STRATEGIC CHOICE AND STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING Andy Adcroft STRUCTURE • Why do things happen? • Generic Strategies • Criticisms of generic strategies WHY DO THINGS HAPPEN? Norms and what has happened before Environment Analysis Roles and wider functions Creation of options Organisational Analysis What we want to achieve Emotions‚ power desires‚ goals Age and frequency of behaviours What I want from this job Habits‚ rituals and routines Social factors Decisions are taken and implemented
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Environmental analysis First of all it is considered as crucial to find out in which environment the company CHR exists‚ therefore I decided to use Porter`s five forces model and Pest analysis. 1. 1 Porter`s five forces model This model was articulated for the first time by Michael Porter in 1979 in his successful record-breaker book named “How competitive forces shape strategy” (Porter‚ p.78). Five forces are illustrated in following picture. Source: Porter‚ p. 78 Before this analysis will begin
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PESTLE analysis? A PESTLE analysis considers the Political‚ Economic‚ Sociological‚ Technological‚ Legal‚ and Environmental factors affecting a company. A PESTLE analysis for Tesco‚ and similar companies‚ would need to consider all of these factors in some detail. Other analysis techniques A PESTLE analysis for Tesco‚ and other large corporations‚ is usefully complemented by using other analysis techniques‚ like SWOT analysis‚ or Porter’s Five Forces analysis. A PESTLE Analysis for Tesco
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Nokia Corporate Finance Julio Santiesteban 589550 November‚ 2012. Index • • • • • • • • • • • 2 Executive Summary Brief Firm Bio Corporate Governance General Economic Analysis Industry Analysis Competitive Analysis Financial Analysis Value Creation Analysis Conclusions and Recommendations Appendix References Page # 3 Page # 4 Page # 5 Page # 6 Page # 7 Page # 8 Page # 9 Page # 12 Page # 13 Page # 14 Page # 26 2 Executive Summary Nokia has been
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JESSOPS Qianqian Zhang Group DF Jessops Strategy Analysis 09/02/2012 Contents 1. Executive Summary 3 2. Introduction 3 3. PEST analysis 4 3.1 Political factor 4 3.2 Economic factors 4 3.2 Social factors 5 3.3 Technological factors 5 4. SWOT analysis 5 4.1 Strengths 5 4.2 Weaknesses 6 4.3 Opportunities 6 4.4 Threat 6 5. Porter’s five-forces 7 5.1 Threat of new entrants----high 8 5.2 Power of buyers----high 8 5.3 Bargaining power of suppliers----high 8 5.4
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ownership in 1986 by offering two million shares of common stock. It was approved by the New York Stock exchange in 1987 and has been there ever since. 2. A company with the history of Harley-Davidson has few weaknesses and threats‚ but a SWOT analysis can help them turn them into favorable opportunities and strengths. Strengths- Customer loyalty is probably the number one strength of Harley ’s business. Once a person buys a Harley‚ it seems as though they become trapped in the entire Harley
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UNITED AIRLINES SLEPT ANALYSIS Q1: What is meant by the external business environment and what are its main components? External environment refers to the environment that has an indirect influence on the business. The factors are uncontrollable by the business. The external environment of an organization is those factors outside the company that affect the company ’s ability to function. Some external elements can be manipulated by company marketing‚ while others require the organization to
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Case #7-The Apollo Group(Report) I. Analysis-Issues: a. The young people drop out the programs because the doubt in the education quality. b. The Apollo group education method is contrasted to the conventional mechanism of education being summited to criticism by other universities. c. The young students are more interested in enrolled into traditional education. d. Companies give financial help to the adult working students to pay their
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External Intelligence based Strategic Analysis [pic] Andy Gbefo‚ Dipesh Bhatt‚ Alice Gignac‚ and Anuj Shrestha November 8‚ 2012 [pic] Table of Contents 1. Introduction………………………………………………………….. 3 2. Executive Summary…………………………………………………. 4 3. Strategic Segmentation……………………………………………… 6 4. Methodology…………………………………………………………. 7 5. Future Turbulence…………………………………………………... 11 6. ExxonMobil Assessment…………………………………………….. 17 7. Bibliography…………………………………………………………
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Strategic Management Huawei Case Analysis Huawei: Cisco’s Chinese Challenger Introduction By this case analysis‚ some basic points are going to be mentioned like current strategies used by Huawei‚ its challenges and issues‚ the situational analysis‚ and its competitive strategies used and new strategies adopted for its improvement. Before getting to discuss those points‚ we need to know some background about Huawei in order to gain its familiarity to the case. Background information It’s the
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