Strategic Decision Making & Management - Please help answer and understand the below questions:

1. What is a SWOT Analysis and when is it used?

2. What are core competencies and why are they important?

3. List some of the risks of International Cooperative Strategies

4. What is incremental innovation?

5. Explain the following types of strategic alliances.

• Joint venture
• Equity strategic alliance
• Non-equity strategic

6. Explain the Technology Lifecycle Curve with the help of an plot of Revenue vs Time

7. Explain Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers.

8. Explain the concept of Backward Integration and explain the benefits with the help of an example.

9.Explain the matrix organizational structure and list its strategic importance