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This article contains all the previous year’s question papers on the subject: “Strategic Management” from 2016 to now in the sequences as per chapter. Believe me! This article will surely help in your academic journey.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Strategic Management
Year
Very Short Answer Questions
2021 Fall Q.No. 2
Define formality in Strategic Management.
2018 Fall Q.No. 10
Briefly define formality in Strategic Management.
2018 Spring Q.No. 7
Explain in brief strategy and levels involved in it.
Year
Descriptive Answer Questions
2022 Fall Q.No. 11
“Strategic Management plays significance role for gaining long-term sustainability and success for the organization”. Justify.
2021 Fall Q.No. 15
Define strategic management. Explain why it is important in the liberalized economy like Nepal using the support of its process?
2019 Fall Q.No. 11
“Strategic management plays an important role for the success of the organization in the modern age of globalization.” Explain the importance of strategic management in the context of Nepalese organizations.
2018 Fall Q.No. 11
Why the subject ‘strategic management’ is important for today’s modern organization? Does all type of organization really need to apply the concepts of strategic management to realize its targeted goal? Explain with suitable examples.
2018 Spring Q.No. 11
How do you explain a well defined strategy and its close linkage for achieving the organizational goal? Expain.
2018 Fall Q.No. 11 (a)
Define strategic management. Discuss the role of CEO in strategic management.
2017 Spring Q.No. 11
How do you explain the success of a business that does not use a formal strategic planning process?
Chapter 2: Company Direction
Year
Very Short Answer Questions
2022 Fall Q.No. 2
Write any two differences between short-term and long-term objectives.
2021 Fall Q.No. 3
Differentiate between mission and vision.
2020 Fall Q.No. 3
Give an example of vision statement.
2019 Fall Q.No. 2
List out the components of mission statement.
2019 Fall Q.No. 7
What is annual objective?
2018 Spring Q.No. 2
What is annual objective?
2018 Spring Q.No. 8
Elucidate strategic intent.
2018 Spring Q.No. 10
Illustrate financial objectives and strategic objectives.
2018 Fall Q.No. 1
Define strategic intent.
2017 Spring Q.No. 5
Define strategic intent.
Year
Descriptive Answer Questions
2022 Fall Q.No. 16
Differentiate between strategic objective and financial objective with suitable examples.
2020 Fall Q.No. 11
Analyze the following mission statement of Apple Inc. and explain whether it justifies the characteristics that a mission statement should have keeping in mind the present state of Apple Inc. in the international market.
2019 Fall Q.No. 12
Is the following mission statement of Nestle, which is one of the biggest companies involved in manufacturing of various food products sold globally, justifiable? Explain with valid points.
2018 Fall Q.No. 3 (a)
The role of financial objectives and its effective implementation are more significant in strategic management. Elaborate the statement.
2018 Fall Q.No. 7 (b)
Write short notes on strategic intent.
2018 Fall Q.No. 12
“Developing a well-conceived vision is necessary but not sufficient; it is required to communicate the vision within the firm.” Explain.
2017 Spring Q.No. 12
What is a company mission? Mention the characteristics of a good mission statement.
Chapter 3: External Environment Analysis
Year
Very Short Answer Questions
2022 Fall Q.No. 1
Define environmental scanning.
2022 Fall Q.No. 3
List out five forces as mentioned by Porter’s five forces model.
2022 Fall Q.No. 5
Write down the major components of task environment.
2022 Fall Q.No. 8
Write any four components of socio-cultural environment.
2021 Fall Q.No. 4
What is strategic group mapping? List down its process.
2021 Fall Q.No. 8
Briefly define distinctive competency.
2020 Fall Q.No. 2
Differentiate between individualism and collectivism.
2019 Fall Q.No. 4
What is strategic group mapping?
2018 Spring Q.No. 4
Draw a strategic group map of any industry you like.
2018 Fall Q.No. 2
What is CSR?
2018 Fall Q.No. 5
What are the benefits of doing SWOT analysis? Explain very briefly.
2018 Fall Q.No. 7
Define strategic group mapping.
2017 Spring Q.No. 6
Define strategic group mapping.
Year
Descriptive Answer Questions
2022 Fall Q.No. 12
What do you mean by competitive advantage? Explain why this competitive advantage is central in order to formulate organizational strategy.
2020 Fall Q.No. 12
How do social and economic factors influence the strategy of an organization?
