Crescent Point Energy Corp. CASE STUDY

Crescent Point Energy Corp. CASE STUDY As its name suggest, the Executive Summary should summarize the document’s contents.While this may seem obvious, far too often an Executive Summary introduces a documentrather than summarizing it. To avoid this, it is imperative that you keep in mind that anExecutive Summary should stand on its own. Think of it as a thumbnail image on a website.The goal in displaying a thumbnail is to reduce the download time or to allow you to seemultiple images simultaneously. If you like one of the images, you can click on it to see amore detailed (i.e., higher resolution) version. The same goes for an Executive Summary. Itshould provide a rough idea of the document’s contents but should save the details forthose who are sufficiently interested to read the entire document.It is essential that an Executive Summary not be too long. Actual length often depends onthe length of the document being described. It also depends on professional norms. Thatsaid, it would be unusual for an Executive Summary to be more than 10% of the entiredocument. And more often than not, it would be closer to 5% of the overall length,particularly when there is a word limit on the length of the overall document (as is the casewith your assignments). Introduction & Company Overview 5%The Introduction & Company Overview should introduce the reader to the report. Sinceyour report is focused on a single organization, among other things, it should introduce thatorganization. In the first two assignments, the organization will not need much of anintroduction since the marker will have read the case on which your assignment is based.But in Assignment 3, you cannot assume that the marker knows anything at all about theorganization. For this reason, it is essential for you to provide sufficient context to makesense of the subsequent sections. Toward this end, you may also need to introduce theorganization’s industry.Author(s) of analytical documents often discuss the limitations of their report. This mayhappen in a separate section toward the end, or even in the conclusion. However, becauseyou are not required to provide a conclusion to your report, you ought to discuss anylimitations in your Introduction & Company Overview. While you need not go into too muchdetail, you should at least identify the sources or assumptions on which your reportdepends. Additionally, you may wish to identify the sources or information that wouldenable you to provide a more detailed or more confident analysis.Mandate 10%mandate describes why it exists, what it hopes to accomplish, and the limitsto what it will do. Every organization has a mandate and many make their mandate, or atleast a portion of it, explicit in the form of Mission Statements, Visions, Core Values, etc.However, as you will learn, these public declarations often have more to do with windowdressing than guiding the organization’s actions. The publicly stated Mandate is not alwaysthe same as the assumed mandate. It is important to recognize this distinction for it is thelatter that you are to provide in your assignments, not the former. your mandate should be divided into four elements. The first is theMission Statement or Core Purpose. The second is the Vision and/or Major Goals. Third isthe organization’s Core Values or, alternatively, its Guiding Principles. The final element isthe Stakeholder Analysis.Each of the foregoing should be kept relatively brief—even briefer than they might be inreality. So while some organizations might have lengthy Mission Statements, your MissionStatement or Core Purpose should be no longer than a couple of sentences. The same istrue of the Vision and/or Major Goals. Ideally, an organization’s vision will be quite detailed.However, you should need just a few sentences to convey your understanding of what theorganization hopes to be and/or accomplish in the long term. This also applies to theorganization’s Major Goals. If your organization has more than a handful, you need includein your assignments only the five or six that convey the most important outcomes.As with the other elements of the Mandate, the Core Values/Guiding Principles shouldreflect your impressions of the organization’s core values. This is particularly important ifyour organization has a Code of Conduct, which is often quite detailed. It’s up to you todistill this code into a handful of values or principles that convey how this organizationexpects its representatives to conduct themselves. Somewhere between five and ten valuesor principles ought to suffice within the context of your assignments.Stakeholder Analysis is the final element of the Mandate. A full-blown stakeholder analysiscan be a report unto itself. For your assignments, all that is required is a list of the mostimportant stakeholders and their most important implications for the organization you areanalyzing. External Analysis 15%An External Analysis is a review of the organization’s industry, as well as the societal forcesthat shape it. Usually, the objective of an external analysis is to identify an organization’sopportunities and threats. When an organization can increase the size of its operations oraccrue more benefits from its existing operations,