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Draw a breakeven chart to illustrate closing stores.
Draw a breakeven chart to illustrate lowering price.
Explain why prioritizing the relative importance of strengths and weaknesses in an IFE Matrix is an important strategic-management activity.
How can delegation of authority contribute to effective strategic management?
Diagram a formal organizational chart that reflects the following positions: a president, 2 executive officers, 4 middle managers, and 18 lower-level managers. Now, diagram three overlapping and
Which of the three basic functions of finance/accounting do you feel is most important in a small electronics manufacturing concern? Justify your position.
Do you think aggregate R&D expenditures for U.S. firms will increase or decrease next year? Why?
Explain how you would motivate managers and employees to implement a major new strategy.
Why do you think production/operations managers often are not directly involved in strategy-formulation activities? Why can this be a major organizational weakness?
Why is it essential for organizations to segment markets and target particular groups of consumers?
Give two examples of staffing strengths and two examples of staffing weaknesses of an organization with which you are familiar.
Would you ever pay out dividends when your firm’s annual net profit is negative? Why? What effect could this have on a firm’s strategies?
Explain how and why the Internet makes market segmentation easier.
If a firm has zero debt in its capital structure, is that always an organizational strength? Why or why not?
Describe the production/operations system in a police department.
A product-positioning rule given in the chapter is that “When there are only two competitors, the middle becomes the preferred strategic position.” Illustrate this for the cruise ship industry,
After conducting an internal audit, a firm discovers a total of 100 strengths and 100 weaknesses. What procedures then could be used to determine the most important of these? Why is it important to
How could/would dividends affect an EPS/EBIT analysis? Would it be correct to refer to “earnings after taxes, interest, and dividends” as retained earnings for a given year?
Why do you believe cultural products affect all the functions of business?
In performing an EPS/EBIT analysis, where does the first row (EBIT) numbers come from?
Do you think cultural products affect strategy formulation, implementation, or evaluation the most? Why?
Identify cultural products at your college or university. Do these products, viewed collectively or separately, represent a strength or weakness for the organization?
In performing an EPS/EBIT analysis, where does the tax rate percentage come from?
Describe the management information system at your college or university.
Explain the difference between data and information in terms of each being useful to strategists.
For the Litten Company in Table 8-8, what would the Retained Earnings value have to have been in 2009 on the balance sheet, given that the 2010 NI-DIV value was $4?
What are the most important characteristics of an effective management information system?
Do you agree or disagree with the RBV theorists that internal resources are more important for a firm than external factors in achieving and sustaining competitive advantage? Explain your and their
Show algebraically that the price earnings ratio formula is identical to the number of shares outstanding times stock price formula. Why are the values obtained from these two methods sometimes
Define and discuss “empirical indicators.”
Define and discuss the “spam” problem in the United States.
In accounting terms, distinguish between intangibles and goodwill on a balance sheet. Why do these two items generally stay the same on projected financial statements?
Define and explain value chain analysis (VCA).
List five financial ratios that may be used by your university to monitor operations.
What are the three major R&D approaches to implementing strategies? Which approach would you prefer as owner of a small software company? Why?
Suppose your company has just acquired a firm that produces battery-operated lawn mowers, and strategists want to implement a market-penetration strategy. How would you segment the market for this
Explain how you would estimate the total worth of a business.
Diagram and label clearly a product-positioning map that includes six fast-food restaurant chains.
Explain why EPS/EBIT analysis is a central strategy-implementation technique.
How would the R&D role in strategy implementation differ in small versus large organizations?
Discuss the limitations of EPS/EBIT analysis.
Explain how marketing, finance/accounting, R&D, and management information systems managers’ involvement in strategy formulation can enhance strategy implementation.
Consider the following statement: “Retained earnings on the balance sheet are not monies available to finance strategy implementation.” Is it true or false? Explain.
Explain why projected financial statement analysis is considered both a strategy formulation and a strategy-implementation tool.
Describe some marketing, finance/accounting, R&D, and management information systems activities that a small restaurant chain might undertake to expand into a neighboring state.
What effect is e-commerce having on firms’ efforts to segment markets?
How has the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 changed CEOs’ and CFOs’ handling of financial statements?