2020 Fall Q.No. 13
Analyze the alcoholic drinks industry of Nepal using the Porter’s five forces model.
2020 Fall Q.No. 15
Define and explain Discretionary Corporate Social Responsibility with the help of an example. How has globalization affected the CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) practices in the modern context?
2019 Fall Q.No. 13
How does porter’s five forces model help in the analysis of competitive environment? Discuss with appropriate examples.
2019 Fall Q.No. 16
Ten new life insurance companies have entered in the life insurance industry in Nepal and they will be starting their operations very soon. The external and internal environment analyses show that the market has a lot of opportunities in this sector and five of the companies have high competitive strengths in term of resources. What kind of grand strategies would you recommend to these five companies and why?
2018 Spring Q.No. 12
Choose an industry in your native town which you would like to compete. Use the five forces model of competitive analysis to explain why that industry is attractive to you.
2018 Fall Q.No. 1 (b)
In today’s dynamic and complex business environment, are porter’s five forces still appropriate? Discuss with an example form Nepalese context.
2018 Fall Q.No. 2 (a)
Prepare a SWOT analysis of the manufacturing an industry of your choice.
2018 Fall Q.No. 7 (a)
Write short notes on PESTLEG.
2018 Fall Q.No. 13
Analyze the noodles industry of Nepal by using Porter’s five forces model? Do you think that it is a perfect tool for industry analysis? Comment.
2017 Spring Q.No. 15
What are the five forces that can be used to assess the industry environment? Discuss.
Chapter 4: Internal Analysis
Year
Very Short Answer Questions
2020 Fall Q.No. 4
Define Resource based view approach of internal analysis of a firm.
2020 Fall Q.No. 6
How do you define benchmarking?
2019 Fall Q.No. 5
Define threshold resource.
2019 Fall Q.No. 5
Define benchmarking.
2019 Fall Q.No. 10
What is resource based view of a firm?
2018 Spring Q.No. 1
Define benchmarking.
2018 Fall Q.No. 3
Define threshold resources.
2018 Fall Q.No. 4
Define Benchmarking.
2017 Spring Q.No. 7
What is resource-based view of a firm?
Year
Descriptive Answer Questions
2022 Fall Q.No. 13
“A perfect cost and value chain analysis leads to competitive cost advantage for the company”. What is it so? Explain.
2021 Fall Q.No. 11
How does porter’s value chain facilitate the working of the resource-based-view in achieving competitive advantage?
2019 Fall Q.No. 15
What are the areas of internal analysis? How does value chain analysis help in analyzing the competitive strength of an organization? Discuss with illustration.
2018 Spring Q.No. 16
How is a firm can get cost advantage from well-defined value chain analysis? Explain with example.
2018 Fall Q.No. 2 (b)
What is benchmarking? Discuss the importance of benchmarking.
2018 Fall Q.No. 5 (b)
“A perfect cost and value chain analysis leads of competitive cost advantage for a company.” Explain.
2018 Fall Q.No. 7 (b)
Write short notes on: Strategy making pyramid
2018 Fall Q.No. 14
How does Porter’s value chain facilitate the working of the resource based view in achieving competitive advantage?
2017 Spring Q.No. 14
What do you understand by strategic analysis? Explain value chain approach to analyze the resources of a firm.
2017 Spring Q.No. 2 (b)
Write short notes on: Benchmarking
Chapter 5: Strategic Options and Choice Techniques
Year
Very Short Answer Questions
2022 Fall Q.No. 4
Describe the SUB level organisational structure.
2022 Fall Q.No. 9
What do you mean by stability strategy?
2022 Fall Q.No. 10
Write any two conditions for the success of differentiation strategy.
2021 Fall Q.No. 5
Define turn-around strategy.
2020 Fall Q.No. 1
How do you define corporate level strategy?
2020 Fall Q.No. 5
Why firms diversity their business? List any two reasons.
2020 Fall Q.NO. 7
Define retrenchment strategy.
2019 Fall Q.No. 1
What is corporate level strategy?
2019 Fall Q.No. 8
Define retrenchment strategy?
2018 Spring Q.No. 3
List out any two methods of differentiation strategy.
2018 Spring Q.No. 5
Make short note on SBU structure.
2018 Fall Q.No. 6
Define Focus strategy.
2018 Fall Q.No. 8
Write any two ways of cost reduction.
2017 Spring Q.No. 1
What do you understand by retrenchment strategy?
