Question 1

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                        Premises: Acclaim's games are free downloads that are paid for with product endorsement fees for items within the game.
Female gamers have few games that appeal to them.
Microsoft Xbox enables downloadable games.
EA is big enough it can acquire small entrepreneurial companies.
Developing a new game at EA is a huge risk because they are labor intensive and success is not guaranteed.
EA has strategic alliances with movie studios to produce games around popular movies.
Call of Duty, one of gaming's biggest successes, is published and owned by Activision.
EA has cutting-edge effects and graphics.
Sony games cost less to make.

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Question 2

Describe the components of strategy.

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Question 3

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                        Premises: Defender
Looks at how to compete in chosen markets
Unrelated diversification
Miles and Snow prospector most closely resembles the BCG
Something the organization is very good at doing
Range of markets in which the organization will compete
Focuses primarily on synergy and competitive advantage
Aimed at aligning the organization with its environment
Results from different parts of the organization enhancing each other
Copy products of others rather than develop new ideas of
Multi-domestic
Miles and Snow defender most closely resembles the BCG
Analyzer
Focuses primarily on markets to enter and how to use resources
How the organization distributes its resources across various areas
How the organization will use its people, money, etc.
Developed for major areas of operations
Differentiation
Miles and Snow analyzer most closely resembles the BCG
Boston Consulting Group
Global
Miles and Snow reactor most closely resembles the BCG
Course charted for the total organization
Single-product

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Question 4

How will organizational culture affect business strategy implementation?

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Question 5

In reality, how do companies using unrelated diversification strategies perform? Why?

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Question 6

Developing a(n) ____________________ strategy is far more complex than developing a domestic one.

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Question 7

Briefly describe business portfolio analysis using the GE Business Screen.

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Question 8

By broadening their product lines in each of the  countries they enter, international firms may enjoy ____________________ , lowering their production and marketing costs and enhancing their bottom line.

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Question 9

International and global firms have three additional sources of competitive advantage available to them that are unavailable to domestic firms.  Describe those three sources of competitive advantage.

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Question 10

Briefly describe each of Porter's competitive (generic) strategies, and give an original example of how a firm might use each strategy.

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Question 11

Describe strategy formulation and deliberate strategy.  Use the Texas Instrument example if it is helpful.

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Question 12

What is the difference between business-level strategy and corporate-level strategy?

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Question 13

Write a SWOT analysis of Apple.

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Question 14

____________________ is an international strategy in which the company uses the core competency it developed at home as its main competitive weapon in the foreign markets that it enters.

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Quiz 7: Managing Strategy and Strategic Planning

Describe the components of strategy.

Match the following. You may use a response once, more than once, or not at all.