Complete the following EPS/EBIT analysis for a company whose stock price is $20, interest rate on funds is 5 percent, tax rate is 20 percent, number of shares outstanding is 500 million, and EBIT
Under what conditions would retained earnings on the balance sheet decrease from one year to the next?
In your own words, list all the steps in developing projected financial statements.
Based on the financial statements provided in this chapter for the Litten Company, calculate the value of this company if you know that its stock price is $20 and it has 1 million shares
Why should you be careful not to use historical percentages blindly in developing projected financial statements?
In developing projected financial statements, what should you do if the $ amount you must put in the cash account (to make the statement balance) is far more (or less) than desired?
Why is it both important and necessary to segment markets and target groups of customers, rather than market to all possible consumers?
In full detail, explain the following EPS/EBITchart.
Explain benchmarking.
In order of importance, list six “characteristics of objectives.”
In order of importance, list six “benefits of objectives.”
Called de-integration, there appears to be a growing trend for firms to become less forward integrated. Discuss why.
Called de-integration, there appears to be a growing trend for firms to become less backward integrated. Discuss why.
If a company has $1 million to spend on a new strategy and is considering market development versus product development, what determining factors would be most important to consider?
What conditions, externally and internally, would be desired/necessary for a firm to diversify?
Discuss “nationalization versus bankruptcy” for large American icon firms such as General Motors, AIG, and Citigroup. Which strategy is best for (1) the company and (2) the U.S. economy? Discuss.
Could a firm simultaneously pursue focus, differentiation, and cost leadership? Should firms do that? Discuss.
There is a growing trend of increased collaboration among competitors. List the benefits and drawbacks of this practice.
List four major benefits of forming a joint venture to achieve desired objectives.
List six major benefits of acquiring another firm to achieve desired objectives.
List five reasons why many merger/acquisitions historically have failed.
Can you think of any reasons why not-for-profit firms would benefit less from doing strategic planning than for-profit companies?
Discuss how important it is for a college football or basketball team to have a good game plan for the big rival game this coming weekend. How much time and effort do you feel the coaching staff puts
Why are more than 60 percent of Fortune 500 firms headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware?
Define and give a hypothetical example of a “white knight” in the fast-food industry.
How does strategy formulation differ for a small versus a large organization? How does it differ for a for-profit versus a nonprofit organization?
Give recent examples of market penetration, market development, and product development.
Give recent examples of forward integration, backward integration, and horizontal integration.
Give recent examples of related and unrelated diversification.
Give recent examples of joint venture, retrenchment, divestiture, and liquidation.
Do you think hostile takeovers are unethical? Why or why not?
What are the major advantages and disadvantages of diversification?
What are the major advantages and disadvantages of an integrative strategy?
How does strategic management differ in for-profit and nonprofit organizations?
Why is it not advisable to pursue too many strategies at once?
Consumers can purchase tennis shoes, food, cars, boats, and insurance on the Internet. Are there any products today than cannot be purchased online? What is the implication for traditional retailers?
What are the pros and cons of a firm merging with a rival firm?
Visit the CheckMATE strategic-planning software Web site at www.checkmateplan.com, and discuss the benefits offered.
Compare and contrast financial objectives with strategic objectives. Which type is more important in your opinion? Why?
Diagram a two-division organizational chart that includes a CEO, COO, CIO, CSO, CFO, CMO, HRM, R&D, and two division presidents. Hint: Division presidents report to the COO.
How do the levels of strategy differ in a large firm versus a small firm?
List 11 types of strategies. Give a hypothetical example of each strategy listed.
Discuss the nature of as well as the pros and cons of a “friendly merger” versus “hostile takeover” in acquiring another firm. Give an example of each.
Define and explain “first mover advantages.”
Define and explain “outsourcing.”
Discuss the business of offering a BBA or MBA degree online.
What strategies are best for turbulent, high-velocity markets?
Describe the relationship between annual objectives and policies.
Many multidivisional firms do not report revenues or profits by division or segment in their Form 10K or Annual Report. What are pros and cons of this management practice? Discuss.
Define halo error. How can halo error inhibit selecting the best strategies to pursue?
List six drawbacks of using only subjective information in formulating strategies.
For a firm that you know well, give an example SO Strategy, showing how an internal strength can be matched with an external opportunity to formulate strategy.
For a firm that you know well, give an example WT Strategy, showing how an internal weakness can be matched with an external threat to formulate a strategy.

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