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JEPPIAAR ENGINEERING COLLEGE
DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES
SEMESTER-III
BA 1702 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

UNIT-I
PART-A

1. What is business strategy?
“Strategy is the determination of the basic long goals and objectives of an
enterprise and the adoption of the course of action and the allocation of the
resources necessary for carrying out these goals”. It’s a comprehensive master plan
stating how the corporation will achieve its mission and objectives of maximizes
the competitive advantage and minimizes the competitive disadvantage.

2. What is strategic management?
Strategic management is that set of managerial decisions and actions that
determine the long-run performance of a corporation of includes environmental
Scanning, strategy formulation strategy implementation and evaluation and control.
The study of strategic management therefore emphasizes the monitoring and
evaluating of external opportunities and threats in the light of corporation’s
strengths and weaknesses.

3. What is corporate strategy?
Corporate strategy describes a company’s overall direction in terms of its
general altitude towards growth and the management of its various businesses and
product lines. Corporate strategy is composed of directional strategy, portfolio
analysis and parenting strategy, corporate strategies typically fit within the three
main categories of stability, growth and retrenchment.

4. Define Ethics?
Ethics specify what is good, true, fair, just, right and proper in business.
Businesses his relate to the behavior of a business man in a business situation.
They are concerned primarily with the impacts of decisions on people with in and
without the organization. Business ethical behavior is conduct that is fair and just
over and above the various rules and regulations.

5. What do you mean by strategic myopia?
While identifying the external strategic factors, the managers sometimes
miss or ignore crucial new developments. Personal values and functional
experiences of a corporation’s manager as well as the success of current strategies
bias both their perception of what they important to monitor in the external
environment and the interpretations of what they perceive. This willingness to
reject unfamiliar as well as negative information is called strategic myopia.

6. What is core- competency?
Core-competencies are the things that a corporation can do exceedingly
well. It is the combination of an organization’s resources and capabilities if the
core competency of an organization is superior to that of its competitors it is called
distinctive competency.

7. What is Distinctive competency?
Distinctive competencies are firm’s specific strengths that allow a company
to differentiate its products and achieve substantially lower costs than its rivals and
thus gain competitive advantage competencies arise from two complementary
sources resources and capabilities.

8. Define joint venture?
Joint ventures are partnerships in which two or more firms carryout a
specific project or corporate in a selected area of business. Joint ventures can be
temporary or long term. Ownership of the firm remains unchanged. Every joint
venture has a scheduled life-cycle, which will end sooner or later every joint
venture has to be dissolved when it has outlived its life-cycle. Changes in the
environment forces joint ventures to be redesigned regularly.

9. What is conglomerate diversification?
When firms create new businesses that are unrelated to its original business,
it is called conglomerates diversification. The benefits of conglomerate
diversification are reductions of risks, economics of large scale operations,
financial stability, increase in profits and attain managerial competence.

10. What are barriers to Entry?
An entry barrier is un obstruction that make it difficult for a company to
enter an industry Established companies already operating in an industry often
attempt to discourage the potential competitors by creation. High Entry barriers,
such as rand Loyalty, absolute cost advantages, economics of scale customer
switching cost, product differentiation etc.

11.Distinguish between hostile takeover and friendly takeover?
Takeover can be defined the ownership or control over the other firm. Of one firm
acquires the ownership against the wishes of hi others management it is called
hostile takeover. Of the acquisition is through the mutual consent of both the
parties it is called friendly takeover.

12. What is Horizontal Expansion?
It’s a growth strategy. Of a firm fries to expand its business by creating
other firms in their same line of business it is called horizontal expansion. The aim
of horizontal expansion is to increase market shane. To reduce cost of production
through large scale economic, to take advantage of synergy and to promote

products and services more efficiently to a larger audience.

13. Define strategic Group?
Strategic group is a set of business units or firms that pursue similar
strategies with similar resources. Categorizing the firms in an industry into a set of
strategic groups is very useful for the better understanding of the competitive
environment. Because a corporation’s structure and culture reflect the kinds of
strategies it follow. Companies or Business units belonging to a particular strategic
group with in the same industry tend to be strong rivals and tend be more similar to
each other than to competitors in other strategic group within the same industry.

14. Define corporate governance
Corporate governance refers to the relationship between the board of
Directors, top management and the investors or shareholders in defer mining the
direction and performance of the corporation.

15. What is Backward integration?
When a company or firm acquire or create another firm which provides raw
material component parts or other input for the original firm, it is called backward
integration.

16. Define strategic outsourcing
Strategic outsourcing refers to the separation of some the company’s value
creation activities with in the business and as letting them be performed by a
specialist in that activity strategic outsourcing will lower the cost-structure of the
company and increase its profitability. Moreover strategic outsourcing of non-core
activities helps the company to focus management attention on those activities that
one most important for its long term competitive position.

