MGT510-Strategy-Planning

Define industry boundaries through demand and supply substitution, then rate rivalry, entry threats, substitutes, buyer power, and supplier power with evidence. Translate trends into force changes to forecast future profitability and identify lower-pressure positions.

Apply the resource-capability test sequence: relevance and scarcity establish advantage, durability, transferability, and replicability determine sustainability, and appropriability determines who captures the returns. Trace resources into routines and capabilities before claiming advantage.

It covers Five Forces, strategic groups, game theory, resource-based view, value chain analysis, industry life cycle, dynamic capabilities, transaction-cost make-or-buy, National Diamond, CAGE, Porter's three diversification tests, BCG and GE/McKinsey portfolios, and real options.

Apply Porter's three tests: the industry must be attractive, entry cost must not capitalize all future profits, and the relationship must make a party better off. Then test parenting advantage and name the specific synergy mechanism before proceeding.

It covers only Grant's Contemporary Strategy Analysis, 11th edition, and is a knowledge base rather than current market, financial, or legal research. Real decisions require combining these frameworks with up-to-date evidence and project-specific data.