Strategic management exam - resources

I’m still getting googled for ’strategic management exam’, which makes me wonder how many soon-to-be-MBAs are hitting these pages in the hope of finding something useful.

I’m not sure whether this lot will count as useful, but here goes. It’s based on the semester two Strategic Management core module run by this gentleman as part of the full-time MBA at Leeds Uni Business School. His module is based around two core texts - de Wit & Mayer’s Strategy - Process, Content, Context and Hill & Jones’ Strategic Management: An integrated approach, so that’s what these documents take as their starting point.

The Strategy Planning Model attempts to pull together a complete overview of the strategic planning process, while the other Strategy model tries to pull together all the various models and views and show how they inter-relate. Points being the things that won prizes, the idea was to come up with a set of models that would a) be possible to remember in the stress of the exam room and b) act as a way of building up an essay answer that could tie together various models in a comparative way and so gain as much credit as possible. They’re not designed as last-minute cramming aids - if there’s one thing I learned on the MBA it’s that it’s a course where last-minute cramming doesn’t work.

For what it’s worth, this approach seemed to work - those of us who worked together on these models got high marks (I haven’t got my grading sheet to hand, but from memory I think I picked up a low-80s mark, which anecdotally at least was pretty good for the cohort) How much sense they’ll make out of context, I’m not sure, but if in doubt email me, and I’ll try to explain.

There’s also a lot more where this came on that covers other modules - Operations Management in particular, so if the name Nigel Slack rings any bells, ping me an email and the OM models can be yours.

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