Strategic Analysis: Internal Environment

Correct answer A: Manage closely/key player.

Both axes high merits close relevant engagement.

Correct answer D: Keep satisfied.

Use supplied axes, not fixed identity stereotypes.

Correct answer B: Keep informed.

Interest can supply feedback despite lower current influence.

Correct answer C: Proportionate monitoring with reassessment, not neglect of duties.

Low priority is not a rights/duty exception.

Correct answer A: Sales, product and service respectively.

Role/activity determines channel type.

Correct answer B: Combined capability/collective learning rather than one standalone asset.

Core competence integrates technological/human/managerial elements.

Correct answer D: Durability of the capability over time.

Resources/capabilities can erode with personnel change.

Correct answer A: Strength, weakness, opportunity and threat.

SWOT origin/helpfulness distinctions remain separate.

Correct answer A: Focused differentiation.

Narrow scope plus valued uniqueness defines the cell.

Correct answer D: Test niche demand, capability/VRIN and imitation/return risks; no premium or profit is guaranteed.

Evidence and renewal matter despite favourable case features.

Correct answer B: Internal identity/capability and execution conditions.

Internal environment includes intangible/administrative factors.

Correct answer D: Assess actual expectations, influence and trade-offs rather than assume uniform interests.

Stakeholder coalition can have conflicting objectives.

Correct answer D: 70 and 30 percent.

Aggregate firm shares within supplied groups.

Correct answer B: sqrt(7/3), approximately 1.527525.

Area=pi*r²; radius scales with square root of share.

Correct answer A: Label one consistent encoding; separate reputation axis from share area.

Source page 10/11 tension must not silently mix encodings.

Correct answer A: Organisation marketing.

The object is the organisation, not an individual/place.

Correct answer C: Place marketing.

Target attitudes concern the location.

Correct answer C: Concentrated marketing.

Narrow coverage differs from multiple differentiated offers.

Correct answer A: Enlightened marketing principles.

It is a long-run marketing-system philosophy.

Correct answer B: Test actual customer needs/access and channel costs rather than stereotype or equate width with fit.

Source illustrative examples are not universal customer facts.

Correct answer C: Application to other markets/organisation-wide significance.

Useful capability is not automatically a core competence under all three tests.

Correct answer C: External threat possibility versus internal weakness.

Effects depend on context, but source of the factors differs.

Correct answer A: Imitability.

Building speed/ease differs from acquiring existing resources.

Correct answer D: Actual relative low-cost position and fit with broad price-sensitive demand.

Strategy basis is cost capability, not price label alone.

Correct answer B: Sharing/synergy opportunities need cost-benefit assessment.

Resource/skill sharing can help only with actual net benefit.

Correct answer C: Cost advantage can erode through preference/technology/competitive changes.

The strategy's force advantages are conditional, not immunity.

Correct answer B: Differentiation can fail if customer value/premium does not justify cost.

Study preferences, feasibility and imitation risks.

Correct answer D: Focused cost leadership.

Narrow scope and cost/price basis, not industry-wide lowest price.

Correct answer C: More value for money through efficient cost and useful differences.

Comparable offers/economics matter; best-cost combines efficiency/value.

Correct answer B: Hold the growth-label conflict for source reconciliation rather than teach it as settled.

Source conflict is recorded; focus analysis uses narrow scope and basis instead.