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Guidelines For Presenting a 10 Minute Strategic Management Case Analysis

TOPIC

MINUTES SLIDES

Introduction –

0.5

1

Vision and Mission –

0.5

1

Internal Assessment –

1.0

1

External Assessment –

1.0

1

SWOT Matrix –

1.5 1

BCG Matrix –

1.0

1

Recommendations –

2.0

1

EPS-EBIT Analysis –

0.5

0

Projected financial statements –

1.5 2

Conclusion –

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1

Total

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Guidelines For Presenting a 10 Minute Strategic Management Case AnalysisIntroduction –

.5

Minute

Give your name and

major

Give overview of your company in terms of what they are doing versus a glimpse of what you recommend they do

If showing or wearing products of your company, mention relevance, to capture interest.

Guidelines For Presenting a 10 Minute Strategic Management Case AnalysisVision and Mission –

.5

Minute

Tell how/why you are changing the firm’s vision/mission, if any,

in light of your

recommendations

.

Reveal in your proposed mission your firm’s distinctive competence or competitive advantage (self concept), versus rival

firms.

Guidelines For Presenting a 10 Minute Strategic Management Case Analysis

Internal Assessment –

1

Minute

Among your 20 strengths/weaknesses, highlight ones that lead most directly to your

recommendations.

Your internal factors should be divisional, quantitative, and

actionable to the extent possible. Avoid vagueness, such as “revenues are increasing.”

Guidelines For Presenting a 10 Minute Strategic Management Case AnalysisExternal Assessment –

1

Minute

Among your 20 opportunities/threats, highlight ones that lead most directly to your

recommendations.

Your external factors should be divisional, quantitative, and actionable to the extent possible.

Avoid vagueness, such as “the economy is bad.”

Guidelines For Presenting a 10 Minute Strategic Management Case AnalysisSWOT Matrix –

1.5

Minutes

Show/discuss SWOT strategies

that make it to your recommendations page.

Frame strategies

quantitatively; avoid vagueness such as “Expand into Africa.”

Instead, be

specific, such as “ Build 2 manufacturing plants in Mexico.”

Guidelines For Presenting a 10 Minute Strategic Management Case AnalysisBCG Matrix –

1 Minute

Show or discuss

a BCG by

product and/or a

BCG (or IE Matrix) by

region.

Focus on implications

of your matrices as

per

the

upcoming recommendations.

Perhaps the most important strategic decision facing firms annually is allocation of resources across

divisions

/segments, so

be divisional throughout presentation

.

Guidelines For Presenting a 10 Minute Strategic Management Case AnalysisRecommendations –

2 Minutes

Show

10

recommendations with associated costs or savings; add up the costs to obtain a total $ capital needed for next 3 years.

Highlight several recommendations as per reasoning and associated costs.

Guidelines For Presenting a 10 Minute Strategic Management Case AnalysisEPS-EBIT Analysis –

.5 Minute

Present

or or just discuss your

EPS-EBIT analysis and financing decision.

Focus on implications

of your analysis, rather

than the numbers.

Guidelines For Presenting a 10 Minute Strategic Management Case AnalysisProjected financial statements –

1.5

Minutes

Begin with the income statement.

Relate changes in

income statement

to your recommendations, rather than to historical percentage changes.

Show how you transferred net earnings to the balance sheet retained earnings row.

Highlight several items on the balance sheet, such as capital surplus, long-term debt, and property/plant/equipment – as per changes

expected given

your recommendations.

Guidelines For Presenting a 10 Minute Strategic Management Case AnalysisConclusion –

.5

Minute

Compare/contrast your recommendations versus the company’s

plans,

and/or

with a

rival company’s plans.

Show

several projected financial ratios to

reveal

the firm’s improving financial position.

Genuinely seek questions from the audience, so keep your

PPoint

active on the screen.