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The Nature of Strategic Management
The Nature of Strategic Management
The Nature of Strategic Management
Strategic Management:
Concepts and Cases.9th edition
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The Nature of Strategic
Management
• A global perspective is a matter of
survival for businesses.
• E-commerce is a vital strategic
management tool.
• The natural environment is an important
strategic issue.
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Strategic Management Achieves
Organizational Success
Process of Integrating:
– management
– marketing
– finance/accounting
– production/operations
– research and development
– computer information systems
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Three-Stage Process
Strategy Formulation
Strategy Implementation
Strategy Evaluation
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Strategy Formulation
Long-Term Objectives
Alternative Strategies
Strategy Selection
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Strategy Formulation
Issues include:
– What new businesses to enter
– What businesses to abandon
– How to allocate resources
– Expand operations or diversify
– Enter international markets
– Merge or form joint venture
– Avoidance of hostile takeover
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Strategy Implementation
Annual Objectives
Policies
Employee Motivation
Resource Allocation
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Strategy Implementation
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Strategy Evaluation
Internal Review
External Review
Performance Measurement
Corrective Action
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Strategy Evaluation
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Prime Task of
Strategic
Management
According to Peter Drucker…
The prime task is to think through the
overall mission of a business
Ask the question:
What is our Business?
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Integrating Intuition and Analysis
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Integrating Intuition and Analysis
3. Retrenchment/Renewal:- Redirection of
the firm into new markets.
Corporate Level
Strategy
1. Growth Strategy
-Seeking to increase the
organization’s business by
expansion into new products
and markets.
Types of Growth
Strategies
Two types of Growth Strategies:
Concentration
-Vertical Integration
-Horizontal Integration
Diversification
Concentration:
The company concentrates more resources on the
product line to increase its participation in the
value
chain of the product. The two main types
of Concentration strategies are:-
Types of Growth
Strategies
Vertical Integration:
1. Backward vertical Integration
2. Forward Vertical Integration
Horizontal Integration:
2.Unrelated Diversification:
Company enters entirely different product-market
segments.
Why to Pursue
Growth?
1. Growth is necessary for survival in future
2. Growth offers large scale of operation
3. Growth strategy is up because
taken motivation to do so
4. Intangible advantage of
growth
Corporate Level Strategy
2. Stability Strategy:
In simple words, stability strategy
refers to the company’s policy of
continuing the same business
and with the same objectives.
WHY TO PURSUE THE
STABILLITY
1. It is less risky
STRATEGY?
Renewal/Retrenchment
strategies are pursued when a
company’s product lines are
performing poorly as a result of
finding itself in a weak
competitive position or a general
decline in industry or markets.
Forms o f
Retrenchment
Strategy
1. Turnaround Strategy
2. Divestment Strategy
3. Liquidation Strategy
Integrating Intuition and Analysis
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Adaptation to Change
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Adaptation to Change
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Strategic Management
Process
Key Terms
Vision Statement
– What do we want to become?
Mission Statement
– What is our business?
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Key Terms
Environmental Scanning
– Industry Analysis
• Process of conducting research and
gathering and assimilating external
information
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Key Terms
– Financial ratios
– Measuring performance
– Industry averages
– Survey data
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Key Terms
Long-term objectives:
Strategies:
– Means by which long-term objectives will be
achieved.
– May include:
• Geographic expansion, diversification
• Acquisition
• Product development, market penetration
• Retrenchment, divestiture
• Liquidation, joint venture
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Key Terms
Annual Objectives:
– Short-term milestones that organizations must
achieve to reach long-term objectives.
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Key Terms
Policies:
– Means by which annual objectives will be
achieved.
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Comprehensive Strategic Management Model
External
Audit
Chapter 3
Internal
Audit
Chapter 4
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Strategic-Management Model
Strategic-Management Process –
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Strategic-Management Model
• Vision
• Mission
• Objectives
• Strategies
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Strategic-Management Model
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Benefits of Strategic
Management
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Benefits of Strategic
Management
• Financial benefits
– Improvement in sales
– Improvement in profitability
– Improvement in productivity
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Benefits of Strategic
Management
• Non-Financial benefits
– Enhanced awareness of xternal threats
– Improved understanding of competitors’
strategies
– Increased employee productivity
– Reduced resistance to change
– Understanding of performance-reward
relationships
– Enhances problem-prevention
capabilities
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Benefits of Strategic
Management
1. Identification of opportunities
2. Objective view of management problems
3. Improved coordination and control
4. Minimizes adverse conditions and
changes
5. Decisions to better support
objectives
6. Effective allocation of time and
resources
7. Internal communication
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Benefits of Strategic
Management
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Why Some Firms Do No
Strategic Planning
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Why Some Firms Do No
Strategic Planning
(Cont’d)
• Fear of failure
• Overconfidence
• Prior bad experience
• Self-interest
• Fear of the unknown
• Suspicion
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Business Ethics and
Strategic
Management
Business ethics defined:
– Principles of conduct within
organizations that guide decision
making and behavior.
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Business Ethics and
Strategic
Management
Good business ethics:
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Business Ethics and
Strategic
Management
Code of business ethics:
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Business Ethics and
Strategic
Management
Internet privacy
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Business Ethics and
Strategic
Management
Internet and business ethics --
• Misleading advertising
• Misleading labeling
• Environmental harm
• Poor product or service safety
• Padding expense accounts
• Insider trading
• Dumping flawed products on foreign markets
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Nature of Global Competition