Develop business strategies to create sustainable competitive advantage for an organization.

This competency focuses on external environment scanning and strategic choice and evaluation.

Factors Influencing Strategic Planning

Consider a company you are familiar with. Discuss what might be in the organization's external, general, or industryenvironment that would influence strategic planning for that company.

Business Level Strategy vs. Corporate Level Strategy

Discuss the differences and relationshipbetween a business-level strategy and a corporate-level strategy.Use examples from your own company(or a company you're familiar with) to illustrate this differencesand relationship.