Date: 31.10.2013 Course: Strategic Management – Context and Analysis Theoretical Assessment – Take Home You must attempt to answer any 4 questions from the following: Q1 Conduct a basic analysis for the General environment of one of the following industries: The Pharmaceutical Industry‚ The Textile Industry‚ The Airline Industry‚ The Brewing Industry or an Industry of your own choice. Using Porter’s Five-Forces model‚ evaluate the Specific environment of your chosen Industry. Q2 Take
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Strategic Management Introduction - “Strategic Management is the management of an organization’s overall purpose‚ to ensure that the needs and enablers of the present are balanced with those of the future.” (Witcher & Chau 2010‚ P.6) In another word‚ it is the overall management of strategy in order to match and obtain the future long-term purpose and objectives. The main application is to achieve and sustain competitive advantages to enable an organization to compete effectively with rivals which
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relationship with the dealers – dealer development program vi) Strategic alliances: * Alliances with Porsche AG‚ Ford‚ and Gemini Racing Technologies – provide access to automotive technology * Recently has formed an alliance with Shell Capabilities * Vision * Offering a unique/personalised
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Very simply put‚ strategic planning identifies where the organization wants to be at some point in the future and how it is going to get there. The "strategic" part of this planning process is the continual attention to current changes in the organization and its external environment‚ and how this effects the future of the organization. Skills in strategic planning are critical to the long-term success of your organization. This form of planning includes: a) Taking a wide look around at what
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KM process capability and its relevance in an organization. Knowledge Management (KM) can be defined as a deliberate‚ systematic business optimization strategy that selects‚ distills stores‚ organizes‚ packages‚ and communicates information essential to the business of a company in a manner that improves employee performance and corporate competitiveness. KM caters to the critical issues of organizational-adaptation‚ survival and competence in the face of increasingly discontinuous environmental
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Making Use of Resources‚ Capabilities and Core Competences. Resources‚ capabilities and core competences Resources‚ capabilities and core competencies are the foundation of competitive advantage. Resources are bundled to create organizational capabilities. In turn‚ capabilities are the source of a firm’s core competencies‚ which are the basis of competitive advantages. Here‚ we define and provide examples of these building blocks of competitive advantage. 1. Resources Broad in scope‚ resources
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Centre Maldives 1 1.2 Rationale 1 Strategic management defined and its process 2 1.3 7S model 2 1.4 Triple loop learning 3 2 Process of strategic management followed at Zhujiang Iron and Steel Company (ZISCo) 3 2.1 Strategic factors 3 2.2 Strategic Capabilities 4 2.3 Organisational performance 5 2.4 Inconsistency 6 2.4.1 External inconsistency 6 2.4.2 Internal inconsistency 6 2.5 Gap in strategy formulation 7 2.6 Strategic options available for ZISCo 7 2.7
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Information Systems Architecture and Technology | Feedback Loops and Information Systems Feedback loops are a part of the systems we examine in systems thinking. Our first text book Thinking in Systems tells us we can see the existence of a feedback loop when “the consistent behavior pattern over a long period of time” is observed. My own interpretation is that feedback loops provide information in real time (or something close to real time) to provide the opportunity to make adjustments
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Strategic Intent – Article Summary By Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad Primary Information This article serves a purpose to illustrate some of the flaws that are currently used by western organizations in regards to strategic planning. In this article we see are shown the detriment of the methods in practice at the time of the article‚ and examples of alternative strategic approaches in use by Japanese firms which have allowed them to have sustained success. Strategic Intent and Characteristics
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Strategic Management SUPER SUMMARY Written by: Bhavin Pathak (Student‚ CA-IPCC‚ Arihant Institute Pvt. Ltd.) Features: Full coverage of IMP aspects of Strategic Management Summarized and conceptual Based on Study Material of ICAI Easy to remember format Point-to-point approach towards subject Diagrams and charts given wherever required Useful for LMR (Last Minute Revision) 1 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT INDEX 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. TOPIC Business Environment Business Policy & Strategic
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