Here are sample solutions to the Landscape Analysis exercise, submitted by fellow readers of “How to be Strategic”. For recollection, this exercise asks you to improve profitability at Starbucks New Zealand. You can click on the image below to download the 2 spreadsheet tabs for this exercise. Scroll down the page to find sample solutions. As usual, please do the exercise yourself before you look at the solutions! You can send us your own sample solution by clicking here.

Are you sure you want to look at solutions yet? … Why don’t you go back up the page, download the 2 tabs in the spreadsheet, and have another go yourself first? When you’re done, the sample solutions below will still be there - and they’ll be a lot more useful to you after you’ve had a go at the exercise on your own!