OBM study plan

Map Domain 1 into five sub-areas: strategy formulation, competitive analysis, corporate-level strategy, policy deployment, and governance, then rank them by your current confidence

Explain the strategy-making hierarchy from mission through objectives to functional policies in a written summary without consulting notes

Compare at least three competitive-analysis frameworks and state when each is the better tool for a given business situation

Draft ten original practice questions on industry structure and competitive positioning, then answer them closed-book

Apply corporate-level strategy concepts such as diversification, vertical integration, and portfolio logic to two real firms and justify each recommendation

Build a decision matrix that weighs growth, risk, and resource fit for a stated strategic choice

Define the core organizational-behavior constructs of motivation, group dynamics, and organizational culture and link each to a managerial action

Write a short case analysis that diagnoses a strategy problem and prescribes policy changes with expected outcomes

Trace the full HR cycle from job analysis and staffing through performance appraisal, compensation, and development, and identify the decision made at each stage

Distinguish the major motivation and leadership theories and predict what each would recommend in a conflict-at-work scenario

Evaluate two compensation designs against equity, incentive, and retention criteria

Construct a hiring and appraisal process for a 40-person firm, defending each design choice

Segment a described market on two bases, select a target, and write a positioning statement that passes a differentiation test

Assemble a marketing mix for the chosen position and justify each element against the target segment's needs

Interpret basic pricing, channel, and promotion trade-offs using contribution-margin logic

Critique a weak positioning statement and rewrite it to be specific, defensible, and measurable

Read a full set of financial statements and compute liquidity, leverage, activity, and profitability ratios from given figures

Explain how the three statements articulate and reconcile net income to operating cash flow

Distinguish accounting profit from economic profit and apply the cost of capital to an investment decision

Solve time-value-of-money problems for present value, future value, and net present value of a simple project

Classify production and service process types and match each to an appropriate capacity and scheduling approach

Compute inventory metrics under economic order quantity logic and explain the trade-off between holding and ordering cost

Diagram a supply chain for one product and identify two points of vulnerability with mitigating actions

Evaluate a make-or-buy or supplier-selection decision using total cost of ownership rather than unit price

Apply demand and supply analysis to predict the effect of a price control, tax, or cost shock on equilibrium

Compute marginal cost, marginal revenue, and the profit-maximizing output for a described firm

Identify the legal issues in a contract, agency, or tort scenario and state the likely outcome with reasoning

Analyze an ethical dilemma using a stakeholder framework and recommend a course of action that survives public disclosure

Select appropriate analytics techniques for descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive business questions and justify each choice

Interpret a decision-support output with sensitivity analysis and state the limits of the model

Screen an innovation idea using feasibility, desirability, and viability criteria and size the opportunity

Integrate all nine domains in a timed mixed-topic practice set and convert every error into a one-line rule