Kourdi (2009:3) has defined business strategy as a “plan, choice or decision used to guide a company to greater profitability and success.” Required Explain how the following strategies facilitate the achievement of success or profitability: Outsourcing Diversification Market Focus Market development

3)Explain why competitive advantages in technology are temporary and describe the four methods of identifying competitive advantages as well as provide a use case for each method.

Access the following Website: :http://www.kraftheinz-foodservice.com/ Kraft Foods uses this Website as a part of their marketing strategy. Discuss IN 1000 WORDS its effectiveness as a marketing tool. Include the things that you feel work well and the things that you feel could be done better.

Define competitive analysis and why is it so critical to a firm’s long term viability?

Describe motives that can encourage managers to over-diversify a firm.

Begin by selecting two functional strategies from the list below: Marketing Strategy Financial Strategy In your initial post, explain the overall goals of each of the strategies that you selected, generally speaking. Then, expand on your choices by describing how each functional strategy may work together to potentially achieve economies of scope.  Further develop your response by describing how the functional strategies that you selected operate either at your place or work, a place where you have worked in the past, or in a hypothetical “best” corporation scenario. Alternatively, you may research an actual corporation to further develop your response on your chosen functional strategies. Be sure to post at least 2 references

Explain the concept of strategic planning and its role in setting long-term goals and creating a roadmap for success. Provide a case study of a company that effectively utilized strategic planning to expand into new markets or industries and achieve sustainable growth.

Discuss the competitive forces in the business environment using Porter's Five Forces framework, examining the influence of factors such as industry rivalry, supplier power, buyer power, threat of new entrants, and threat of substitutes.

What are the main types of corporate diversification?   Multiple select question.   single business diversification     unrelated diversification     double business diversification     horizontal diversification     related diversification     dominant business diversification

Which is the most important for company's competitive advantage: internal consistency or market competitiveness?