STM Midterm suggestion

Midterm suggestion

Course Title: Strategic Management

Time: 2 hours Full marks: 30

Group-A

1. Write short notes on the followings: 1*10=10

1. Strategic management?

2. Business strategies

3. mission.

4. Functional Strategies

5. Strategy evaluation

6. Strategy formulation

7. strategy implementation

8. intended strategy

9. emergent strategy

10. stakeholders

11. mission statement

12. segments of external environment

13. economic growth rate

14. interest rates

15. industry

16. good strategis 

17. the technological environment

18. SWOT analysis

Group-B

Answer any two questions: 5*2=10

2. Explain why Southwest Airlines achieved competitive advantage in the US airlines industry while the other airlines had incurred huge losses during the bad days of the industry between 1978 and 1993 in the USA.

3. Who are the stakeholders of the company? Discuss the claims of each type of those stakeholders.

4. Briefly discuss the steps of formulating strategy of a company.

5. Discuss the essential elements of industry environment.

6. Mention the external environmental factors of the economic segment.

Group-C

Answer any one question: 10*1=10

7. Give a model of the strategic management process and briefly discuss its components.

8. Discuss any two of those environmental factors that influence strategy formulation of a company. 

9. Give SWOT analysis with the help of a diagram. Discuss the objective of such analysis.