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Overall Strategy
External Analysis
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Business-Level Strategy
Corporate-Level Strategy
100

The process of integrating all of an organization's functions together.

What is strategic management?

100
A condition in the environment that may hinder a company's efforts to achieve strategic competitiveness
What is a Threat?
100
A condition within the firm that may hinder a company's efforts to achieve strategic competitiveness
What is a Weakness?
100

These are actions firms take to gain competitive advantages in a single market or industry and determines how they compete.

What is Business-Level Strategy?

100

The overall strategy Walmart uses.

What is low cost strategy?

200

This is what the "S" in the PESTEL analysis stands for.

What is Social?

200
What external factor includes government pressures and subsidies?
What is the Political Environment?
200
This contributes to creating value for customers but is not physically identifiable
What is an Intangible resource
200

This strategy allows companies to create new products in unknown markets. 

What is Blue Ocean strategy?

200

The overall strategy companies like Gucci, Lululemon, and Coach use.

What is differentiation or value-based strategy?

300

A method for helping a company assess its market position in relation to its competitors.

What is an Industry Analysis?

300

These are the 2 external aspects of the SWOT Analysis

What are opportunities & threats?

300
These are the four general resource categories
What is Financial, Physical, Human, and Organizational?
300

Two techniques a company can use to conduct a competitive analysis

What are: 1.Competitor's annual report and quarterly filings.2.Independant industry analysts reports.3.Consumer focus groups.4.Search engine analysis.5.Observations from ex-employees (Glassdoor, etc.).6.Social media.7.Competitor press releases and public statements.8.Secret shoppers.9.Interviews with common vendors.


300

This is what helps companies achieve their overall goals and objectives. 

What is strategy?

400

This allows a company to assess information by getting factual data and individual opinions. 

What is Environmental Scanning?

400

This aspect of Porter's Five Forces includes bargaining leverage, brand identity, price sensitivity, and threat of backward integration.

What is Buyer's Bargaining Power?

400

What is a statement a company uses to convince customers that its product or services provides more value than a competitor's?

What is a value proposition?

400
This strategy is pursued when competing in existing market space and exploiting existing demand.
What is Red-Ocean Strategy?
400
This is an incentive to cheat on alliances where partners misrepresent their skills and abilities.
What is Adverse Selection?
500

Thinking of our pyramid slide, a company's mission and vision helps create a strategy which helps drive this for the organization.

What is goals and/or objectives?

500

This is model that identifies 5 critical external factors that affect a business' strategy?

What is Porter's Five Forces?

500

What are the 2 internal aspects of a company's SWOT analysis?

What are strengths & weaknesses?

500
The advantages of this strategic commitment include economies of scale, learning curve effects, and brand equity.
What is the First Mover advantage?
500

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