Strategic Management

FULLY SOLVED BOOK LASY 5 YEARS PAPERS SOLVED PLUS GUESS   

Unit I: Introduction to business policy: Evolution – Nature – Purpose – Importance and the objectives of business policy – An overview of strategic management – Policy – Strategy – Tactics – Levels of strategy – Strategic decision making – Strategic management – Process of strategic management – Strategists and their role in strategic management.

Unit II: Strategy formulation: Strategic intent – Vision – Mission – Business definition – Goals and objectives – External environment – Market – Technological – Supplier – Economic – Regulatory – Political – Socio-cultural and international environment – Techniques of environmental analysis –
Organizational analysis – Organizational capability profile (OCP) – Strategic Advantage Profile (SAP).

Unit III: Strategy alternatives: Corporate level strategies – Grand strategies – Stability – Expansion – Retrenchment – Combination – Business level strategies – Porter‘s generic business strategies.

Unit IV: Strategic analysis and choice: Corporate level strategic analysis – Boson Consulting Group (BCG) matrix – General electric (GE) nine cell matrix – SWOT analysis – Business level strategic analysis – Michael Porter‘s five force model - SPACE.

Unit V: Strategy implementation and evaluation: Project and procedural implementation – Resource allocation – Structural – Behavioural – Functional and operational implementation - Strategic evaluation and control.