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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
Teaching Noteson
Strategic Managementfor TU MBS
C. P. Rijal, PhDAssociate Professor
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
Teaching Noteson
Strategic Managementfor TU MBS
C. P. Rijal, PhDAssociate Professor
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Unit I: IntroductionUnit Coverage1. Evolution of strategic management2. Characteristics of strategic decisions3. Mintzberg’s model of strategic decision-
making4. Components of strategic management:
planning, implementation and control5. Importance of strategic implementation in
Nepal6. Strategic plan: mission, objectives, strategies7. Levels of objectives and strategies8. Role of CEO in strategic management
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Evolution of strategic management° Integral part of overall management process.° Planning process to deal with the rapid change in
the environment.° Has close associations with budgeting (early 1990s),
long-range planning (1950s), and strategic planning (1960s), and is developed since mid 1980s.
° A proactive, reactive, and futuristic management process.
° Emphasizes the strategy development needs to be driven by the market and its environment rather than limiting to only internal orientation.
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Strategic Market Management …
° Developed along with the evolution of various management systems.
° Follows the evolution of Budgeting, Long-Range Planning, and Strategic Planning.
° Sometimes all these terms are used interchangeably.
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Business Strategy
O The means an organization uses to achieve its objectives
O Serves as a tool for the implementation of management’s concept of business scope, mission, purpose, and objectives
O Formula in running whole business
O A direction for the organization both in shorter as well as long run
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Strategic Management Aims at:
° How to influence the external factors and make them supportive to the operations of the organization, and how to most efficiently and effectively use the internal forces whereby the resources (strengths) are best utilized to achieve the highest possible rate of productivity for the organization.
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Characteristics of strategic decisionsThe following are some of the major features of strategic decisions:1. External, Market Orientation2. Proactive Strategies3. Emphasis on Information System4. On-Line Analysis and Decision Making5. Entrepreneurial Thrust6. Strategic Fitness in Implementation 7. Matching with the Global Realities
contd…
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Characteristics contd… 8. Longer Time Horizon9. Empirical Research Based10. Interdisciplinary Developments --
MarketingOrganizational BehaviorFinance and AccountingEconomicsStrategy
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A Business Strategy SpecificationIncludes the determination of:1. The product market in which the business is to
compete2. The level of investment3. The functional area strategies needed to compete in
the selected product market4. The strategic assets or competencies that underline the
strategy and provide sustainable competitive advantage (SCA)
Multiple Businesses5. The allocation of resources over the business units6. The development of synergistic effects across the
business-the creation of value by having business units that support and complement each other.
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Mintzberg’s model of strategic decision components Mintzberg focused on:
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Mintzberg’s model of strategic decision-making Mintzberg focused on:
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Components of Strategic Management
Planning and development
Implementation
Control
(Please follow the detailed diagram developed in class)
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Components and Process of Strategic Market Management
Strategic Analysis
External Analysis1. Customer analysis2. Competitor analysis3. Market analysis4. Environmental analysis
Strengths, weaknesses, stg. problems, constraints, and uncertainties
Opportunities, threats, trends, and strategic uncertainties
Internal Analysis1. Performance analysis
2. Determinants of strategic options
Strategy Identification and Selection
Determination of Marketing Strategies
Marketing Planning, Implementation and Control
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Importance of strategic thinking in Nepal Strategic management aims at bringing in
system thinking practices in business whereas Nepal is yet to establish its national constitution.
Strategic management provides with external, proactive view of managing institutions, whereas most of the Nepalese institutions are yet to be managed with specific norms and operating standards.
Strategic management aims to provide inputs on how to compete in competitive environment, whereas Nepalese institutions are yet to understand the value of competing in business.
Most essential in every sector.
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Strategic Plan: Mission, Objectives and StrategiesFollow the subsequent slides
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Components of Corporate Strategy1. Scope, mission, and intent
2. Objectives
3. Development strategy
4. Resources allocation
5. Source of synergy
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1. Scope, mission, and intent
* What business should the firm be in?,
* What customer needs, market segments,
and/or technologies should the firm focus
on?, and
* What should be the ending purpose or
the intent of the firm?
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MarketOriented
MarketOriented
Fit Market Environment
Fit Market Environment
MotivatingMotivating RealisticRealistic
DistinctiveCompetencies
DistinctiveCompetencies
SpecificSpecific
Characteristicsof Good Mission
Statements
Characteristicsof Good Mission
Statements
Mission StatementsMission
Statements
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2. Objectives
* What performance dimensions should
the firm’s business units and employees
focus on?,
* What is the target level of performance
to be achieved on each dimension?, and
* What is the timeframe in which each
target should be attained?
