Prior to beginning work on this assignment, watch the Week 6 video above with Bill Davis, Program Chair for BA of Operations and Analysis.

With this assignment you will complete the Global Marketing Plan for your mentor company that you began working on in Week 2 of this course. When submitting this assignment, be sure to include the portions you completed during Week 2 through Week 5 and make any adjustments to the work from any recommendations in your gradebook.

For this assignment, you are encouraged to upload your work to your ePortfolio in addition to Waypoint. Learn more about Folio, Ashfords ePortfolio tool, by viewing the Folio Quick Start Guide (Links to an external site.).

Submit your file to Waypoint using the button below. Then paste the link to your Folio page as a comment in Waypoint so your instructor can access your ePortfolio.

In your paper,

Under an Executive Summary heading
Summarize the rational of your plan.
Under an Environmental Analysis heading
Analyze the environmental situation of your mentor company in global arena based on Economic, Trade, Social and Cultural, Political, Legal, and Regulatory factors. Then select a country in one of these regions: Latin America, Middle East, and Africa and provide a situational analysis of that country considering the following criteria: demographic, economic, trade, social, cultural, legal, regulatory, and political factors. (Hint: Refer to your Week 2 Global Marketing Plan Part 1 assignment and include it in your final paper after you incorporated your instructors feedback and comments).
Discuss how market research, information systems and big data will help you understand the region better.
Under a General Strategy heading
Explain your segmentation, targeting, and positioning strategy for that line of product in the new region (Hint: Refer to your Week 3 Twitter Advertising Analysis for Target Marketing discussion).
Discuss your market entry strategy including export selling and sourcing activities, if any.
Under a Specific Plans and Strategies heading
Explain your competitive advantages strategies to compete against five industry forces.
Formulate the 4Ps:
Product and brands (Hint: Refer to Part 2 of your Week 4 Product Branding discussion)
Price
Place
Promotion with a special focus on digital media and IMC (Hint: Refer to your Week 5 Integrated Marketing Communications assignment)
Discuss the companys CSR and social responsiveness strategies particularly in the selected region.
The Global Marketing Plan Part 2 Final Paper

Must be 10 to 13 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Centers APA Style (Links to an external site.) resource.
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Students name
Course name and number
Instructors name
Date submitted
For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).
Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources.
Must use at least one scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Centers Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.) guide.
Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.
Please use Folio to upload your paper.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.