Strategic management is the most involved management type in business because it focuses on providing a business with direction and strategic planning. A strategic manager develops plans‚ policies‚ and objectives for a business while guiding it to reach each of these objectives. The two functional areas of business that are of greatest interest to me are strategic planning and finance as a strategic manager. This paper is designed to explain each function from this perspective and develop an understanding
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CHAPTER 4 FACTORS MODERATING THE CHOICE OF STRATEGY-MAKING APPROACH “Hence‚ strategic management constitutes a normative outline for rational strategy formulation but provides little explicit consideration of the potential management roles in the strategy formation process. Conversely‚ strategic emergence has often been ascribed to decision patterns evolving over time as relatively autonomous managers within the organization engage in resource committing activities” Andersen‚ 2004:265 4
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Developing a Strategic Vision In the strategy developing process‚ at very early stage‚ company managers need to pose a set of questions; like ‘What is the vision of the company‚ where company should be headed‚ what should its future technology – product – customer focus be‚ what kind of enterprise do we want to become‚ what industry standing do we want to achieve in fixed time frame like ten years time?’ Keeping all these necessary questions in view‚ long term strategy is formulated‚ and Management’s
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PAPER I. Introduction a. Company Background b. Paper Design and Methodology c. Scope and Delimitation II. External Analysis a. Economic Forces b. Political Forces c. Socio-Cultural d. Technological e. Environmental f. Competitive Forces III. Industry Analysis a. Industry Analysis – Introduction about the industry b. Marketing Mix 1. Product and Market Share 2. Price 3. Promotion 4. Distribution Channels 5. Customer 6. Target Market 7. Competition
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2 BUSINESS POLICY AND STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Learning Objectives • • • • • Learn what business policy and strategy is all about. Know the framework and importance of strategic management. Know the strategic management process. Have an understanding of corporate vision and mission. Learn how strategy operates at different levels of the organization. Without a strategy the organization is like a ship without a rudder. Joel Ross and Michael Kami Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle
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between the planning/design/positioning schools of strategic management and the resource based view? Define the planning of strategic management: Strategic planning can be defined as a process of organization that defining its strategy‚ direction‚ and making decision about resource to pursue its strategy. For the defining organization’s direction‚ its must be understand the current position and find out the way to making it successful. Generally‚ strategic planning must be including one of three key
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SPACE Matrix Strategic Management Method The SPACE matrix is a management tool used to analyze a company. It is used to determine what type of a strategy a company should undertake. The Strategic Position & ACtion Evaluation matrix or short a SPACE matrix is a strategic management tool that focuses on strategy formulation especially as related to the competitive position of an organization. The SPACE matrix can be used as a basis for other analyses‚ such as the SWOT analysis‚ BCG matrix model
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the gloabalized business‚ companies require strategic thinking and only by evolving good corporate strategies can they become strategically competitive. A sustained or sustainable competitive advantage occurs when firm implements a value – creating strategy of which other companies are unable to duplicate the benefits or find it too costly to initiate. Corporate strategy includes the commitments‚ decisions and actions required for a firm to achieve strategic competitiveness and earn above average returns
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What Is Strategic Management? 61. What can be defined as the art and science of formulating‚ implementing and evaluating cross-functional decisions that enable an organization to achieve its objectives? a. Strategy formulation b. Strategy evaluation c. Strategy implementation d. Strategic management e. Strategic leading Ans: d Page: 5 62. ____________ is used to refer to strategic formulation‚ implementation and evaluation‚ with ______________ referring only to strategic formulation
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Chapter 1 63) The goal of strategic management is to A) achieve competitive advantage. B) maintain competitive advantage. C) achieve and maintain competitive advantage. D) eliminate competitive advantage E) eliminate and abolish competitive advantage. 64) Strategic management focuses on integrating management‚ ________‚ and information systems to achieve organizational success. A) marketing B) finance/accounting C) production/operations D) research and development E) all of the above
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