Crafting Strategy –by Henry Mintzberg Henry Mintzberg recognizes the combination of reason-rational control‚ the systematic analysis of competitors and markets‚ company strengths and weaknesses as producing clear-explicit‚ full-blown strategies. He compares the process of crafting a strategy to a porter at work. Thus‚ the managers represent craftsmen and strategy is their clay. However‚ like the porter‚ the managers sit between
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1. Stability strategy ( Example ) Bata Ltd Stability strategy sometimes is referred to as neutral strategy. It is a strategy adopted when the organization wishes to maintain the existing level of business operations and maintain its present level of profitability. * It means that the stability strategy is adopted when the organization is doing fairly well but no scope for significant growth. It is known as no-growth strategy. * It tries to achieve the same level of growth as it had achieved
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Strategies exist at a number of levels in an organisation. Taking Yahoo! again as an example‚ it is possible to distinguish at least three different levels of strategy. The top level is corporate-level strategy‚ concerned with the overall scope of an organisation and how value will be added to the different parts (business units) of the organisation. This could include issues of geographical coverage‚ diversity of products/services or business units‚ and how resources are to be allocated between
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1.1 Theoretical Background The shift in global business has created a new form approach in global business landscape‚ thereby forcing firms to rethink their marketing strategies. The development in the global business environment stands out as having a dominating role in this shift. It is the business demand on the internet for increase and greater bandwidth. Global business is seen as the means to facilitate e- commerce by offering rapid transfer rate to open up multimedia delivery to small and
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STRATEGY FORMULATION: Objectives: After you have studied this chapter‚ you should be able to: 1. Know the porter’s generic strategy 2. Describe the 5 powers of P’S 3. Explain the Essentials of Balance Score card 4. Discuss the Strategic Evaluation and Control Strategy Formulation - Stage of strategic management that involves planning and decision making that lead to the establishment of the organization’s goals and of a specific strategic plan. The Five Power P’S There are five power
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CHAPTER 1. What is strategy and why is it important. Strategic management: analysis‚ formulation and implementation in the search for competitive advantage. What strategy is : Gaining & Sustaining Competitive Advantage. There has always been a desire to outperform our competitors. In most of the situations‚ the winners are generally those with the better strategy in which strategy is formulated as the planned and realized set of actions a firm takes to achieve its goals. A firm that
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ACTIVITY MAPPING 이 과정은 조직의 어떠한 활동들이 어떠한 형태로 각 부분들과 연관되어 있는지 보여주며‚ 핵심역량과 트레이드오프등을 보여준다. ONGOING PRODUCT CHANGE 자라는 끊임없는 디자인을 통해 상품을 매 시기마다 제작하며‚ 매장의 디스플레이 또한 같은형태로 2주 이상을 지속시키지 않는다. WORD-OF-MOUTH MARKETING 자라는 매장 디스플레이 외에 일절의 미디어 홍보를 하지 않으며 잡지화보 또한 찍지 않는다. 모든 사진은 매장 전시용‚ 혹은 공식홈페이지 전시용이며 오로지 제품에 대한 신뢰를 바탕으로 고객을 통한 입소문을 마케팅 전략으로 삼는다. GREAT STORE LOCATION IN HIGH TRAFFIC AREAS 자라는 매장위치 선정에 있어서 공을 들이며 매출을 기대하며 아무 자리에나 들어서지 않는다. 자라 매장 선정요소에 경우 공개하지 않는 자체기준이 있다. 큰 시장이라고 무조건 입점하지 않으며 매장이 마케팅이자 세일즈인만큼
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The Bypass Strategy Probably the most difficult and failure-prone of all plans‚ the bypass strategy enables attackers to bypass its chief competitors and diversify into unrelated products or markets. From a military perspective‚ this may work as a temporary flanking strategy‚ but in marketing it runs the risk of diluting the core business and central operating strategy‚ extending resources into areas where the company had no business being. Pepsico diluted its core competency—the production and
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Processual‚ Rational‚ Fuzzy‚ Evolutionary 1. Processual approach: Strategy is produced in an incremental fashion‚ as a ’pattern in a stream of decisions’. Fuzzy approach: Companies sometimes adopt an incremental approach to change. What’s different between these two approach? The Processual approach is really talking about strategy emerging from the many different day-to-day decisions taken by the staff. It’s incremental‚ in that it is occurring by being added to with each decision taken. Each
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Introduction Wal-Mart the world’s largest retailer in 2006‚ next to only Exxon Mobil‚ with an 8.9% retail store market share in the US and a global turnover of $312 billion‚ is the most famous example of a successful retail strategy. However‚ Wal-Mart’s international operations spread across 14 markets outside US‚ has been a mixed bag of experiences for the company. Despite Wal-Mart’s impressive track record and strength‚ the question is‚ "How can it stay ahead?" given the rapidly changing retail
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