17. Distinguish between programs and procedures.
A program is a statement of the activities or steps needed to accomplish
single use plan of makes the strategy action-oriented of my involve restructuring
the corporation changing the companies internal structure or beginning a new
research effort. Procedures are a system of sequential steps or techniques set describe in
detail how a particular job or task is to be done. They typically detail the various
activities that must be carried out for completion of the corporations programs.

18. What is Entrepreurial mode?
It is a type of strategic decision making. In this mode, the strategy is
developed by one powerful individual. The focus is on opportunities and problems
are secondary, strategy is guided by the founders own vision or direction and is
exemplified by large, bold decisions. The dominant goal is growth of the
corporation.

19. What is Adaptive mode?
This is a decision making mode sometimes refereed to as “muddling

through”. This is characters by reactive solutions to exiting problems rather than a
proactive search for new opportunities strategy is fragmented and is developed to
move the corporation forward in incremental steps.

20. What is planning mode?
This mode of strategic decision making the systematic gathering of
appropriate information for situation malice, the generation of feasible alternative
strategies. And the rational selection of the most appropriate strategy. This mode
includes both the pro-active search for new opportunities and the reactive solution
of exiting problems.

PART-B
1. Explain Basic Elements of strategic Management process.
• Environmental scanning
• Strategy formulation
• Strategy Implementation
• Evaluation and control

Refer Strategic Management- David Hunger , Page No:5

2. Describe about Corporate Governance Definition.
• Responsibilities of the Board
• Resp of board in strategic Management
• Resp of Top Management
• Executive leadership Strategic Vision

Refer Strategic Management- David Hunger Page No:17

3. What are the Responsibilities of business.
• Economic
• Legal
• Ethical
• Discretionary

Refer Strategic Management- David Hunger ,Page No:26

4. Describe strategic planning process

Refer Strategic Management- Charles W.L. Hill ,Page No:8

5. Describe Michele porter’s Five forces model of Industry Analysis.
• Intensity of rivalry among established companies

• Risk of Entity by potential competitors
• bargaining power of buyers
• Bargaining power of suppliers
• Threat of Substitute products
• Complements
Refer Strategic Management- Charles W.L. Hill Page No:40

UNIT-II
PART-A

1. What is strategic Business unit?
Strategic business units are divisions or group of divisions composed of
independent product-market segments that are given primary responsibility and
authority for the management of their own function areas. An SBU may be of any
size or level but it must have a unique mission, identifiable comfitures, an external
market fours and control of its business functions. The idea is to decentralize on
the basis of strategy elements.

2. Define Tactics.
A tactic is a specific operating plan defiling how a strategy is to be
Implemented in firms of when and where it is to he put in to action. By nature
tactics are narrower. In their scope and shorter in their time horizon than strategies.
It is a link between the formulation and implementation of state.

3. What do you mean by hypercompetitive?
Hyper competition is a business situation in which the frequency, boldness,
and aggressiveness of dynamic movement by the players accelerate to create a
condition of constant disequilibrium and change market sterility is threatened by
short product life cycle new ethnologic frequent entry by unexpected outsiders and
repositioning by incumbents in other words environment escalates towards higher
and bigger revels of uncertainty dynamism heterogeneity of the players and hostslily.

4. What is task Environment?
Task environment includes those elements that directly affect the
corporation and in turn are affected by it. A corporations task environment can be
thought of the industry with in which it operates. This task environment includes
government local communities suppliers competitors employees labor unions
special interest groups and trade associations.

5. What is industry Analysis?
Industry analysis refers to the in depth examination of key factors with in a
corporation task environment. Both the societal and task environment must he
monitored so that strategic factors that have a strong impact on the corporate
success or failure can be defected.

6. Define strategic Alliance?
Strategic Alliance are co-operative agreements between different companies
that are actual or potential competitors companies enter in to strategic alliance may
be a way of facilitating entry in to a market. Second many companies enter in to
strategic alliances to share the fixed costs and associated risk that arise from the
development of new products or processes Many alliances can be seen as away of
bringing together complementary skills and assets that can not be easily developed
by the company on it own.

7. What is environment scanning?
Environment scanning is the monitoring evaluating and disseminating of
information from the external and infernal environments to key people within the
corporation. The external environment consists of variables that one outside the
organization these are the opportunities and threats. The infernal environment
consists of variables that are with in the organization itself. These are the strengths
and weaknesses of organization.

