This exercise gives you the opportunity to evaluate your university’s major strengths and weaknesses. As will become clearer in the next chapter, an organization’s strategies are largely based upon striving to take advantage of strengths and improving upon weaknesses.

Instructions

Step 1 Join with two other individuals to form a three-person team. Develop a team IFE Matrix for your university. You may use the strengths/weaknesses determined in Assurance of Learning Exercise 1D.

Step 2 Go to the board and diagram your team’s IFE Matrix.

Step 3 Compare your team’s IFE Matrix to other teams’ IFE Matrices. Discuss any major differences.

Step 4 What strategies do you think would allow your university to capitalize on its major strengths? What strategies would allow your university to improve upon its major weaknesses?

Data from Exercises 1D

This exercise is designed to get you familiar with the Strategic Management Club Online (SMCO), which offers many benefits for the strategy student. The SMCO site also offers templates for doing case analyses in this course.

Instructions

Step 1 Go to the www.strategyclub.com Web site. Review the various sections of this site.

Step 2 Select a section of the SMCO site that you feel will be most useful to you in this class.

Write a one-page summary of that section and describe why you feel it will benefit you most.