Course Title: Strategic Management

Course Code: MBA 731

General guidelines:
 Write your Admission Number, Name, Programme Title, Course Code, Course Title, at
the top of the first page of your assignment sheet
 The list of references should be clearly quoted at the end of the assignment
 Assignments need to be submitted via your group representative telegram account until
December 10, 2022. Use your name and ID as file name to save your work before your
forward it to your group representative.
 Assignments that are late (without prior authorization or something like a doctor's note)
will receive a nonnegotiable grade of 0.

Individual assignment

1. Compare your college’s vision and mission statements to those of rival institutions.
Following that, develop an improved version of mission statement for your college.

2. Develop a vision and mission statement for your self.

Group Assignment 1
The External Audit
Purpose
This exercise will help you become familiar with important sources of external information
available in your college library or in the net. A key part of preparing an external audit is
searching the Internet and examining published sources of information for relevant economic,
social, cultural, demographic, environmental, political, governmental, legal, technological, and
competitive trends and events. External opportunities and threats must be identified and
evaluated before strategies can be formulated effectively.

Instructions
Step 1 Select a company or business from a country other than your own. Conduct an external
audit for this company. Find opportunities and threats in recent issues of newspapers and
magazines. Search for information using the Internet
Step 2 On a separate sheet of paper, list 10 opportunities and 10 threats that face this company.
Be specific in stating each factor.
Step 3 Include a bibliography to reveal where you found the information.
Step 4 Write a three-five page summary of your findings, and submit it to your group
representative via a soft copy. Use your name and ID as file name to save your work before your
forward it to your group representative.
Group Assignment 2

Analyze Your College or University’s Internal Strategic Situation

Purpose
This exercise will help in evaluating your university’s major strengths and weaknesses. An
organization’s strategies are largely based on striving to take advantage of strengths and
improving on weaknesses.
Instructions
Step 1 as a group; determine your college’s major internal strengths and weaknesses. List 10
strengths and 10 weaknesses.
Step 2 Rank the identified factors with 1 being most important and 10 being least important.
Step 3 creates a prioritized list of the key internal strengths and weaknesses facing your college.
Step 3 Write a summary of your findings, and submit it to your group representative in soft
copy. Use your name and ID as file name to save your work before your forward it to your group
representative.