8. Write the name of factors in task environment?
• Shareholders
• Suppliers
• Government
• Special interest group
• Employees/ Labour unions
• Competitors
• Creditors
• Trade associations
• Communities

9. What is societal Environment?
Societal environment includes the general forces that do not directly touch
on the short run activities of the organization but that can influence its long-run
decisions. This include economic forces, technological forces, political legal forces
and socio cultural forces Economic forces regulate the exchange of materials.
Money, energy and information Technological forces generate problem solving
Inventions political legal forces allocate power and provide constraining and
protecting laws and regulations. Socio cultural forces regulate the values mores
and wisdoms of society.

10. What do you mean by strategy implementation?
Strategy implementation is the process by which strategies and policies one
put in to action through he developed of programs budgets and procedures. This
process might involve changes with in the overall with the structure or
management system of the entire organization or with in all of these areas.

11. What is an Entrepreneurial venture?
Entrepreneurial venture is any business whose primary goals profitability
and growth and that can be characterized by innovative strategic practices. The
basic different between the small business from and the entrepreneurial venture not
in the type of goods or services provided but in their fundamental views on growth
and innovation. The key element of Entrepreneurial venture is a basic business
idea that has not yet been successfully tried and a gutsy entrepreneur who while
working on borrowed capital and a shoestring budget creates a new business
through a lot of trick and error and persistent hard work.

12. What do you mean by small business from?
Small business from is one that employs fewer than 500 people and that
generate sales of 20 million actually small business from is independently owned
and operated not dominate in its field and does not concentrate in innovative
practices.

13. Who is an Entrepreneur?
Entrepreneur is defined a person who organizes and manages a business
undertaking and who assumes risk for the sake if profit. He is the ultimate
strategist and makes all the strategic as well as the operational decisions. Al the
three levels of strategy-corporate, business and functional are the concerns of this
founder and manager of a company.

14. What is Strategic piggybacking?
Strategic piggybacking refers to he development of a new activity for the
not-for-profit organization that would generate funds needed to make up the
difference between revenues and expenses . its purpose is to help subsidize the
primary service programs. It appears to be a form of concentric diversification but
it is engaged in only for its money generating value

15. What is balanced score card?
The balance score card is a self of measures are directly half are directly
linked the company’s strategy allows managers to evaluate the company from four
perspectives financial performance anisomery knowledge internal business
processes learning growth.

16. Define Reengineering?
Reengineering is the fundamental re-thinking and radical redesign of
business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical, contemporary
measures of performance such as quality, cost service and sped. The aim of reengineering
is to improve the corporate performance.

17. what is re-Structuring?
Restructuring means streamlining the hierarchy of authority and reducing

the number of levels in their hierarchy to a minimum and then downsizing the
workforce by reducing the number of employees to reduce operating cost. The aim
of restructuring is to improve the corporate performance.

18. What is corporate Culture?
Corporate culture is the corporation of belief. Expectations and values
learned and shared by a corporate is members and transmitted from one generation
of employees to another. The tern corporate culture generally reflects the values of
the founder and the mission of the form at givens a company a sense of identity.
Corporate culture has two distinct attributes, intensity and integration.

19. What is strategic Leadership?
Strategic leadership refers to a manager’s ability to articulates a strategic
vision for the company and motivate others to me into that vision. The few
characteristics of good strategic leaders are
• Vision, eloquence and consistency
• Commitment
• Being cell informed
• Willingness to delegate and empower
• Astute use of power and
• Emotional intelligence

20. What is Entrepreneurship?
When internal new venturing place in an organizational the corporate
managers must that the internal new vesturing process as a form of
Entrepreneurship and the people who are leading the new ventures as
entrepreneurs. That organizational structure control and culture must be designed
to encourage creativity and give new-venture managers autonomy and freedom to
develop and champion new products. This is called entrepreneurship.

PART-B
1. Describe about the stages in the Industry Life cycle?
• Embryonic Industries
• Growth Industries
• Industry Shakeout
• Machine Industry
• Declines Industry

2. Describe the different attributes of national competitive advantage
• Factor Endo meets
• Demand conditions
• Relating al supporting Industries
• Firms strategy structure al Rivalry

Refer Strategic Management- Charles W.L. Hill Page No: 67

3. What are the Generic Building blocks competitive advantage.
Low cost Differentiation, competitive Advantage
• Superior efficiency
• Superior quality
• Superior customer responsiveness
• Superior Innovation


4. Define Functional Strategy and Explain various Functional Strategies in an
organization?
Functional strategy is the approach taken by functional area to
achieve corporate and business unit objectives and strategies by maximizing
resource productivity.
• Mictiny strategy
• Financial strategy
• Operations strategy
• Research and Development strategy
• Purchasing strategy
• Logistics strategy
• HRM strategy
• Information system strategy


5. Explain about corporate Strategy
• Stability strategy
• Growth strategy
• Retrenchment strategy


UNIT-III
PART-A

1. What is Emotional Intelligence?
Emotional intelligence is a mix of psychological attributes that many strong
and effective leaders possess. They are
• Self Awareness- the ability to understand one’s own moods emotions and
drivers, as well as their effect on others.
• Self Regulation-the ability to control or re-direct disruptive impulses or

moods, that is to think before acting.
• Motivation: a passion for work that goes beyond money or status and a
propensity to pursue goals with energy and persistence.
• Empathy: understanding the feelings and view points of subordinates and
taking those into account when making decisions.
• Social skills: Friendliness with a purpose.

