DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT STRATEGIC PLANNING (MNG301-A) Module Overview: Topics 1-7 2013 Semester 2 1 Open Rubric Contents 1. Administrative matters 2. Course overview per topic 3. Interactive exercises 4. Upcoming examination 5. Time out! 2 Administrative matters Lecturers: Mr. SK Bhoya Mrs. NV Moraka -Contact details: (012) 429-4220 or Busman@unisa.ac.za Assignments: Two Compulsory assignments due dates: 12 September 2013 and 03 October 2013
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What is Strategy Johnson and Scholes (Exploring Corporate Strategy) define strategy as follows: "Strategy is the direction and scope of an organisation over the long-term: which achieves advantage for the organisation through its configuration of resources within a challenging environment‚ to meet the needs of markets and to fulfil stakeholder expectations". In other words‚ strategy is about: * Where is the business trying to get to in the long-term (direction) * Which markets should a business
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how they go about building and sustaining competitive advantage in different markets. Competencies: Quantitative Literacy Critical Thinking Week 1 October 3 – October 9‚ 2012 Required Reading • Collis‚ D.J.‚ & Montgomery‚ C.A. (1995‚ July/August). Competing on resources: Strategy in the 1990s. Harvard Business Review‚ 73 (4). (Custom Textbook (2012)‚ Managing Strategy in the Global Marketplace. Chapter 21.) • Porter‚ M.E. (1996). What is Strategy? Harvard Business Review‚ 74 (6). In HBR’s
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Strategic Lens Amazon: Grouping: With a mission “to be Earth’s most customer-centric company‚ where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online‚ and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices‚” . There are three things that can be inferred form Amazon’s mission statement‚ one is their extremely consumer centric business strategy‚ secondly to strive to enter into new markets and thirdly to achieve it through the least amount of resources. However there
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The security implications of having a variety of client platforms are: 1. Violation of a security policy by a user 2. Disgruntled employee sabotage 3. Download of non-business video using the Internet to an employer-owned computer 4. Malware infection of a user’s laptop 5. Unauthorized physical access to the LAN 6. LAN server operating system vulnerabilities 7. WAN Denial of Service (DoS) or Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks 8. WAN eavesdropping 9. Errors and weaknesses of network
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Message In A Bottle Nicholas Sparks PROLOGUE The bottle was dropped overboard on a warm summer evening‚ a few hours before the rain began to fall. Like all bottles‚ it was fragile and would break if dropped a few feet from the ground. But when sealed properly and sent to sea‚ as this one was‚ it became one of the most seaworthy objects known to man. It could float safely through hurricanes or tropical storms‚ it could bob atop the most dangerous of riptides. It was‚ in a way‚ the ideal home
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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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This research project will help us better in understanding what the brands and companies want of the youth as their target audience and how they align their activities to do so with the help of college festivals and events. This research project is descriptive in nature. It describes the various agendas for sponsors to enter into the world of youth. It also describes the fashion in which this is done. It will explain briefly what brands do to engage the college festival attendees with the brand
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In today’s Society conversations between males and females has become difficult. There are a lot of miscommunications between males and females. In Deborah Tannen’s article “ Sex‚ Lies and Conversations” Tannen talks about how men and women talk differently to each other as well as the misunderstandings between each. She believed that no one person was at fault‚ whereas the differences caused by sexual standards. I feel that communication changes between males and females when in a different age
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The Five Messages Leaders Must Manage A major mistake leaders make is that everyone shares the same definitions of broad terms like vision‚ accountability teamwork‚ focus‚ culture‚ decision making ‚ results etc etc. Precious time is wasted‚ rumors abound ‚talented people lose their focus and worse yet‚ leave‚ etc etc. Misalignment is a cancer ( Bob McRann) The real job of leadership is to inspire the organization to take responsibility for meeting goals/ objectives – results
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