Business 9609 · AS & A Level
Business strategy
100 practice questions on Business strategy, with worked solutions and instant marking.
Analyse the probable benefits to BS of relocating all of its production to one factory (lines 29–31).
March 2016
Evaluate the usefulness to BS of the strategic choice methods shown in Appendix 3.
March 2016
Assume strategy B is chosen. Discuss how BS could go about implementing the strategic changes that are needed.
March 2016
Analyse the likely opportunities and threats to SA arising from the forecast economic changes in Appendix 1.
March 2017
To what extent might a detailed marketing plan result in a successful launch of SA’s planned new international routes?
March 2017
Evaluate the extent to which flexible employment contracts can support SA’s future success.
March 2017
Discuss how important contingency planning is if SA is to remain successful.
March 2017
Evaluate the methods that SA could use to reach the strategic decision between the two growth options.
March 2017
Evaluate the usefulness of strategic choice techniques to AP’s directors in helping them choose between the two growth options.
March 2018
Assume that AP’s directors choose option A. Evaluate how this strategy could be put into practice successfully.
March 2018
Recommend whether PY should close the three cafés in the North East of country S. Justify your answer with reference to Table 1 and other information.
March 2019
Assess how important corporate social responsibility (CSR) is for PY’s future profitability.
March 2019
Yoon has carried out a strategic analysis of PY’s possible entry into the North American market. Evaluate the usefulness of this strategic analysis to PY’s Directors as they consider the plan to expand into North America.
March 2019
Evaluate the significance of business planning for PY's future success.
March 2019
Use Tables 2 and 3 as a reference. Calculate for 2019:
March 2020
Evaluate how important workforce planning is to FE’s future success.
March 2020
Assess how useful decision tree analysis would be for FE’s Directors as they make the strategic decision between options A and B.
March 2020
Discuss why FE’s Directors should draw up a detailed corporate plan before they put strategies for future growth into action.
March 2020
Use Table 2 and any other information. Evaluate the probable impact on BFB’s future decisions of changes in external influences.
March 2021
Evaluate the importance to BFB of strategic analysis when making strategic decisions.
March 2021
Evaluate the usefulness to BFB of using only Force Field Analysis when deciding between strategic options.
March 2021
Evaluate the likely impact on UBH of the revisions the government introduced to its economic policies in response to the recession.
March 2022
Using Table 3, calculate the following for 2021:
March 2022
Evaluate the usefulness to UBH of Porter’s Five Forces analysis as a tool for developing its business strategy.
March 2022
Evaluate the strategic choice techniques that would be most helpful to UBH when choosing between strategic option 1 and strategic option 2.
March 2022
Evaluate how effective S2U’s marketing strategy was from 2016 to 2022.
March 2023
Advise Ruhi on whether Porter’s five forces analysis is the most useful method for developing S2U’s new business strategy.
March 2023
Analyse two benefits to CD arising from internal economies of scale.
March 2024
Use lines 36–40. Calculate the estimated change in quantity demanded if CD raises the price of its detergent from $4.00 to $4.60.
March 2024
Advise CC on an operations strategy that can support its future survival and growth.
March 2024
Refer to lines 70–75. Evaluate the most likely impact on IPA of the fiscal and monetary policy changes.
March 2025
Advise Daniel on how important transformational leadership is for DCE’s survival.
March 2025
Discuss whether the Sandson brothers made the correct decision to sell their business to CCP for $35m.
Summer 2016
Assume CCP is about to launch the SEL designed robo-cleaner in your country for the first time. Evaluate a marketing strategy that CCP might use.
Summer 2016
Recommend to CCP whether it should maintain SEL’s level of R&D spending in the future.
Summer 2016
Evaluate the significance for CCP of failing to carry out strategic analysis before deciding to take over SEL.
Summer 2016
Evaluate how important strategic management is to CCP’s future both before and after the decision to take over SEL.
Summer 2016
Discuss the implications for CJE of making ‘facilitating payments’ to Government officials.
Summer 2016
Recommend to CJE’s Board of Directors which of the two strategic options the company ought to select. Justify your recommendation.
Summer 2016
Assume CJE’s directors select strategy 2. Evaluate the ways in which this strategy could be implemented successfully.
Summer 2016
Discuss how important research and development (R&D) is for XM’s future success in the smartphone market.
Summer 2016
Discuss the degree to which external influences, such as those shown in Appendix C, may affect the future success of XM.
Summer 2016
Using the strategic choice data in Appendix D and the other information provided, recommend to the Board of Directors of XM which of the two options for future growth should be selected.
Summer 2016
XM operates in a dynamic market. Evaluate the importance of corporate planning for XM’s future profitability.
Summer 2016
Analyse the benefits for TTC of using flexible working contracts.
Summer 2017
Evaluate the extent to which ethics should influence the activities of TTC.
Summer 2017
Use Table 2 and the other information. Recommend which of the two strategic options for TTC's future growth the directors should select. Justify your recommendation.
Summer 2017
Discuss the importance of strategic management to TTC's future success.
Summer 2017
Analyse the likely impact that globalisation could have on HH.
Summer 2017
Discuss the changes HH should introduce to its organisational structure so that future business growth is possible.
Summer 2017
Using Table 2 and the other information, Evaluate the most significant factors HH’s directors should take into account when choosing strategically between option 1 and option 2.
Summer 2017
Evaluate the importance of establishing a culture of change within HH when introducing new growth strategies.
