Strategic Management

Explained by movie

“A Wednesday”

Prof. Sachin Lele - MITCON Institute, Pune

A Wednesday: "Movie of a stupid common Man"

“who had guts to challenge the system!"

Asst. Commissioner of Police, Mumbai

Probably, the best police officer in city!

The story:This common man goes to police station near VT

Station

To lodgee a complaint about his missing wallet !

Calls up ACP Rathod…….

Informs about a bomb planted in VT Police station and 6 other bombs planted in the city

Calls up Naina Roy, a News Channel Reporter…….

Suggests her to cover a bomb news @ VT station

Police defuses the bomb at VT station…….

But remains clueless about the mastermind !

Mastermind asks police to move 4 terrorists to Mumbai Airport…….

Helpless Police bows to his order!

Then Came the biggest twist in story !

These terrorists are being killed by a bomb plotted by the mastermind itself

Mastermind Calls ACP again…….

And tells him about no other bomb planted in city

ACP traces this guy…….

But leaves him, without shooting ! Movie ends !

Strategic Management explained via this movie

Strategic management consists of the analysis, decisions, and actions an organization undertakes to attain desired objectives

So, three main elements comes out from definition

1. Analysis- Environmental scanning

2. Planning- deciding the course of action

3. Execution- actual implementation of actions

Strategic Management explained via this movie

objective to be achieved-Mastermind decides to kill 4 terrorists as per legal way only

Analysis of the environment

A) Police and security systems in city

1. Intelligence system is very weak

2. No co-ordination amongst various agencies

3. Very poor emergency management system

4. Police system can not track hi-tech cyber crimes

5. Senior officers are not competent to act quickly

Strategic Management explained via this movie

B) Terrorist and illegal activities

1. Supply of arms, drugs is smoothly in process and police knows it very well

2. Very easy to get explosives, international calling cards and call bouncing technologies in the city

3. Even places like airports are accessible to terrorist

C) Infrastructure in city

1. Even police can not reach quickly from one corner to other corner of the city, in emergency situation

2. CCTV and security are just for a show-off

Strategic Management explained via this movie

D) Political will power

1. Politicians have no control over police

2. Politicians tries to save their images first rather than to save lives of the citizens

E) Media

1. Media is ready to go to any extent to get breaking news

2. Media can be used as a weapon in any game

Planning

1. To put police system under pressure by a bomb threat

2. To use media as a weapon to know about happenings

3. To ask police to gather 4 terrorists at one location

4. To kill 4 terrorists by bomb blast

5. To exit from workplace without getting caught & leaving no evidences behind

Execution

1. Collecting explosives, call management systems, data cards and a Wireless TV

2. Fitting explosives on airport runway

3. Keeping explosives in VT Railway Police station

4. Calling News reporter and inducing her to cover news

5. Calling ACP Rathod and forcing him to gather 4 terrorists at one location

6. getting 4 terrorists killed without using any weapon on our own.

7. Getting this news from media as a confirmation

Surprise Strategy by Mastermind

Who can say, “ he is a terrorist?

Calling news reporter as “Beta” and using media as a weapon

Asking police to make free 4 terrorists on airport

Asking Rathod: “Koi Khan Saab hain hi nahin to Baat kya Karenge?”

Surpirse Strategies by Police

Using media to misguide mastermind

Deploying very young officers on mission

Use of professional Hacker to trace mastermind

Keeping custody of one terrorist despite instructions of mastermind

Biggest Surprise strategy

ACP catches mastermind but leaves him free, as a conscious call

Major Management Fundas

1. Shape your enemy but never allow to him to shape you

Mastermind utilized media, bomb hawk and weak intelligence to force the police to act per his wish

2. Strength Vs Strength is always failure

Mastermind never came in direct picture like “shootout at Lokhandwala” but remained low profile and completes target

3. When in peace, prepare for war & when in war, prepare for peace-mastermind’s rescue plan-well planned n executed