PRELIM EXAM - Strategic Management - 1st Semester SY 2025-2026

When a firm avoids risk

When a firm earns average returns

When a firm successfully formulates and implements a value-creating strategy

When a firm imitates a competitor’s strategy

Strategic, Workable, Opportunities, Tactics

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats

Strategies, Weaknesses, Objectives, Tactics

Systems, Workarounds, Opportunities, Threats

Products, Expenses, Sales, Taxes

People, Environment, Sustainability, Technology

Political, Economic, Social, Technological factors

Price, Effort, Strategy, Timing

SWOT

ETOP

Threats & Opportunities Matrix

Issue Priority Matrix

Environmental Targets and Organizational Planning

Environmental Threat and Opportunity Profile

External Targets and Operational Planning

Environmental Testing of Organizational Plans

Continuous scanning

Periodic scanning

Ad-hoc scanning

Predictive scanning

Tangible Resources

Trends

Tactics

Threats

Ability to change laws and policies

Ability to reduce production costs

Ability to cope with hypercompetition and change

Ability to cut staff to remain profitable

Resource-Based Model

Competitor Model

I/O Model

Innovation Model

Below-average returns

Average returns

Above-average returns

Predictive returns