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strategic management 5th
Strategic Management A Competitive Advantage Approach Concepts And Cases 16th Edition Fred R David, Forest R. David - Solutions
List in order of importance what you feel are the six major advantages of a weak dollar for a U.S.-based firm.
Discuss the I/O view or approach to strategic planning.
Compare the ratings in an EFE Matrix with those in a CPM in terms of meaning and definition.
List the 10 external areas that give rise to opportunities and threats. Give an example of each for IBM.
Your boss develops an EFE Matrix that includes 54 factors.How would you suggest reducing the number of factors to 20?
Contact your college library. Ask if they have the S&P Industry Surveys in hardcopy (or online) in the library.If they do, print out the relevant report for a company that you are familiar with.
Discuss the ethics of cooperating with rival firms.
Discuss the ethics of gathering competitive intelligence.
Develop a CPM for a company that you or your parents have been employed.
List 10 external trends or facts pertaining specifically to your country that would impact companies in your city.
Distinguish between ratings and weights in an EFE Matrix.
Develop an EFE Matrix for your college or university.
Identify an industry in which “bargaining power of suppliers” is the most important factor among Porter’s variables.
Using Porter’s Five-Forces Model, explain competitiveness for a local fast food restaurant.
Discuss the pros and cons of gathering and assimilating competitive intelligence.
Choose any four industries and explain how wireless technology is impacting four industries.
Regarding political, governmental, and legal variables, list in order of importance six specific factors that you feel most greatly impact your college or university.
Regarding social, cultural, demographic, and natural environment variables, list in order of importance six specific factors that you feel most greatly impact your college or university.
Explain why U.S.-based firms, such as McDonald’s, greatly benefit from a weak dollar.
Regarding economic variables, list in order of importance six specific factors that you feel greatly impact your college or university.
Give four reasons why you agree or do not agree with I/O theorists.
List the 10 key external forces that give rise to opportunities and threats. Give a specific example of each force, for your college or university.
Read and summarize Chapter 10’s “Implications for Students,” which emphasizes on gaining and sustaining competitive advantage as the overriding purpose of developing the EFE Matrix and the CPM.
Identify two companies that you think would have a 1.5 total weighted score on their EFE Matrix. Why?Identify two companies that would have a 3.5 total weighted score on their EFE Matrix. Why?
Does the Arab Spring, in the Middle East, represent more of an opportunity or threat to companies? Explain.
List four reasons why some countries in Europe are struggling economically in comparison to Asian countries. What is the strategic implication for companies?
The size of American labor unions have fallen sharply in the last decade, mostly due to the erosion of the U.S.manufacturing base. How does the situation in any country of Europe compare to the United States in this regard?What is the strategic implication for companies?
A political debate in the United States concerns sales taxes on the Internet. Most states do not collect a sales tax on online products. How does the situation in any country of Europe compare with the United States, in terms of sales tax on items purchased online? What is the strategic implication
Of the many competitors it has, which firm do you think worries Michelin most about? Why? Prepare a Competitive Profile Matrix (CPM) that includes Michelin and the rival firm you identified.
Michelin has been very successful in the last decade.In your opinion, what strategy changes would Michelin need in 2016?
Visit BOC’s investor relations section on its website and check the investor services. Click on 2015 interim results, available under the results presentation, and make a note the top six executives pictured at this website. Determine whether the top twenty executives of Bank of China include any
Describe BOC’s most recent financial performance?
Visit the investor section on the BOC website and review its financial condition. Compute three key ratios. Rate the bank’s financial condition on an A, B, C, D, or F grading system.
Visit the About Us section of the bank’s website. Go through the information under Organization section and review BOC’s branch offices globally. How has the number of branches changed in the last six months, given that virtually all banks in the United States are closing branches rather than
Would you ever pay out dividends when your firm’s annual net profit is negative? Why or why not? What effect could this have on a firm’s strategies?
List three ways that financial ratios should be compared or used. Which of the three comparisons do you feel is most important? Why?
Does spending more on research and development usually positively impact stock price appreciation?
How does the cost of sales compare between online versus brick-and-mortar sales approaches?
Does the RBV Theory help in determining diversification targets?
Do you think the RBV view or the I/O theorists view is more accurate in performing a strategic analysis? What would be the important implications for a business?
Why is inclusion of about 20 factors recommended in the IFE Matrix, rather than about 10 factors or about 40 factors?
When is it more important to capitalize on strengths than improve on weaknesses in strategic planning?
Since Nestlé is so divisional, how could the company best develop a corporate IFE Matrix for various Divisional IFE Matrices?
Could Nestlé and Mars, Inc. being rival companies hinder the two firms from cooperating with each other on R&D or facilitate the gathering and assimilation of competitive intelligence of one or the other firm?
Explain how top executives of Nestle could utilize Porter’s Five Forces Model to aid the firm in strategic planning.
Explain how Nestlé could utilize breakeven analysis.
Prepare a financial ratio analysis for Nestlé. Include comparative ratios for a rival and for the industry
For the Nestlé Cohesion Case, what do you consider as the company’s four major strengths and four major weaknesses?
