MBA501: Stakeholder Strategy and Portfolio Analysis Assignment Report

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of stakeholder strategy development and portfolio analysis, addressing the assignment requirements for MBA501. Part 1 focuses on Facebook, identifying generic strategy programs for stakeholders (employees, customers, owners, and government) and recommending specific strategic approaches for each, along with implementation strategies. Part 2 analyzes the D&H Foods case study using BCG, GE-McKinsey, and Synergy matrices to evaluate business unit performance and market conditions, providing strategic recommendations for each business unit. The report offers insights into resource allocation, commitment, interaction, and evaluation within the context of strategic implementation, aiming to strengthen Facebook's social media presence and improve D&H Foods' business portfolio.

Stakeholder Strategy Development and Implementation
Facebook
[Student Name] – [Student Number]

Introduction
Business portfolio is the company’s investments, products, its
holdings and brands according to their competitive position.
The general electric have 49 separately managed businesses
for screening business units and all are responsible for the
parent company (Waligo 2013). The GE’s business portfolio for
the strategic business units are mostly profit oriented that
each focus on the product range and the market segment.

Stakeholder Analysis (summary)
• Employee are the key element of the business who runs the
operations for smooth functioning of the business.
• Customer plays the key role for Facebook, without them the
application will loose its value. The customers vitally uses for the
purpose of communication.
• Owner projects the decision making process so as to make
recommended changes for the profitability of the business.
• Government ensures that the laws and regulation are strictly followed
or not.

Stakeholder Analysis (summary)
The stakeholder analysis is the analysis of swing, defensive, offensive,
and hold which are the generic strategy for the customers, owners,
government and employees. The analysis states that each one have its
own role in addressing the stakeholder for effective understanding of
impact of stakeholders in the business (Helmig 2016).

Swing Stakeholder: strategic options
Government must be enabled with information of each user and
location access which can help the government to track the culprit.

Swing Stakeholder:
recommendations
Government must take legal actions and must introduce new
technology so that the hacking and insecurity for issues like cyber
crime can be minimised.

Defensive Stakeholder: strategic
options
The owners must visualise and determine other social media and the
reason the customers get easily diverted towards the competitors. This
can help the owner to take decisions on the retaining of customers in
the business.

Defensive Stakeholder:
recommendations
Owners must take care of the cost that have been invested for so long
must have benefits for long- term aspects.

Offensive Stakeholder: strategic
options
Customers mainly find the application to be user friendly so that the
customer can easily access the application for any reference use.

Offensive Stakeholder:
recommendations
Customers must be aware of the precautions that Facebook provides
while using Facebook. The Company takes several actions against the
customer who does not follow the legal laws of using the application.

Hold Stakeholder: strategic options
The employee must be proficient in all types of softwares that
Facebook uses for the purpose of unique strategic aspect.

Hold Stakeholder: recommendations
The employee must be efficient enough to project any process and
operations in order to achieve the organisational goal.