2017 Spring Q.No. 2
Specify the characteristics of ‘Dogs’ as specified in the BCG matrix.
2017 Spring Q.No. 3
Under what conditions growth strategy is being pursued by firm?
2017 Spring Q.No. 8
Discuss the types of focused strategy.
Year
Descriptive Answer Questions
2022 Fall Q.No. 15
Define BCG matrix. What is the role of BCG matrix in strategic analysis and choice? Explain.
2021 Fall Q.No. 12
Explain the concept of BCG matrix. How is the concept of BCG matrix helpful to manage the portfolio?
2021 Fall Q.No. 13
Write down the suitable marketing and financial functional strategies for a noodle factory operating in Nepalese business environment.
2020 Fall Q.No. 17
Explain the difference between generic and grand strategies. What are the advantages and key risks involved in adopting a differentiation strategy by a firm?
2019 Fall Q.No. 14
Discuss porter’s generic strategies with the help of suitable examples.
2018 Spring Q.No. 13
Explain the concept of GE nine cell matrix. How is the concept of GE grid helpful to manage the portfolio?
2018 Fall Q.No. 3 (b)
What is the role of BCG matrix in strategic analysis and choice?
2018 Fall Q.No. 4 (a)
What are generic strategies? Explain.
2018 Fall Q.No. 4 (b)
“In the absence of strategic and cultural fit strategic alliances may destroy the organization.” Discuss this statement with the help of some relevant examples.
2018 Fall Q.No. 6 (a)
Differentiate between conglomerate and concentric diversification.
2018 Fall Q.No. 6 (b)
“Generic strategies clearly defines the sources of competitive advantage and broad or narrow target market.” In the light of this statement, explain the porter’s generic strategies. Also, explain what “stuck in the middle” strategy means.
2018 Fall Q.No. 16
Explain the strategy selection matrix based on internal versus external growth with a desire to overcome weakness or maximize strengths.
2017 Spring Q.No. 13
Explain about the grand strategy selection matrix.
2017 Spring Q.No. 17 (a)
Write short notes on: Joint venture as strategy.
Chapter 6: Strategic Implementation
Year
Very Short Answer Questions
2022 Fall Q.No. 6
How do you differ operationalizing strategy from institutionalizing strategy?
2021 Fall Q.No. 6
Mention any two roles of leadership in strategy implementation.
2021 Fall Q.No. 9
Define Operationalization of strategy.
2021 Fall Q.No. 10
Give two reasons for R & D in the organizations.
2020 Fall Q.No. 8
List any two roles of leadership in strategy implementation.
2020 Fall Q.No. 10
List out the resources allocation process.
2018 Spring Q.No. 6
Mention any two roles of leadership in strategy implementation.
2018 Spring Q.No. 9
What do you mean by resource planning?
2017 Spring Q.No. 9
Describe about the Mc Kinsey’s 7s framework.
Year
Descriptive Answer Questions
2022 Fall Q.No. 17
‘Managers should carefully consider the types of organization structure while implementing their strategies’. Justify this statement.
2021 Fall Q.No. 16
What are the steps that need to be considered in strategy implementation? And explain the importance of the role of leader in strategy implementation.
2021 Fall Q.No. 17
Give an example of a business organization that uses all functional plannings and explain how they operate strategically.
2020 Fall Q.No. 16
How do policies act as the instruments for strategic implementation? Explain.
2018 Spring Q.No. 14
Explain in brief the different types of organizational structure for strategy implementation.
2018 Spring Q.No. 17
Differentiate between operationalization and institutionalization of strategy. Both operationalization and institutionalization of strategy are necessary for proper implementation of strategy explain.
2018 Fall Q.No. 5 (a)
What do you understand by the term industry boundary? What are the various issues involved in defining an industry boundary by a firm?
20018 Fall Q.No. 15
Discuss about the major managerial issues to be dealt for strategy implementation process.
2017 Spring Q.No. 16
What is matrix structure? Discuss its advantage and disadvantage.
Strategic Evaluation and Control
Year
Very Short Answer Questions
2022 Fall Q.No. 7
Define the term premise control.
2021 Fall Q.No. 1
What is strategic surveillance control.
2021 Fall Q.No. 7
Define strategic control.
2020 Fall Q.No. 9
What do you mean by premise control?
2019 Fall Q.No. 9
What is special alert control?
2017 Spring Q.No. 4
Write down the process of strategic evaluation and control.
