What do strategic group members have in common with each other? What impact do firms outside a strategic group have on those in that group?

What are the three strategic management perspectives? How are they different from each other?

For the worst company, what is extraordinarily bad about the company?  Does the company appear to have a clear strategy, and if so, what is it?  What do you think they could do, if anything, to turn the company around?    For the best company, what does the company do extraordinarily well?  What do you think is the company's "positioning" strategy? What makes it different from the others in its industry?

If you determine that your company does not have a competitive advantage through financial statement ratio analysis (that is, your company has more weaknesses than strengths) and you also conducted Porter's five force analysis to determine that there are threats in the market, which strategic choice would you recommend for your company?