PART A: Answer ALL questions in the answer book provided. (Total marks = 40) Scenario 1: Question 1 and 2 are based on the scenario of HIDUPMAUBERANI. Ahmad is the Senior Strategic Officer of HIDUPMAUBERANI. With the recent covid 19 pandemic, the economic downturn had forced the company to find a new strategy to bring up the organizational performance. The board of directors forced Ahmad to revamp the organization to support a new organizational strategy of Retrenchment. But somehow, Ahmad knew that he should not simply retrench people from the employment as he believes that the strength of the organization comes from the employees. Ahmad has decided to relook at short-term strategic planning as well as long term strategic planning. 1. What is the short-term strategic planning that Ahmad is talking about? A. Tactical planning B. Growth planning C. Competitive dynamics D. Cost leadership 2. As Ahmad's supervisor, suggest to Ahmad on the first step that he should take to ensure the strategic management process he is undertaking can help him in identifying whether HIDUPMAUBERANI possesses the commensurate level of capabilities. A. Analyze what is the current PESTEL component within the business environment of HIDUPMAUBERANI and combine the information with the current operating environment. B. Ahmad is to analyze the current competition landscape to ensure that the competitors are not having the strengths similar to the organization. C. Ahmad is to buy over the suppliers so that the competitors would not have the access to the raw materials. D. Ahmad is to bribe the goverment to ensure that the organization able to control the political component of the general environment that the company is taking part in. 3. The general environment contains components that have long-term implications for managing the organization. One of the general component environments is A. Technology component B. Supplier component C. International component D. Human resources component 4. As a public university, IIUM wants to formulate a strategy that is able to help her to always stay competitive. The strategic office of the university decided to start the strategic formulation by analyzing the performance of each kulliyyah as strategic business units. The strategic office starts off the analysis by looking into the Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences, then followed by Kulliyyah of Laws, and so on until all kulliyyahs are exhaustively analyzed. What is the best tool to be adopted by the office in conducting the strategic formulation for the university? A. SWOT Analysis B. Business Portfolio Analysis C. Critical Question Analysis D. Porter Five Forces Analysis