Strategy and Management Assignment

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Strategy and Management Assignment -

Case 1 - Robin Hood

Questions:

1. How had Robin Hood ended up with this dilemma and how do you see his alternative choices? What are the risks in these choices?

2. If things were turning against him, what had gone wrong? Had he made errors of judgement in deciding what to do, or had the implementation of fundamentally good ideas let him down?

3. What should he do next - other than have supper, of course!!

Case 2 - Human Resource Strategies at Hewlett Packard

Question - What are the specific changes that Hewlett Packard should make to its performance management framework to support its move into e-services?

Case 3 - Organisational Purpose for a Social Services Department

Questions -

1. How useful are these various statements of purpose to the shaping and implementation of the department's strategy? In answering the question, ensure that you give a critique of each of the various 'levels' of statement in order to establish:

(a) What it is meant to achieve;

(b) Whether you feel that it does so;

2. Comment on the extent to which these various levels of purpose are consistent with each other.

Case 4 - Diversification in Agriculture

Question - Can you think of other 'good ideas' which would utilize the skills and spare resources of a farming business?

Case 5 - Flying Flowers

Questions:

How does Flying Flowers add value?

What is the nature of its strategic position?

Did the acquisitions make sense in relation to its competencies and capabilities?

Case 6 - Information Technology and the Five Competitive Forces

Questions -

1. Choose an organisation with which you are familiar (or one of the case studies in this book) and analyse how IT will impact on each of the five forces.

2. What are the implications for the organisation's future strategies?

Case 7 - Changes in organisational Routines

Questions -

1. Using the examples above, explain why changes in routines might help achieve strategic change.

2. Extend the list of examples in the illustration by suggesting routines that might be changed in order to effect change in some organisations with which you are familiar.

Case 8 - Differentiation in the Wine Industry: An Australian Success Story

Questions -

1. What other reasons might account for the success of Australian wines?

2. What would you advise French wine producers to do to counter the Australian success?

Case 9 - The Power of the Knowledge Worker

Question - Referring to Exhibit 10.3, identify the different ways in which human resource strategies can give competitive advantage to knowledge-based organisations.

Case 10 - Espoused Synergies in Acquisitions

Questions -

1. What would the corporate parent need to do to ensure the realisation of the sorts of synergy described above?

2. What might prevent the realisation of these synergies?

Case 11 - Sustaining a Low Price Strategy: easyJet revisited

Questions -

1. Do you think easyJet's successful no-frills strategy is sustainable?

2. What recommend ions would you make to Stelios Haji-loannou to ensure the future success of easyJet?

Attachment:- CASE STUDIES.rar

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