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Strategic Planning
Spring 1385-86
Dr. Mehran SepehriDr. Ali KermanshahGraduate School of Management
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Session 1 – Saturday 14th Bahman 85• Strategic Planning Fundamentals• Definitions, Terms, and Terminology• Overview of Concepts and Importance
Strategic Management: Concepts & Cases11th Edition, Fred David, Prentice Hall, 2006
Chapter 1 The Nature of Strategic Management
What Is Strategy andWhy Is It Important?What goes into Strategy?
What Is Strategy andWhy Is It Important?What goes into Strategy?
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Fred R. David, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized strategic planning scholar, author, and consultantHe received a BS and MBA degree from Wake Forest University and a Ph.D. in strategic management from the University of South Carolina. He is the Tran-South Professor of Strategic Management at Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina.His Strategic Management textbook, is used in more than 400 colleges and universities to teach strategic planning. The textbook is very practitioner and skills-oriented. This book has been translated into Farsi, Spanish, German, Japanese and Chinese and is widely used worldwide.
About the Author:
Fred R. David, Ph.D..
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Themes in 11th ed. of the Text
• Global Considerations –impact virtually all strategic decisions• E-commerce –vital strategic management tool
•Natural environment –important strategic issue
• Why Strategic Management Is a Process?• Who Performs the Tasks of Strategy?• Benefits of “Managing Strategically”?• Terms to Remember!
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Power of Saying No!
Case of Start-up companyExcellent at OperationsTrying to please everyoneDoing a bit of everythingWorking harder, not smarter
Not growing, little profitNo focus, no directionLosing to specialty stores
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Prime Task of Strategic Management
Peter Drucker: -- Think through the overall mission of a business. Ask the key question: “What is our Business?”
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سازماني هايچالش
كنشي رفتار جاي به رفتار واكنشي
فرهنگ تفكر در مورد آينده عدم وجود
و اطمينان کارکنان از آينده سازمان عدم آگاهي
داخلي هاي نيروي همسويي عدم
سازمان رهبران و کارکنان هاي دغدغه بين انفکاک
ها استراتژي با اهداف و سازماني ساختار همگوني نا
اهداف به دستيابي راستاي متوازن منابع در تخصيص عدم
کارکنان ارزيابي براي مناسب مبناي وجود عدم
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Thinking Strategically:The Three Big Strategic Questions1. Where are we now?2. Where do we want to go?
Business(es) to be in and market positions to stake outBuyer needs and groups to serveOutcomes to achieve
3. How will we get there?A company’s answer to “how will we get there?” is its strategy
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Strategic Management –Defined
Art & science of formulating, implementing, and evaluating, cross-functional decisions that enable an organization to achieve its objectives
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ريزي استراتژيكبرنامه تعاريف
، يك سازمان اعضاء كه با راهنمايي دائمي و نظام مندي فرآيند
و ها رويه همچنين و نمايد اتخاذ مي آينده در مورد را تصميماتي
و دهد توسعه مي را مورد نظر آينده نيل به نياز جهت عمليات مورد
.نمايد تعيين مي موفقيت را گيري اندازه نحوه
اي مختلف، وظيفه تصميمات ارزيابي تدوين، اجراء و هنر و علم استراتژيك نيل به اهداف راستاي در سازمان كمك به جهت
سازمان مدت بلند نيل به اهداف ابزار
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Strategic Management
In essence, the strategic plan is a company’s game plan
It is fundamental planning, away from daily operations to bring focus & direction
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Strategic Management achieves a firm’s success through integration ––
Management
MIS
Production/OperationsFinance/Accounting
Marketing
Research & Development
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What Is Strategy?
Consists of the combination of competitive moves and business approaches used by managers to run the companyManagement’s “game plan” to
Attract and please customersStake out a market positionCompete successfullyGrow the business
Achieve targeted objectives
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The Hows ThatDefine a Firm's StrategyThe Hows ThatDefine a Firm's Strategy
How to please customersHow to respond to changing market conditionsHow to outcompete rivalsHow to grow the businessHow to manage each functional piece of the business and develop needed organizational capabilitiesHow to achieve strategic and financial objectives
Strategyis HOWto . . .
