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Competitive Strategy Assignment: Essay - Key Strategy Development Tools
Purpose of the assessment - Write a Comprehensive discussion of any four of the strategy models, with practical application to current business examples
Assignment Specifications -
Purpose: This assignment aims at ensuring that students have familiarised themselves with the foundational strategy development models and are able to relate them to current practical business examples.
Details - Write an essay explaining what the main strategy development tools are and how they are used in business. Your essay must contain a comprehensive discussion of 4 of the following: PESTEL, Five Forces, Resource-Based View, PROFIT, Input/Output, SWOT Analysis (you may include Cross Impact Analysis), Generic Strategies, Ansoff, Ghemawat, with reference to academic journals and practical examples from industry.
In this essay, sub-headings are permitted. Be sure to use paragraphing. Be sure to reference your sources in-text and provide a list of references at the end in Harvard style.
Assignment Structure -
One page for your explanation of each model, including the example.
Thus 4 pages for 4 models.
Add a cover page at the front.
Add a Reference List at the end.