QUESTION 1

The Ministry of Information Technology has recently launched a public debate on how to make Information Technology the Fourth Pillar of the Mauritian economy. Using SWOT Analysis as a tool for strategic position analysis, how would you discuss the potential success of IT as a Fourth pillar of the economy?

QUESTION 2

An Organisation can use Porter's Value Chain Analysis to identify which activities were contributing to its survival, helping to build a competitive advantage and which activities have to be eliminated (because of not adding values). Discuss how the secondary and primary activities of the Agricultural Marketing Board could help to stabilize the prices of main agricultural products such as potatoes and onions

QUESTION 3

Paul Harmon's process-strategy matrix is a matrix formed by an estimate of the strategic importance of a process on the horizontal axis, and the process complexity and dynamics on the vertical axis. Explain how the Road Development Authority can use this matrix to decide on which core activities to focus, produce in-house, and which other activities to outsource