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The What of a Company’s StrategyThe What of a Company’s Strategy
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استراتژيك مديريت فرايندهاي زير
است است سه مرحله سه مرحله شامل شامل استراتژيك استراتژيك مديريت مديريت فرآيند فرآيند رحط
يتژراستي ايزر
و ها
ي يابرزا
آن
ي رااج
ي تژراستا
ي يابرزا
ق حق ت
ي تژراستا
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Vision & Mission
Strategy Formulation
External Opportunities & Threats
Internal Strengths & Weaknesses
Long-Term Objectives
Alternative Strategies
Strategy Selection
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Issues in Strategy Formulation
New business opportunities
Businesses to abandonAllocation of resourcesExpansion or
diversificationInternational marketsMergers or joint venturesAvoidance of hostile
takeover
New business opportunities
Businesses to abandonAllocation of resourcesExpansion or
diversificationInternational marketsMergers or joint venturesAvoidance of hostile
takeover
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Strategy Implementation
Annual Objectives
Policies
Employee Motivation
Resource Allocation
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Strategy Implementation
Action Stage of Strategic Management –
Most difficult stageMobilization of employees
& managersInterpersonal skills
criticalConsensus on goal
pursuit
Action Stage of Strategic Management –
Most difficult stageMobilization of employees
& managersInterpersonal skills
criticalConsensus on goal
pursuit
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Strategy Evaluation
Internal Review
External Review
Performance Metrics
Corrective Actions
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Strategy Evaluation
Final Stage of Strategic Management
Subject to future modification
Today’s success no guarantee of future success
New & different problemsComplacency leads to
demise
Final Stage of Strategic Management
Subject to future modification
Today’s success no guarantee of future success
New & different problemsComplacency leads to
demise
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Tasks of Strategic Management
Develop aStrategic
Vision& Mission
Improve/Change
Revise asNeeded
Revise asNeeded
Improve/Change
Recycleas Needed
Task 1 Task 2 Task 3 Task 4 Task 5
Evaluate & Make
Corrections
Implement& ExecuteStrategy
Craft aStrategy
to AchieveObjectives
SetObjectives
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Developing a Vision and Mission
Begins with thinking strategically aboutThe firm’s future business makeup Where to take the firm
The task is toCreate a roadmap of a company’s futureDecide what future business position to stake outProvide long-term directionGive the firm a strong identity
The First Task of Strategic Management
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Missions vs. Strategic Visions
A missionstatement focuses on currentbusiness activities
Business(es) company is in nowCustomer needs currently being served
A strategic vision concerns a firm’sfuture business path
The kind of company it is trying to becomeCustomer needs to be satisfied in the future
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Competitive Advantage
“Strategic Management is Gaining & Maintaining Competitive Advantage”
“Anything that a firm does especially well compared to rival firms”
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Achieving Sustained Competitive Advantage
1. Adapting to change in external trends, internal capabilities and resources
2. Effectively formulating, implementing & evaluating strategies
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Integrating Intuition and Analysis
The strategic management process attempts to organize quantitative and qualitative information under conditions of uncertainty
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Integrating Intuition and Analysis
Intuition is based on:Past experiencesJudgmentFeelings
Intuition is useful for decision making in:Conditions of great uncertaintyConditions with little precedent
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Integrating Intuition & Analysis
Involve Management at all levels
Intuition & Judgment
Influence all Analyses
Analytical Thinking
Intuitive Thinking
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Adapting to Change
Organizations must monitor eventsOn-going processInternal and external eventsTimely changes
Effective Adaptation
Requires long-term focus
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Adapting to Change
Rate & magnitude of change increasing dramatically
E-commerce
Demographics
Technology
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Adapting to Change – Key Strategic Management Questions
What kind of business should we become?Are we in the right fieldsAre there new competitors?What strategies should we pursue?How are our customers changing?
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Key Terms
Various Job Titles:
•Chief Executive Officer (CEO)•Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)•President•Owner•Board Chair•Executive Director
Strategists – Firm’s success/failure
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Key Terms
Vision Statement –What do we want to become?
Mission Statement –What is our business?
