This essay evaluates the role of strategy development tools such as SWOT, Porter's Five Forces and PESTLE analysis in generating competitive advantage. It provides examples from pharmaceuticals, tourism and agriculture industries, focusing on Wesfarmers Limited, Qantas Airways, and Australian Pharmaceuticals Industries. The essay discusses the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of these companies and evaluates the external and internal factors that affect their business. Effective use of these tools assists companies in understanding current and future factors that affect their business and enable them to create strategic policies for sustaining their future growth.

Individual Assignment

Write an essay explaining the main strategy development tools and how they are used in business, focusing on three industries and three companies within those industries.

Discover how SWOT, Porter's Five Forces and PESTLE analysis create competitive advantage in pharma, tourism and agriculture.

Competitive Strategy: SWOT, Porter's Five Forces and PESTLE Analysis

This report discusses the significance of external factors that can influence a company’s operations. It evaluates examples of Australian Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd and Deloitte Consulting to understand how strategy development tools assist the management in forming business schemes. The report includes a PESTLE analysis of Deloitte Consulting and a Porter’s Five Forces analysis of API.

Hartpury University and Hartpury College

Using Strategy Development Tools: Examples of Australian Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd and Deloitte Consulting

This essay examines the functionality of SWOT, Porter's five forces, and Resource-based view model in an organisation. Examples of different corporations are analysed to ascertain the role of each model.

Business Development

Competitive Strategy: SWOT, Porter's Five Forces, and Resource-based View Model

This paper analyzes the competitive strategy of Estia Health Care, Graincrop Limited and Alphapharm Pharmaceuticals using SWOT, PESTLE and Porter's five forces analysis. It discusses the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of these companies and how macro-environmental factors can influence them.

Leadership Management

Environmental Science

Competitive Strategy for Estia Health Care, Graincrop Limited and Alphapharm Pharmaceuticals

This report discusses different frameworks used to achieve competitive strategy, including SWOT analysis, PESTLE analysis, Porter five forces model, and VRIO analysis.