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Corporate Directional Strategies: Prentice Hall, 2004 Wheelen/Hunger 1
Corporate Directional Strategies: Prentice Hall, 2004 Wheelen/Hunger 1
Strategies
Directional Strategy:
– Orientation toward growth
• Expand, cut back (reduce), status quo?
• Concentrate within current industry,
diversify into other industries?
• Growth and expansion through internal
development or acquisitions, mergers, or
strategic alliances?
Directional Strategy:
–Three Grand Strategies:
•Growth strategies
•Stability strategies
•Retrenchment strategies
Grand Strategy (4 category): Growth,
Diversification, Turnaround, Defense Strategy
– Concentration
– Current product line in one industry
– Diversification
– Into other product lines in other industries
– Vertical growth
– Horizontal growth
Vertical growth
– Vertical integration
• Full integration
• Taper integration (meruncing)
• Quasi-integration (se-akan2)
– Backward integration
– Forward integration
Concentration:
Horizontal Growth
– Horizontal integration
– Conglomerate Diversification
(unrelated)
Diversification:
Concentric:
Diversification:
Conglomerate:
Exporting
Licensing
Franchising
International Joint Ventures
Entry Acquisitions
Options Green-Field Development
Production Sharing
Turnkey Operations
BOT Concept
Management Contracts
– No change
– Profit strategies
– Turnaround
– Selling out
– Bankruptcy
– Liquidation
Prentice Hall, 2004 Chapter 6 14
Wheelen/Hunger
Corporate Strategy
Portfolio Analysis
D
Industry Attractiveness
Winners
E Average
Businesses
Medium F
Losers
H
Losers
G
Low
Profit
Producers Losers Source: Adapted from Strategic
Management in GE, Corporate Planning
and Development, General Electric
Strong Average Weak Corporation. Used by permission of
General Electric Company.
Business Strength/Competitive Position
• Country’s attractiveness
• Market size, rate of growth, regulation
• Competitive strength
• Market share, product fit, contribution
margin, market support
High Low
Dominate/Divest
High
Invest/Grow
Joint Venture
Country Attractiveness
Selective
Strategies
Harvest/Divest
Low
Combine/License
Advantages:
– Top management evaluates each of
firm’s businesses individually
– Use of externally-oriented data to
supplement management judgment
– Raises issue of cash flow availability
– Facilitates communication
Disadvantages:
– Difficult to define product/market segments
– Standard strategies can miss opportunities
– Illusion of scientific rigor (kekakuan, teliti)
– Value-laden terms (not clear; cash cow and
dog)
• Strategic factors
– Those elements of a company that
determine its strategic success or
failure
• Performance improvement
• Analyze fit
Corporate Parenting:
• Parenting-Fit Matrix
– Summarizes the various judgments
regarding corporate/business unit fit
for the corporation as a whole.
Corporate Parenting:
• Parenting-Fit Matrix
– 2 Dimensions
• Positive contributions parent can make
• Negative effects parent can have
Edge of
Heartland
Alien
Territory
Value Trap
High
Low High
FIT between parenting opportunities
and parenting characteristics
Horizontal Strategy:
– Corporate strategy that cuts across
business unit boundaries to build
synergy across business units to
improve the competitive position of
one or more business units.