In Johnson, Scholes and Whittington's model of rational strategy which of the following stages appear?
Select ALL that apply.
AAA is a car manufacturer which has undertaken a strategy to lobby a regional authority to include Its flagship hybrid model in a regional initiative to grant low-emission cars access to faster moving vehicle lanes. These faster vehicle lanes were historically only available to cars carrying passengers. Given the benefits of AAA's low emission vehicles, AAA's cars were authorised to make use of the faster lanes, even when no passengers were on board providing AAA with a decisive competitive edge.
Which of the following strategies is AAA pursuing?
Which of the following is NOT an external driver that leads management to adopt greater sustainability in the activities of its business?
Mendelow developed a matrix in which he characterised stakeholders by reference to their degree of power and level of interest.
Place the correct category against each of the classes of stakeholders.
Which of the following is a direct external change trigger?
RST is a company specializing in the production of wood-based products. RST has decided to introduce a fully integrated Information System across all divisions in order to improve knowledge sharing throughout the business and enhance customer relationship management.
RST is expecting resistance to the integrated Information System from it's staff who are key to the business and would be difficult to replace. Staff have a good understanding of why the new system and knowledge sharing is needed and how the system will work but many staff are not happy about the potential changes to their working conditions.
Which of the following change leadership styles, as outlined by Kotter and Schlesinger, would be most appropriate for RST to adopt?
Company TTT produces a range of products, including products T1 and T5.
Product T1: Profitability has declined in recent years, although small profits continue to be made as the market contracts due to changing customer pReferences. Overall market share is low and continues to reduce. However, in addition to external sales T1 is also used as a component of product T5.
Product T5: A market leader within a low growth market, sources components both externally and from TTT's other subsidiaries. T5 benefits from significant economies of scale and TTT has recently considered modernizing its T5 production line but following a cost benefit analysis, decided not to proceed.
Which of the following is an appropriate strategy for TTT to adopt?
A company runs a distribution warehouse. Its information systems constantly monitors inventory levels, with automatic re-order processing occuring with suppliers when inventory items reach a specified level. It operates a robotics system which automatically picks inventory from its location in the warehouse and delivers it to the pick-up area. The company also has a large database of customer information which it uses to analyse buying behavior and sales trends so that it can provide customers with relevant and targeted marketing information.
Which THREE of the following activities of the Value Chain have been affected by the use of IT/ IS?
STU is a hospital that is wholly funded by its national government. In the last five years it has seen its funding cut by over 30% due to budgetary pressure on the government, caused by a global recession. As a result, the senior management team of STU has had to make some very difficult decisions about prioritizing how it spends the funds it receives from the government. Its main strategies have been to reduce the number of administration staff and nursing staff by 20%, in order to reduce its costs. It has also stopped providing a number of services to patients, including its counselling services and its physiotherapy unit.
Which of the following strategies has STU adopted to manage its reduced funding? (Choose all that apply.)
MNO has decided to widen the scope of its performance measurement by constructing and using a Balanced Scorecard. MNO has established a range of Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) for use within its Balanced Scorecard.
Place each of the Balanced Scorecard perspectives against the most relevant KPI.
