As a strategist you are required to undertake a task and submit a consultancy paper to the Board of Directors of a Multinational Company that seeks to learn strategy lessons from the Ghanaian economy. Required:

 (a) Critically examine any 11 Grand Strategies in terms of their characteristics, advantages and disadvantages.

 (b) Comprehensively analyse Porter's Generic Strategies and for each generic strategy, provide detailed examples of two companies each that have adopted each named generic strategy.

 (c) Research and find out real Ghanaian corporate examples over the past three decades that fits each Grand Strategy described above. (precede each example with a paragraph on the background of the company being named)

 (d) Investigate what accounted for the success or failure of each example stated in 'b' above and provide superior recommendations that would have helped such companies in those instances to achieve their objectives.

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This sounds like a comprehensive project Lets break it down step by step a Grand Strategies 1 Market Development This strategy involves expanding into new markets with existing products Characteristic... View the full answer