Consider the following cases, each of which is a consulting client: 1.. The American motorcycle company. 2. The Metro pharmaceutical company. 3. St. Martha's College, a small, private liberal arts college. Required: For each client, determine the competitive strategy and the related critical success factors for the organization or firm.

The Robo Company, makers of small engines for lawn mowers, reviews its strategic management process quarterly. Among the areas of review are internal environment assets, which include resources and capabilities to maintain success and grow new ventures to build an advantage over rivals. They frequently use the VRIO tool (valuable, rare, difficult to imitate, and organized to capture value) to assess their resources and capabilities. Two of their resources are their loyal customers and extremely high customer satisfaction, and one of their capabilities is paying above-average wages. They have a large manufacturing plant with older equipment. All engines are built manually, they have an experienced workforce. Customer service is handled by two part-time employees, and they get high ratings. Go-Fast Company is a competitor, also a maker of small engines for lawnmowers. After using the VRIO tool, they listed one of their resources as "loyal customers" and one of their capabilities as…

Develop a fair procedure that will be used to determine merit raises and then decide the dollar raise to be given to each professor. provide not only the dollar amount of the raises, but also explain the process fordetermining raises and the rationale behind them.SituationSmall State University is located in the eastern part of the United States and has anenrollment of about 8,000 students. The College of Business has 40 full-time and morethan 30 part-time faculty members. The college is divided into five departments:Management, Marketing, Finance and Accounting, Decision Sciences, and InformationTechnology. Faculty members in the Management Department are evaluated each yearbased on three primary criteria: 1) teaching, 2) research, and 3) service. Teachingperformance is based on student course evaluations over a two-year period. Service tothe university, college, profession, and community is also based on accomplishmentsover a two-year period. Research is based on the number of…

The Robo Company, makers of small engines for lawn mowers, reviews its strategic management process quarterly. Among the areas of review are internal environment assets, which include resources and capabilities to maintain success and grow new ventures to build an advantage over rivals. They frequently use the VRIO tool (valuable, rare, difficult to imitate, and organized to capture value) to assess their resources and capabilities. Two of their resources are their loyal customers and extremely high customer satisfaction, and one of their capabilities is paying above-average wages. They have a large manufacturing plant with older equipment. All engines are built manually, they have an experienced workforce. Customer service is handled by two part-time employees, and they get high ratings. Go-Fast Company is a competitor, also a maker of small engines for lawnmowers. After using the VRIO tool, they listed one of their resources as "loyal customers" and one of their capabilities as…

thi s is a strategic management question 1.How does a business evaluate its strategic choices?

L'Oreal SA Headquarter in france.L oral is large cosmatic conglomerate with annual sale about 30 billion dollars and net income of about 3.5 billion dollar. L Oreal divid three segments. cosmatic, boady soap and dermatology. The recommended steps to be followed in writing the case analysis are as follows:   1. Identify the firm’s existing vision, mission, objectives, and strategies.   2. If the firm has already developed vision and mission statements, please re-write vision and mission statements using the guidelines suggested in the text. If the firm doesn’t have up-to-date vision and mission statements at this time, please create fresh vision and mission statements using the guidelines suggested in the text.   3. Construct an External Factor Evaluation (EFE) Matrix for the target firm. (a total of 12-15 factors including Opportunities and Threats both) Do not intermingle Os and Ts.   4. Construct a Competitive Profile Matrix (CPM) for the target firm. (a total of 12-15 factors)   5.…

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