Important questions – Strategic
Management
1) Who
is Stakeholders in the Business? Explain their importance.
2) The I/O Model and Resource-based Model of
Above Average Return,
3) What
is Vision and Mission? Write any five examples.
4) Write
the common characteristics to frame Business Mission and vision.
5) Explain:
what is Business Model and how strategy link with it?
6) External
and Industry Environmental Analysis using
7) Describe
:PEST Analysis
8) Prepare Porter’s Five-Force Model for any one
industry
9) Write
Key Success factor and Diving Forces for any industry
10) What
is Strategic Group Mapping? Explain with suitable example.
11) Describe
concept of Value Chain. How value chain is important in business strategy.
12) What is SWOT Analysis? Prepare SWOT analysis for any suitable company.
13) How
Resources and Capabilities helps to
create Competencies,
14) Explain: Competence, Core Competence, Distinctive
Competence of Organizations with suitable examples
15) What are Competitive Advantage and Sustainable
Competitive Advantage? Explain with examples.
16) Explain
how corporate, business, operational and functional level strategy links with
each other.
17) Write
in detail with suitable example: Business level strategy – cost leadership,
differentiation, best cost, focus strategy.
18) International
Business Strategies.
19) Why
companies are Diversify? Why company going for related and unrelated
diversification.
20) Write
Pros and Cons : Strategic Alliance, Joint Ventures, Mergers & Acquisitions
21) “No
successful company can grow without fulfilling its Corporate Social
Responsibility”. Discuss giving an example of Dell, Boeing, TATA, Reliance,
ESSAR or any listed Indian company.
22) What is “Ethics?” Explain its approaches
23) Explain
concept: Matching Structure and Strategy
24) Functional
Strategies and Policies
For
Reading Purpose:
25)
Explain how an organization culture will lead best strategy execution?
26)
Operations Control and Strategic Control
27)
What is Management of change? Reasons for Resistance to Change? How you
over come from Resistance to Change
28)
You wish to implement ‘Balance Score Card’ in your new organization to
have better financial controls and achieve 50% higher performance in the year
2013-13. Explain this concept
29)
Define ‘strategic leadership ‘
and explain the role of top level managers
30)
“Corporate Governance is essential to manage the relationship among
stakeholders and to control the performance of an organization”. Discuss giving
an example of a company of your choice.
31)
Discuss in detail of guidelines to be followed in designing proper
incentive compensation system
Note: Submission: 20th Nov. 2013. Attempt: 1 to 24 questions remaining for
reading purpose.
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