STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR SMALL BUSINESS Chapter 6 What is Strategic Planning? • The process of determining the primary objectives of the entrepreneurship and then adopting courses of action and allocating resources to achieve those objectives. • It provides the entrepreneur with a systematic approach to the achievement of the firm’s objectives. Three Distinct Steps of Strategic Planning: I. Determination of Primary Objectives II. Adoption of Course of Action III. Allocation of Resources I. Determination
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* * * * * * Starbucks Initiative: Strategic Planning * * * * * For this segment of the analysis Team A will explain the strategic planning Starbucks has implemented to fulfill their initiative of expanding their “food portfolio” by expanding into the self-serve market‚ such as Keuring or K-Cup
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involved in strategic planning (((The Author Paul Stuart Kregor is a Director of the MSI Consultancy Ltd Article originally publised in Pharmaceutical Marketing‚ June 2007))) Every year at about this time or a little earlier‚ we start the process of ‘strategic’ planning. The annual planning process‚ for all its focus on analysis‚ or template completion‚ can easily fall into the apparently comfortable tactic of merely updating the activity from last year’s plans. Often‚ however‚ what is really needed
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third-party investigation………………....…..13 5.4 Communication channels…………...…………………………………….16 6. Training……………………………………………………………………..19 7. Rehearsals……………………………………………………………….….19 Appendix…………………………………………………………………...…20 1. INTRODUCTION This contingency plan is prepared to eliminate or reduce damages from crises that influenced Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) or incidents that trigger potential damage against the university in respect of reputation‚ image or financial stability. HKBU was established
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CONTINGENCY contingency plan is a plan devised for an outcome other than in the usual (expected) plan.[1] It is often used for risk management when an exceptional risk that‚ though unlikely‚ would have catastrophic consequences. Contingency plans are often devised by governments orbusinesses. For example‚ suppose many employees of a company are traveling together on an aircraft which crashes‚ killing all aboard. The company could be severely strained or even ruined by such a loss. Accordingly‚
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general strategy Oil companies were the worst performing brands in the world market. There was no brand in the oil industry that had created positive perception in the public. During the late 1990’s BP has decided to change this perception for their brand. The main idea was to create a symbolic capital for BP. The definition of symbolic capital is given by (Bourdieu‚ 1974/1977 sited in Holt & McNulty‚2008‚p.76) as “ the resources by which authority and credibility are established amongst employees‚ peers
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Strategic Planning Department Revision for Higer Profits NIKE‚ Inc. One Bowerman Drive Beaverton‚ OR 97005 December 8‚ 2011 Submitted By: Bevilacqua‚ Nicholas Cometa‚ Nicholas Delgado‚ Ryan Jameson‚ Shaun Table of Contents Preface……………………………………………………………………………………………1 Nike Shareholder Information…………………………………………………………..………2 Background on 7 S Strategy………………………………………………………………………………….5 Structure…………………………………………………………………………………6 Shared Values……………………………………………………………………………8 Skills……………………………………………………………………………………
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5. Theoretical Contingency Framework 5 Theoretical Contingency Framework Having clarified the EPs’ development in the previous chapter‚ this chapter presents the theoretical framework that was developed to guide the data collection‚ analysis‚ and performance evaluation presented in the subsequent chapters. We first introduce structural contingency theory and its underlying assumptions. Specific attention will be given to the “patterned systems” approach (Van de Ven and Ferry 1980) which will
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Wal-Mart Strategic Development and future Becoming Wal-Mart- The Past: Overview Wal-mart was founded by sam Walton in 1962. The idea behind was to bring discount shopping stores to rural America. It grew rapidly with huge popularity. Today it has 3708 Wal-mart U. S. Units‚ 569 U.S. Sam’s Club and 4112 International units. It toppled GE and became No.1 in Fortune 500 Company list with annual revenue of 405 Billion USD and employs about 2 million associates. It has presence in multiple sectors
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Strategic Management Journal Strat. Mgmt. J.‚ 28: 431–453 (2007) Published online 5 February 2007 in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/smj.597 Received 21 July 2004; Final revision received 3 August 2006 INFLUENCES ON STRATEGIC DECISION EFFECTIVENESS: DEVELOPMENT AND TEST OF AN INTEGRATIVE MODEL SAID ELBANNA1 and JOHN CHILD2 * College of Business and Economics‚ United Arab Emirates University‚ Al Ain‚ United Arab Emirates 2 Birmingham Business School‚ University of
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