Classmate Trivia
Strategy Fundamentals
External Environment and Internal Resources
Business & Corporate Strategy
Strategy Execution
100

This classmate works for FedEx.

Who is JJ?

100

A company's reason for existing is called this.

What is a mission statement?

100

This framework analyzes political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal factors.

What is PESTEL analysis?

100

Offering unique products or services is this strategy.

What is differentiation?

100

This concept refers to how tasks are assigned and grouped together with formal reporting relationships.

What is organizational structure?

200

This classmate works at an Amazon factory.

Who is Tullulah?

200

This outlines what a company wants to become in the future.

What is a vision statement?

200

This model looks at competition within an industry.

What is Porter’s Five Forces?

200

Competing by being the lowest-cost producer is this strategy.

What is cost leadership?

200

This structure doesn't rely on formal systems of division of labor because one person performs all the tasks that the organization needs to accomplish.

What is simple structure?

300

This classmate just got promoted at the YMCA.

Who is Adriane?

300

This type of goal-setting framework ensures objectives are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound.

What is a SMART Goal?
300

This technique is used to understand a company's situation by considering its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats that exist in the company's environment.

What is the SWOT Analysis?

300

Expanding into new industries is called this.

What is diversification?

300

This structure is arranged by having employees divided into departments that each handle activities related to an area of business.

What is functional structure?

400

This classmate is on the track and field team at UCCS.

Who is Kseniya?

400

This type of plan maps out where a company is headed, sets qualitative and quantitative targets, and outlines the competitive moves to achieve results.

What is a strategic plan?

400

This concept refers to product, price, place, and promotion that companies use to offer customers a coherent and persuasive message.

What is the marketing mix?

400

This advantage refers to the benefits a company gains by being the first to enter a new market.

What is first-mover advantage?

400

This structure is arranged where employees are divided into departments based on product areas or geographic regions.

What is multidivisional structure?

500

This classmate went to a rave for the first time this semester.

Who is Niomi?

500

This type of indicator predicts future results and helps organizations take action before outcomes occur.

What is a leading indicator?

500

A strategy that involves a buyer entering the industry that it purchases goods or services from.

What is backward vertical integration?

500

This strategy focuses on creating a new, untapped market rather than competing with rivals in an existing market. 

What is a blue ocean strategy?

500

This structure arrangement relies on cross-functional teams that each work on a different project.

What is matrix structure?