace for McDonalds.  For any company with longevity, this is often the case.  Any company which does not make the effort to formally question/examine itself (as you will do in section 6), can quickly find it ismeeting the needs of market that either no longer exists or is no longer strategic.  With that in mind, answer the following in your analysis:

• What are McDonalds’ stated target markets?
• Can they be addressed with a consistent single strategy?
• Which, if any, of these target markets are key to future growth?
• What courses of action would you explore?

Be precise; support your reasoning for each question.

For section 6, I want your analysis portion of the case to focus on what is covered in this unit’s reading:

1. External Analysis
   1. Use both model/approach from the following
      1. PESTEL (cover all 6 factors)
      2. The Five Forces Model (cover all 5 forces)
   2. In addition, address:
      1. Ease of entry
      2. Exit Barriers
2. Internal Analysis
   1. Discuss Core Competencies
   2. Resource-Based View
   3. VRIO Framework

Complete the remaining sections as required in the course template.

Attached is an example analysis paper ON AMAZON. The analysis of McDonald’s is needed in the same exact format:

Explicit Vocabulary Instruction

Research consistently shows learning deficits and lower achievement scores for children of color, low SES, and ELLs. This gap starts at an early age with many children entering kindergarten knowing thousands of fewer words than their higher SES counterparts.

As you read the article “Vocabulary: The Key to Teaching English Language Learners to Read,” you see that Direct Vocabulary Instruction is one method that has been shown to help close this gap.

Find two research articles that discuss other ways to explicitly provide instruction in vocabulary development to demonstrate your breadth of knowledge regarding vocabulary development. With the knowledge that, “a large vocabulary is one of the best general indicators of intelligence” (Marzano, 2009, p. 51), discuss ways in which you can use these approaches in your own ECE class. Where and how do successful students learn the vocabulary that they know? What types of direct and indirect strategies would you employ to encourage and enhance the acquisition of vocabulary in young children?

Focus on how to develop children’s ability to comprehend and use academic language both orally and in writing.