STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT & BUSINESS POLICY 12TH EDITION THOMAS L. WHEELEN J. DAVID HUNGER Strategic Management: a set of managerial decisions and actions that determines the long-run performance of a corporation. Includes: • • • • Internal and external environment scanning Strategy formulation Strategy implementation Evaluation and control Pearson Education © 2010 1-2 Phases of Strategic Management: • • • • Phase Phase Phase Phase 1: 2: 3: 4: Basic financial planning Forecast-based
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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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“Notable Quotes” "Like a product or service‚ the planning process it self must be managed and shaped‚ if it is to serve executives as a vehicle for strategic decision-making." —Robert Lenz "The difference between now and five years ago is that information systems had limited function. You weren’t betting your company on it. Now you are." —William Gruber "Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy." —Sun Tzu "A firm that continues to employ a previously successful strategy eventually
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The primary components of the strategic management process are "goal-setting‚ analysis‚ strategy formation‚ strategy implementation and strategy monitoring" (Clayton‚ 2012‚ p. 1). Setting these guidelines and following them is only the beginning. Determining what the company ’s mission and purpose is will help to determine what steps are the best to take to achieve these intended goals. Understanding the vision of the company and what the short-term and long-term goals are will help to understand
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/EMBA STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT (MGT-5504) Credit Hour: 03 Contact Hour: 03/week Course Objective: Most Schools of Business/Management-all over the world have a capstone course in their curriculum that concerned with “Strategies and policies”. Many of them title this course as “Strategic Management”. The course is aimed to focus on top management and total organization rather than functional areas of a business organization. This course emphasizes basically on strategic management
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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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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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Describe the steps in strategic management process . The strategic management process is more than just a set of rules to follow. It is a philosophical approach to business. Upper management must think strategically first‚ then apply that thought to a process. The strategic management process is best implemented when everyone within the firm understands the strategy. Strategic management is a continuous process that appraises the business and industries in which the organization is involved;
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Strategic Management MG334 Essay 1: “Describe the deliberate and emergent processes for developing strategies and discuss the best approach for delivering sustainable competitive advantage.” Caoimhe Greene-13101870 Strategic management is one of the core fundamentals of a competitive business. This essay will discuss deliberate and emergent processes for developing strategies and the best approach for delivering sustainable competitive advantage. Strategy
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STRATEGY MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT Executive Summary In this assignment I will about Nokia as an example of strategic management‚ about the history of Nokia‚ analysis of some of its strategies and the type of tools use to analyse these strategies. Then I talk about the result of this analysis and finally the conclusion. Introduction Example of Strategic Management Organisation Strategic Management is an important process that a company should always take into consideration in order to be successful
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