GEB4890 Business Strategy and Policy
Week 2 Discussion
Write a minimum of 100 words on what called your attention from the video below. Make sure to reply to at least 1 other learner. Use at least 1 other reference to support your opinion.
GEB4890 Business Strategy and Policy
Week 5 Discussion
Write a minimum of 100 words on what called your attention from the video below. Make sure to reply to at least 1 other learner. Use at least 1 other reference to support your opinion.
GEB4890 Business Strategy and Policy
Week 2 Discussion
GEB4890 Business Strategy and Policy
Week 1 Assignment
In your textbook Strategic Management 13th edition:
-Analyze and answer Chapter 1 Questions for review and critical thinking:
1.What are strategic competitiveness, strategy, competitive advantage, above-average returns, and the strategic management process?
2.What are the characteristics of the current competitive landscape? What two factors are the primary drivers of this landscape?
3.According to the I/O model, what should a firm do to earn above-average returns?
4.What does the resource-based model suggest a firm should do to earn above-average returns?
5.What are vision and mission? What is their value for the strategic management process?
GEB4890 Business Strategy and Policy
Week 2 Assignment
Exercise Content
Weekly Assignment:
In your textbook Strategic Management 13th edition:
-Analyze and answer Chapter 2 End of Chapter Mini-Case questions for review and critical thinking
Mini-Case Watch out All Retailers, Here Comes Amazon; Watch out Amazon, Here Comes Other Competitors:
1.Can any firm beat Amazon in the marketplace? If not, why not? If so, how can they best do so?
2.How formidable a competitor is Google for Amazon? Please explain.
3.What are Amazon’s major strengths? Does it have any weaknesses? Please explain.
4.Is Jet.com a potential concern for Amazon? Why or why not?
GEB4890 Business Strategy and Policy
Week 3 Assignment
3. Weekly Assignment:
In your textbook Strategic Management 13th edition:
-Analyze and answer Chapter 3 Questions for review and critical thinking:
1.Why is it important for a firm to study and understand the external environment?
2.What are the differences between the general environment and the industry environment? Why are these differences important?
3.What is the external environmental analysis process (four parts)? What does the firm want to learn when using this process?
4.What are the seven segments of the general environment? Explain the differences among them.
5.How do the five forces of competition in an industry affect its profitability potential? Explain.
Assignment must have at least 500 words and be written in APA style.
GEB4890 Business Strategy and Policy
Week 4 Assignment
Exercise Content
Weekly Assignment:
In your textbook Strategic Management 13th edition:
-Analyze and answer Chapter 4 Questions for review and critical thinking:
1.What is a business-level strategy?
2.What is the relationship between a firm’s customers and its business-level strategy in terms of who, what, and how? Why is this relationship important?
3.What is a business model and how do business models differ from business-level strategies?
4.What are the differences among the cost leadership, differentiation, focused cost leadership, focused differentiation, and integrated cost leadership/differentiation business-level strategies?
5.How can firms use each of the business-level strategies to position themselves favorably relative to the five forces of competition?
GEB4890 Business Strategy and Policy
Week 5 Assignment
Weekly Assignment:
In your textbook Strategic Management 13th edition:
-Analyze and answer End of Chapter 5 Mini-Case for review and critical thinking:
Mini-Case The Ripple Effect of Supermarket Wars: Aldi Is Changing the Markets in Many Countries
1.Using materials in the case and items to which you gain access through a search, describe how Aldi is creating competitive rivalry in the retail grocers’ industry.
2.As explained in this chapter’s Opening Case, Amazon purchased Whole Foods. How will this transaction affect Aldi as it seeks to expand its presence in the United States? What competitive actions might Aldi take in response to Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods?
3.Using concepts and actions explained in this chapter, decide if Aldi is more likely to respond to any strategic actions Amazon might initiate through Whole Foods or if Amazon through Whole Foods is more likely to respond to any strategic actions Aldi takes. Be prepared to justify your decision.
4.In a competitive rivalry sense, explain the actions (strategic and/or tactical) you believe Walmart and Costco will take to respond to Aldi’s intentions to have 2,500 U.S. stores by 2020.
