• What do you think constitutes ‘Leadership’?
• How might this differ from ‘Management’?
Category: Business
Strategic change and execution often go wrong
• Why does strategic change and execution often go wrong?
• Why do people resist change, and what do you think is the best way to implement strategic change successfully?
Key growth opportunities for your organization
• What are the key growth opportunities for your organization?
• How do these growth opportunities align with your core competences and capabilities?
The culture within your company
Think about the culture within your company:
• What are ‘artefacts’ – symbols, physical settings?
• Identify your ‘espoused values’.
• Are there ‘assumptions’?
• Is your culture strong or weak?
• Does it represent how you want customers to see you and your value proposition?
External challenges encountering using the PESTLE
Please identify and map some of the external challenges you are encountering in your business using the PESTLE, VUCA framework, and Business Model Canvas
Business Model, USP, and Strategic Position
• Critically explain your organizations current Business Model, USP, and Strategic Position?
• What are your perceptions about the strengths and weaknesses of past/current strategy/performance?
• We will return to some of these issues in the Leading the Effective B2B Strategy module, and the Strategic Marketing and Brand Management module
Organizations often prefer to replace rather than retain talent
Organizations often prefer to replace rather than retain talent. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? How does strategy play a role in this decision?
Given the importance of strategic staffing, why do you think HR practitioners do not align the staffing decisions with the overall business strategy?
Multicultural communities.
As a physician, you never know what type of patient you will serve. From your past experiences, please describe or highlight factors or situations that demonstrate your ability to work with individuals from multicultural communities.
Commercial cleaning company.
Terry Downes owns a commercial cleaning company. He has conducted a survey of customers to determine how satisfied they are with the work performed.
He devised a 100-point rating scale – with 0 being poor and 100 being excellent service, selected a random sample of 14 customers, and asked them to rate
the service. He also recorded the number of worker hours spent in the customer’s facility. These are in the file named Downes.
Use Excel to complete the following:
Develop a scatter plot showing the variables, rate of service and worker hours, with the y variable on the vertical axis and the x variable on the horizontal axis,
and indicating the type of relationship.
Develop a linear regression model to explain the variation in the service rating.
Use Word to complete the following:
Describe the model, showing the results of the pertinent hypothesis tests, using a significance level of 0.10.
CVS Pharmacy
Chose a company or industry (it could be your present or past employer):
In at least a minimum of 2 paragraphs provide:
Overview of the organization i.e. background of the company, mission statement and vision statement (where applicable) Include its products/services, size,
location etc. (two paragraphs.)