2. What is Organizational inertia?
Organizational inertia is the inability of the organization to adapt in a timely
manner to new circumstances. This is on of the major reason that companies are
often so slow to respond to new competitive conditions organizational inertia is
complex and has a number of underlying causes. One source is he power and influence of
individual managers another source is the existing allure of the organization.

3. What is Competitive intelligence?
Competitive intelligence means gathering of information about the
competitors.

4. Define Policy?
A policy is a broad guideline for decision making that links the formulation
of strategy with its implementation. Companies use form make decisions and take
actions that support the corporations missions, objectives and strategies.

5. What is Budget?
A budget is a statement of a corporations programs in terms of dollars. Ic, in
monetary terns. On planning and control, a budge lists the detailed cost of each
program.

6. What is strategy formulation?
Strategy formulation is the development of long range plans for the
effective management of environment opportunities and threats, taking into
consideration corporate strengths and weaknesses. It includes defining the
corporate Mission, specifying achievable objectives developing strategic and
`scatting policy guide lines.

7. What is a Mission?
An organizations mission is its purpose or the reason for its existence a well
conceived mission statement defines the fundamental unique purpose that sets a
company apart from other forms of its type and identifies the scope of the
company’s operation interns of products offered and markets served. It puts into
words not only what the company is now but, what it wants to become.

8. What are objectives?
Objectives are the end results of planned activity they state what is to be
accomplished by when and should be quantified of possible. The achievement of

corporate objectives should result in the fulfillment of the corporations mission.

9. What is Evaluation and control?
Evaluation and control is the process by which corporate activities and
performance results are monitored so that actual performances can be companied
with desired performance. Manager at all levels use resulting information to take
corrective action and resolve problems.

10. What are the Responsibilities of the Board of Directors?
• Setting corporate strategy, overall direction mission or vision
• Succession: baring and firing the CEO and top management
• Controlling, monitoring, or supervising top management.
• Reviewing and approving the use of resources.
• Caring for stockholder interests

11. What are the responsibilities of the CEO
• Provide exclusive leadership and a strategic vision
• Manage the strategic planning process CEO articulates a strategic vision for
the corporation. CEO not only communication high performance standards, but also
shows,
• Confiding in the followers abilities to meet these standards.

12. What are the four responsibilities of business
• Economic responsibility
• Legal Responsibility
• Ethical Responsibility
• Discretionary Responsibility

13. What is a strategic type?
Strategic type is a category of firms based on a common strategic
orientation and a combination of structure, culture and processes consistent with
that strategy. There are 4 strategic types. Defenders, prospectors, Analyzers and
Reactors.

14. What is a defender?
Defenders are Romanics with a limited product line. That fours on
improving the officered of their existing operations they wont try to innovate in
new areas.

15. What are prospectors?
Prospectors are companies with fairly broad product line that fours on
product innovation and market opportunities. This sales orientation makes them
somewhat inefficient. They tend to emphasis inactivity over efficiency.

16. What are analyzers?
Analyzers are companies that operate in at least different product market
areas, one stable and one variable. In the stable area efficiency is emphasized. In
the variable area innovation is emphasized.

17. What are reactors?
Reactors are companies that lack a consistent strategy-structure-culture
relationship. Their responses to environment presumes fend to be piece-meal
strategic changes.

18. How do resources determine competitive advantage?
• Identify and classify the firms resources in terms of strengths and
weaknesses.
• Combine the firms strengths into specific capabilities-these are corecompetitive
• Appraise the profit potential of there resources and competencies in terms
of their potential for sustainable. Competitive advantaged the ability to
harvest the profits resulting from the use of these resources and capabilities.
• Select the strategy that best exploits the firms resources and competencies
relative to external opportunities.
• Identify resource gaps and invest in upgrade weaknesses.

19. What is durability?
Durability is the rate at which a firms underlying resources and capabilities
depreciate or become obsolete. New technology can make a companies are
competency obsolete or irrelevant.

