Strategic Management 1. Consider Mintzberg’s model of intended and realised strategy‚ and discuss the extent to which corporate strategy can be planned‚ and the extent to which it emerges. (20 marks) The emergent model (modernist): In the emergent model‚ strategy is seen as emerging in the process of action. Strategy cannot (or only to some extent) be planned and is the outcome of the organization’s struggle to survive (cp. Darwinist ideas in Population Ecology) and the adaptation
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BCG matrix The Boston Consulting Group matrix allows a multinational company to manage its portfolio by studying the relative market share and the industry growth rate of each division relative to all other divisions in the organization. It consists of 4 basic elements: 1. Question Marks(?)- falls in Quadrant I that has a low relative market share position but compete in a high-growth industry. 2. Stars- falls in Quadrant II that has a high relative market share and even has a high-growth industry
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Case Study: Boomer Consulting‚ Inc. Introduction Case 9.1 involves Boomer Consulting Inc. beginning with the early years when the organization‚ as a division‚ was a small regional CPA firm of Varney & Associates headed by a single partner‚ L Gary Boomer. As time went by‚ and the division’s revenue grew Varney & Associates separated the consulting and accounting practice‚ creating a wholly owned subsidiary‚ which continued to be headed by L Gary Boomer‚ named Boomer Consulting. Eventually‚ Boomer
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1. The corporate rationale of the Virgin group is to re-entering the inactive industries with brand new ideas and developments and offer the consumer different products. Diversification is an attribute of Virgins rationale. Their SBU’s improve Virgin’s scope and therefore its existing markets and products. Virgin uses the ideas of ‘the corporate parent’ to add structure and direction to its various business units‚ which in turn adds value due to the effective‚ closely controlled and come up to that
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1. What has led the LEGO group to the edge of bankruptcy? External threats (macro PEST‚ micro Porter’s 5 forces) giant conglomerates dominating industry (risk of being taken over) p.2 competing rising costs while competitors outsource p.2 pressure from big retail customers with power? e.g. Walmart‚ Target p.2 negative industry trends in toy industry p.1 1) fad toys are rising and product life cycles declining. threat of shortening/declining life cycle despite rise of fad toys
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The BCG Matrix is a method used by businesses to identify market growth and market shares for organizations. It was developed by Bruce Henderson of the Boston Consultant’s Group in the early 1970s. To establish long term value creation‚ a company should have a portfolio of products that contain both high growth products in need of cash inputs and low growth products that generate a lot of cash and use this information to improve it. The basic idea behind it is that the bigger the market share a product
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1. Why do large companies like IBM find it so difficult to create new businesses? What are the primary barriers to success? Large companies are inflexible and slow-going than their small competitors It had complex structure‚ including seven groups and 39 businesses‚ but sales and distribution are organized by industry sector. Interdivisional rivalries happened a lot‚ making them hard to overcome challenges of inter-group collaboration Their culture existed a powerful bureaucracy and inflexible
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BCG Matrix Opportunity - Threat Analysis Submitted to: Professor Clyde By : Parth Mithani Roll No. 60 F.Y.M.M.S. Alkesh Dinesh Modi Institute for Financial & Management Studies. 1) The BCG Matrix The BCG / Growth-Share matrix is a model developed by the Boston Consultancy Group in the early 1970’s. It is a well known tool for a marketing manager. It is based on the observation that a company’s business units can be classified into four main categories based on combinations of market growth
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• Question 1 Short-term objectives __________ long-term objectives. Correct Answer: operationalize Response Feedback: p. 288 • Question 2 Enhanced bargaining power with distributors and retailers to gain shelf space‚ shelf positioning‚ stronger push‚ more dealer attention and better profit margins represents which of the following sources of value building in multi-business companies? Correct Answer: Potential competitive advantage Response Feedback:
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