4/3/2011 1 Strategic Management Introduction What is Strategic Management? • To achieve and maintain competitive advantage • Strategic management – used by academia • Strategic planning – used by practitioners – Strategic planning refers to formulation – Strategic management refers to formulation, implementation, evaluation
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Strategic Management
Introduction
What is Strategic Management?
• To achieve and maintain competitive
advantage
• Strategic management – used by academia
• Strategic planning – used by practitioners
– Strategic planning refers to formulation
– Strategic management refers to formulation,
implementation, evaluation
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Origins of Strategic planning
• Originated in 1950s – popularized during 60s-
70s
• During that period most of US was “obsessed”
with strategic planning
• During 80s there was a realization that most
of the “strategic models” did not yield results
• 90s brought the revival of strategic planning
and is now widely used around the world
Themes in the course
•Global Considerations –
impact virtually all strategic decisions
•E-commerce –
vital strategic management tool
•Natural environment –
important strategic issue
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Art & science of formulating,
implementing, and evaluating, cross-
functional decisions that enable an
organization to achieve its objectives
Strategic Management – Defined
Strategic Management
In essence, the strategic plan is a company’s
game plan
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Strategic Management achieves a
firm’s success through integration –
–
Management
MIS
Production/OperationsFinance/Accounting
Marketing
Research & Development
Strategic Management process has
three stages
Strategy Formulation
Strategy Implementation
Strategy Evaluation
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Vision & Mission
Strategy Formulation
External Opportunities & Threats
Internal Strengths & Weaknesses
Long-Term Objectives
Alternative Strategies
Strategy Selection
Issues in Strategy
Formulation
�New business opportunities
�Businesses to abandon
�Allocation of resources
�Expansion or diversification
�International markets
�Mergers or joint ventures
�Avoidance of hostile takeover
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Strategy Implementation
Annual Objectives
Policies
Employee Motivation
Resource Allocation
Strategy
Implementation
Action Stage of Strategic
Management –
�Most difficult stage
�Mobilization of employees &
managers
�Interpersonal skills critical
�Consensus on goal pursuit
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Strategy Evaluation
Internal Review
External Review
Performance Metrics
Corrective Actions
Strategy Evaluation
Final Stage of Strategic
Management
�Subject to future modification
�Today’s success no guarantee of
future success
�New & different problems
�Complacency leads to demise
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Peter Drucker: -- Think through the
overall mission of a business. Ask the
key question: “What is our Business?”
Prime Task of
Strategic Management
The strategic management process
attempts to organize quantitative and
qualitative information under conditions of
uncertainty
Integrating Intuition and Analysis
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Intuition is based on:
– Past experiences
– Judgment
– Feelings
Integrating Intuition and Analysis
Intuition is useful for decision making in:
� Conditions of great uncertainty
� Conditions with little precedent
Involve Management at all levels
Intuition & Judgment
Influence all Analyses
Integrating Intuition & Analysis
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Analytical Thinking
Integrating Intuition & Analysis
Intuitive Thinking
Organizations must monitor events
• On-going process
• Internal and external events
• Timely changes
Adapting to Change
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Key questions• What kind of business should we become?
• Are we in the right field(s)?
• Should we reshape our business?
• What new competitors are emerging?
• How are our customers changing?
Adapting to Change
KEY TERMS IN STRATEGIC
MANAGEMENT
Defining key terms in strategic management
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“Anything that a firm does especially
well compared to rival firms”
Strategic Management is Gaining
and Maintaining Competitive
Advantage
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1. Adapting to change in external trends, internal capabilities and resources