SOAL UTS

MANAJEMEN STRATEGY

CHAPTER 1 :

1. List 10 guidelines for making the strategic-planning process effective. Arrange your
guidelines in prioritized order of importance in your opinion.
2. Why is strategy implementation often considered the most difficult stage in the strategic-
management process?
3. In your opinion, what is the single major benefit of using a strategic-management
approach to decision making? Justify your answer.

4. Why is it that a firm can normally sustain a competitive advantage for only a limited
period of time?

CHAPTER 2 :

5. Explain how developing a mission statement can help resolve divergent views among
managers in a firm.
6. Drucker says the most important time to seriously reexamine the firm’s vision/mission is
when the firm is very successful. Why is this?
7. Why do you think organizations that have a comprehensive mission tend to be high
performers? Does having a comprehensive mission cause high performance?
8. In your opinion, what are the three most important components that should be included
when writing a mission statement? Why?

CHAPTER 3 :

9. Use Porter’s Five-Forces Model to evaluate competitiveness within the U.S. banking
industry.
10. What major forecasting techniques would you use to identify (1) economic opportunities
and threats and (2) demographic opportunities and threats? Why are these techniques
most appropriate?

CHAPTER 4 :
 11. Explain why prioritizing the relative importance of strengths and weaknesses in an IFE
Matrix is an important strategic-management activity.

12. Which of the three basic functions of finance/accounting do you feel is most
important in a small electronics manufacturing concern? Justify your position.

13. Explain how you would motivate managers and employees to implement a major new
strategy.

CHAPTER 5 :

14. Compare and contrast financial objectives with strategic objectives. Which type is
more important in your opinion? Why?