Assignment
Strategy and strategic leadership are extremely important concepts for management. The text mentions companies such as Facebook, PepsiCo, Walgreens, Starbucks, and Tesla (just to name a few) who have some positive and negative leadership results. How should strategic leaders address the major issues you identified? In what situations is top-down planning likely to be superior to bottom-up emergent strategy development?
Choose one company and discuss current controversial issues it faces.
o Examine how competitive industry structure shapes rivalry among competitors.
o Describe the strategic role of complements in creating positive-sum co-opetition.
o Explain the five choices required for market entry.
o Appraise the role of industry dynamics and industry convergence in shaping the firm's external environment.
o Generate a strategic group model to reveal performance differences between clusters of firms in the same industry.
o Explain the role of strategic leaders and what they do.
o Compare and contrast the roles of corporate, business, and functional managers in strategy formulation and implementation.
o Describe the roles of vision, mission, and values in a firm's strategy.
o Evaluate the strategic implications of product-oriented and customer-oriented vision statements.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
o The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
o The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
o Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.