Using SWOT Analysis To Understand The Institutional Environments: A Guide For Can Tho University Luu Nguyen Quoc Hung Can Tho University‚ Vietnam Abstract Strategic planning has become the practical approach to organizational management in most of organizations in the new era‚ when the world has undergone major social‚ political‚ economic‚ technological and demographic changes. Like other organizations‚ in this hyper-competitive world‚ universities have to analyze their environments both internally
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Strategic Management Topic: The Impact of Strategic Management Decisions – Wilkinson (Case Study) Prepared for Mr. Wiethoff RIHE Prepared by M. M. Khan Business Student -- 2nd year‚ 3rd quarter RIHE 4.03.2013 Wilkinson & its Strategy Businesses must respond to change in order to remain competitive. Developing appropriate strategies‚ which allow progress‚ is essential. Wilkinson was founded in 1930 as Wilkinson Cash Stores by James Kemsey Wilkinson and has remained largely in the
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Table of Contents Task 1 – Strategic Evaluation of Yahoo 1 Internal Analysis 1 1. SWOT Analysis 1 2. Mckinsey’s 7S 1 3. Value Chain Analysis 3 4. Balance Scorecard 3 5. BCG Matrix 4 6. Knowledge about Rivals 4 7. The Power-Dynamism Matrix 4 External Analysis 5 1. Porter’s Five Forces 5 2. PESTEL Analysis 6 3. Strategic Group Mapping 7 Task 2 – Strategic Improvements 8 Ansoff Matrix 8 Porter’s Generic Strategies 9 Blue Ocean Framework 10 Turn Around
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Mintzberg’s Strategy Continuum: Philosophic and Theoretical Underpinnings Naveed Yazdani Chair Department of Business Administration School of Business & Economics University of Management & Technology Yazdani@umt.edu.pk & naveedyazdani@hotmail.co.uk Abstract This theoretical paper views Henry Mintzberg’s ‘Strategy Safari’ as representing a strategy continuum along which different styles/modes of strategy making and implementing are spread‚ with Prescriptive/Planning style of strategizing at
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Yahoo INC Case Study Marissa Mayer‚ CEO‚ Challenges Saja Al-Adhami Stratford University-USA This paper was prepared for EMB504- Organizational Behavior. By Dr. Ale Yekpabo Abstract Yahoo! Inc. is a global US Internet Corporation‚ founded in California in 1994‚ which provides a range of products and content‚ including email‚ media and downloads. The company had maintained its value proposition from 2005-2009 as one of the market leaders in search‚ it
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CASE DESCRIPTION The primary subject matter of this case concerns receivables management. Secondary issues examined include the impact of a client’s financial distress on a firm’s cashflows; the use financial accounting data to challenge a firm’s going concern principle and the formulation of new business strategies when the unexpected happens to a firm. The case is appropriate for first year graduate level. The case is designed to be taught in two class hours and is expected to require five
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the gloabalized business‚ companies require strategic thinking and only by evolving good corporate strategies can they become strategically competitive. A sustained or sustainable competitive advantage occurs when firm implements a value – creating strategy of which other companies are unable to duplicate the benefits or find it too costly to initiate. Corporate strategy includes the commitments‚ decisions and actions required for a firm to achieve strategic competitiveness and earn above average returns
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Strategic Management Journal‚ Vol. 13‚ 17-37 (1992) STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING KATHLEEN M. EISENHARDT and MARK J. ZBARACKI Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management‚ Stanford University‚ Stanford‚ California‚ U.S.A. This article reviews the strategic decision making literature by focusing on the dominant paradigms—i.e.‚ rationality and bounded rationality‚ politics and power‚ and garbage can. We review the theory and key empirical support‚ and identify emergent debates
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2 BUSINESS POLICY AND STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Learning Objectives • • • • • Learn what business policy and strategy is all about. Know the framework and importance of strategic management. Know the strategic management process. Have an understanding of corporate vision and mission. Learn how strategy operates at different levels of the organization. Without a strategy the organization is like a ship without a rudder. Joel Ross and Michael Kami Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle
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BCom Honors (Strategic Management) STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Module code: STM8X09 2014 STUDY GUIDE Lecturer: Miss Anoosha Makka Copyright © University of Johannesburg‚ South Africa Second edition 2008 Printed and published by the University of Johannesburg © All rights reserved. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of research‚ criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act 98 of 1978‚ no part of this material may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system
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