General Discussion

Reflect for a moment upon the traditional and more innovative business strategy approaches and paradigms to which you have been exposed in this course. Put yourself in the position of a consultant who is attempting to gain a contract with a medium-sized Information and Communications Technology (ICT) firm, which you hope will hire you to devise a comprehensive business strategy approach. Incorporate the concepts and models from this course into a personal statement that denotes your summative understanding of business strategy and the potential value-added that the particular approaches, metrics, and concepts might bring to the firm under your advice. The statement should comprise approximately 4-5 substantive paragraphs.

Reading Materials

Hess, E. D. (2007). The road to organic growth: How great companies consistently grow marketshare from within. (Laureate Education, Inc., custom ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Kim, W. C., & Mauborgne, R. (2015). Blue ocean strategy: How to create uncontested market space and make the competition irrelevant (Expanded ed.). Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

To access the articles below, please click on the links in the weekly Resources section of the online classroom:

Schulz, W. C. (2007). Towards a more precise SWOT analysis: SCOT analysis & competitive potential. Unpublished teaching note.

You canlocate the article in the Business Source Premier database:

Collins, J. (2005). Level 5 leadership: The triumph of humility and fierce resolve. Harvard Business Review, 83(78). Retrieved from Business Source Premier database.

Hamel, G., & Prahalad, C. K. (2005). Strategic intent. Harvard Business Review, 83(78 ). Retrieved from Business Source Premier database.