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The Characteristics of Business Objectives
Every business objective should be:
S = Specific
M = Measurable
A = Achievable
R = Realistic
T = Time-bounded
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3. Development Strategy
* How can the firm achieve the desired
level of growth over time?,
* Can the desired growth be attained by
expanding the firm’s current
businesses?, and
* Will the company have to diversify into
new businesses or product-markets to
achieve its future growth objectives?
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4. Resources Allocation
* How should the firm’s limited financial
resources be allocated across its
businesses to produce the highest
returns? and
* Of the alternative strategies that each
business might pursue, which will
produce the greatest returns for the
dollars invested?
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5. Sources of Synergy
* What competencies, knowledge, and customer
based intangibles (e.g., brand recognition,
reputation, loyalty, etc.) might be developed
and shared across the firm’s businesses? and
* What operational resources, facilities, or
functions (e.g., plants, R&D, salesforce, etc.)
might the firm’s business share to increase
their efficiency?
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Levels of objectives and strategies
Corporate LevelCorporate Level: Grand strategies and grand objectives; corporate plans
Business LevelBusiness Level: Strategic business unit or product category-wise strategies and objectives; business development plans
Product/service levelProduct/service level : Bottom-line action programs to develop and promote products and services; Tactical action plans;
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Role of CEO in strategic management Taking business risks making strategic decisions
System visualization or system thinking
Promoting institutional innovation, change and development
Responding to environmental changes and taking charge of organizational success or failure
Responding with accountability and responsiveness
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Some Strategic Challenges to Managers:° Management has a distinctive and farsighted view,
rather than a conventional and reactive view, about the future.
° Senior management focuses regenerating core strategies rather than reengineering core processes.
° Competitors view the company as a rule maker rather than a rule follower.
° The company’s strength is on innovation and growth rather than on operational efficiency.
° The company is mostly out in front rather than catching up.
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Needs/Importance of Strategic Management
Despite the involvement of high cost, strategic management has the potential to:
• Precipitate the concept of strategic choices,• Force a long-range view,• Make visible the resources allocation decision,• Aid strategic analysis and decision making,• Provide a strategic management and control
system, • Provide both horizontal and vertical
communication and coordination systems, and• Help a business cope with changes.
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Unit II: External Environment AnalysesUnit II: External Environment Analyses
1.Nature of environment: remote and operating environment
2. Process of environmental scanning
3. Techniques of environmental analyses: PESTEL, Scenario planning, Porter’s Five Forces Model, environmental threat and opportunity planning (ETOP)
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1.1.Nature of environment: remote and Nature of environment: remote and operating environmentoperating environment
Basically, the business environment comprises of micro and macro environment.
The macro environment is referred to as remote environment and micro environment is referred to as operating or internal environment.
Please follow the detailed diagram developed in class.
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2. Process of environmental scanning2. Process of environmental scanning
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Components and Process of Strategic Market Management
Strategic Analysis
External Analysis1. Customer analysis2. Competitor analysis3. Market analysis4. Environmental analysis
Strengths, weaknesses, stg. problems, constraints, and uncertainties
Opportunities, threats, trends, and strategic uncertainties
Internal Analysis1. Performance analysis
2. Determinants of strategic options
Strategy Identification and Selection
Determination of Marketing Strategies
Marketing Planning, Implementation and Control
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Strategic AnalysisExternal AnalysisExternal Analysis
1. Customer AnalysisCustomer Analysis: segmentation, consumer motivations, and unmet needs analysis.
2. Competitor AnalysisCompetitor Analysis: identifying, evaluating and dealing with competitors.
3. Market AnalysisMarket Analysis: market size, market growth, market profitability, cost structure, distribution system, market trends, key factors for success, and risks in high growth markets.
4. Environmental AnalysisEnvironmental Analysis: dimensions, forecasting environmental trends and events, analyses of strategic uncertainty, impact, and scenarios.
Internal AnalysisInternal Analysis
5. Performance analysesPerformance analyses: shareholder value analysis, sales and profitability analysis
6. Analyses of Strategic OptionsAnalyses of Strategic Options: strategic options and business portfolio analysis.
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3. Techniques of environmental analyses: PESTEL, Scenario planning, Porter’s Five Forces Model, environmental threat and opportunity planning (ETOP)
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PEST analysis
• Political factors
• Economic factors
• Socio-cultural factors
• Technological factors
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Political/legal
• Monopolies legislation
• Environmental protection laws
• Taxation policy
• Employment laws
• Government policy
• Legislation
• Others?
