1. The document discusses different strategic approaches including competitive, competence, and core competence approaches. It analyzes the organization's resources using VRIO framework to identify sources of sustained competitive advantage. 2. Strategic planning, financial control, and strategic control are described as three styles of relationship between corporate centers and business units for strategic decision making and control. Strategic planning involves centralized master planning while financial control focuses on decentralized performance targets. 3. Strategic control refers to monitoring deviations from the original strategy and implementing corrective measures by establishing reference points and methods to measure strategic effectiveness and efficiency.