Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning

Table of Contents
1. Current Thinking 2000’s includes dynamic capabilities. Identify three examples of dynamic
capabilities in three different firms operating in the e-business domain. ..............................4
References..............................................................................................................................4
2. Choose three different online retailers and highlight two examples of differentiation in
each.........................................................................................................................................5
3. Using your library resources such as FAME and Google, find an organization that exhibits
the characteristics of flexible forms of organizing: decentralization; flatter, less hierarchical
structures; cross-functional project teams; interorganizational networking; globalization of the
business...................................................................................................................................6
4 (a). Should any resources from outside the finance organization be recruited to help identify
and evaluate alternative strategies? Why or why not? ..........................................................6
4 (b). How should potential strategies for the finance organization be evaluated? ...............7
5. Identify the five highly interrelated parameters that define a project. What happens if one of
these parameters is changed? .................................................................................................7
6. Outline the four phases of goals-based strategic planning. ...............................................7
7. How would you respond to a project team member who feels that risk management is a
waste of time because the future cannot be predicted? Instead, this person prefers to react to
problems as they occur...........................................................................................................8
8. What is the relationship among organizational structure, control systems, incentives and
culture? Give some examples of when and under what conditions a mismatch among these
components might arise. ........................................................................................................8
9. What kind of structure, controls, and culture would you be likely to find in (a) a high-tech
company and (b) a small manufacturing company? .............................................................9
10. What kind of structure best describes the way your (a) business school and (b) university
operate? Why is the structure appropriate? Would another structure fit better?....................9
11. When would a company choose a matrix structure? What are the problems associated with
managing this type of structure? How might these problems be mitigated?........................10
12 (a). What the concept of business alignment and IT/IS alignment is..............................10
12 (b). How the concept can be used....................................................................................10

12 (c). How it might add value to the executive and their organization..............................11
13. Look for any public or private organisations and list the main challenges they face when
attempting IT/IS alignment and offer solutions to such challenges. ...................................11
14. Look for any public sector organizations and discuss why they may experience difficulties
in developing an Information Systems Strategy...................................................................11
15 (a). How do the manager/owner(s) plan their IS/IT use? ...............................................12
15 (b). How does this compare with what is suggested by the literature? .........................12
15 (c). What benefits do they gain from their IS/IT?...........................................................12
15 (d). What are their plans for the future development of their IS/IT?..............................12

1. Current Thinking 2000’s includes dynamic capabilities. Identify three examples of dynamic
capabilities in three different firms operating in the e-business domain.
Amazon
 Amazon includes a scope of resources that impart to their capabilities.
 Their quality is to manage and preserve in their marketplace orientation has been
create effectively with the enhancement of resources.
 The company includes their resources in an exceptional fashion to create core
competencies and the subsequent demonstration of their capability(Aljuhmani,
and Emeagwali, 2017).
Ebay
 The strategic abilities of the company advert to a enterprise power to successfully
utilise competitive plan of action.
 strategic susceptibility of the Ebay is required by a amount of shareholders for
various aim.
 Ability apparent by fresh structure of doing work.
Ali Baba
 The company allows customers to communicate with sellers freely.
 In the company everything is traceable.
 They have specific framework of business.
References
Aljuhmani, H.Y. and Emeagwali, O.L., 2017. The roles of strategic planning in organizational
crisis management: The case of Jordanian banking sector.International Review of
Management and Marketing,7(3).