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Shan Hua

MIS 44285
Dr. Alan Smith
March 20, 2015
Chapter 8
(1) What are three activities or capabilities a firm should possess to support a low-cost
leadership strategy? Give an example of a company that has done this?
There are three activities and capabilities a firm should possess to support and sustain a lowcost leadership strategy:
A. Implementation of effective cost control, maintaining low cost advantage at effective and
efficient way;
B. Continuous research and development on low cost in order to succeed in the long run;
C. Benchmark with other low-cost competitors to see their position in the industry and adjust the
strategy accordingly. Southwest Airlines is a good example of good using this . It keeps
its operations simple and is highly efficient at execution.
(2)What are three activities or capacities a firm should possess to support a differentiationbased strategy? Can you give an example of a company that has done that?
Three activities or capacities a firm possesses to support a differentiation-based strategy
includes:
A. Strong coordination among functions in R&D, product development, and marketing;
B. Providing incentive to attract highly skilled and knowledgeable workers to work in R&D
department;
C. Maintain good relationship with key customers. Apple has done those to support its
differentiation strategy.

(3) What are three ways a firm can incorporate the advantage of speed in its business? Give
an example of a company that has done this?
Three ways a firm could incorporate the advantage of speed in its business include:
A. Focus on activities that improve customer satisfaction;
B. Enhance the responsibility and skills of personnel that is responsible for maintaining
customer relations;
C. Empower customer service personnel. Dell is a good example of speed and availableness of
customer service.

Chapter Nine

1. How does strategic analysis at the corporate level differ from strategic analysis at the
business unit level? How are they related?
Strategic analysis at the enterprise level is more than the analysis of complex business unit
level. The business unit managers to establish plans and strategies for his or her specific
department or business unit, company-level managers must create a policy to guide the
company include, involve and affect many business units / departments. The corporate level
managers examine and choose which businesses to own and which ones to divest and forego.
They consider each business managers plans to support the company business and then
determine how to allocate resources among each business
2. When would multi business companies find the portfolio approach to strategic analysis
and choice useful?
Combined method is useful for a variety of operating companies seeking to chart a strategic
course and its growth potential is determined by evaluating how to allocate resources and
other factors, market share, industry attractiveness, business strength, core competencies, and
each business unit strategic environment by its business portfolio.
3. What are three types of opportunities for sharing that from a sound basis for
diversification or vertical integration?
Opportunities for sharing are usually found in market-related operating-related,
and management activities.
4. Describe three types of opportunities through which a corporate parent could add value
beyond the sum of its separate business.
All multi-service businesses tend to destroy value. Enterprise level, especially senior managers
inevitably destroy some value. Destroy value drivers (so-called information filters) trends related

to business managers to filter the information to business management in order to show them the
most advantageous business. Parents avoid destroying value; companies must be more selfdiscipline, which means that companies avoid intervention unless they have a specific reason to
believe that their impact will be positive, or to avoid the expansion of their investment portfolio
into a new business, unless they were convinced that they could increase value. So, a good
business strategy should recognize the value of the damage and the tendency has been designed
to reduce their impact maximize value creation. Value creation occurs mainly in the business of
parents saw an opportunity to improve performance and have the skills, resources, and other
features to help businesses seize the opportunity. This means that parents improve business
performance and value of personal contact between the businesses and create value through the
implementation of changes in the composition of the portfolio company development activities.
Value creation conditions are very important because they are forced to consider the parent
company primarily through strategic value-added business opportunities, but also help the parent
company will focus its efforts on building a special ability or skill, the opportunity to adapt to
specific business goals.
5. What does patching refer to? Describe and illustrate two rules that might guide
managers to build value in their business.
Pitcher process is corporate executives often "re-map" of their rapidly changing business
and market opportunities - Add, split, transfer, withdraw, or a combination of bulk business.
Priority rules to help managers rank has been accepted opportunities. Intel's production
capacity allocation rules: allocation is based on the gross margin products. Border rules
which concern the opportunity to pursue outside, which is pale. Cisco's early acquisition of
rules: the acquisition must be no more than 75 employees, of which 75% are engineers.

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