(a) Select a company that has some strategic issues. Identify and describe the key strategic risks it is facing and their impacts, and discuss their potential downside implications. This can be a company you know (if it is your own company, refer to it by an ‘alias’!), one you have read about in a business publication, one you have Googled, or another source of your choosing. Your selected company needs to be one where you can gather a broad array of information; assuming it is a public company, its 10k filing with the SEC will be a very productive source of information.

(b) Recommend approaches to mitigate them.

(c) It is possible that the company’s strategy cannot be pursued successfully. Opine on whether its strategy is fundamentally sound or not, and if its risks are manageable.