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Economic Factors
• Inflation
• Employment
• Disposable income
• Business cycles
• Energy availability and cost
• Others?
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Socio-Cultural Factors
• Demographics
• Distribution of income
• Social mobility
• Lifestyle changes
• Consumerism
• Levels of education
• Others?
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Technological Factors
• New discoveries and innovations• Speed of technology transfer• Rates of obsolescence• Internet• Information technology• Others?
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SCENARIO ANALYSIS
Scenario Analysis can be divided into four elements:
• Identify Scenarios
• Develop Scenario Strategies
• Estimate Scenario Probabilities
• Perform Regret Analysis
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1. Identify Scenarios
It is important to reduce the number of scenarios by identifying a small set that ideally includes those that are plausible/credible and those that represent departures from the present that are substantial enough to affect strategy development.
2. Develop Scenario Strategies
After scenarios have been identified, the next step is to relate them to strategies – both existing strategies and new options.
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3. Estimate Scenario Probabilities
¤ To evaluate alternative strategies it is useful to
determine the scenario probabilities.
¤ Experts could be asked to assess probabilities directly.
4. Perform Regret AnalysisThe final step is to compare the expected outcomes
of each strategy if the wrong scenario emerges.
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Forecasting Environmental Trends and Events
• Asking the Right Questions
• Trend Extrapolation
• Asking Experts
• Decomposing the Task
• Cross-Impact Analysis
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Strategic Uncertainty
¤ Strategic Uncertainty may result from a typical external analysis or sometimes the strategic uncertainty is represented by a future trend or event that has inherent unpredictability.
¤ To deal with strategic uncertainty, impact analysis and scenario analysis can be employed.
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Impact Analysis
¤ The extent to which a strategic uncertainty should be monitored and analyzed depends on its impact and immediacy.
¤ The impact of a strategic uncertainty is related to:
* The extent to which it will impact existing or
potential SBUs (strategic business units)
* The importance of the involved SBUs
* The number of involved SBUs.
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Impact Analysis contd . . .
• The immediacy of a strategic uncertainty is related to
- The probability that the involved trends or events will occur.
- The time frame of the trends or events.
- The reaction time likely to be available, compared with the time required to develop and implement appropriate strategy
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Managing Strategic Uncertainties If both the immediacy and impact are low, then a
low level of monitoring may be appropriate.If the impact is thought to be low but the
immediacy is high, then monitoring and analysis may be appropriate.
If the immediacy is low and the impact high, then monitoring and analysis in more depth and contingent strategies may be considered.
When both the immediacy and potential impact of the underlying trends and events are high, then an in-depth analysis will be appropriate, as will be the development of reaction plans or strategies.
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Porter’s Five Forces Analysis
Threats of PotentialNew Entrants
Competition Among Existing Firms
Bargaining Power
of Suppliers
Bargaining Power
of Customers
Threats of Substitute Products
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Source: Adapted from M. E. Porter, Competitive Strategy, Free Press, 1980, p. 4. Copyright by TheFree Press, a division of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. Reproduced with permission.
Threat ofThreat ofsubstitutessubstitutes
Potentialentrants
Threat ofThreat ofentrantsentrants
Suppliers
BargainingBargaining powerpower
Substitutes
Buyers
BargainingBargaining powerpower
COMPETITIVE RIVALRY
Five forces analysis
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The Threat of Entry ...
Dependent on barriers to entry such as:
• Economies of scale
• Capital requirements of entry
• Access to distribution channels
• Cost advantages independent of size (eg the
“experience curve”)
• Expected retaliation
• Legislation or government action
• Differentiation
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Buyer power is likely to be high when:
• There is a concentration of buyers
• There are many small operators in the supplying industry
• There are alternative sources of supply
• Components or materials are a high percentage of cost to the buyer leading to “shopping around”
• Switching costs are low
• There is a threat of backward integration
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Supplier power is high when:
• There is a concentration of suppliers
• Switching costs are high
• The supplier brand is powerful
• Integration forward by the supplier is possible
• Customers are fragmented and bargaining power low
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Threat of Substitutes
Substitutes take different for:
• Substitution of need
• Generic substitution
• Doing without
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Competitive rivalry is high when:• Entry is likely• Substitutes threaten• Buyers or suppliers exercise control• Competitors are in balance• There is slow market growth• Global customers increase competition• There are high fixed costs in an industry• Markets are undifferentiated• There are high exit barriers
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Five Forces Analysis: Key Questions and Implications
• What are the key forces at work in the competitive environment?
