Woolworths Ltd Strategic Analysis: Leadership and Management Insights

The document presents a Strategic Analysis of Woolworths Limited, addressing challenges encountered while selecting appropriate strategic tools for evaluation. The report highlights the importance of choosing relevant analysis methods such as ethics assessment, value alignment, shareholder responsibility consideration, and financial scrutiny to ensure effectiveness without being time-consuming. It underscores the necessity for major stakeholders like board members and directors to be informed about these challenges to support comprehensive evaluations. References include works by Barney and Hesterly on strategic management concepts, and Cheng et al., discussing sustainability indicators in investor decisions.

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Table of Contents
1. Challenges Associated with Doing the Project..........................................................2
2. Solutions Associated with Doing the Project..................................................................2
References............................................................................................................................3

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1. Challenges Associated with Doing the Project
Certain challenges were faced while accomplishing the report. This was associated with
selecting suitable strategic analysis tool that can be helpful in answering the question asked in
the report about the company. Moreover, some challenges were also faced regarding evaluation
of the advantage of employing the suitable tools that can be actionable. Such challenge was
needed to be addressed, as the more clearly a strategic tool is defined and selected, the more
likely that the evaluation will turn out to be successful (Barney and Hesterly 2015).
2. Solutions Associated with Doing the Project
In order to address the challenges associated with the report some effective solutions for
carrying out the strategic analysis was undertaken. Suitable strategic analysis tools are selected
for the report that includes evaluating ethics, values, shareholder’s responsibility and financial
analysis. It is also made sure that the use of such strategic analysis tools is not time consuming.
The report addressed the identified challenges and made sure that the major shareholders of the
selected company including the board, senior directors and departments of the company are well
aware of the same. This was ensured for in case they are not aware of these challenges they
might not be able to offer the required commitment for conducting the overall evaluation
(Cheng, Green and Ko 2014).

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References
Barney, J.B. and Hesterly, W., 2015. Strategic management and competitive advantage concepts
and cases. Pearson.
Cheng, M.M., Green, W.J. and Ko, J.C.W., 2014. The impact of strategic relevance and
assurance of sustainability indicators on investors' decisions. Auditing: A Journal of Practice &
Theory, 34(1), pp.131-162.