Company Name 90002437 Surname Name 90002249 Surname Name

Company Name 90002437 Surname Name 90002249 Surname Name

Agenda • What is the structure of your presentation? Ideally (after the agenda) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. A brief overview of the company Results Competitive Situation Strategic Choices Organizational Choices Conclusions

1. A brief overview of the company • The company in 1 slide: what are we talking about? – Age – Size – Indutries – Founder/Leader – Countries

2. Results • Please provide tables/graphs on sales and their growth rates compared to 3 -5 main rivals over the last 3 -5 years • Please provide tables/graphs on profitability indexes compared to 3 -5 main rivals over the last 3 -5 years • Please express a judgment on these results… Good? Bad? To what extent? The next sessions of the presentation will probably tell us why results are so good or so bad… • Of course you can use more than 1 slide for this section (about 4)

3. Competitive situation • Please analyze pressures for cost reduction (by using the 5 forces model). • Please analyze pressures for local responsiveness (by reflecting upon the 4 sources of this presssures). • Please conclude by telling where the industry is positioned (A, B, C or D? ) • You can use more than 1 slide for this point (about 6)

4. Strategic Choices (competitive strategy) • Please describe what competitive strategy is adopted (cost? differentiation? hybrid? ) and justify your statement • A couple of slides for this section is fine

4. Strategic Choices (International strategy) • Please describe what international strategy is adopted (global standardization? Localization? Transnational? International in a strict sense? ) and justify your statement • Is this strategy coeherent with the competitive situation? • A couple of slides for this section is fine

5. Organizational choices • Please describe the choices taken at least in terms of structure (you can use more then 1 slide, of course) – Vertical diff – Horizontal diff – Coordinating mechanisms • Are these choices coeherent with the strategy adopted? • About 4 slides for this section are fine

6. Conclusions • • • Please summarize in a table the elements analyzed (competitive situation + strategies + organizational choices) Is there coherence among those elements? – If so and the company is reporting good results, theory is respected. You can just give advices to the firm in order to keep this good results. – If so and the company is reporting bad results, theory is not respected. Do you have any additional explanation of those bad results, then? Please offer suggestions to the firm to increase the quality of results. – If not and the company is reporting bad results, theory is respected. You can consequently give suggestions to the firm (changing strategy or organizational architecture). – If not and the company is reporting good results theory is not respected. What are the reasons of the company success, then? What would you suggest to the company to defend these good results? A couple of slide for this section are fine