UNIT-IV
PART-A

1. What is limitability?
Limitability is the rate at which a firms underlying resources and
capabilities or cores competencies can be duplicated by others. To the extent that a
firms distinctive competency gives it competitive advantage in the market place.
Expatiators. Will do what they can to skills and capabilities. A core competency
can be easily limited to the extent that it is transparent transferable and replicable.

2. What is transparency?
Transparency is the spared with which other firms can understand the
relationship of resources and capabilities supporting a successful firms strategy.

3. What is Transferability?
The ability of competitors to gather the resources and capabilities necessary
to support a competitive challenge.

4. What Reliability?
The ability of competitors to use duplicated resources and capabilities to
imitate the other success.

5. What is Value –Chain?
A Value chain is a linked set of value enacting activities beginning with
basic raw materials coming from suppliers, moving on to a series of value-added
activities involved in producing and marketing a product or service and ending
with distributors getting the final goods into the hands of the ultimate customer.

6. What is a Marketing mix?
The marketing mix is the particular combination of they variables under the
corporations control that it can use to affect demand and to gain competitive
advantage. These variables are products, promotion price and place.

7. What is product life cycle?
• Introduction
• Growth
• Maturity
• Decline
Product Life cycle is a graph showing time plotted against sales of a
product as it moves from introduction through growth and maturity to decline.

8. Differentiate between economics of scope and economics of scale?
Economics of scope means common parts of the manufacturing activities of
various products are combined to gain economics even through small numbers of
each product are made. Economic of scale means units costs are reduced by making large
numbers of the same products.

9. What is propitious niche?
Propitious niche is a company’s specific competitive that is so well suited to
the firms internal and external environment that other corporations are not likely to
challenge or dislodge it.

10. What is Flanking Maneuver?
Rather than going straight for a competitive position of strength with a
frontal assault a firm may attack a part of the market, where the competitor is
weak. This is called flanking maneuver.

11. What is Organization Development or OD?
OD is a complex educational strategy designed to increase organizational
effectiveness and wealth through planned inventions by a consultant using theory
and techniques of applied behavioral science.

12. What is Job Enrichment?
Job enrichment is a conscious effort to build into jobs a higher sense of
challenge and achievement. In a job enrichment program, the worker decides how
the job is performed, planned and controlled and makes more decision concerning
the entire process job. Employee decide how the job will be performed and receive
less direct supervision on the job. Consequently the employee receives a greater
sense of accomplishment as well as more authority and responsibility and job
satisfaction. This in turn contributes for batten employee performance and higher
productivity.

13. What is organization structure?
Organizational structure is an established pattern of relationships among the
component parts of an organization. Structure is made up of three component
parts. Complexity, formalization and centralization. Complexity refers horizontal
differentiation vertical differentiation and
location differentiation. Formalization refers to the degree to which the jobs with in the
organization are standardized. High standardization of jobs results in less freedom and
discretion. Centralization refers to the degree to which decision making is
concentrated.

14. What is Band Loyalty?
It is the buyers preference for the products of any established company. A
company can create brand loyalty by providing high quality products, goods after
sales service continuous advertising of its brand name and company name, patent
protection of product, product innovation achieved through company research and
development programs.

15. What is Economics of Scale?
Economics scale another relative cost advantages associated with large
volumes of production that lower a company’s cost structure.
Sources of Scale Economics include.
• Cost reductions gained through mass producing a standardized output.
• Discounts on bulk purchases of raw materials and component parts.
• Advantages gained by spreading fixed phony cost over large production
• volume.

16. What is customer switching cost?
The costs arise open a customer switches from one company’s product to
another company is called customer switching cost switching from one product to
another, costs the customer, time, money and energy. When the switching costs is
high, customers can be locked into the product offerings of established companies.
E.g. Microsoft’s windows Operating System.

17. What is a Fragmented Industry?
Fragmented Industry consists of a large number of small or medium sized

companies none of which is in a position is determine Industry price.

18. What is a Consolidated Industry?
A consolidated industry is dominated by a small number of large companies
and they any in a position to determine industry prices.

19. What is Bargaining power of buyers?
Bargaining power of buyers refers to the ability of buyers to bargain down
prices charged by companies or raise the cost of the product by demanding better
quality product.

20. What is bargaining power of suppliers?
Bargaining power of suppliers refers to the ability of suppliers to raise
input prices or to raise the cost of the industry by providing poor quality inputs.

