Business Strategy

What I am looking for in these forums?
1.       Active involvement quality is much more important than quantity. This applies to content as well as language/grammar etc.
2.       When you reply to the question(s), videos etc. which I may load for the week via forums, are your responses backed by research or are they simply opinions without supporting evidence? do they add/built on others ideas/thoughts etc. or, are they simply repeating the same information? do they offer examples/application? does your entry offer different perspectives? are you able to explain complex issues/ideas/theories in a concise and straight forward fashion?
3.       Do you respond to other students posts and/or acknowledge others which may comment to your posts?
General guidelines:
         Please make sure you reference your work if you draw on others work. ie: always cite your sources APA  format
         I truly value different views (when supported with evidence) hence, do not be afraid to disagree with comments/questions etc. which I may post to illicit your response.

Review one peer reviewed article on Porter’s Five Forces (yes, don’t simply Google 5 forces – I want you to be able find peer reviewed articles). Briefly describe and reflect on ONE potential issuechallenge with this model.  Now, pretend you are told to do a 5 Forces analysis on a particular industry BUT, you could only use ONE of the 5 Forces to determine the attractiveness of that industry. Which ONE of the 5 would you pick and why?
                                                  OR,
17th Century British poet John Donne famously coined the phrase “no man is an island”  in the same way that companiesorganizations  do not “operate in a vacuum” as they are both impacted  by and try to impact the general environment they operate in. Briefly introduce a model you would use to analyze the general environment facing any organization (be very brief). Now, identify one potential approachtactic an organization may use to INFLUENCE the environment it operates in.