Blog 23 – Strategy

Contrast corporate-level strategy with business-level strategy.

Blog 22 – Strategy

Why strategy is complicated?

Blog 21 – Organizational structure

1) What role do you think organizational structure plays in an organization’s efficiency and effectiveness? Explain.

Blog 20 – Mechanistic & Organic organizational structures

1) Would you rather work in a mechanistic or an organic organization? Why?

Blog 19 – Work specialization

1) Researchers are now saying that efforts to simplify work tasks actually have negative results for both companies and their employees. Do you agree? Why or why not?

Blog 18 – The “Bio fruit experience” failure

1) What did you learn from the bio fruit experience?
2) Why is it failed?

Blog 17 – The risk

Describe the genesis of risk (the market requires different product or inability of the factors of production) for the following businesses:
1) “How is made chocolate”
2) “How is made honey”
3) “How is made Pringles”

Blog 16 – Classifying the factors of production

Classify the factors of production on the basis of the first two points listed above (tangible and intangible, mode of participation in the productive combination), for the following businesses:
1) “How is made chocolate”
2) “How is made honey”
3) “How is made Pringles”

Blog 15 – The phases of productions

1) Describe what are the phases of production, for the following businesses:
a) “How is made chocolate”
b) “How is made honey”
c) “How is made Pringles”
Using the logic make or buy decide which phases externalize.

Blog 14 – The non-business organizations

1) Find out the What, How and Why of a non-for-profit organization (e.g. the Greenpeace association), using its mission