Question Bank- Strategic Management

MBA IIIrd Sem.

Descriptive questions
1. What type of decisions are strategic decision and distinguishes them from other decisions?
2. Describe the process used to identify key internal factors in an organization’s strategic management process
3. How does the functional strategy differs from corporate and business strategy?

4. Give your opinion about “What would be the role of strategic management in a small local business units?”
5. Differentiate between strategic management and business policy. How strategy and Policy work together in an organization
6. discuss the impact of globalization and e-commerce on strategic management
7. “Environmental analysis is the process by which the strategist monitors different sectors of environment to determine opportunity and threats to their firm” discuss
8. Prepare an ETOP and OCP for an organization of your choice
9. Define “core competencies” and “product portfolio Benchmarking”
10. What are the various strategies? Explain ( stability, Expansion, retrenchment & combination strategy with suitable example)
11. What do you mean by portfolio analysis? Explain the concept of BCG matrix & GE nine cell matrix.
12. What do you mean by industry analysis? Give porter’s approach to industry analysis
13. What is competitive intelligence? Explain
14. Conceptualize the resource based approach of value chain analysis?
15. Explain the strategic budget & strategic audits.
16. What is the meaning of scanning functional resources?
17. Explain SWOT analysis. Also describe TWOS matrix and its relevance in strategy formulation
18. What is the significance of Mc Kinsey’s 7S framework of in strategy planning and management?
19. Explain the strategy implementation through structure and Human Resource Management
20. write short notes on –
• Organizational life cycle
• Various elements of organizational design
• Mintzberg’s theory of organizational structure
• Various types of strategic control mechanism