MiniCase #8 - GE: Corporate Strategy Gone Wrong

Using the information in Minicase #8, and additional sources like GE's corporate website, their latest 10K report and outside sources knowledgeable about GE and their operations from the RMU library, please complete the following:

1. Summarize the industries that GE competes in and identify their most important products in each industry.
2. Identify GE's corporate strategy and the kind of diversification strategy they are pursuing and explain your choice.
3. Identify the types of value creation with this diversification choice.
4. Develop a Core-Competence-Market Matrix for GE.
5. Does GE possess a competitive advantage (s)?
6. Develop a Boston Consulting Group Growth-Share Matrix for GE.
7. Identify three strategic options you think would benefit GE as it relates to their corporate strategy. Select what you consider the best option/recommendation for GE to pursue. Justify your conclusions.

Use APA formatting (version 6 or 7), use proper sourcing and include a title page and appendices if you wish, maximum 4 single spaced pages.