Global Business School

Question Bank
Strategic Management

Long answer questions:

1. What is strategic management & explain the phases in strategic

management.
2. Draw the comprehensive model of strategic management and explain.
3. What is Mission & Vision? Explain it in detail and also give the
business definition.
4. What is organizational appraisals and explain in detail various
techniques used for it.
5. Define corporate level strategies and also explain the various types of
grand strategies.
6. What is business level strategies and explain its four types.
7. Define strategic choice and also explain the directional policy matrix.
8. Explain any two techniques of Strategic Analysis and Choice in detail.
9. What are the steps of strategic implementation and also explain
structural implementation.
10.Explain behavioral implementation in detail.
11.Explain functional implementation in detail.
12. What is strategic evaluation & control and also its different types.
13. What are the techniques of strategic evaluation & control and also
explain them.
14.Explain cost leadership & differentiation and also explain how to
achieve them?
15.What are resources and explain resource allocation in detail.
16.What are organizational systems and explain various organizational
systems.
17.What are the different leadership styles and also explain the leadership
theory.
18.Explain the impact of corporate culture on strategic management of an
organization.
19.Explain various types of functional strategies.
20.Explain the need of strategic management and at the same time
explain the various level of strategies.
21.What is strategic decision making and discuss the issues involved in
it.
 22.Define environment and explain its types. Also explain the
characteristics of external environment.
23.Explain different environmental sectors in detail.
24.State the importance of strategic evaluation and also explain the
barriers in detail.
25.Explain the various requirements of effective control.

Short Notes:
1.Strategic management and its importance in today’s business world.
2.Various schools of strategic management.
3.Grand strategies
4.Cost leadership
5.Differentiation
6.BCG Matrix
7.GE 9 cell matrix
8.Directional Policy Matrix
9.Gap Analysis.
10.Porter’s mode of a firm’s structural analysis
11.Porter’s generic business strategies.
12.Focused Strategies.
13.Value Chain Analysis.
14.Contingency strategies
15.Hofer’s Product/Market Evolution Matrix
16.Distinguish between Strategic Control & Operational Control.
17.working model of SMP.

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