U.S. Army War College Carlisle‚ PA AY13 NICIAS: A Classic Study in Strategic Thinking BY Julius A. Rigole LTC‚ USA A guided response paper presented to the faculty of the U.S. Army War College‚ in partial satisfaction of the requirements of the Theory of War and Strategy (TWS) course. The contents of this paper reflect my own personal views and are not necessarily endorsed by the U.S. Army War College or the Department of the Army. 7 September 2012 STS‚ Seminar 25 Root Hall
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Strategic Plan‚ Part I: Conceptualizing a Business Marcia Cortez MKT 475 August 13‚ 2012 Michele Dougherty Strategic Plan‚ Part I: Conceptualizing a Business Creating a business is a difficult task that requires essential strategic management. “Strategic management is defined as the set of decisions and actions that result in the formulation and
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Strategic Direction The role of strategic direction is to decide the end purpose of the organization. How the organization gets to the “end purpose” is through goals and strategy development (strategic planning). Organizational design functions to carry out the administration and execution of the strategic plan and as such‚ the organizational structure must support the strategic direction. (Daft 54-55). An organization that embarks on an organic open systems strategy that requires learning and
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IBM | STRATEGIC MARKETING 310 | CASE STUDY ANAYLYSIS 1 | 1. What competences has IBM had to invest in arising from its transformation from a ‘product-centric’ to a ‘service-centric’ organization? From IBM’s largest loss in 1992 the board of directors responded by appointing Louise V. Gerstner as their new CEO to bring the company’s reputation up and minimize their profit loss. When Gerstner took over IBM from a product-centric organization he transformed IBM to a service-centric
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the companies merged to form Unilever that diversified into food products in 1940s. Through the next five decades‚ it emerged as a major fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) multinational operating in several businesses. In 2004‚ the Unilever 2010 strategic plan was put into action with the mission to ‘bring vitality to life’ and ‘to meet everyday needs for nutrition‚ hygiene and personal care with brands that help people feel good‚ look good‚ and get more out of life’. The corporate strategy is of
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Write about 1000 words to answer this question. Do you agree that "Strategic HRM is crucially interested in HRD and employee participation"? In your answer‚ discuss the problems and tensions embedded within HRD and employee participation. I believe that an organization’s best competitive advantage is their people‚ and Human Resources Development (HRD) and employee participation is critical component of an organization’s Strategic Human Resource Management. A culture that supports learning can make
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Eight case-lets on Strategic Alliances Case 1: Telefónica and China Unicom In September 2009‚ Telefónica and China Unicom announced a partnership including cooperation in R&D‚ roaming‚ joint procurement of equipment‚ infrastructural development‚ joint development of mobile services and the provision of services to multinational clients. They also announced the purchase of US$1 billion worth of stock in each other making the Spanish operator the largest single investor in the company with 8% of
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for value Strategic opportunism Stuart E. Jackson Stuart E. Jackson is Vice President of L.E.K. Consulting‚ Chicago‚ IL‚ USA. Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ American philosopher and sage of Concord‚ is often misquoted on the subject of consistency. What he actually said was: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds‚ adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. But is that enough? Sometimes it is not. All too often‚ business leaders get trapped in their strategic ruts. They
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more likely a number of courses‚ need to be evaluated. In Session 1‚ discussion about the nature of strategic management suggested that a strictly sequential model of analysis-choice-implementation stood at one end of a spectrum of descriptions of the strategy process‚ with most organisations following a more incremental model of strategy development. Never the less‚ the evaluation of strategic options is an important part of the strategy process‚ whether largely incremental and implicit or an
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tompeters! Strategic Planning‚ R.I.P. TOM PETERS enry Mintzberg has killed strategic planning. It’s not that the prolific McGill University professor has anything new to say in his justreleased book‚ The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning. And it’s not as if our mindless love affair with planning in the 1960s and 1970s didn’t effectively end a dozen years ago (when then-neophyte GE chairman Jack Welch killed his corporation’s hyper-formalized planning system‚ and most of the planners
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