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What recent strategic choices have been made by the top folks at your organization that help the company to be more competitive?

Can you categorize these choices as following any of Porter's four generic strategies? Explain.

From the SWOT perspective; how successful has this strategy been at

1. Capitalizing on your organization's strengths.

2. Shoring up your organization's weaknesses.

3. Exploiting opportunities in your organization's environment.

4. Protecting the organization against threats.

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What recent strategic choices have been made by the top folks at your organization that help the company to be more competitive?

The recent strategic choices that have been made by the top folks at my organization, Wal-Mart have been to quote low prices for attracting customers. Wal-Mart makes retail sales through large stores, website, and departmental stores..

Can you categorize these choices as following any of Porter's four generic strategies? Explain.
I can categorize the strategic choices as following Porters generic strategy of cost leadership. Actually, the circumstances with Wal-Mart company is grappling with is that the firm has fought global economic weakness. The retail customers are difficult to attract and customers cut costs by going in for discount stores. Under such circumstances, Wal-Mart decided to go in for low prices and reduce costs because of its learning curve. Further, special training was provided to the sales ...

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