Acquisition strategy
Change management issues
2.The 2017-2019 three-year plan is quite a significant departure from its history of growth through acquisition. Should LF continue with its past acquisition strategy? What is LF’s core strength? Integrating and extracting value from acquirees, or growing organically, which is the focus of the 2017-2019 three- year plan? Would organic growth be able to sustain LF’s past growth?
3.Will LF succeed with its 2017-2019 three-year plan? ls it too late to play catch-up to Amazon and Alibaba?
4.Critique the following paragraph from Dr Marco Tieman, the founder and CEO of LBB International (a logistics consulting and research firm that specializes in agri- food supply chains, industrial logistics and third-party logistics):