As a strategist you are required to undertake a task and submit a consultancy paper to the Board of Directors of a Multinational Company that seeks to learn strategy lessons from the Ghanaian economy. Required: (a) Critically examine any 11 Grand Strategies in terms of their characteristics, advantages and disadvantages

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As a strategist you are required to undertake a task and submit a consultancy paper to the Board of Directors of a Multinational Company that seeks to learn strategy lessons from the Ghanaian economy.
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(a) Critically examine any 11 Grand Strategies in terms of their characteristics, advantages and disadvantages.
(b) Comprehensively analyse Porter’s Generic Strategies and for each generic strategy, provide detailed examples of two companies each that have adopted each named generic strategy.
(c) Research and find out real Ghanaian corporate examples over the past three decades that fits each Grand Strategy described above in (a) above. (precede each example with a paragraph on the background of the company being named)
(d) Investigate what accounted for the success or failure of each example stated in (b) above and provide superior recommendations that would have helped such companies in those instances to achieve their objectives.

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As a strategist you are required to undertake a task and submit a consultancy paper
to the Board of Directors of a Multinational Company that seeks to learn strategy lessons from the
Ghanaian economy.
Required:
(a) Critically examine any 11 Grand Strategies in terms of their characteristics, advantages and
disadvantages.
(b) Comprehensively analyze Porter’s Generic Strategies and for each generic strategy,
provide detailed examples of two companies each that have adopted each named generic
strategy.
(c) Research and find out real Ghanaian corporate examples over the past three decades that
fits each Grand Strategy described above in ‘a’ above. (precede each example with a
paragraph on the background of the company being named)
(d) Investigate what accounted for the success or failure of each example stated in ‘b’ above
and provide superior recommendations that would have helped such companies in those
instances to achieve their objectives. 

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