• Are there underlying forces driving competitive forces?
• Will competitive forces change?
• What are the strengths and weaknesses of competitors in relation to the competitive forces?
• Can competitive strategy influence competitive forces (eg by building barriers to entry or reducing competitive rivalry)?
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Unit III: Internal Environment AnalysesUnit III: Internal Environment Analyses1. Corporate resources analyses for strengths and
weaknesses: marketing, HR, production and operations, finance and accounting
2. Process of corporate appraisal: concept of available resources, threshold resources, unique resources, core competencies, and strategic advantage
3. Techniques for internal analyses: value chain analyses (cost efficiency and product features)
4. Comparative analyses: historical comparison, industry standards, benchmarking, robustness, strategic advantage profile (SAP)
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Internal AnalysisStructuring Strategic Decisions
Organizationalstrengths andweaknesses
Environmental opportunities
and threats
Market needs, attractiveness, and key success factors
Strategic Decisions* Strategic investment decisions* Financial area strategies* Sustainable competitive advantages
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Internal Analysis
Performance Analysis
1. Shareholder Value Analysis
2. Financial Performance - Sales and Profitability
3. Performance Measurement - Beyond Profitability
4. Determinants of Strategic Options
5. From Analysis to Strategy
6. Business Portfolio Analysis
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Why Do Companies Fail?
What went wrong?– Inertia (resistant to change)
– Prior strategic commitments
– The icarus paradox
Avoiding failure and sustaining competitive advantage:– Focus on the building blocks of
competitive advantage.
– Institute continuous improvement and learning.
– Track best industrial practice and use benchmarking.
– Overcome inertia.
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Shareholder Value AnalysisHow competent the firm is to create various values to shareholders
Key values to the shareholder are:1. Profit maximization, and 1. Profit maximization, and 2. Increment of worth of the share per unit2. Increment of worth of the share per unit
Other important values to the shareholders may beBusiness/product diversificationGoodwillBrand recognition, and so on ….
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Competitive Advantage: Value Creation, Low Cost, and Differentiation
• Competitive advantage is a firm’s ability to outperform its competitors (earn higher profits).
• The source of competitive advantage is value creation for customers.
• Sustained competitive advantage comes from maintaining higher profits than competitors over long periods of time.
• Sustained competitive advantage leads to higher shareholder value.
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Financial Performance - Sales and Profitability
The Determinants
1. Sales and Market Share
2. Profitability
3. Good Performance
4. Economic Value Added
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Return on Capital Employed for Selected U.S. Department Stores, 1989-1998
Source: Data from Value Line Investment Survey
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Performance Measurement - Beyond Profitability
Some Indicators
1. Customer satisfaction and brand loyalty
2. Product service quality
3. Brand and firm associations
4. Relative costs
5. New product activity
6. Manager/employee capability and performance
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Performance Measurement Beyond Profitability
It is very important to develop performance indicators that convincingly represent the long term prospect.
Customer satisfaction/brand loyalty are the keys
It indicates how customers really feel about the firm.
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Guidelines for measuring satisfaction and loyalty
problems and causes of dissatisfaction should be identified
exit interviews should be taken
size and intensity of the customer group that truly likes a brand should be known.
measures should be tracked
Performance Measurement Beyond Profitability
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Product and service quality
how good a value it is?
can it really deliver superior performance?
how does it compare with competitor offerings?
how will it compare with competitor offerings in the future give competitive innovations?
Performance Measurement Beyond Profitability
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performance measurement
• brand/firm associations what are its associations? what is the perceived quality?
• relative cost
• average costing in average costing some elements of fixed or semi
variable costs are not carefully allocated but instead are averaged over total production
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performance measurement
• new product activity
• manager/employee capability and performance
human factor is very important as they are the ones who implement the strategies
does the human resource support the current and future strategies?
does new employees match the needs of the organization?
