MBA (T846) Final Exam Mnemonics

Question 1

Handy Sources of Power

Answer 1

B5) List

PRPEP

physical power
resource power
position power
expert power
personal power

Question 2

Morgan Organisations and modes of Political Rule

Answer 2

B5) List

ABTC / RDDD

Autocracy
Bureaucracy
Technocracy
Codetermination
Representative democracy
Direct democracy

Question 3

DPPECL PCEC

Answer 3

1 - Design School (block 1) 2 - Planning School (block 2) 3 - Positioning School (block 2) 4 - Entrepreneurial School (block 3) 5 - Cognitive School (block 4) 6 - Learning School (block 4) 7 - Power School (block 5) 8 - Cultural School (block 6) 9 - Environmental School (block 7) 10 - Configuration School (block 8)

Question 4

STEEPV

Answer 4

Social

Technology

Environmental

Economic

Policial

Values

Question 5

Tools - All by Block

Answer 5

B1 - SWOT

B1 - STEEPV

B2 - Strategic Converstation

B2 - Technology Audit

B2 - Porter’s 5 Forces (5 boxes)
EBSS / CR

B2 - Gregory 5 Process Model of Tech Mgmt (5 ovals)
ISA / EP

B3 - Shane Entrepreneurship (previous KX, risk, opportunity, s-curve, porter)

B4 - Leonard dimensions of a core dynamic capability (onion)

    PIEI / PMSV

B4 - Loop Learning (1, 2 - assumption, 3 - learn to learn)

B5 - Morgan Organisations and modes of Political Rule
ABTC / RDDD

B5 - Handy Sources of Power
PRPEP

B7 - System diagram (3 circles in, out, kx, L1, L2, L3, L4)

B7 - Oliver Strategic Responses
ACADM

B8 - Trajetory Map

B8 - S-Curve

Question 6

Oliver Strategic responses to institutional processes

Answer 6

B7) List

ACA / DM

Acquiesce
Compromise
Avoid
Defy
Manipulate

Question 7

Leonard dimensions of a core dynamic capability

Answer 7

B4) onion

PIEI / PMSV

P

I I

E

Problem Solving
Implementing and Integrating
Experimenting and Prototyping
Importing Knowledge

Physical Systems
Managerial Systems
Skills & Knowledge
Value

Question 8

10 Strategic Schools

Answer 8

DPPECL PCEC

1 - Design School (block 1)
2 - Planning School (block 2)
3 - Positioning School (block 2)
4 - Entrepreneurial School (block 3)
5 - Cognitive School (block 4)
6 - Learning School (block 4)
7 - Power School (block 5)
8 - Cultural School (block 6)
9 - Environmental School (block 7)
10 - Configuration School (block 8)

Question 9

Bowman how culture affects strategy

Answer 9

B6) circles & traiangle

COB / ER

External influences

Cognitive processes

Behaviour Organizational processes

Realized strategy and performance

Question 10

Porter’s 5 Forces

Answer 10

B2) 5 boxes

EBSS / CR

E

S CR B

S

New Entrants
Buyers
Substitutes
Suppliers

Competitors
Rivalry

Question 11

Gregory 5 Process Model of Tech Mgmt

Answer 11

B2) 5 ovals

ISA / EP

I

P S

E A

Identification
Selection
Acquistion
Exploitation
Protection