Strategic Management Assignment 1 Sept.
2019
Write a detailed note on following strategies. Note must include definition,
suitable situation for using the strategy, advantages, disadvantages and a real
life example for that strategy.
All questions are compulsory. After completing assignment, a small
presentation of (2 to 5minutes) will taken presentation on any strategy.
1. Forward Integration
2. Backward Integration
3. Horizontal integration
4. Market Penetration
5. Market development
6. Product development
7. Concentric diversification
8. Conglomerate diversification
9. Horizontal diversification
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13. Joint venture
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Assignment no 2- Keep this assignment ready
by 1st October, 2019
Note: All questions are compulsory
1. What do you mean by strategy? How is a business model different from a
strategy?
2. Write the meaning, definitions and elements of strategy?
3. Explain organizational strategies, organization’s vision, mission and
competitive advantage.
4. Discuss the history, scope and objectives of strategic management.
5. What do you understand by strategic management process? What are its
benefits?
6. Discuss about the components of the strategic management model.
7. Explain the step by step process of making strategic plan, its
implementation, execution and evaluation by an entrepreneur.
8. Explain benefits of strategic management approach by making an accurate
assessment of the impact of strategy formulation on the organization.
9. What is mission statement? What are its characteristics? What are the
steps for developing effective mission statement?
[Link] do you think are the sources of sustained superior profitability?
[Link] are the strengths of formal strategic planning? What are its
weaknesses?
[Link] what environmental conditions are price wars most likely to occur in
an industry? What are the implications of price wars for a company? How
should a company, try to deal with the threat of a price war?
[Link] does strategic planning improve the performance of the organization?
[Link] is the importance of the study of an organization’s internal and
external environment before formulation of strategy for the growth of its
business?
[Link] a note on the SWOT Analysis and its importance in strategic
management?
[Link] the culture environment and its alignment with corporate image of
an organization.
[Link] internal analysis and VRIO analysis.
[Link] business environment and factors affecting business.
[Link] the forces having impact on an organization’s competitive
advantage.
[Link] Porter’s five forces model with reference to what you know about
the Indian Airline Industry. What does the model tell you about the level of
competition in this industry?
[Link] a growth industry, a mature industry and a declining industry. For
each industry, identify the following: (a) the number and size distribution of
companies(b)the nature of barrier to entry (c)the height of barriers to
entry and (d)the extend of product differentiation. What do these factors
tell you about the nature of competition in each industry? What are the
implications for the company in terms of opportunities and threats?
[Link] the impact of macro environmental factors on the likely level of
enrollment at your university over the next decade. What are the
implications of these factors for the job security and salary levels of your
professors?
23. The primary analytical tool of strategic cost analysis is a value chain
identifying the separate activities, functions and business processes,
discuss.
24. What do you understand by cost advantage and value chain?
[Link] GE Nine Cell Planning Grid.
[Link] the BCG matrix and its utility in strategic business planning.
27. How are the four generic building blocks of competitive advantage relate
to each other?
[Link] role can top management play in helping a company achieve superior
efficiency, quality, innovation and responsiveness to customers?
29. When is company likely to choose related diversification and when
unrelated diversification? Discuss with reference to an electronics
manufacturer and an ocean shipping company.
[Link] what circumstances might it be best to enter a new business area by
acquisition, and under what circumstances might internal new venturing be
the preferred entry mode?
