Generating Strategic Options

This case study uses Porter’s generic strategies to identify key competitors and establish strategic options. Allow around an hour for completion.

A case study using Ansoff’s Product/Market Matrix to generate options for strategic development. Allow an hour for completion.

Prior to any merger or acquisition, the process of due diligence must be carried out. This checklist documents the information required from various areas of a target organisation in order to ensure that the critical issues have been identified.

An exercise involving the creation of a ‘strategy canvas’ to identify where an organisation currently invests its resources to create value and where it may consider investing in the future, in comparison to key competitors. Allow 45 minutes for completion.

A creative exercise for generating strategic options by creating new relationships between ideas or objects. Allow one hour for completion.

This exercise will help you identify the key competitors in your industry and categorise them according to Porter’s generic competitive strategies in order to identify potential strategic options. Allow 40 minutes for completion.

This exercise provides a way of analysing an organisation’s product/service range in order to decide where to allocate resources and exploit opportunities. Allow one hour for completion.

A simple creative exercise using the properties of products or services to identify potential strategic options. Allow 50 minutes for completion.

One of the most commonly cited reasons for the failure of a merger or acquisition to provide the required synergy is irreconcilable cultural differences. This questionnaire is designed to be issued to a cross section of both organisations prior to any strategic agreement. Potential differences can then be evaluated before the final decision to merge or acquire is taken.