Strategic Leadership Analysis: Essendon Food Solutions (MBA501)

This project provides a comprehensive analysis of strategic leadership and disruptive innovation within Essendon Food Solutions (EFS), a case study for the MBA501 course on Dynamic Strategy and Disruptive Innovation. The assignment requires an examination of EFS's internal structures, external factors, and marketing perspectives to evaluate its capacity for innovation. The analysis includes identifying leadership challenges, opportunities, and the interrelationship between disruptive innovation and strategic leadership. Furthermore, the project explores the importance of strategic thinking competency, leadership risks, and the role of strategic leaders in developing organizational values. The student's analysis aims to offer recommendations for improving EFS's innovative capacity and addressing its leadership concerns, drawing upon the course materials from workshops 10, 11, and 12, and the provided case study details. The solution also touches upon the importance of enhancing problem-solving skills and bringing changes in operational processes.

Strategic
leadership
Essendon food solutions

Contribution of strategic leader
Strategic leaders play the
significant role in terms of
developing the connection
between organizational
values as well as business
ideas (Masa'deh, Obeidat
and Tarhini 2016).

Strategic criteria of leadership
Group discussion can be
considered as the important
strategic criteria that can help
to adopt strategic leadership
ability in the organization
(Rosenbach 2018).

Situational analysis in Essendon
food solutions
Analyzing the case
scenario of Essendon
food solutions it has
been identified that
leadership is one of
the important
concerns in the
organization.

Interrelationship between disruptive
innovation and strategic leadership
• In order to avoid the uncertainty of disruptive innovation
process, strategic leadership initiative is needed in an
organization.
• Developing the organizational values as well as beliefs,
strategic leadership helps to create new market values.
• Strategic leadership also helps to ensure management
excellence for enhancing the adopting capabilities of
individuals (Rosenbach 2018).

Leadership challenges
• Lack of internal growth
initiatives

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• Negative approach towards employee encouragement

Leadership risk
• It can be challenging for an outsider person to adopt the
organizational culture in Essendon food solutions.

Importance of strategic thinking
competency in the particular organization
1. Detecting the market opportunity
2. Introducing disruptive innovation

How the strategic thinking
competency can be strengthen up
• Enhancing the cognitive ability
• Extraversion
• Accumulating the work
experience

Why strategic leadership is important
in Essendon food solutions?
• Enhancing problem solving skill of Jonathan and Henry
• Bringing the changes in operational process

Reference list
Masa'deh, R.E., Obeidat, B.Y. and Tarhini, A., 2016. A Jordanian empirical study
of the associations among transformational leadership, transactional leadership,
knowledge sharing, job performance, and firm performance: A structural
equation modelling approach. Journal of Management Development, 35(5),
pp.681-705.
Rosenbach, W.E., 2018. Contemporary issues in leadership. Routledge.
Bergh, D.D., Aguinis, H., Heavey, C., Ketchen, D.J., Boyd, B.K., Su, P., Lau, C.L.
and Joo, H., 2016. Using meta‐analytic structural equation modeling to advance
strategic management research: Guidelines and an empirical illustration via the
strategic leadership‐performance relationship. Strategic Management
Journal, 37(3), pp.477-497.