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Strategic Management<br />

1. What is the best option, in your view, for DD?<br />

2. Analyse the SWOT factors the DD has.<br />

3. Why do you think that the proposed alternative is the best?<br />

a) What is SWOT Analysis?<br />

b) What are the strength of PTC?<br />

c) What are the weaknesses of PTC for entering into the branded snacks market?<br />

d) What kind of marketing strategy was formulated and implemented for Ringo?<br />

What else need to be done by Ringo so as to enlarge its market?<br />

i. What do you understand by the term Vision? What is the difference between ‘Vision’ and<br />

‘Mission’? What vision Dr. Sukumar has at the time of inheritance of Dey’s lab? Has it been<br />

achieved?<br />

ii. For growth what business strategy has been adopted by Dr. Sukumar?<br />

iii.What is the marketing strategy of Dr. Sukumar to overtake its competitors?<br />

iv. In your opinion what could be the biggest weakness in Dr. Sukumar’s business strategy?<br />

1. Identify and discuss briefly, the three themes of strategy implementation of activating<br />

strategies, managing change and achieving effectiveness in the case of Deepak Nitrite.<br />

2. picking up data from the case, demonstrate how formulation and implementation of strategy<br />

are interdependent.<br />

General Management<br />

1. In your organization, what does your superior expect from you in terms of performance? Is it<br />

stated in writing? If you wrote down your job objective and your boss wrote down what he or she<br />

expects of you, would the two be consistent?<br />

2. Choose an organization that you know and identify its strengths and weaknesses. What are its<br />

special opportunities and threats in the external environment?<br />

3. What were some of the controllable and uncontrollable factors in this case? How should Mr. Kim<br />

have responded to those factors?<br />

4. Briefly describe the communication process model. Select a communication problem and<br />

determine the cause (or causes) by applying the model in your analysis.<br />

5. How can you distinguish between strategies and policies?<br />

6. Why don’t managers who are great controllers generally receive as much publicity as managers<br />

who are great leaders?<br />

7. What is an assessment center? How does it work? Would you like to participate in such a center?<br />

Why or why not?<br />

8. Why is real-time information not good enough for effective control?<br />

9. Give examples of how information technology has affected you.

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