12: Implementing Strategy

 Critical Thinking:

Managing the multi-business corporation to meet high performance expectations is problematic. Research a company in KSA that manages multiple businesses:Questions:

  1. Explain the corporate structure and provide a review of its business portfolio.
  2. What advice would you provide on the use of portfolio matrices and which portfolio matrix would you recommend: the GE McKinsey, BCG, or Ashridge matrix? Why? 
  3. Apply your recommended portfolio matrix and provide a portfolio analysis.
  4. How does diversification create value through the linkages between businesses? 

You should meet the following requirements:

  • Be 6-7 pages in length, which does not include the title page or required reference page, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements.
  • Use  APA style guidelines.
  • Support your submission with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook and at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles unless the assignment calls for more.
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 Required

  • Chapter 13 in Contemporary Strategy Analysis
  • in Contemporary Strategy Analysis
  • Chapa, R. T. (2020). . World Customs Journal, 14(2), 3961
  • MADAR, A. (2020). . Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov. Series V: Economic Sciences, 13(2), 101108.

Recommended: 

  • Wrigley, C., Nusem, E., & Straker, K. (2020). . California Management Review, 62(2), 125143.