Go to the www.strategyclub.com website and review the benefits of using the free excel template.
Explain benchmarking
What are the basic functions of production/operations in a large manufacturing company? Why are these factors important in an internal strategic management audit?
Why is breakeven analysis such an important strategic planning concept?
Explain breakeven analysis using three graphs that show changes in breakeven given: 1) a change in price, 2) a change in advertising expenditures, and 3) a change in labor costs.
Financial ratio analysis should be conducted on three separate fronts. What are these fronts and which is most important?
Develop a breakeven chart for a company, which simultaneously lays off employees and closes facilities.
Rate the company where you work, or would like to work, on the fifteen aspects of culture listed in the chapter.
What five cultural products do you feel are most important? Justify your selections.
Search the Internet for financial information on Volkswagen (VW). Identify three financial ratios where the firm is weak and three financial ratios the firm is strong.
Identify four major strengths and weaknesses each, of your college or university. Rank each factor in terms of importance.
Develop a value chain analysis for a large global firm and its primary rival firm.
Visit the www.strategyclub website, and describe the strategic planning products offered.
Describe Singapore as a place to locate or start a business.
Historically, what has been the attitude of technology firms toward paying dividends? Give some examples.
How do changes in the value of the dollar affect pricing of products of global firms?
List some specific characteristics of advertisements, in the wake of a lingering recession in Europe.
Why is human resource management particularly challenging for international firms?
Prepare a culture assessment table, as presented in the chapter, for a local business that you are familiar with.Rate the business on the 15 culture criteria presented in the chapter. What are the implications of your ratings on the strategic planning process within that firm?
Give an example of two resources for a fast-food chain that you believe meet the three “empirical indicators”criteria.
Why is sole reliance on financial ratios an ineffective means of deriving internal strengths and weaknesses?
How could the “process of performing an internal audit” differ across countries, given varying global management styles?
What competitive advantages would Amazon have over Wal-Mart stores in doing business outside the United States?
Conduct a Google search for value chain analysis. In a two-page report, discuss the concepts presented in the chapter.
Compare the financial ratio analysis for Volkswagen(VW) on the four different websites identified in the chapter. Which site do you like best? Why?
Explain why the ratings in an IFE Matrix should be 4 or 3 for strengths, and 1 or 2 for weaknesses as compared to the EFE Matrix, where the ratings should be 1, 2, 3, or 4 among both the opportunities and threats.
Discuss the relationship between benchmarking and value chain analysis.
Perform a value chain analysis for an organization of your choice.
Volkswagen (VW) has historically spent more on R&D than almost any other automobile company in the world. What are the major advantages and disadvantages of this strategy?
Illustrate a breakeven chart for Volkswagen (VW).Explain how it may work for the organization.
List some advantages and disadvantages of a company paying dividends versus reinvesting that money in the company, and striving for stock price increase as the primary way to reward investors.
For Volkswagen’s (VW), determine their most recent dividend payout amount per share. How has that amount changed over the last 12 months?
Develop a quantitative problem to show that you understand breakeven analysis. Students’ answers will vary depending on the quantitative problem they feature.
Develop a quantitative problem to show your understanding of cost/benefit analysis. Students’ answers will vary depending on the quantitative problem they feature.
Rank the seven functions of marketing in order of importance for a small hardware business.
Given the 15 example (possible) aspects of an organization’s culture as presented in the chapter, rate a company you are very familiar with in terms of the extent to which each culture item exists. Explain.
Visit Volkswagen’s (VW) corporate website. See the list of top executives for VW and create an organizational chart for the company.
Volkswagen (VW) Group has been very successful in the last decade. Research VW and see if they have strategic planning. Create a report of your findings for your class.
On the About Us section of the company’s website, go to the message section. It appears that the CEO of Citizen Holdings, Toshio Tokura, has a vision for the company. It is “Aiming to be a ‘Solid Global Company’.” Is that slogan useful as a vision statement? Explain?
Visit the corporate index on Citizen’s global website. This provides Citizen’s corporate profile.Check whether a vision/mission statement is given. If yes, evaluate that statement in light of the content provided in the chapter. If no vision or mission is found, write an excellent vision and
List seven characteristics of a mission statement.
Explain why a mission statement should not include strategies and objectives.
Give an example of how the “philosophy” component of a mission statement could have a customer orientation for a charter fishing company.
Give an example of how the “technology” component of a mission statement could have a customer orientation for a charter fishing company.
Give an example of how the “product” component of a mission statement could have a customer orientation for a charter fishing company.
List the four most important characteristics of a mission statement for a small retail store. Explain.
Understand the “Implications for Students” and explain how a team of students should couch their mission statement discussion of slides in a presentation.
Do local fast food restaurants need a mission statement posted in their place of business? Why or why not?
Explain how a mission statement can be “reconciliatory.” Give an example.
How often do you think a firm’s vision and mission statements should be changed? Why?
Does Singapore Airlines have its vision and mission statement posted on its website? Should the company?Why or why not?
Within a given industry, compare the mission statements of three companies in your country versus three competing companies from the United States. How do they differ?
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