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HI6006 Competitive Strategy - Holmes Institute

Report - Case Analysis and Application of Strategy Models

Purpose: Students are required to explain in report format, with reference to a case of your choice, how any one of the following would be applied:
Business Strategy, Competitive Dynamics, Corporate Strategy, Acquisitions and Structure, International Strategy.

This assignment aims at ensuring that students have familiarized themselves with at least one significant case study (from any of those in the tutorials) and are able to apply the "strategic management process" and relevant foundational strategy development models that are applicable to the case.

Details
Select any one case study from the following aspects of competitive strategy and apply the theories of strategy development tools and how they are used in the identification of strategic issues. Report must contain a comprehensive application of the strategic management process containing both formulation and implementation of strategy relevant to the case study you choose:
• Business Strategy
• Competitive Dynamics
• Corporate Strategy
• Acquisitions and Restructure
• International Strategy

In this report, the use of sub-headings is essential. Be sure to use paragraphing.
Be sure to reference your sources in-text and provide a list of references at the end, all in Harvard style.

Assignment Structure Required

Cover page [this is essential and must be completed accurately] Executive Summary
Table of Contents
Body of the report to contain Section Headings - e.g. introduction, brief summary of the case; identification of strategic issues (relevant theoretical concepts, application of strategy model); strategy formulation; strategy implementation; conclusion.
Sub-sections are to be numbered. Paragraphing must be used.
Page Numbers must be used.
Reference List at the end must be in Harvard format and mainly academic Journal Articles. Appendix: Statement of ‘who wrote which section'.

HI6005 Management and Organisations in a Global Environment

Assessment - Appendix Writing and Group Research Report

This assignment aims at ensuring that students have familiarised themselves with a general framework of at least one management related topic. Students will be required to apply relevant theoretical concepts with the use of practical examples in most cases in a written research paper.

Details:

Organise yourselves into groups of 4 students.

Please choose from one of the following topics from the list (see below).

Research on the broad topic is a group activity and each student must contribute to that work. Each student in the group will then research, in depth an individual component drawn from the broad research topic. There are two parts in the group assignment:

(A) Appendix Writing
(B) Research Report Writing

You should form in a group of 4 students. Please use self-enrolment tool in BB. Note that once you do so, your group members are fixed and cannot be changed. The group size should be 4 only. It is essential that every member makes a significant valid academic contribution to the team result.
As you start to work on your group report, you are required to assimilate this Appendix, to be submitted via a link on the UNIT blackboard site in week 10, by Friday 5 pm.

What should be included in the appendix?

1. All the group member details-full name, student id numbers, contact phone numbers.
2. The topic chosen for your group assignment
3. Allocation of the tasks for each member in the group.
4. A Gantt chart showing the working plan towards completion of the group assignment. This chart must have every allocated task, deadlines and dates clearly stated.
5. Each student to list at least five references and sources for their chosen part. [Final report must contain these references plus any others that are cited orused].
6. All the correspondence towards working on the group assignments must be submitted as part of this assessment, this would include but not limited to emails, WhatsApp messages, USB file exchanges, group discussion, text messages, etc.
7. Details of a minimum of five group meetings held to be provided. Each meeting must be documented in the following format
8. Our group expectations are:
9. We experienced the following challenges during this assignment:
10. At the completion of the assignment we have the following insights

Attachment:- Competitive Strategy.rar