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Solution Manual and Case Solutions For Crafting and Executing Strategy The Quest For Competitive Advantage Concepts and Cases 18th Edition by Thompson
Solution Manual and Case Solutions For Crafting and Executing Strategy The Quest For Competitive Advantage Concepts and Cases 18th Edition by Thompson
Solution Manual and Case Solutions For Crafting and Executing Strategy The Quest For Competitive Advantage Concepts and Cases 18th Edition by Thompson
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER SUMMARY
Chapter 1 explores the concepts surrounding organizational strategy. It begins with an explanation of the term
strategy and offers a basis for how to identify a company’s particular strategy. Next, it explores the importance
of striving for competitive advantage in the marketplace and examines the role strategy plays in achieving
this advantage. The chapter then explores the idea that strategy is partly proactive and partly reactive. Next,
a discussion on strategy and ethics is given. This is followed by a close look at the relationship between a
company’s strategy and its business model. The chapter proceeds forward with a look at what makes strategy a
winner and then presents reasons for why crafting and executing strategy are important. The chapter concludes
with thoughts on the equation: good strategy + good strategy execution = good management.
LECTURE OUTLINE
I. Introduction
Managers at all companies face three central questions in thinking strategically about their company’s
present circumstances and prospects: What’s the company’s present situation? Where does the company
need to go from here? How should it get there? “What’s the company’s present situation?” prompts
managers to evaluate industry conditions and competitive pressures, the company’s current performance
and market standing, its resource strength and capabilities and its competitive weaknesses. “Where does the
company need to go from here?” pushes managers to make choices about the direction the company should
be headed—what new or different customer groups and customer needs it should endeavor to satisfy, what
market positions it needs to be staking out, what changes in its business makeup are needed. “How should
it get there?” challenges managers to craft and execute a strategy—a full-blown action plan— capable of
moving the company in the intended direction, growing its business, and improving its financial and market
performance.
1. A company’s strategy is management’s action plan for running the business and conducting operations.
The crafting of a strategy represents a commitment to pursue a pparticular set of actions: how to attract
and please customers, how to compete successfully, how to conduct operations, and how to improve the
company’s financial and market performance.
2. Normally, companies have a wide degree of strategic freedom in choosing the “hows” of strategy:
3. For companies intent on gaining sales and market share at the expense of competitors, managers
typically opt for the offensive strategies while risk-avoiding companies prefer conservative or defensive
strategies.
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