RRR is a medium sized company, which has built family homes in Country D' for twenty years. The Board of RRR wishes to expand company operations and start building homes in the neighboring country. The Board of RRR wishes to undertake a position audit to help in this decision.
Which of the following strategic analysis tools would be used in a position audit for RRR?

• A. Gap Analysis
• B. SWOT
• C. PEST
• D. Five Forces

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ABC is an independent training provider in Country F.
It provides training in business related subjects to a wide range of corporate customers. All of its tutors must possess a nationally accredited training qualification before being allowed to teach and all of its courses follow nationally accredited programmes which are externally monitored. This is considered to be a critical aspect of its business reputation.
ABC has one major competitor, XYZ, within Country F.
XYZ offers similar courses to ABC but its tutors do not have to have an accredited training qualification and its courses do not follow the national accredited programmes. The style and content of courses varies significantly between XYZ's centers.
There are a number of universities which offer nationally accredited courses within Country F.
ABC does not consider these as competitors because typically they attract students wishing to undertake degree courses.
The average university pass rate for nationally accredited programmes is currently higher than ABC's.
Which of the following types of benchmarking would be most useful for ABC?

• A. Competitor
• B. Internal
• C. Strategic
• D. Process

TTT recently appointed a new Chief Executive, R, to lead it through a period of major change. R immediately set up a change management team which consisted of several senior managers and directors from across the organization. Together, they formulated an overall goal for change and then spent several weeks presenting the need for change to all of the staff through a series of staff meetings. At these meetings R involved staff and built their ideas into the final change strategy.
R also set a series of interim goals to encourage ongoing performance throughout the change process. When the organization reached these goals, R widely publicized these achievements to help motivate staff.
However, after six months, TTT had failed to reach most of the interim goals that had been set. Most of the members of the change management team had not maintained a significant interest in the change process and many of the staff felt that there had been a lack of communication and reward following the initial few weeks of the change process.
Kotter suggested that there were eight steps required to successfully lead change.
Which TWO of the following did R fail to achieve? (Choose two.)

• A. Generate short term wins
• B. Empower broad based action
• C. Never letting up
• D. Incorporate change into the culture
• E. Develop a change vision

Company CCC is an automotive component manufacturer. It manufactures three main products within its portfolio:
Product 1: Relative market share of 0.1; Market growth rate of -2%
Product 2: Relative market share of 4.0; Market growth rate of +3%
Product 3: Relative market share of 0.3; Market growth rate of +15%
Which TWO of the following statements are CORRECT? (Choose two.)

• A. Product 1 is likely to be at the mature stage of its life cycle, have strong profitability and further investment should be considered.
• B. Product 1 is likely to be at the mature stage of its life cycle, operating in a contracting market and is fairly cash neutral.
• C. Product 2 is likely to be at the mature stage of its life cycle, is likely to benefit from significant economies of scale.
• D. Product 3 is likely to be at the growth stage of its life cycle, at high risk of failure and further investment should be considered.
• E. Product 2 is likely to be at the growth stage of its life cycle, have weak profitability, poor cash generation and high capital requirements.

TUV had an employee turnover rate of 25% among new recruits and was becoming short of skilled workers.
The Board of TUV realized there was something dramatically wrong and called in consultants to assess the problem. The consultants recommended transformational change in that TUV should redesign the entire production system, change the placement of all equipment and the flow of work, redefine every job and give all workers new assignments.
Which type of change did the consultants recommend for TUV?

• A. Reconstruction
• B. Revolution
• C. Adaptation
• D. Evolution