CIMA E3 - E3 Strategic Management

Your manager is undertaking a strategic review of XYZ's activities and has asked you to explain how a Force Field analysis would assist in the review process.

 

Which of the following statements would be most appropriate?

UUU is a long established international airline. Which of the following represent Threats to UUU's business?

 

Select ALL that apply.

A direct external change trigger is:

M is a car manufacturer in Country C. Every day, at 09.00, members of M's staff practice meditation and Tai Chi for 30 minutes, before their normal workday commences.

M's staff are paid during this time and M considers the practice to be a benefit both to staff and the company. Staff operate with high levels of efficiency and absenteeism levels are low.

The auditors of M have recommended that M stop these sessions, stating that they consider them to be a waste of time and a drain on resources.

Which of the following aspects of M's culture would the auditors recommendation impact on?

HHH is a teaching Organization. HHH has begun to employ virtual reality to train the customers on its courses in how to perform complex manual tasks such as repairing machinery.

 

Which activity in Porter's Value Chain has been impacted by HHH's use of virtual reality?

WXY has been criticised by an activist shareholder for a lack of clarity in its formulation and implementation of strategy.

The activist shareholder states that WXY is confused as to the different levels of strategy and it has pointed to examples of inappropriate levels of management being held responsible for strategies that they do not control

WXY has decided to use the categories, Corporate, Business and Functional to clarify its strategic processes.

Which of the following are Corporate strategies?

Select ALL that apply.

RRR is a state-funded hospital serving a major city. It is under political pressure to reduce the waiting times of patients requiring surgical operations who need to stay at the hospital for several nights. The doctors blame a lack of bed spaces and are calling for more investment in extra beds.

 

You have been conducting some research into the problem and have discovered the following problems affecting the utilisation of the existing beds at RRR:

 

   • many patients stay extra nights due to lack of communication with the health professionals needed to monitor the patients at home

   • beds are left empty each day when patients miss their admission date but there are no processes to inform other patients to offer them the space

   • patients are admitted on days when there are no spaces available on the special equipment needed to treat their particular condition

 

Which THREE  linkages between Primary Activities in the Value Chain of RRR need to be improved to provide extra bed spaces at RRR?

Which of the following is NOT a common barrier to group-based collaboration within Organizations?

Which of the following is NOT an external driver that leads management to adopt greater sustainability in the activities of its business?

LLL is a travel company which has experienced rapid organic growth. It has three divisions and each division is led by a Divisional Director. Each Divisional Director is responsible for their own divisions' investment in Information Technology (IT). However, as LLL has grown, so has its information requirements.

 

Recently, LLL appointed an IT Manager. She discovered that within LLL's divisions, there are very different standards for IT, resulting in different hardware and software used in the three divisions. Also, the divisions do not use common software packages which causes difficulties in transferring information within LLL. LLL does not have a central IT department. 

 

Which of the following activities would be the primary focus of an Information Systems (IS) Strategy  for LLL?