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Strategic Management: A Competitive Advantage Approach, Concepts And Cases 16th Global Edition Fred R David; Forest R David - Solutions
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.
To what extent do you prefer the art versus science approach to developing strategies for a company?
Among Fortune’s most admired company list for 2015, what two companies made the list that are headquartered outside the USA?
About what percent of Fortune 500 companies use a Balanced Scorecard?
Identify four firms that provide their strategic plans on their websites, and four that do not. Should firms do this? Explain your answer.
Ask the dean of your school to describe how their department evaluates strategies. Present your findings to the class.
Go to Fortune magazine’s website and identify several firms nearest you that are listed among the most admired companies in the world according to Fortune.
List 10 characteristics of an effective evaluation system.
Define and discuss auditing as it relates to strategy evaluation.
How often should a firm formally evaluate its strategies?
Identify some important financial ratios, which are useful in evaluating a firm’s strategies.
Discuss contingency planning.
Develop a Balanced Scorecard for your college or university.
Develop a balanced scorecard for BHP Billiton.
Do you think strategic management should be more visible or hidden, as a process in a firm? Explain.
Do you feel strategic management should be more a top-down or bottom-up process in a firm? Briefly explain your answer.
Do you believe strategic management is more of an art or science? Explain.
Compare Mintzberg’s notion of “crafting” strategies with the notion of “gathering and assimilating information”to formulate strategies, mentioned in this book.
How often should an organization’s vision or mission be changed, in light of strategy evaluation activities?
Give an example of “consonance,” other than the one provided by Rumelt in this chapter.
Ask an accounting professor at your college or university the following question and report back to the class—“To what extent would my learning the IFRS standards on my own give me a competitive advantage in the job market?”
Visit BHP Billiton’s website and evaluate the firm’s strategies, which are currently being implemented.
BHP Billiton has been very successful in the last decade.What is the major reason for its success?
Is it a good management practice to hire away employees from rival companies? Discuss.
Name six countries that have or have had a female President.
Compare and contrast women versus men in terms of serving as CEO of a company.
How would you link compensation of your employees to performance of your business?
Explain when a matrix-type structure may be the most effective for an organization.
How many divisions would a firm have to have for you to recommend an SBU type structure? Why?
Define a glass ceiling. Provide an example.
Define and give an example of Six Sigma.
Explain why corporate wellness programs are becoming increasingly popular.
List four benefits of having a diverse workforce.
Only 26 of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women. Conduct an Internet research to identify five companies in your country that have women CEOs. Why do you think there are such few women CEOs?
Visit www.workingmother.com and find five examples of firms that are outstanding for working mothers, and that have business locations in your city.
Provide the advantages and disadvantages of a firm operating based on an ESOP.
Use the Internet to find five companies in your country, which operate based on an ESOP. Present your list to the class.
Give a hypothetical example of each labor cost-saving tactic listed in the chapter. Students’ answers may vary.
Describe three commonly used strategies to minimize employee resistance to change. Which approach would you most often use? Why?
Describe five tests that are often used to determine whether a performance-pay plan will benefit an organization.
Explain why it is so important to link performance and pay to strategies.
Compare and contrast restructuring with reengineering.
Illustrate a matrix-type structure for a hospital.
A divisional structure-by-process organizational chart is quite uncommon. Give two examples of the type of companies where this would be appropriate.
How should a firm decide between a divisional-byproduct versus divisional-by- region type organizational chart?
List the advantages and disadvantages of a functional versus divisional structure.
Explain why the functional organizational structure is the most widely used around the world.
In order of importance, list six symptoms of an ineffective organizational structure.
List three categories or approaches for conflict resolution.Which approach would you use for a salesperson who may have had a disagreement with a client, regarding the value of a property to be listed for sale?
Discuss your preference on each of the trade-off decisions required for strategy implementation. Explain why.
Define policies. Give four examples of policies for a bank.
Do you think horizontal consistency of objectives is as important as vertical consistency? Explain using an example.
Determine whether your college or university has a corporate wellness program.
Discuss ESOPs in your country compared to the United States.
Discuss the glass ceiling in your country versus the United States.
Discuss how business attitudes towards “balancing work life and home life” vary across three countries that you are familiar with.
Why are so many firms today installing corporate wellness programs?
List in order of importance, eight ways and means for altering an organization’s culture. Explain why.
Describe five ways a firm could link performance and pay to strategies.
Compare and contrast restructuring and reengineering.
List ten “dos and don’ts” regarding development of organizational charts.
Illustrate a matrix organizational chart.
Discuss recent trends and facts regarding corporate wellness programs in the United States.
Create a diagram for a divisional organizational chart.
Illustrate a functional organizational chart.
Which approach to conflict resolution would you use to resolve a disagreement between top-level managers, regarding a firm’s strategic plan?
List the five major benefits of a firm having clearly defined annual objectives.
List in order of importance the six management issues you feel are most central to strategy implementation.Give your rationale.
Accenture is a strong firm globally. What are the three major threats you see that Accenture may face in a country of your choice?
If a firm’s long-term debt rises from $110 million to$215 million, what percent increase is that?
With regard to financial ratios, what is an indirect benefit of increasing Treasury Stock during the last fiscal quarter of a year?
What are convertible bonds?
Determine the cash value of HP using the methods described in this chapter.
Explain how Hewlett-Packard (HP) should conduct market segmentation.
Explain the benefits of a before-and-after productpositioning map.
What transaction links a projected income statement with a projected balance sheet?
Differentiate between capital surplus and additional paid in capital on a balance sheet. Capital Surplus is a comparison of two years, for example, to reflect the capital situation, such as stocks, performing in the two years.
Define and give an example of, goodwill and intangibles.
Show algebraically that the price earnings ratio method of calculating the cash value of a company is identical to the number of shares outstanding multiplied by the stock price method.
List the marketing mix variables. Give an example of each.
Define and give an example of wikis and tweets.
Define a vacant niche using an example.
Illustrate an EPS/EBIT chart that reflects negative EPS values.
Given the seven R&D policies mentioned in the chapter, which four do you feel would be best for Audi to utilize?Why?
Explain five methods for determining the cash value of a company.
In developing projected financial statements, why should the preparer not use historical percentages too heavily?
Explain in your own words the process of developing projected financial statement analysis.
Show algebraically that the price earnings ratio formula is identical to the number of shares outstanding multiplied by the stock price formula. Why are the values obtained from these two methods sometimes different?
What amount of dividends did Royal Dutch Shell pay in 2015? How much of 2015’s earnings did Shell reinvest back into the company?
How 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?
“Television viewers are passive viewers of ads whereas Internet users take an active role in choosing what to look at—so customers on the Internet are tougher for marketers to reach.” Do you agree or disagree with the statement? Explain your answer.
Review the website of a company that you are familiar with. Discuss the extent to which that organization has instituted the new principles of marketing according to Parise, Guinan, and Weinberg.
Consider the Cohesion Case on Nestlé. Calculate that company’s tax rate, which is a common calculation needed in performing EPS/EBIT analysis.
List in order of importance the limitations of the EPS/EBIT analysis.
List and explain the advantages and disadvantages of using debt versus equity, as a means of raising capital.
Illustrate a product-positioning map for your college or university.
Illustrate a product-positioning map for Royal Dutch Shell. Include three rival firms in your matrix.
Explain how to develop an advertising strategy.
Royal Dutch Shell Plc has been successful for decades.Analyze their year-end 2015 financials. List six points that best summarize Shell’s performance in 2015.
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