Business-level Strategy - a discussion agenda

The  topic of Business-level Strategy is taught in Strategic Financial Management by me; it is also covered in Strategic  Management. The major discussion items are as follows:

1. Major elements of Strategic Business Unit Strategies
• Bases of competitive strategy
• Achieving competitive advantage
2. Identificationof Strategic Business Units (SBUs)
• Critieria: market-based criteria and capabilities-based criteria
3. Bases of competitive advantage
• The strategy clock
• How to sustain competitive advantage (re: Exhibit 6.3)
• Sustain price-based advantage
• Sustain differentiation-based advantage
• Strategic lock-in
• Respond to competitive threat
4. Competitive strategy in hypercompetitive conditions
• Overcome competitors' bases of strategic advantage
• Profile of successful hypercompetitive strategies
5. Competition  and collaboration
• Coopetition
6. Game theory
• The 'prisoner's dilemma
• Sequential games
• Change the rules of the game

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References

1. Johnson, G., Scholes, K. and Whittington, R. (2008) Exploring Corporate Strategy, Prentice Hall.
2. Develop a competitive advantage (video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9O2oPbT3fs
3. Resources and competitive advantage (video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfGQYYu0Pzs&feature=related
4. Porter's generic strategies (video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndARJzmKras&feature=relmfu
5. Porter's 5-Force Model (video) (by Porter): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FzYhdS4pqM&feature=related