Why managing groups of strategic alliances is primarily the job of the business unit?

Describe and explain an enterprise architecture in terms of organization, application and infrastructure parts?

What is meant by strategic business units? Why would a company decide to base its organizational structure this way?

Go online and search for “strategic alliance,” and identify three recently formed alliances. For each alliance, identify whether the companies’ other products are generally competitors or complementary products.  What are the goals of the alliance? What brought them together? Discuss whether you think a strategic alliance is an effective way for these organizations to meet their goals.

Why do firms tend to cluster into strategic groups?