Syllabus

Question 1

Evalute external environment effects on organization and strategy

Answer 1

• different organizational environment (non and for profit)

- key environmental drivers of organizational change and their PRIORITIZATION specific to the Org and not jus PEST

Question 2

Recommended approaches between business and government as well as societies

Answer 2

Non-market strategy and forms of corporate political activity

Question 3

Discuss drivers for sustainability and corporate responsibility and the corporate response

Answer 3

corporate political activity and non-market strategy

Question 4

Recommend how to build and manage strategic relationships with stakeholders

Answer 4

Stakeholder management (internal, government, regulators,  non-gov orgs, civil societies, industry associations, customers and suppliers)
Strat alliance with stakeholders

Customer portfolio (customer analysis and behaviour, marketing audit, customer profitability, customer retention, relationship mgmt and loyalty)

Strat supply chain mgmt

Implications of interactions with external environment for mgmt accountants

Question 5

Ethical issues and resolutions

Answer 5

Business ethics and CIMA code of ethics (parts A and B)

Question 6

Evaluate the strategy analysis and the strategic options

Answer 6

Vision and mission statements and their use

Process of strategy formulation

Strategic options generations (Ansoff: markets vs products and Porter: Strat advantage vs Strat Target)

Scenario planning and LRP

Business value drivers and corresponding data need and measurement

Game Theory

Real Options

Acquisition, divestment, rationalization and relocation

Question 7

Recommend strategic options

Answer 7

Identify and evaluation strat options

Apply suitability, acceptability and feasibility (SAF) framework

Question 8

R&R of directors in the strat formulation and implementation

Answer 8

BoD and Senior Mgmt roles (due diligence, fiduciary responsibilities and corporate social responsibility)

Question 9

evaluate strat analysis tools

Answer 9

Resource and capability audit

Forecasting (trend, system modelling, expert opinion, Delphi method)

Question 10

recommend on how to manage product portfolio to achieve strategic goals

Answer 10

Product portfolio management

Question 11

Produce value chain analysis

Answer 11

Value chain analysis

Question 12

Key impacts of organizational change

Answer 12

Impact on org culture and McK 7’s

Question 13

Leadership in managing change, building and managing effective teams

Answer 13

Team building, collaboration, group formation, shared knowledge and accountability

Question 14

evaluate tools, techniques and strategies to lead change

Answer 14

Managing critical periods or adaptive, evolutionary, reconstructive and revolutionary change

Tools techniques and models for org changes

Approaches styles and strategies of change mgmt

Question 15

Evaluate change leaders

Answer 15

Change leadership and its role

The role of the change leader

Question 16

Recommend appropriate leadership styles

Answer 16

Advantages and disadvantages of leadership styles

Mentoring and coaching to promote effective change leadership

Question 17

Evaluate alternative models and strategic performance measurement

Answer 17

Alternative SBU’s, shareholder value added (SVA), and economic value added (EVA).

Alternative measures of strat performance, balanced scorecards, performance pyramid.

Question 18

Recommend solutions in the strategic performance strategic performance measurement

Answer 18

Setting non-financial measures and their interaction with financial ones.

Evaluation of critical success factors (CSF).

Linking CSF with Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and corp strat.

Effective communication, stretch targets and promotion of exceptional performance.

Role of CMA in setting the strategic performance.

Question 19

Evaluate system info requirements

Answer 19

Purpose and content
Classification
Learning organization

Question 20

Advise management on knowledge management

Answer 20

knowledge mgmt system and knowledge based organizations.

Question 21

Evaluate IT/IS on organization and its strategy

Answer 21

The impact of IT, the internet on org’s

Porter’s 5 forces and Value Chain

Question 22

Evaluate the strategic and competitive impact on IS

Answer 22

Competing through exploiting data rather than technology (customer and market segment identification, collection/storage/management and analysis of data)

Aligning Information Systems with business strategies (importance, competitive advantage, necessity)

Digitisation, e-business, virtual organization, Web 2.0, Big Data, social and digital marketing

Question 23

McK 7s

Answer 23

Strategy
Structure
System
Staff
Style
Skills

surrounding: Shared Values

Question 24

Ansoff Matrix

Answer 24

Market development (geographical expansion)
Product development (product addition)
Diversification (new market, new product)
Penetration (existing market & product)

Question 25

Big data, knowledge management, learning organisations, value chain case study, game theory case study, ethics, MIS, EIS and DSS.

Answer 25

Large data sources

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