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Key Terms
Opportunities and Threats (External)
Largely beyond the control of a single organization
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Opportunities & Threats (External)Analysis of Trends:
• Economic
• Social
• Cultural
• Demographic/Environmental
• Political, Legal, Governmental
• Technological
• Competitors
Key Terms
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Key Terms Opportunities & Threats
Environmental Scanning (Industry Analysis)
Process of conducting research and gathering and assimilating external information
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Key Terms Opportunities & Threats
Basic Tenet of Strategic Management
Strategy Formulation
Take advantage of External Opportunities
Take advantage of External Opportunities
Avoid/minimize impact ofExternal Threats
Avoid/minimize impact ofExternal Threats
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Key Terms
Strengths & Weaknesses (Internal)
Controllable activities performed especially well or poorly
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Key Terms
Strengths & Weaknesses (Internal)
Typically located in functional areas of the firm
• Management
• Marketing
• Finance/Accounting
• Production/Operations
• Research & Development
• Computer Information Systems
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Key Terms Strengths & WeaknessesAssessing the Internal Environment
Internal FactorsPerformance Metrics
Financial Ratios
Industry Averages
Survey Data
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Key Terms
Long-term Objectives
Mission-driven pursuit of specified results more than one year out
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Key Terms
Long-term Objectives
Essential for ensuring the firm’s success
• Provide direction
• Aid in evaluation
• Create synergy
• Focus coordination
• Basis for planning, motivating, and controlling
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Key Terms
Strategies
Means by which long-term objectives are achieved
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Key Terms
Strategies
Some Examples
• Geographic expansion
• Diversification
• Acquisition
• Market penetration
• Retrenchment
• Liquidation
• Joint venture
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Key Terms
Annual Objectives
Short-term milestones that firms must achieve to attain long-term objectives
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Key Terms
Policies
Means by which annual objectives will be achieved
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Example Strategies in Action in 2005
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Example Strategies in Action in 2005
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Comprehensive strategic management model
ExternalAudit
Chapter 3
InternalAudit
Chapter 4
Long-TermObjectives
Chapter 5
Generate,Evaluate,
SelectStrategies
Chapter 6
ImplementStrategies:
Mgmt Issues
Chapter 7
ImplementStrategies:Marketing,Fin/Acct,R&D, CISChapter 8
Measure &Evaluate
Performance
Chapter 9
Vision&
Mission
Chapter 2
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Strategic Management Model
Strategic Management Process
Dynamic & ContinuousMore formal in larger organizations
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Strategic Management Model
1. Identify Existing --
• Vision
• Mission
• Objectives
• Strategies
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Strategic Management Model
2. Audit external environment3. Audit internal environment4. Establish long-term objectives5. Generate, evaluate & select
strategies6. Implement selected strategies7. Measure & evaluate performance
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Benefits of Strategic Management
• Proactive in shaping firm’s future
• Initiate and influence firm’s activities
• Formulate better strategies•Systematic, logical, rational
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Benefits of Strategic Management
Financial Benefits
• Improvement in sales
• Improvement in profitability
• Productivity improvement
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Benefits of Strategic Management
Non-Financial Benefits
• Improved understanding of competitors strategies
• Enhanced awareness of threats
• Reduced resistance to change
• Enhanced problem-prevention capabilities
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Benefits of Strategic Management (Greenley)
1. Identification of Opportunities
2. Objective view of management problems
3. Improved coordination & control
4. Minimizes adverse conditions & changes
5. Decisions that better support objectives
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Benefits of Strategic Management (Greenley – cont’d)
6. Effective allocation of time & resources
7. Internal communication among personnel
8. Integration of individual behaviors
9. Clarify individual responsibilities
10. Encourage forward thinking
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Benefits of Strategic Management (Greenley – cont’d)
11. Encourages favorable attitude toward change
12. Provides discipline and formality to the management of the business
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Why Some Firms Do NoStrategic Planning
Poor reward structures
Fire-fighting
Waste of time
Too expensive
Laziness
Content with success
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Why Some Firms Do NoStrategic Planning
Fear of failure
Overconfidence
Prior bad experience
Self-interest
Fear of the unknown
Suspicion
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Business Ethics & Strategic Management
Business Ethics defined –
Principles of conduct within organizations that guide decision making and behavior
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Business Ethics & Strategic Management
Good business ethics –
Prerequisite for good strategic management
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Business Ethics & Strategic Management
Code of business ethics –
Provides basis on which policies can be devised to guide daily behavior and decisions in the workplace
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Business Ethics & Strategic Management
Business practices always considered unethical –
Misleading advertisingMisleading labelingHarm to the environmentInsider tradingDumping flawed products on foreign marketsPoor product or service safetyPadding expense accounts
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Natural Environment Perspective
ISO used to gain strategic advantage
ISO 9000 focuses on quality control> 1.5 million companies incorporate ISO
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Natural Environment Perspective
Voluntary standards ISO 14001 standard for Environmental Management SystemFirms minimize harmful effects on environment
ISO 14000 standards
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The Nature of Global Competition
International/multinational corporations
Parent companyHost country
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The Nature of Global Competition
Strategy implementation may be difficult
Cultural differencesNormsValuesWork ethic
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Advantages of International OperationsAbsorb excess capacity
Reduce unit costs
Spread risk over wider markets
Low-cost production facilitiesLess intense competition
Lower taxes
Economies of scale
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Disadvantages of International Operations
Difficult communications
Underestimate foreign competition
Cultural barriers to effective management
Complications arising from currency differences