Qualification Title: Professional Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership

Unit Title: Strategic Management

Learning Outcome 2: Strategy Formulation (Assignment Type)

2.1: Understand Business Level Strategy

2.2: Identify competitive rivalry and competitive dynamics

2.3: Explain Corporate-Level Strategy

2.4: Explain Acquisition and Restructuring Strategies

2.5: Evaluate International Strategy and Corporate Strategy

Assignment for Strategic Management. Sample Questions:

Question : 1 Describe the benefits of Good Strategic Planning? Define and give examples of key
terms of strategic management?
Question : 2 Explain and Identify the Three Levels of Strategy-Corporate, Business and Functional.
How do Goals and Objectives vary at each Level?
Question : 3 What should be the key Traits of a CEO? What are the forces that design the Strategic
Management Systems?
Question : 4 Discuss the various grand strategies at the Corporate Level I.e. Stability, Growth and
Retrenchment.
Question : 5 Explain the concept of Porter’s Five Forces Model used for Industry Analysis? What are
the major factors that become barriers to entry in the New Industry?
Question : 6 What used to be national markets with local companies competing for business has
become a global market with everyone competing for everyone’s business
everywhere. Explain the 3 generic strategies by Porter for Competitive advantage in
the lent of above statement.
Question : 7 The Company foresees continued growth and expansion in the coming few years
globally driven by its operations in India and hopes to realign India’s strengths and
world-class market capabilities to deliver services to its customers. Conduct the SWOT
Analysis of Haier’s foray in to Indian market in light of facts give in the narration.
Question : 8 : Discuss one of the world largest business organization and based on the following
analysis, explain how the organization is going to use strategic options for business
development.
1. Company Overview
 Mission and core purpose
 Vision and major goals
 Core values and guiding principles
 Evaluating and Writing Mission and Vision Statements

2. External Analysis
 The Purpose and Nature of an External Audit
 The external forces that affect organization
  Competitive forces
 Macro Environmental analysis
3. Internal Analysis
 Integrating Strategy and Culture
 Functional Management
 Strengths and competencies
4. Strategic Options
 Integration Strategies
 Intensive Strategies
 Diversification Strategies
 Defensive Strategies
 Porter’s Five Forces Competitive Analysis
 Means for Achieving Strategies
 SWOT Analysis