This week’s topics
Multi-Level Strategy and Strategic Alignment
- Corporate, business, and functional integration
- Portfolio management frameworks
- Parenting advantage theory
- Strategic fit and synergy extraction
- Leading Strategy Paper series: Campbell 1995 Corporate Strategy: The Quest for Parenting Advantage
- Corporate vs Business and Functional Level Strategies
- CIMA E3 Diversification and portfolio management
What you will be able to do
- 3.1 Critically explore the relationship between, corporate, business and operational strategies.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: critically explore the relationship between, corporate, business and operational strategies.
Study materials
Videos
- Leading Strategy Paper series: Campbell 1995 Corporate Strategy: The Quest for Parenting Advantage · YouTube · Glenn Parry · 23 min · for registered students
- Corporate vs Business and Functional Level Strategies · YouTube · Business and Leadership at Bethel University · 10 min · for registered students
- CIMA E3 Diversification and portfolio management · YouTube · OpenTuition · 34 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Mastering Strategic Management, ch. 8: Selecting Corporate-Level Strategies · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 237–272 · for registered students
- MIT OCW 15.769 Operations Strategy (Fall 2010), Frameworks for strategy and the decision category approach · PDF · MIT OpenCourseWare, slides · for registered students
- MIT OpenCourseWare 15.963 Advanced Strategy (Spring 2008) · Reading · MIT OpenCourseWare, course · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
