Essay - Personal App the Strategic Management Club Online (Smco) Offers a...

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The Strategic Management Club Online (SMCO) offers a list of m*****inly online resources for graduate and undergraduate business policy and strategic management students. Resources include links to specific case, financial, graduate school, job search, and strategic planning websites. The SMCO also sells s*****tware, sample case analyses, site licenses, and a Microsoft templ*****te. All the software, templates, and ***** case studies are written by Forest David, ***** owner and manager of *****, contributing author to several case instruction manuals and textbooks, and instructor at Francis Marion University. Although the site is not much to look at, it does *****fer students who are new to business policy and strategic ***** a solid starting place to start their Internet re*****. Anyone who needs to compile a case study can use the SMCO instead of Google to begin a search for relevant information.

***** SMCO webs*****e could use a facelift. Pages are publ*****hed on a light gray background with the words "Strategic Management Club Online" watermarked in several different sizes. The title ***** header f*****ts are hideous and out-of-date. Although the site is fairly simple ***** easy to navigate, the site author should have made the ***** into a hyperlink for the home page. To return to the home *****, *****rs ***** to scroll down to the bot*****m of each page. Besides that flaw, SMCO's website is ***** functional and serves its purpose. A frame at the top of each page ***** below the title includes links to each section of the site: Case Links, Financial Statements, Grad School Links, Job Search links, Strategic Planning Links, Manufacturing and Service Links, CheckMATE softw*****, ordering ***** contact information. Contact information is e-mail only and clicking on ***** "tab" for either Dr. David or ***** opens a new ***** in the user's def*****ult e-mail client, which may or ***** not please users. In fact, many users will have Web-based e-mail accounts and will find ***** links frustrating. Thankfully, Forest David offers his mailing and e-mail addresses ********** on the home page. The SMCO home page ***** a brief introductory paragraph that explains ***** purpose of the site and its intended audience: students.

***** for its *****are the SMCO ***** does not necessarily offer anything new or original. Many of the links could be easily found by using Google ***** ***** the SMCO. Even so, ***** list of links is located on *****e page and therefore can be helpful for students or anyone new to strategic management and business. The ***** will give v*****it*****s a valuable *****ing point ***** re***** or investigation that may help some students save time. In this sense, the SMCO is like a portal for business students. ***** SMCO also sells specialized s*****tware, templates, ***** sample case *****; none of these are free. SMCO ***** does not link to scholarly da*****ases, white papers, market *****, PDF files or articles in peer-reviewed journals. Therefore, the SMCO is not helpful for students need*****g assistance with scholastic papers.

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