PART-B
1. Explain about Business Level Strategy
• Low cost Leadership strategy
• Differentiation
• high Low cost
• Niche Differentiation
• Niche Low cost / differentiation


2. Define directional strategy and Explain the dimensions of directional
Strategy
Refer Strategic Management- David Hunger, Page No:94

3. Explain Non-For-profit strategies?
• Strategic Piggy backing
• Mergers, Strategic Alliances


4. Explain Entrepreneurial venture
• Definition
• Entrepreneur as a strategist
• Strategic planning and strategic management
• Strategic Decision making


5. Explain innovation and sources of innovation
Definition
Sources
• The unexpected
• Te incongruity
• Innovation based on process need
• Changes in Industry or mkt structure
• Demographics
• Changes in perception and meaning
• New know

UNIT-V
PART-A

1. Differentiate between product innovation and process innovation?
Product innovation is the development of products that are new to the world
or have superior attributes to existing products. Process innovation it the development of
a new process for producing products and delivering them to customers. Product
innovation creates value by creating new products that customers perceive as more
desirable this increasing the company’s pricing option. Process innovation often allows a
company to create more value by lowering production costs.

2. What is bench marking?
The process of measuring the company against the products. Practices and
services of some of its most efficient global competitors.

3. What is technological Myopia?
When a company gets blinded by the wizardry of a new technology and
fails to examine whether there is customer demand for the product, it is called
Technological Myopia.

4. What is Product Proliferation?
Companies having broad product lines produce a range of products aimed at
different in abet segment. Sometimes to reduce the threat of entry,they expand the
range of products they make to fill a wide variety of riches. This creates a barrier
to entry because potential competitors now find it harder to break into an industry
in which all the riches are filled. This strategy of pursuing a broad product line to
Deter entry is known as product proliferation.

5. What is Location Economics?
Location economics are the economics benefits that arise from performing
a value creation activity in the optimal location for that activity wherever in the

world that might be.

6. What is Licensing?
It is specialized from of licensing in which the franchisee not only sells
intangible property to the franchisee but also insists that the franchises agree to
abide by strict rules as to how it does business. The franchiser will also assist the
franchisee to run the business on an on going basis and receives an royally
payment.

7. What is a wholly owned subsidiary?
Wholly owned subsidiary is one in which the parent company owns 100
percent of the subsidiary stock. To establish a wholly owned subsidiary in a
Foreign market. A company can either set up a completely now operation in that
country or acquire an established host country company and use it to promote its
products in the host market.

8. What is Full Integration?
A company achieves Full integration when it produces all of a particular
input needed for its process or disposes all of its output through its own operation.

9. What is Taper Integration?
Taper Integration occurs when a company buys from independent suppliers
in addition to company owned suppliers or disposes of its output through
independent outlets in addition to company owned outlets.

10. What is Diversification?
It is the process of adding new businesses to the company that are district
from its established operations. A diversified or multi business company is one
that is involved in two or more district industries.

11. What is Economics of Scope?
That cost reductions associated with sharing resources across businesses.

12. What is bureaucratic cost?
The cost increases that arise in large complex organizations due to
managerial in efficiencies. This is a function of 9i) no. of businesses in a
company’s follows (ii) the extent of co-ordination required among the different
businesses of the company in order to realize value from a diversification strategy.

13. What is bidding strategy?
The strategy adopted by the acquirer to reduce the price it must pay for the
acquisition candidate. Hence the most effective thing an acquirer can do is make
only friendly take over bids.

14. What is mean by Management buyout (MBO)
Selling of a business Unit to its management.

15. What do you mean by stakeholder?
Stakeholders are individuals of or groups with interest claim, or stake in the
company in what it does and in how well it performs. They include stock holders,
creditors, employees, customers the communities and the general public.

16. What are the different type of stakeholders?
Internal stakeholders are stakeholders and employees including executive
officers, other managers and board members.

17. What is External stakeholders?
External stakeholders are all other individuals and group that have some
claim on the company. Typically this group comprises customers, suppliers,
oneditors, governments unions, local communities, and the general public.

18. What is PIMS?
It means profit impact on marketing strategy.

19. What is Standardization?
It refers to the degree to which a company specifies decision making and
coordination processes so that employee behaviour becomes predictable.

PART-B

1. What are the factors which affect a new ventures success?
• industry structure
• Business strategy
• Entrepreneurial characteristics


2. What are the steps involved in Evaluation of Control
• Determine what to measure
• Establish standards of performance
• Measure Actual performance
• Expand actual performance with the standard
• Take corrective actor

Refer Strategic Management- David Hunger, Page No: 151

3. Explain corporate culture .
• Managing corporate culture
• Assessing structure culture compatibility

• Managing culture change through communication
• Managing diverse culture


4. What are the different organization structure
• Simple structure
• Functional structure
• Divisional structure
• SBU’s
• Matrix structure
• Network structure
• Cellular Organization


5.Explain Strategy implementation
• Definition
• Developing programs budgets and procedures
• Achieving Synergy

Refer Strategic Management- David Hunger, Page No: 122.

