Diversification Strategy

SCS – Mar 2025 – L3 – Q3 – Competitive advantage, International financial

Analyze AML's employee management using IR Framework and evaluate the appropriateness of its diversification strategy into lithium mining.

Question

a) Akosa Minerals Limited (AML) operates in both local and international mining markets, with operations spread across different regions, including Ghana, Mali and Burkina Faso. AML faces pressures for local adaptiveness, such as meeting the specific needs of employees in diverse communities, and global integration, which requires maintaining consistent HR policies and performance standards across all operations. The IntegrationResponsiveness (IR) Framework helps organisations determine how to balance these competing pressures to achieve strategic objectives.

Required:

i) Explain the Integration-Responsiveness (IR) Framework, and show how AML can manage its employees across various locations by balancing the pressures for local adaptiveness and global integration. (6 marks)

ii) Suggest TWO situations where AML should emphasise local adaptiveness and TWO where it should prioritise global integration. Provide examples to support your response. (4 marks)

b) AML diversified its operations by integrating lithium extraction into its core business. Diversification is appropriate in some situations but not in others.

Required: Explain FIVE reasons why the diversification strategy of AML is appropriate and THREE factors that could make the diversification strategy inappropriate. (10 marks)

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Topic: Competitive Advantage
Series: MAR 2025

SCS – Mar 2025 – L3 – Q2 – Change Management

Explain leadership's role in change management and three of Kanter's skills for AML's diversification strategy.

Question

a) Akosa Minerals Limited (AML) has undergone significant transformations in its operations, particularly with the integration of lithium extraction into its core business. This shift has presented both opportunities and challenges, including regulatory compliance, technological advancements and stakeholder management. Successfully navigating these changes requires effective leadership and change management.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter suggests that managers in change-adept organisations must possess key skills to drive transformation effectively. As AML continues its diversification efforts, the company’s leadership must demonstrate these skills to sustain growth and maintain a competitive edge.

Required:

Identify and explain the critical role of leadership in managing change and THREE out of five key change management skills suggested by Kanter that AML’s leadership should exhibit to effectively manage its diversification and growth strategies.

b) Akosa Minerals Limited (AML) recently engaged a risk consultant from Isodek Consultants to conduct a comprehensive risk assessment and provide recommendations on managing the transformational changes the company is undergoing. The consultant’s report highlights key risks and challenges related to AML’s diversification strategy, operational restructuring, stakeholder engagement and compliance with global sustainability standards.

To navigate these challenges effectively, AML’s leadership needs to apply the Gemini Consultants’ 4Rs model which provides a structured framework for managing large-scale organisational change.

Required:

Using the Gemini Consultants’ 4Rs model, discuss how each component can be applied to address the operational and environmental risks identified in the consultant’s report.

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Tags: Change Management, Diversification Strategy, Environmental Risks, Gemini 4Rs Model, Mining Industry, Operational Risks, Organizational Change, Risk Management, Stakeholder engagement, Sustainability
Level: Level 3

Topic: Strategy implementation
Series: MAR 2025

CSME – May 2019 – L2 – Q5 – Corporate Strategy Formulation

Explain diversification strategy and advise Shacks Limited on factors favoring concentric diversification.

Question

Shacks Limited is a company involved in the production of radio cassettes and photographic films. In the past two decades, the company had the greatest share of the market for these products. However, technological advancements resulting in the development of DVDs and digital photographs have greatly eroded the competitiveness of the company. To reposition Shacks Limited and make it more competitive, the management is considering concentric diversification as the strategy to pursue.

(a) Explain the term ‘diversification strategy’. (5 Marks)

(b) From the given scenario, advise the management of Shacks Limited on the key factors that indicate preference for concentric diversification strategy. (10 Marks)

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Tags: Competitive Positioning, Concentric Diversification, Diversification Strategy, Market Share
Level: Level 2

Topic: Corporate Strategy Formulation
Series: MAY 2019

SCS – Mar 2025 – L3 – Q3 – Competitive advantage, International financial

Analyze AML's employee management using IR Framework and evaluate the appropriateness of its diversification strategy into lithium mining.

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Required:

ii) Suggest TWO situations where AML should emphasise local adaptiveness and TWO where it should prioritise global integration. Provide examples to support your response. (4 marks)

b) AML diversified its operations by integrating lithium extraction into its core business. Diversification is appropriate in some situations but not in others.

Required: Explain FIVE reasons why the diversification strategy of AML is appropriate and THREE factors that could make the diversification strategy inappropriate. (10 marks)

Answer

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Topic: Competitive Advantage
Series: MAR 2025

SCS – Mar 2025 – L3 – Q2 – Change Management

Explain leadership's role in change management and three of Kanter's skills for AML's diversification strategy.

Question

Required:

To navigate these challenges effectively, AML’s leadership needs to apply the Gemini Consultants’ 4Rs model which provides a structured framework for managing large-scale organisational change.

Required:

Using the Gemini Consultants’ 4Rs model, discuss how each component can be applied to address the operational and environmental risks identified in the consultant’s report.

Answer

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Tags: Change Management, Diversification Strategy, Environmental Risks, Gemini 4Rs Model, Mining Industry, Operational Risks, Organizational Change, Risk Management, Stakeholder engagement, Sustainability
Level: Level 3

Topic: Strategy implementation
Series: MAR 2025

CSME – May 2019 – L2 – Q5 – Corporate Strategy Formulation

Explain diversification strategy and advise Shacks Limited on factors favoring concentric diversification.

Question

(a) Explain the term ‘diversification strategy’. (5 Marks)

(b) From the given scenario, advise the management of Shacks Limited on the key factors that indicate preference for concentric diversification strategy. (10 Marks)

Answer

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Tags: Competitive Positioning, Concentric Diversification, Diversification Strategy, Market Share
Level: Level 2

Topic: Corporate Strategy Formulation
Series: MAY 2019

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SCS – Mar 2025 – L3 – Q3 – Competitive advantage, International financial

Analyze AML's employee management using IR Framework and evaluate the appropriateness of its diversification strategy into lithium mining.

SCS – Mar 2025 – L3 – Q2 – Change Management

Explain leadership's role in change management and three of Kanter's skills for AML's diversification strategy.

CSME – May 2019 – L2 – Q5 – Corporate Strategy Formulation

Explain diversification strategy and advise Shacks Limited on factors favoring concentric diversification.

SCS – Mar 2025 – L3 – Q3 – Competitive advantage, International financial

Analyze AML's employee management using IR Framework and evaluate the appropriateness of its diversification strategy into lithium mining.

SCS – Mar 2025 – L3 – Q2 – Change Management

Explain leadership's role in change management and three of Kanter's skills for AML's diversification strategy.

CSME – May 2019 – L2 – Q5 – Corporate Strategy Formulation

Explain diversification strategy and advise Shacks Limited on factors favoring concentric diversification.

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