Grant: List and describe the fundamental elements of profit-making organizational strategy
Grant: Enumerate and discuss performance measures that best characterize
superior (Ricardian) profitability
Grant: Characterize the most important strategic changes that will have to take place
in organizations to respond to the environmental, technological, and social changes that
are occurring in the new millennium
Straub: Discuss the concepts of alpha, beta and omega changes in organizational
measures of success
Straub: Argue that certain proprietary resources can or cannot grant sustainable
competitive advantage
Straub: Explain the stages by which a firm can achieve an e-competitive
transformation
Objective 2:
Describe the domain selection and domain navigation objectives of a corporate
strategy
List examples of mission and vision statements and how
companies use metrics to determine accomplishment of goals
Contrast strategies and business models
Compare corporate values and culture to traditional missions and visions
Objective 3:
Articulate the strategic positioning
issues associated with Omnexus
Delineate a 5 forces analysis of the
case
Objective 4:
Distinguish between and be able to give examples of each of the five forces in Porter's model
Discuss how Net-enablement does, or could impact each of these
forces
Explain the concepts of vertical and horizontal e-Commerce
integration and the advantages and disadvantages of each of the new linkages in
a business or strategic sense
Delineate differences between the traditional value chain and the NE value chain
Discuss fundamental shifts in strategies (alpha, beta, and gamma [or omega])
that may be required for successful Internet commerce
List Loebbecke's 4 profit-making types and identify which of these are new in the cyberworld
(and explain why)
Argue the pre-eminent role of corporate strategy or IT strategy in leading NEOs
Discuss how firms are organizing for Net-enhancement and how they should organize
