Global Competitive Index Report

Using the Global Competitive Index Report (“GCI”) accessible by this link:

WEF_TheGlobalCompetitivenessReport2019-1.pdf

Please do the following:

Find the Country Report for the United States, OR your home country if you are not a citizen of the U.S.A. This will be your "Home" country for the assignment.

The country you chose as a Home country is most likely part of at least one economically integrated group. For example, the United States is part of the new NAFTA (USMCA). (While unlikely, if there is no home country report for your home country, please choose the country report corresponding to the country nearest your home country.)

Please do the following:

Assume you are Golfco based in your chosen home, regionally integrated, country. (This is the selection you made immediately above.)

You currently sell:

i) Common golf products: golf balls, gloves, golf clubs, hats, shoes, etc.; and

ii) Proprietary products: a set of eyeglasses capable of projecting a visible 3D image of the surface contour of the putting green in the lenses of the glasses when worn.

You own:

iii) the U.S. patent rights to a proprietary technology in the nature of ground surface mapping software and the hardware components to visualize the contour of a putting green in 3-dimensions. Here are the Patents:

US9839828-NikeGolf.pdf

US9694269-NikeGolf.pdf

Your operation consists of the following Value Chain segments:

Engineering-Product Design-Manufacturing/Assembly-Marketing/Advertising-Finance/Sales/Service

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Task 1.: Using the backside of the country report (sample below), select all of the Index Component choices you feel have a direct or a close indirect relationship to your business. (Note: The backside of the GCI is titled ” The Global Competitiveness Index in detail”. See the column titled "Index Component" on the example below.)

You must choose at least 6 Index Component choices.

You need not provide a copy of the report with your submissions. The report provided below is merely an example.

Task 1 - Record and Present: (1) Your home country AND name the economically integrated group membership, (2) all of the numerical metric choices you made, and (3) the reported rank for each of your choices according to the report.

For example:

United States of America-member of NAFTA along with Canada and Mexico.

Index Component Choice/Rank: 1.02/14, Value 5.8, leveling trend..

Sample Comment: Intellectual property protection is important to me because I own patents covering the technology.

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Task 2: Select any other country as a Host country (i.e., not the country you used for Task 1 above) that you feel would present a market opportunity for this golf technology. Find the corresponding country report for your chosen Host country from the GCI and select the same Index Component choices you chose for your home country.

Task 2 - Record and Present: (4) Your chosen Host country AND name the economically integrated group membership to which it belongs, (5) the Index Component choices for this second country to match the choices you made for Task 1, and (6) report the rank for each of your choices.

For example (similar to Task 1 above):

China, WTO membership, Numerical Choice/Rank: 1.02/49, Value??, trend ??

Comments: ??

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Task 3 - Present

Comparing your results from Tasks 1 & 2:

(7) Provide comments on why you chose the Index Components you chose; and, discuss the relative advantages or disadvantages of your home-to-host move as they relate to your: (8) Common products, (9) Proprietary products, and (10) patents.

Assessment

You are encouraged to present your answers in a table format if possible.

Task 1 - 6 points (Items 1-3)

Task 2 - 6 points (Items 4-6)

Task 3 - 8 points (Items 7-10)

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