-refer to the Added file for thorough instructions

This will be a case analysis essay. The case is called “Eni SpA: The Corporate Strategy of an international Energy Major”. It is located on pages 626-645 in the book named “Contemporary Strategy Analysis Text and Cases Edition” PDF I uploaded. Please read the case carefully and please use this case (pages 626-645) as the ONLY SOURCE. Meaning all the answers to the questions should be found in the case and further analyzed. No other outside source should be used. Please cite page numbers correctly.

IMPORTANT: I have also uploaded a file named “Finished Eni case” that contains the same assignment with answers to the three questions below. The information in that particular document I uploaded are all correct answers to these three questions so please use that as a guide and mention and rephrase all the points that are mentioned in this finished doc. Do not copy from the that essay. There is also a GROUP DISCUSSION section in that file at the end that contains some suggestions for answering the questions. Those are points that need to be elaborated within each question. The document contains four answered questions but for my assignment I only need to answer the three below.

Eni S.p.A. is an Italian multinational oil and gas company headquartered in Rome. 

There is also a grading rubric document. Please take a look at it.

Read the case “Eni SpA: The Corporate Strategy of an international Energy Major”, and answer the following three questions and also the bullet points below each question based on the facts in the case:

No introduction or conclusion is needed. Answer those three questions separately.

1. What has Eni’s global strategy been over the past two decades? (4-page double spaced) (chapter 1 in the book talks about STRETEGY).

a. Identify where the firm is competing (review allocation of Eni’s assets and capital expenditures across sectors and areas).

i. Talk about Arena, Vehicles, Staging, Economic logic and differentiation.

· Information about what are Arena, vehicles, staging, economic logic is in the Hambrick-Fredrickson file I uploaded, and also in the power-point I uploaded. Look at FIGURE 2 on page 4 to answer this part.

· Identify what they are in terms of the Porter’s five forces.

· Porter’s five forces: https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMC_08.htm

b. Where is Eni going and what type of company is it seeking to become?

· What path are they on and where are they going?

c. What is its competitive advantage?

i. where they get in value; value chain; how they make resources capabilities better; how they drive value using resources and capabilities across;

ii. Are they a cost leader or a differentiator? Why are they one of those?

1. Look at the file named competitive advantage type to figure this out.

2. CHAPTER 7 from the book “Contemporary Strategy Analysis Text and Cases Edition” PDF talks about competitive advantage.

2. Evaluate Eni’s corporate strategy in terms of its alignment with (a) the characteristics and requirements of its industry environment and (b) Eni’s resources and capabilities? (2-page double spaced)

a. Position; implementation; alliance, how environment change; adaptability to changes;

i. Adaptation

ii. Implementing

iii. Positioning

b. What are their resources and capabilities?

i. Tangible and intangible resources

ii. Capabilities?

iii. CHAPTER 5 from the book “Contemporary Strategy Analysis Text and Cases Edition” PDF explains resources and capabilities of a firm. Use as reference to find Eni’s resources and capabilities based on the CASE only.

3. Evaluate Eni’s strategy for the next planning period (2016-9). What changes in Eni’s strategy would you recommend? (2-page double spaced)

a. Adaptation to environment; position; implementation; what changes might take? Corporate level; low margins; diversification;

b. Should Eni continue to focus most of its capital investment on its upstream business?

c. Should Eni divest (i) its chemicals business, and (ii) its engineering, construction and oilfield services subsidiary (Saipem)?

d. Should Eni continue with its vertically-integrated strategy in natural gas?

e. Should Eni invest more heavily in renewable energy sources (e.g. wind power, solar power, and geothermal power)?