Strategic planning is an organization ’s process of defining its strategy‚ or direction‚ and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy. In order to determine the direction of the organization‚ it is necessary to understand its current position and the possible avenues through which it can pursue a particular course of action. Generally‚ strategic planning deals with at least one of three key questions: “What do we do?”‚ “For whom do we do it?”‚ and “How do we excel?”. In
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Topic 1 – Strategic Leadership: Managing the strategy (H&J: Chapter 1) Actions in business are frequently directed at the achievement of superior performance‚ therefore a strategy can be defined as “an action a company takes to attain superior performance” (Hill and Jones‚ 2107). It is important to understand that this definition is one of many. Contrary to some views that there is one single definition of strategy‚ we argue that there is no such universally accepted definition and that
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**Instructors’ Manual 1 19/09/2001 9:39 AM Page 3 Contents Page OBJECTIVES OF THE GUIDE 5 KEY FEATURES OF THE BOOK 6 DESIGNING YOUR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT COURSE 13 TOPICS‚ OUTLINES‚ AND RECOMMENDED CASES 16 PART I: INTRODUCTION 16 The Concept of Strategy (Chapter 1) 16 PART II: TOOLS OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT 21 Goals‚ Values‚ and Performance (Chapter 2) 21 The Analysis of Industry and Competition (Chapters 3 and 4) 23 Analyzing Resources
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Fundamentals of Strategic Management 1 chapter 1 Fundamentals of Strategic Management W hat do Circuit City‚ Washington Mutual‚ Saab‚ Blockbuster‚ and Borders have in common? All of these recognized companies filed for bankruptcy during the past several years. While the situation surrounding each firm is different‚ all of them failed to meet various strategic challenges. Put another way‚ organizations typically do not succeed or fail randomly. Some plan‚ prepare‚ and execute more effectively
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Describe the steps in strategic management process . The strategic management process is more than just a set of rules to follow. It is a philosophical approach to business. Upper management must think strategically first‚ then apply that thought to a process. The strategic management process is best implemented when everyone within the firm understands the strategy. Strategic management is a continuous process that appraises the business and industries in which the organization is involved;
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CHAPTER 4 FACTORS MODERATING THE CHOICE OF STRATEGY-MAKING APPROACH “Hence‚ strategic management constitutes a normative outline for rational strategy formulation but provides little explicit consideration of the potential management roles in the strategy formation process. Conversely‚ strategic emergence has often been ascribed to decision patterns evolving over time as relatively autonomous managers within the organization engage in resource committing activities” Andersen‚ 2004:265 4
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• • • • • Explain the role of ethics and social responsibility in developing a strategic plan‚ considering stakeholder needs. • • To describe the role of ethic and social responsibility in a strategic plan one must first understand what ethical discussion making is. Business ethics is how the organization cares for their employees and the society as a whole. To make an ethical discussion three elements or integral parts must be consider. Awareness‚ Articulation‚ and Application. Awareness
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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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PEP STORES: AN EVALUATION OF THE STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE ORGANISATION INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW Like most organisations‚ Pep stores was concerned with the long-term sustainability of the organisation‚ profits/financial performance‚ market performance and the satisfying its stakeholders‚ including the shareholders. With these factors often contradicting each other it is clear Pep stores struggled through the 1990’s balance these competing forces in other to achieve their organisational objectives
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1. Explain how strategic management and the strategic management process are illustrated in this case. Let’s look at what “strategic management” and “strategic management process” mean. First‚ strategic management “is the process of analyzing the current situation‚ developing appropriate strategies‚ putting those strategies into action‚ and evaluating and changing those strategies as needed (Coulter‚ 2013). And “strategic management process “implies sequential
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