Summer 2017
Analyse the benefits to PV of outsourcing the production of components for its shoes.
Summer 2017
Evaluate how important strategic analysis is for PV when it is choosing between options A and B.
Summer 2017
Discuss the importance of strategic management for the future success of PV.
Summer 2017
Analyse the advantages and disadvantages of PGP’s privatisation for one stakeholder group.
Summer 2018
Evaluate the usefulness of the moving average method for forecasting sales of oil and gas to PGP.
Summer 2018
Evaluate the usefulness of any two techniques of strategic analysis to PGP’s Board of Directors.
Summer 2018
Discuss whether the methods set out in Appendix 1 are enough to enable the directors to make the strategic choice between Option A and Option B.
Summer 2018
Discuss the extent to which the introduction of lean production techniques will resolve DA’s current operational problems.
Summer 2018
Assume DA decides to go ahead with strategy 1. Discuss the extent to which the data in Appendix 5 and other external factors could influence DA’s success in country B.
Summer 2018
Discuss whether strategic choice techniques are able to remove risk from the strategic decisions that the directors of DA must make.
Summer 2018
Evaluate how far contingency planning might help DA achieve its long-term aims and objectives.
Summer 2018
Evaluate how important it is for RW to use a strategic management approach in strengthening its competitive advantage.
Summer 2018
Discuss the importance of effective strategic implementation for RW’s future success.
Summer 2018
Analyse the benefits to BSJ of putting in place a corporate social responsibility policy for the purchase of raw materials.
Summer 2019
Discuss the factors that will affect the entry method into international markets if Option A is selected.
Summer 2019
Evaluate the usefulness of strategic analysis techniques, apart from SWOT analysis, for BSJ’s directors while they weigh up Option A and Option B.
Summer 2019
Assume the directors select Option B. Discuss the importance to BSJ of implementing this option effectively.
Summer 2019
Analyse how SWF might benefit from introducing a quality assurance system.
Summer 2019
Assess the likely effect on SWF’s profitability of the changing external environment.
Summer 2019
The Board of Directors needs to examine the alterations to SWF's organisational structure that are necessary during a time of business growth. Recommend changes to the organisational structure of SWF. Justify the changes you recommend.
Summer 2019
Evaluate the usefulness of strategic analysis techniques when deciding on the future direction of SWF.
Summer 2019
Discuss the significance of contingency planning to the future success of SWF.
Summer 2019
Analyse the risks to AC arising from the economic forecasts in Appendix 2.
Summer 2019
Discuss the usefulness of strategic choice techniques for the directors of AC, as they decide between Option A and Option B.
Summer 2019
Assume AC’s directors choose Option A. Evaluate the significance of business planning for the successful implementation of this strategy.
Summer 2019
Analyse the benefits that outsourcing could bring to JGS.
Summer 2020
Discuss whether JGS ought to keep high standards of corporate social responsibility (CSR).
Summer 2020
Evaluate whether the decision tree calculation in Table 3 gives JGS enough information to make a strategic choice between Option 1 and Option 2.
Summer 2020
Evaluate how significant contingency planning is for JGS as it prepares to carry out its future strategies.
Summer 2020
Analyse the likely effect on HBG’s costs and revenues of increasing its focus on corporate social responsibility (CSR).
Summer 2020
Evaluate whether SWOT analysis is enough to ensure that HBG’s future strategies are the most suitable ones for the organisation.
Summer 2020
Evaluate the importance to HBG of creating a change culture so that Eusebio’s four strategic changes can be put into action (lines 46 to 49).
Summer 2020
Analyse the benefits and drawbacks to PAC of country X’s exchange rate appreciating against other currencies (lines 12 to 17).
Summer 2020
Evaluate the usefulness of the information in Appendix 4 for the directors of PAC as they choose strategically between Option 1 and Option 2.
Summer 2020
Evaluate how important contingency planning is for PAC as part of strategic implementation if Option 2 is chosen.
Summer 2020
Evaluate the significance of PEST analysis for the directors as they decide whether PGC should supply tea.
Summer 2021
Evaluate the usefulness of strategic choice techniques to the directors while they consider Peter’s proposal for PGC to open cafés.
Summer 2021
Evaluate whether Inolla will need to adapt its marketing strategy to raise sales to businesses that rent out scooters in the shared micromobility market.
Summer 2021
Evaluate how useful strategic analysis techniques are in helping to identify future growth strategies for Inolla.
Summer 2021
Evaluate the significance of corporate planning in reducing risk as Inolla continues to grow.
Summer 2021
Analyse the opportunities to SBC of the current economic environment in country X.
Summer 2021
Evaluate the usefulness to SBC of force field analysis as a means of making the strategic choice between option A and option B.
Summer 2021
Evaluate the importance to SBC of effective strategic implementation if option B is chosen.
Summer 2021
Discuss the usefulness of strategic choice techniques for TT’s directors when deciding between the joint venture with Company A and the merger with Company B.
Summer 2021
Analyse two benefits to HD of placing greater emphasis on corporate social responsibility (CSR).
Summer 2022
Evaluate the usefulness of SWOT analysis as part of the strategic analysis needed before HD’s directors make the choice between option 1 and option 2.
Summer 2022
Evaluate the part that corporate planning plays in the successful implementation of either option 1 or option 2.
Summer 2022
Evaluate the probable effect on WTZ’s future profitability of a greater emphasis on corporate social responsibility (CSR).
Summer 2022