IGNOU MS-11 - Strategic Management

1. Choose an organization of your choice from the infrastructure industry. Perform a SWOT analysis on the organization. Based on the SWOT analysis, list out the challenges the organization is facing. Explain how these challenges can be converted into opportunities. 2. Identify two organizations of your choice from the automobile industry. One which is a single business unit (SBU) and the other which has several related businesses. Analyze the corporate profile of each company from the published information available. 3. Select an organization of your choice, which has adopted a focus strategy. Analyze as to how the focus strategy has helped the organization to build its competitive advantage. 4. Explain with the help of illustration, why portfolio analysis is necessary for multi-product organizations. 5. Why is strategic control important for firms? Explain with the help of suitable examples.

1. Describe the role of political-legal factors as an opportunity as well as threat to a business organization. Illustrate with the help of an example.  2. What is the purpose of PESTLE analysis? Discuss with the help of examples.  3. Assume that you are a part of top management in low cost airlines. What should be the organization culture for your organization so that it can maintain its position in the market after the pandemic? Discuss.  4. Identify a company of your choice from a manufacturing industry. Analyze the company’s industry environment from an international perspective.  5. Describe the role of strategic control in helping the organization to balance the interaction between the businesses’s internal and the external environment.