2012 PP. 71-84 Strategic Thinking; a Practical View Ehsan sharifi * M.A. student in EMBA‚ Qom College‚ University of Tehran‚ Iran (Received: 9 October 2011; Accepted: 28 March 2012) Abstract The purpose of this paper is to clarify some of salient issues surrounding the concept of strategic thinking. After a historical overview of the evolution of strategic thinking‚ debate about types of thinking and different of definitions‚ I review research across the field of strategic management to find
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1. Introduction to Strategic Planning If you don ’t know where your business is going‚ any road will get you there. What is a Strategic Plan? Entrepreneurs and business managers are often so preoccupied with immediate issues that they lose sight of their ultimate objectives. That ’s why a business review or preparation of a strategic plan is a virtual necessity. This may not be a recipe for success‚ but without it a business is much more likely to fail. A sound plan should: Serve as a framework
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The Strategic issue and impact of Product Development in an organization and global community in general. Product Development can be defined as a stage in an organization where‚ Ideas‚ Research‚ Planning and Branding are put in place in order identify the need of a new product that will be of great benefit to the end users‚ company and society. “Product development may involve modification of an existing product or its presentation‚ or formulation of an entirely new product that satisfies
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STRATEGIC CONTROL- ERIK TREFFTZ Strategic Control refers to the activity of analysis and surveillance of the Strategic Planning. Its main objective is to monitor and implement corrective measures when facing any kind of deviation in the original Strategy‚ after comparing it with the Strategic Standards‚ and thus granting the good-riddance of the company´s targets. It works through the establishment of reference points‚ rules‚ methods and devices that allow to measure the development efficiency
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Strategic Lens Amazon: Grouping: With a mission “to be Earth’s most customer-centric company‚ where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online‚ and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices‚” . There are three things that can be inferred form Amazon’s mission statement‚ one is their extremely consumer centric business strategy‚ secondly to strive to enter into new markets and thirdly to achieve it through the least amount of resources. However there
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design can be implemented in Burger King? PAGEREF _Toc376463274 \h 33. Practice 2 PAGEREF _Toc376463275 \h 33.1 Explanation of training and development PAGEREF _Toc376463276 \h 43.2 How and why training and developing can be implemented in Burger King? PAGEREF _Toc376463277 \h 44. Practice3 Performance management PAGEREF _Toc376463278 \h 54.1 Explanation of performance management. PAGEREF _Toc376463279 \h 54.2 How and why performance management can be implemented in Burger King? PAGEREF _Toc376463280 \h
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STRATEGIC THINKING Contents Introduction 3 Perspectives of strategic thinking 4 Rational thinking perspective 4 General thinking perspective 5 A model of elements of strategic thinking 6 System perspective 6 Intent focused 6 Intelligent opportunitism 7 Thinking in time 7 Hypothesis driven 7 Levels of strategic thinking 7 Strategic Thinking at the Individual Level 7 Strategic Thinking at the Organizational Level 7 The strategic thinking process 8 Bibliography 10
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Centre Assessment Guidance for Level 7 Strategic Management and Leadership (QCF) Version 2 Strategic Management and Leadership Centre Assessment Guidance Contents Page Introduction About these qualifications Titles and qualifications reference numbers Accreditation dates Qualifications summary Progressions Credit values and rules of combination for the qualifications Relationship to the National Occupational Standards for Management and Leadership Assessment and Verification What is expected
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effort is to issue guidelines for the preparation of divisional "provisional plans" (Brethauer 1999). On 6th June 1981‚ the corporate groups‚ which always included Mr. Albert and Mr. Sagan‚ had visited to the divisions constantly as an initial concept of formal planning activities. In the
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Strategic Alliance – Whirlpool Corporation and Inland Steel CASE Faced with intense competition‚ increasing expectations from customers‚ reduced product life cycles‚ and localized geographic markets‚ Whirlpool Corporation (a Fortune 500 manufacturer of appliances) realized that the need to achieve a competitive advantage from its sourcing and material efforts was greater than ever. Part of the strategy to achieve this advantage involved pursuing an alliance with a key steel supplier. Steel is
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