Pitch and Case Study for Managing Strategies and Shaping Organizational Culture

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PITCH AND CASE STUDY
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Table of Contents
Part A: Elevator Pitches...................................................................................................................2
Elevator Pitch for Topic 7 (Managing Strategies).......................................................................2
Elevator Pitch for Topic 8 (Shaping Organizational Culture).....................................................2
Part B: Case discussion Activity......................................................................................................3
Case discussion activity for Topic 8 (Shaping Organizational Culture).....................................3
Case discussion activity for Topic 11 (Organizational Change).................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................8

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Part A: Elevator Pitches
Elevator Pitch for Topic 7 (Managing Strategies)
Question: What is your ‘killer idea’ to counter the drift from bricks-and-mortar retail to online?
My response. Posted on (Date)
The 21st century has seen the rise of the e-commerce business domain with all the brick
and mortar business have been opening a similar counterpart in the online domain. This is a
strategy is adopted in order to achieve two objectives. These are to combat against the online
competitors who have been stealing the business of these retail stores and secondly it helps in
widening the extent of the market and consumer base. For this reason, it is suggested that the
business initiatives the concept of artificial intelligence whereby there are several kiosks in the
store, which provide an exceptional service to the consumers and link this with the online stores
with a competitive pricing range so as to win over the competition. Firstly, it will help the firm to
regain its market share and secondly, it will assist the firm to combat against competitors.
Elevator Pitch for Topic 8 (Shaping Organizational Culture)
Question: What would you say to Sam? You’d also like to recommend a few pieces of reading
for Sam to consider
My response. Posted on (Date)
As per the case, Sam is worried about the rigid organizational culture of his organization
and is worried about bringing about flexibility in his group. It needs to be conveyed to Sam that
although the culture of an organization tends to have huge impact on the performance of the firm
however, it is always not responsible for the poor performance of the firm. However, as Sam