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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managing such a dilemma‚ it is more appropriate to create a culture where there is a balance of having the privilege to work from home and attend compulsory meetings‚ rather than brushing off the potential to utilise sophisticated gadgets to our advantage. When people work from home‚ they effectively eliminate travel time. This increases productivity and reduces the loss precious of man-hours in having to put up with congestion. Exponential rise in global population as well as an increased rate
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References: Cole‚ R. E. (2011‚ June 22). Research Feature: MIT Sloan Management Review. Retrieved June 20‚ 2015‚ from MIT Sloan Management Review web site: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/what-really-happened-to-toyota/ Greg Ireland‚ R. D.‚ Hoskisson‚ R.‚ & Hitt‚ M. (2009). Understanding Business Strategy: Concepts and Cases. Jurevicius‚ O. (2013‚ 10 14). RBV: Strategic Management Insights. Retrieved from Strategic Management Insights Web site: http://www.strategicmanagementinsight.com/topics/resource-based-view
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Tutorial 1 (page 78) 1. Why has strategic management become so important to today’s corporations? Strategic management is a set of managerial decisions and actions that determines the long-run performance of a corporation. Importances of strategic management include: 1) Strategic management develops and provides a clear direction‚ guideline towards the corporations’ goals in an effective and efficient manner. It takes consideration between vision and mission of the corporation
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MIS is the study of information needs of a management at every level in making operational‚ tactical‚ and strategic decisions. Its aim is to design and implement machine procedures‚ processes‚ and routines that provide detailed reports in an accurate‚ consistent‚ and efficient manner. Most MISs are organized along the function lines of an organization. Typical functional management information systems include financial‚ manufacturing‚ marketing‚ human resources and other specialized systems. Each
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1. What is a competitive advantage‚ and what are the characteristics of a sustainable advantage? A competitive advantage is a firm’s ability to provide value to customers that exceeds what competitors can provide. The characteristics for sustainable advantage are: • Superior value • Difficult to imitate • Nonsubstitutability • Rarity 2. What is the strategic management process? What are its major components? Strategic management process is a planning process in which managers establish
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PEP STORES: AN EVALUATION OF THE STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE ORGANISATION INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW Like most organisations‚ Pep stores was concerned with the long-term sustainability of the organisation‚ profits/financial performance‚ market performance and the satisfying its stakeholders‚ including the shareholders. With these factors often contradicting each other it is clear Pep stores struggled through the 1990’s balance these competing forces in other to achieve their organisational objectives
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Master of Business Administration Strategic Management Assessment INTRODUCTION Yum! operates in more than 130 countries with over 40‚000 restaurants. The organisation is one of the operators of QSR (quick service restaurant). Its brands are KFC‚ Taco Bell and Pizza Hut which specialises in chicken‚ food categories in Mexican style and pizza respectively. Yum! restaurant business entered China in 1987 and has established itself within the Chinese market. The organisation has
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Everybody in the world always think smoking should be banned completely because of the harmful health but they do not realize the benefit we can get from it . In my opinion ‚ smoking should be banned but not completely and i will give some support ideas about that First of all ‚let me point out the positive side of the smoking . As everybody knows‚ smoking undoubtedly help people to relax .People usually smoke before an exam ‚ during working or when they hanging out with their friend .Secondly
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The creation of an identical copy of something is the process of cloning. It is simply a form of asexual reproduction. Cloning is a big issue in todays world of science because of the potential benefits‚ the risks involved‚ and medical‚ ethical and religious conflicts. Plants and animals have already been cloned and stem cell research is already going ahead‚ and maybe one day science will be able to clone a human. The division of opinion on cloning will require many forums of discussion to cover
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