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Generic Building Blocks of Competitive Advantage: Efficiency
Efficiency = Outputs/Inputs
For many firms, EE productivity is key (output per employee)
Increased efficiency requires strategy, structure and controls (and a strong functional production or operations program)
Efficiency is “critical” for cost leaders (eg. Wal-Mart) but still very important for others
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Competitive Advantage: Customer Responsiveness• Superior Customer Responsiveness is a function
of:
Quality, and
Innovation in design, service, etc.
• Often measured by:
Response time, and
Adaptability
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Competitive Advantages: Innovation• Perhaps the most important building block of
competitive advantage: may drive greater innovation leading to higher prices via differentiation or simply better processes leading to lower costs.
• Companies can’t afford to sit still
• Innovation includes advances in products, processes, management systems, organizational structure, strategies, etc
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Competitive Advantage: Quality• Quality drives profits in two ways:
Increased reliability which leads to higher prices due to perceived higher quality
Increased productivity due to lower re-work, returns and rejection rates leading to lower costs (zero defects)
• Higher prices plus lower costs means more profits
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The Impact of Efficiency, Quality, Innovation, and Customer Responsiveness on Unit Costs and Prices
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Figure misses the role played by finance and accounting/Information systems as support services
The Value Chain (Business Functions)
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Distinctive Competencies, Resources, and Capabilities
The roots of competitive advantage
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Strategy and Competitive AdvantageThe relationship between strategies and resources and
capabilities:
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Strategic Resources: Two Types
• Tangible– Land
– Buildings
– Plant
– Equipment
• Intangible– Brand names
– Reputation
– Patents
– Technological or marketing know-how
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Resources and CapabilitiesSkills in effectively coordinating and managing resources for productive use.
– UniqueUnique resources and capabilities, or, at a minimum,
– CommonCommon resources and unique capabilitiescapabilities
– Best if have both.
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The Durability of Competitive Advantage• Barriers to imitation (Slows the speed of imitation by
competitors in reducing advantage)– Imitation by acquiring similar resources
– Imitation of capabilities (more difficult)
• Limits on competitors– Prior strategic commitments
– Absorptive capacity for change
• Industry dynamism– The rapid innovation
shortens product life cycles.
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Durability of Competitive Advantage
• Durability is dependent upon:
- height of barriers to imitation
- capability of competitors to imitate innovation
- general level of industry dynamism
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Analysis of Strategic Options
Determinants of Strategic OptionsDeterminants of Strategic Options
1. Past and current strategies
2. Strategic problems
3. Organizational capabilities and constraints
4. Financial capabilities and constraints
5. General strengths and weaknesses
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Business Portfolio Analysis
The Components
1. The Market Attractiveness - Business Position
Matrix
a. Evaluate the abilities to compete
b. Evaluate the market attractiveness
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business portfolio analysis
• it provides a structured way to evaluate business units on two key dimensions
• attractiveness of the market involved and• strength of the firms position in that market
• the market attractiveness-business position matrix
it is a formal, structured way to match a firm’s strength and market opportunities.
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business portfolio analysis
• Applying the matrix
• logical alternatives in structuring strategies invest to bold invest to penetrate invest to rebuild selective investment
• The BCG Growth Share Matrix.
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Unit IV: Strategic Options1. Generating alternative strategies using SWOT
analyses2. Corporate strategies: stability, growth (related and
unrelated diversification), retrenchment strategies3. Porter’s competitive strategies4. Strategy clock (low price, differentiation, hybrid,
focused differentiation, and failure strategies)5. Sustainable competitive advantages (SCAs)6. Comparative collaborative strategies7. Directions for strategy development: consolidation,
market penetration, product development, market development and diversification
8. Methods of strategy development: internal development, mergers and acquisition, joint-venture and strategic alliances
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SWOT Analysis
• Strengths (internal)
• Weaknesses (internal)
• Opportunities (external)
• Threats (external)
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SWOT ANALYSIS
The Components of SWOT Analysis
SWOTAnalysis
Innovation
FinancingAccess to
Capital
Marketing
Customer Base
Management
Manufacturing
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SWOT ANALYSISInnovation
Technical or product/service superiorityR&DNew product capabilities and new technologiesPatents
ManufacturingCost structureProduction flexibility and capacityEquipmentAccess to raw materialsVertical integrationWorkforce attitude and motivation
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SWOT ANALYSISFinance
From operationsFrom net short-term assetsAbility to use debt and equity financingParent’s willingness to finance
ManagementTop and middle management qualityOrganizational culture, strategy, goals, plans, tacticsKnowledge, skill, capabilityEmployee motivation and turnoverQuality of strategic decision-making
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SWOT ANALYSIS
MarketingProduct quality, brand image, differentiationCustomer focus, service and supportQuality of segmentationProduct line length, depth, width, and capabilityMarket networks and relationshipSales force motivation and loyalty
Customer Base Size or market share, loyaltyGrowth of segments served
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The Impact of Efficiency, Quality, Innovation, and Customer Responsiveness on Unit Costs and Prices
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Comparative Collaborative Strategies In collaborative strategies, the firms with
similar interests or having similar strengths work together to consolidate their strengths so as to counter the threats or take benefits of the prevailing opportunities by the help of collective efforts.
