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Topic 1 Intro To Strat MGT - COMPILED
Topic 1 Intro To Strat MGT - COMPILED
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After studying this chapter, you should be able to do the following:
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Management Marketing
Finance/Accounting Production/Operations
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Strategic Management
Strategy Formulation
Long-Term Objectives
Alternative Strategies
Strategy Selection
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Strategy Formulation
Issues in Strategy Formulation
• Businesses to abandon
• Allocation of resources
• Expansion or diversification
• International markets
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Strategy Implementation
Annual Objectives
Policies
Employee Motivation
Resource Allocation
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Strategy Implementation
The Action Stage of Strategic Management
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Strategy Evaluation
Strategy Evaluation
Internal Review
External Review
Performance Metrics
Corrective Actions
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• Judgment
• Feelings
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Analytical Thinking
Intuitive Thinking
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Adapting to Change
• Ongoing process
• Timely changes
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Competitive Advantage:
Anything that a firm does especially well compared to rival
firms
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Adapting to Change
E-commerce
Demographics
Technology
Adapting to Change
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Key Terms
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Key Terms
Vision Statement:
What do we want to become?
Mission Statement:
What is our business?
Analysis of Trends:
• Economic
• Social
• Cultural
• Demographic/Environmental
• Political, Legal, Governmental
• Technological
• Competitors
Key Terms
Take advantage of
External Opportunities
Strategy Formulation
Avoid/minimize impact
of External Threats
Financial Ratios
Performance Metrics
Internal Factors
Industry Averages
Survey Data
Long-term Objectives:
Mission-driven pursuit of specified results more than one year
out
Strategies:
The means by which long-term objectives are achieved
Strategies (Cont’d)
Key Terms
Annual Objectives:
Short-term milestones that firms must achieve to attain long-term
objectives
Policies:
Means by which annual objectives will be achieved
1. Identify Existing:
• Vision
• Mission
• Objectives
• Strategies
2. Audit external environment
3. Audit internal environment
4. Competing in the global market-place
Strategic Management:
• Is proactive in shaping firm’s future
• Initiates and influences firm’s activities
• Helps to formulate better strategies that are systematic, logical,
and rational
• Improvement in sales
• Improvement in profitability
• Productivity improvement
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1. Identification of opportunities
2. Objective view of management problems
3. Improved coordination & control
4. Minimizes adverse conditions & changes
5. Decisions that better support objectives
6. Effective allocation of resources
7. Reduces resources and time spent correcting erroneous
decisions
• Fear of failure
• Overconfidence
• Prior bad experience
• Self-interest
• Fear of the unknown
• Honest difference of opinion
• Suspicion
Business Ethics:
Principles of conduct within organizations that guide decision
making and behavior
• Misleading advertising
• Misleading labeling
• Insider trading
• Overpricing
• Sweatshops
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The Nature of Global Competition
International/multinational corporations:
• Parent company
• Host country
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9. Economies of scale
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1. Difficult communications
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