TOPIC: TEN SCHOOL OF THOUGHT OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT TEN SCHOOL OF THOUGHT OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT 1. The Design School. This school sees strategy formation as a process of conception. Approach: Clear and unique strategies are formulated in a deliberate process. In this process‚ the internal situation of the organization is matched to the external situation of the environment. Basis: Architecture as a metaphor. In short: Fit! "Establish fit!" Contributions: Order. Reduced ambiguity. Simplicity
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Chapter 1 Philosophy means philein: love and sophia: wisdom‚ the love or pursuit of wisdom Philosophy beings with wonder‚ a search for the answer to a greater question Philosophy is a dynamic process‚ the dynamic nature of philosophical thinking‚ a process that is dialectical in the sense that ideas are continually analyzed in terms of their opposites‚ with the ultimate goal of creating a more enlightened synthesis The ultimate aim of philosophy is the goals is 1. the complete liberty of the
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Chapter 2: Aid for investment -What is the financing gap? Gap between required investment and domestic saving -Explain the Harold-Domar approach and its failings? GDP growth will be proportional to the share of investment spending in GDP. Its failings are that this model applied more to the short-run business cycle in rich countries. Also‚ he was writing in the aftermath of the Great Depression‚ thus taking high unemployment as given. -True or False. There is no relationship between aid and
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Strategic management process 1. Strategic Planning 2. Scenario Planning 3. Strategy as Planned Emergence Strategic Management Method to conceive and implement strategy Strategic Leadership Executive use of power to influence and direct others Steps to begin the strategic management process: 1. What do we want to accomplish? What is our vision? 2. How do we accomplish our goals? What is our Mission? 3. What guardrails do we put in place to act ethically and legally as we pursue our vision and mission
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Chapter 2 Auditing IT Governance Controls Review Questions 1. What is IT governance? Response: IT governance is a relatively new subset of corporate governance that focuses on the management and assessment of strategic IT resources. 2. What are the objectives of IT governance? Response: The key objectives of IT governance are to reduce risk and ensure that investments in IT resources add value to the corporation. 3. What is distributed data processing? Response: Distributed
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Henry Ford 1863-1947 American industrialist and essayist. One of the most esteemed figures in American industry‚ Henry Ford is credited with devising and implementing the continuous assembly line‚ thus making possible the era of mass-production‚ mass-marketing‚ and the modern‚ consumer society. Ford’s efforts are additionally thought to have shaped American culture in the early twentieth century‚ tremendously speeding the process of urbanization by making the automobile available to the middle
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CHAPTER 0NE: ANSWER QUESTION ONE: The definition of marketing is the process by which companies create value for customers and build strong customer relationships in order to capture value from customers in return. Furthermore‚ it is more than just “telling and selling” because the marketing now is in the sense of satisfying customer needs. This means if the marketer understands consumer needs and develops the products that provide superior customer value‚ prices‚ distributes and promotes them
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The questionable explanations for actions or the lack of explanations at all lead to a lack of legitimacy in the reasons for the politics to even exist or at least some of the political reasoning to be rewritten and renegotiatied on an extreme level. 2. Is it possible to conceive of a political system in a modern mass society in which all citizens who desire could participate equally in the making of public decisions? I think that for the most part we already have that in America. Americans
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Chapter 2: Perception Difference between perception and sensation our own “spin” on things is the perception that we get from it. Sensation is the immediate response of our sensory reactions to things Perception is the process by which these sensations are selected‚ organized‚ and interpreted. Perception is what we take away from our raw sensations Example is the cola and the pepsi‚ using only senses‚ we cannot tell the difference between them but if we are to add in perception of the beand
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Economics and Management Corporate Finance Homework Whoever Pocketed Value From VEP? Team： Dong Nan 1081209045 Gu Chengzong 1081209020 Li Hongke 1081209050 Lu Linlin 1081209031 Lu Yao 1081209043 March 2009 Abstract Excessive cash and undervalued stock price forced Ford to conceive an unprecedented cash payout system - Value Enhancement Plan in 2000. For a dual-stock-structure company‚ this recapitalization did favor much Ford family which
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