In most of such instances, the firms intend to take benefits of their comparative strengths.
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Directions for strategy developmentDirections for strategy development
ConsolidationConsolidation is a strategic direction in which a firm attempts to consolidate its entire efforts and resources in one or two offerings at a time so as to perform the best in the category.
In market penetrationmarket penetration, the firm applies very low cost strategy and attempts to reach every corner of the marketplace so as to occupy a comfortable market share, mostly in the case of new launch consumer goods and other convenience items.
Product development follows a process of developing new product or making some changes in existing product after experiencing negative effect of product life cycle maturity, most of the cases.
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Directions for strategy developmentDirections for strategy development
Market development Market development strategy seeks exploring new markets for existing product offerings by converting the non-users into users or exploring into completely new market segments.
Diversification Diversification refers to simply expansion, and expansion may take place at product and/or market level.
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Methods of strategy developmentMethods of strategy developmentInternal developmentInternal development refers to internally strengthening
the firm by means of research, innovation, new product development and strategy revisits.
Mergers and acquisition Mergers and acquisition is another popular mode of strategic development whereby the firm gets itself strengthened either by getting merged with other firm/s, and acquiring other firms into self.
Joint-ventureJoint-venture is another mode of strategic strengthening whereby an existing firm joins hands with national or international venture partners.
In strategic alliancesstrategic alliances, the firms with similar interests and operating specializations join hands together for some purpose.
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Unit V: Strategy Evaluation and Choice1. Evaluation criteria: suitability,
acceptability (return on risk and stakeholder reaction), and feasibility.
2. Portfolio analyses for strategic choices: BCG growth share matrix, GE business screen, Hofer’s product market evolution matrix
3. Choices of functional strategies and policies
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Evaluation Criteria While evaluating the strategic development and
execution, we must pay attention on potential risk and return associated to the business.
Suitability and acceptability of the firm and its offering also need be assessed from the perspectives of the investor, maker and marketer.
We also should assess the general reaction pattern of the key internal and external stakeholders.
Finally, social, financial and developmental feasibility also need to be made one of the bases.
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Portfolio Analyses for Strategic Choices1. BCG growth share matrix,
2. GE business screen,
3. Hofer’s product market evolution matrix
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Unit VI: Strategy Implementation and Unit VI: Strategy Implementation and ControlControl
1.Process of Strategy implementation
2.Organizational structure for strategy implementation
3.Managing strategic change
4.Strategic control
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Organizational structure for strategy implementation
Here, you should briefly review the various types of organizational structures and relate the relevant functional strategies per structural design.
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Components and Process of Strategic Market Management
Strategic Analysis
External Analysis1. Customer analysis2. Competitor analysis3. Market analysis4. Environmental analysis
Strengths, weaknesses, stg. problems, constraints, and uncertainties
Opportunities, threats, trends, and strategic uncertainties
Internal Analysis1. Performance analysis
2. Determinants of strategic options
Strategy Identification and Selection
Determination of Marketing Strategies
Marketing Planning, Implementation and Control
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Strategic AnalysisExternal AnalysisExternal Analysis
1. Customer AnalysisCustomer Analysis: segmentation, consumer motivations, and unmet needs analysis.
2. Competitor AnalysisCompetitor Analysis: identifying, evaluating and dealing with competitors.
3. Market AnalysisMarket Analysis: market size, market growth, market profitability, cost structure, distribution system, market trends, key factors for success, and risks in high growth markets.
4. Environmental AnalysisEnvironmental Analysis: dimensions, forecasting environmental trends and events, analyses of strategic uncertainty, impact, and scenarios.
Internal AnalysisInternal Analysis
5. Performance analysesPerformance analyses: shareholder value analysis, sales and profitability analysis
6. Analyses of Strategic OptionsAnalyses of Strategic Options: strategic options and business portfolio analysis.