6. Explain strategic control
• Definition
• Purpose
• Process of strategic control

Refer Strategic Management- David Hunger, Page No: 151.

M.B.A DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOV/DEC 2008

THIRD SEMESTER

BA-1702- STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

( REGULATION 2005)

Time: Three hours Maximum Marks: 100

Answer ALL questions

PART-A – (10 X 2= 20 Marks)

1. Define Ethics?
`Ethics specify what is good, true, fair, just, right and proper in business.
Businesses his relate to the behavior of a business man in a business situation.
They are concerned primarily with the impacts of decisions on people with in and
without the organization. Business ethical behavior is conduct that is fair and just
over and above the various rules and regulations.

2. What do you mean by strategic myopia?
While identifying the external strategic factors, the managers sometimes
miss or ignore crucial new developments. Personal values and functional
experiences of a corporation’s manager as well as the success of current strategies
bias both their perception of what they important to monitor in the external
environment and the interpretations of what they perceive. This willingness to
reject unfamiliar as well as negative information is called strategic myopia.

3. Define joint venture?
Joint ventures are partnerships in which two or more firms carryout a
specific project or corporate in a selected area of business. Joint ventures can be
temporary or long term. Ownership of the firm remains unchanged. Every joint
venture has a scheduled life-cycle, which will end sooner or later every joint
venture has to be dissolved when it has outlived its life-cycle. Changes in the
environment forces joint ventures to be redesigned regularly.

4. What is operating strategy?

An operating strategy is basically how they are planning on running the business.
For example: Microsoft might have an operating strategy by which they target
businesses in the construction business for their new software and offering this
software as a low cost alternative to another, competing software. They would
achieve this through research and proper marketing in conjunction with cost
controls.

5. What is Budget?
A budget is a statement of a corporations programs in terms of dollars. Ic, in
monetary terns. On planning and control, a budge lists the detailed cost of each
program.

6. What is strategy formulation?
Strategy formulation is the development of long range plans for the
effective management of environment opportunities and threats, taking into
consideration corporate strengths and weaknesses. It includes defining the
corporate Mission, specifying achievable objectives developing strategic and
`scatting policy guide lines.

7. What is Value –Chain?

A Value chain is a linked set of value enacting activities beginning with
basic raw materials coming from suppliers, moving on to a series of value-added
activities involved in producing and marketing a product or service and ending
with distributors getting the final goods into the hands of the ultimate customer.

8. What is a Marketing mix?
The marketing mix is the particular combination of they variables under the
corporations control that it can use to affect demand and to gain competitive
advantage. These variables are products, promotion price and place.

9. What is bench marking?
The process of measuring the company against the products. Practices and
services of some of its most efficient global competitors.

10. What is technological Myopia?
When a company gets blinded by the wizardry of a new technology and
fails to examine whether there is customer demand for the product, it is called
Technological Myopia.

PART-B

11. (a). What are the typical industry’s dominant economic features that drive business

Strategy.

Refer material

Or

. (b). Describe Michele porter’s Five forces model of Industry Analysis.


12. (a). Describe about the stages in the Industry Life cycle?
Or

(b). Describe the different attributes of national competitive advantage

13. (a). Explain the dimensions of directional Strategy
Refer Strategic Management- David Hunger, Page No:94
Or

(b). Explain Non-For-profit strategies?


14. (a). Explain power, politics and control.


Or

(b). Explain Strategic control system.


15. (a). Explain the various strategies for non profit organizations.

Refer Material.

Or

(b). How can a company develop an entrepreneurial culture.

Refer Material.


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(REGULATION 2005)




1. Define corporate governance
Corporate governance refers to the relationship between the board of
Directors, top management and the investors or shareholders in defer mining the
direction and performance of the corporation.

2. What is Backward integration?
When a company or firm acquire or create another firm which provides raw
material component parts or other input for the original firm, it is called backward
integration.

3. What is industry Analysis?
Industry analysis refers to the in depth examination of key factors with in a
corporation task environment. Both the societal and task environment must he
monitored so that strategic factors that have a strong impact on the corporate
success or failure can be defected.

4. Define strategic Alliance?
Strategic Alliance are co-operative agreements between different companies

that are actual or potential competitors companies enter in to strategic alliance
may be a way of facilitating entry in to a market. Second many companies enter in
to strategic alliances to share the fixed costs and associated risk that arise from the
development of new products or processes Many alliances can be seen as away of
bringing together complementary skills and assets that can not be easily
developed by the company on it own.

5. What is Competitive intelligence?
`Competitive intelligence means gathering of information about the
competitors.

6. Define Policy?
A policy is a broad guideline for decision making that links the formulation
of strategy with its implementation. Companies use form make decisions and take
actions that support the corporations missions, objectives and strategies.

