EDSLIONS/weekly discussions/Strategic Management Assignment 2

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This Page is for discussing issues on Strategic Management by the LIONS group of UNISA MBL Programme.

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Statement of Work (SoW)

Members

Members for this Lions Strategic Mangement (SM) sub-team are:

  1. Kago,
  2. Taurai, and
  3. Victor

Assignment

Group assignment 2 (100 marks) Due date: 11/08/2009

Use appropriate methods to analyse the CASE: OfficeMax and the office supply industry.

Having heard of your growing prowess in matters of strategic analysis, senior executives at OfficeMax have retained your services to provide analysis and advice to the company’s CEO and Board of Directors regarding the possible merger of its two largest competitors.

You have been asked to prepare a report that will include:

a) A detailed analysis of the company and the industry (30 marks)
b) Your recommendations on appropriate strategic interventions that the organisation should implement in order to counteract the threat of the merger of its two largest competitors (60 marks)

Your recommendations must include:
i) A focus on the entrepreneurial process, intrapreneurship, innovation and creativity. (20 marks)
ii) An organisation design that will facilitate effective monitoring and control of divisions, stores and management performance, without sacrificing the independence and creativity of individual managers. (20 marks)
iii) The strategic implementation process together with the controls that should be in place to support the monitoring of the implementation of your recommendations. (20 marks)

Presentation (10 marks)

Please support your recommendations with the conceptual and analytical tools presented in the course. You are expected to provide the company with a report that is thorough and thoughtfully prepared, and that reflects a strong grasp and application of the tools and concepts of industry and competitive analysis and company situation analysis, and the formulation of strategies, their implementation, monitoring and control. Your method of referencing must consistently follow the Harvard method.

Recommended length: Main assignment – 20 pages, 1,5 spacing.

Appendices can be used to highlight additional information.

I have not specified a maximum length. Please be careful to ensure that the report is not unnecessarily long or tedious merely because you feel that a long report would be a good one. I will mark the content and not the length. Answers that are too long, with a lot of “padding”, will result in the assignment being marked down. Conversely, answers that are too short and lacking in detail and reasoning will also earn poor marks.

Work Structure

Task Responsibility Deadline
A detailed analysis of the company and the industry KM, TH, VM 17th July 2009
Your recommendations on appropriate strategic interventions that the organisation should implement in order to counteract the threat of the merger of its two largest competitors with a focus on the entrepreneurial process, intrapreneurship, innovation and creativity. Kago 22nd July 2009
Your recommendations on appropriate strategic interventions that the organisation should implement in order to counteract the threat of the merger of its two largest competitors with an organisation design that will facilitate effective monitoring and control of divisions, stores and management performance, without sacrificing the independence and creativity of individual managers. Taurai 22nd July 2009
Your recommendations on appropriate strategic interventions that the organisation should implement in order to counteract the threat of the merger of its two largest competitors with a strategic implementation process together with the controls that should be in place to support the monitoring of the implementation of your recommendations. Victor 22nd July 2009

Process Summary

Tasks Dates Members
Circulate First Draft 24th July 2009 SM sub-team
Comments on Draft 29th July 2009 All Lions
Wiki Chat 2nd August 2009 All Lions
Upload on EDS 6th August 2009 Victor
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