7. What is product life cycle?
• Introduction
• Growth
• Maturity
• Decline
Product Life cycle is a graph showing time plotted against sales of a
product as it moves from introduction through growth and maturity to decline.

8. Differentiate between economics of scope and economics of scale?
Economics of scope means common parts of the manufacturing activities of
various products are combined to gain economics even through small numbers of
each product are made. Economic of scale means units costs are reduced by making large
numbers of the same products.

9.What is Product Proliferation?
Companies having broad product lines produce a range of products aimed at
different in abet segment. Sometimes to reduce the threat of entry,they expand the
range of products they make to fill a wide variety of riches. This creates a barrier
to entry because potential competitors now find it harder to break into an industry
in which all the riches are filled. This strategy of pursuing a broad product line to
Deter entry is known as product proliferation.

10. What is Location Economics?
Location economics are the economics benefits that arise from performing
a value creation activity in the optimal location for that activity wherever in the
world that might be.

PART-B
11. (a). Why Companies fail. Explain the steps to avoid failure?

Or
(b). Explain the Model of strategic planning process.

12. (a). What are the Generic Building blocks competitive advantage.


Or

(b). Explain about corporate Strategy in detail.

13. (a). Explain innovation and sources of innovation


Or

(b). Explain Balance Score Card in detail.

Refer Material.

14. (a). How should an owner- manager prepare a company for its movement in organizational

Life cycle.

Refer Material.

Or

(b). Explain the primary measures of corporate performance in strategic evaluation.


15. (a). What is the impact of strategic management on not- for- profit organization?


Or
(b). Define innovation. What are the characteristics of an attractive industry from an
Entrepreneur’s point of view.



THIRD SEMESTER


(REGULATION 2005)




1. What is Entrepreurial mode?
It is a type of strategic decision making. In this mode, the strategy is
developed by one powerful individual. The focus is on opportunities and
problems are secondary, strategy is guided by the founders own vision or
direction and is exemplified by large, bold decisions. The dominant goal is growth
of the corporation.

2. What is Adaptive mode?
This is a decision making mode sometimes refereed to as “muddling
through”. This is characters by reactive solutions to exiting problems rather than a
proactive search for new opportunities strategy is fragmented and is developed to
move the corporation forward in incremental steps.
3. Who is an Entrepreneur?
Entrepreneur is defined a person who organizes and manages a business
undertaking and who assumes risk for the sake if profit. He is the ultimate
strategist and makes all the strategic as well as the operational decisions. Al the
three levels of strategy-corporate, business and functional are the concerns of this
founder and manager of a company.

4. What is Strategic piggybacking?
Strategic piggybacking refers to he development of a new activity for the
Not-for-profit organization that would generate funds needed to make up the
difference between revenues and expenses . its purpose is to help subsidize the
primary service programs. It appears to be a form of concentric diversification but
it is engaged in only for its money generating value

5. What are the responsibilities of the CEO
o Provide exclusive leadership and a strategic vision
o Manage the strategic planning process CEO articulates a strategic vision for
the corporation. CEO not only communication high performance standards, but
also shows,
o Confiding in the followers abilities to meet these standards.

6. What are the four responsibilities of business
o Economic responsibility
o Legal Responsibility

o Ethical Responsibility
o Discretionary Responsibility
7. What is customer switching cost?
The costs arise open a customer switches from one company’s product to
another company is called customer switching cost switching from one product to
another, costs the customer, time, money and energy. When the switching costs is
high, customers can be locked into the product offerings of established
companies.
E.g. Microsoft’s windows Operating System.

8. What is a Fragmented Industry?
Fragmented Industry consists of a large number of small or medium sized
companies none of which is in a position is determine Industry price.

9. What is bidding strategy?
The strategy adopted by the acquirer to reduce the price it must pay for the
acquisition candidate. Hence the most effective thing an acquirer can do is make
only friendly take over bids.

10. What is mean by Management buyout (MBO)
Selling of a business Unit to its management.

PART-B

11. (a). What are the Responsibilities of business.
Refer Strategic Management- David Hunger ,Page No:26

Or
(b). Describe strategic planning process
Refer Strategic Management- Charles W.L. Hill ,Page No:8

12.(a) . Describe the different attributes of national competitive advantage

(b). What are the Generic Building blocks competitive advantage.

13. (a). “ Diversification will always lead to continued reduction in bottomline”

- comment.

Refer Material

Or

(b). Bring out the limitations of the portfolio models and the recent developments in

This field.

14. (a). Explain the application of TOWS Matrix in strategy formulation.


Or
(b).

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