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MGMT 300 Integrated Core: Management
What is Strategic Planning and Strategic Management?
Strategy Defined
Strategy: broad and general plan developed to reach long-term objectives
What is Strategic Planning?
• Strategy: broad and general plan developed to reach long-term objectives
• Strategic planning: long-range planning that focuses on the org as a whole
How Long Into the Future Should Managers Focus? • Long-term strategic planning = 3-5 years into the future
• Commitment principle: managers should commit funds for planning only if they can anticipate a return on planning expenses as a result of long-term analysis
Strategic Management
• Strategic management: process of ensuring that the org possesses and benefits from the use of an appropriate strategy
5 steps involved in strategic management…
Strategic Management Process Environmental
Analysis
Establishing organizational
direction
Strategy Formulation
Strategy implementation
Strategic control
Strategic Management Process Environmental
Analysis
Establishing organizational
direction
Strategy Formulation
Strategy implementation
Strategic control
MGMT 300 Integrated Core: Management
Environmental Analysis: The General Environment
Environmental Analysis
Environmental analysis: the study of the organizational environment to pinpoint factors that can influence org operations
General Environment
Industry Environment
Internal Environment
Environmental Analysis
Environmental analysis: the study of the organizational environment to pinpoint factors that can influence org operations
General Environment
Industry Environment
Internal Environment
Environmental Analysis
General environment: an organization’s external environment that has long-term implications for managing the organization
Environmental Analysis
What aspects of the general environment might influence organizational strategy?
General Environment
Environmental Analysis
General Environment
Social Component
Environmental Analysis
General Environment
Social Component
Environmental Analysis
General Environment
Social Component
Environmental Analysis
General Environment
Social Component
Technology Component
Environmental Analysis
General Environment
Social Component
Technology Component
Environmental Analysis
MGMT 300 Integrated Core: Management
Environmental Analysis: The Industry Environment
Environmental Analysis
Environmental analysis: the study of the organizational environment to pinpoint factors that can influence org operations
General Environment
Industry Environment
Internal Environment
Environmental Analysis
• Industry Environment: level that contains components normally having specific and immediate implications for managing the org
• Porter’s Five Forces Model
Environmental Analysis
Bargaining power of new entrants
Industry Competitors
New Entrants
Environmental Analysis
Bargaining power of suppliers
Bargaining power of new entrants
Industry Competitors
New Entrants
Suppliers
Environmental Analysis
Bargaining power of suppliers
Bargaining power of buyers
Bargaining power of new entrants
Industry Competitors
New Entrants
Suppliers Buyers
Environmental Analysis
Bargaining power of suppliers
Bargaining power of buyers
Threat of substitutes
Bargaining power of new entrants
Industry Competitors
New Entrants
Suppliers
Substitutes
Buyers
Environmental Analysis
Bargaining power of suppliers
Bargaining power of buyers
Threat of substitutes
Bargaining power of new entrants
Industry Competitors
New Entrants
Suppliers
Substitutes
Buyers
MGMT 300 Integrated Core: Management
Internal Environment, Establishing Organizational Direction, and Strategy Formulation
Environmental Analysis
Environmental analysis: the study of the organizational environment to pinpoint factors that can influence org operations
General Environment
Industry Environment
Internal Environment
Environmental Analysis
• Internal environment: environment that exists inside the org and has immediate and specific implications for managing the org
• Includes marketing, finance, and accounting
Strategic Management Process Environmental
Analysis
Establishing organizational
direction
Strategy Formulation
Strategy implementation
Strategic control
Establishing Org Direction
Organizational Mission: purpose for which an organization exists
Establishing Org Direction Organizational Mission: purpose for which an org exists
Included in mission: • What types of products or services it produces • Who its customers tend to be • What important value it holds
Mission statement: written document with org mission to provide easy access and understanding of mission
Establishing Org Direction
Importance of Org Mission:
Helps management direct human
effort
Provides guidance on
how resources should be allocated
Helps management define critical jobs that must
be accomplished
Org objectives flow from mission
Strategic Management Process Environmental
Analysis
Establishing organizational
direction
Strategy Formulation
Strategy implementation
Strategic control
Strategy Formulation: Tools
Strategy Formulation: process of determining appropriate courses of action for achieving org objectives and thereby accomplishing the org purpose
• Critical question analysis • SWOT analysis • Business portfolio
analysis
3 tools:
Critical Question Analysis
Thinking about and answering the following :
• What are the purposes and objectives of the org? • Where is the org presently going? • What is the current org environment? • What can be done better to achieve org objectives in
the future?
SWOT Analysis • Tool that matches internal org strengths and
weaknesses with external opportunities and threats
• Strengths • Weaknesses • Opportunities • Threats
Strengths Business strengths are its resources
and capabilities that can be used as a basis for developing competitive
advantage
Weaknesses Internal limitations that may interfere with a company’s ability to achieve
objectives
Opportunities The external environment analysis
may reveal certain new opportunities for profit and growth
Threats The changes in the external
environment that may present threats to the firm
SWOT Analysis • Tool that matches internal org strengths and
weaknesses with external opportunities and threats
• Strengths • Weaknesses • Opportunities • Threats
Internal
External
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BCG Growth-Share Matrix
Business Portfolio Analysis
• Based on the philosophy that orgs should develop strategy as much as they handle investment portfolios
• Two business portfolio tools: BCG Growth-Share Matrix GE Multifactor Portfolio Matrix
Business Portfolio Analysis
• Based on the philosophy that orgs should develop strategy as much as they handle investment portfolios
• Two business portfolio tools: BCG Growth-Share Matrix GE Multifactor Portfolio Matrix
BCG Growth-Share Matrix
• BCG = Boston Consulting Group
• 1st step: Identify the strategic business units
• Strategic business units: significant org segments that are analyzed to develop org strategy aimed at generating future business or revenue
BCG Growth-Share Matrix
Strategic business
units:
• Single business or collection of related businesses
• Has its own competitors
• Has a manager who is accountable for its operation
• Is an area that can be independently planned for within the org
High Low
Relative Market Share
High
Low
Market Growth Rate
BCG Growth-Share Matrix
Stars
High Low
Relative Market Share
High
Low
Market Growth Rate
Stars: Large share of a high- growth market and typically needs large amounts of cash to support rapid and significant growth
BCG Growth-Share Matrix
Stars
Cash Cows
High Low
Relative Market Share
High
Low
Market Growth Rate
Cash cows: large share of a market that is growing only slightly
BCG Growth-Share Matrix
Stars Question Marks
Cash Cows
High Low
Relative Market Share
High
Low
Market Growth Rate
Question Marks: small share of a high-growth market
BCG Growth-Share Matrix
Stars Question Marks
Cash Cows Dogs
Dogs: relatively small share of a low-growth market
High Low
Relative Market Share
High
Low
Market Growth Rate
BCG Growth-Share Matrix
Strategy Formulation: Sample Org Strategies Based on the categorization of the unit in the BCG Matrix can help decide on which strategy.
Growth – increase amount of
business of unit
Stability – maintain or slightly improve amount of
business
Retrenchment – strengthen or protect amount of business
Divestiture – eliminate a business
unit that is not generating satisfactory
business
Stars Question Marks
Cash Cows Dogs
High Low
Relative Market Share
High
Low
Market Growth Rate
BCG Growth-Share Matrix
Which boxes would you match with the below strategies? • Growth • Stability • Retrenchment • Divestiture
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Common Organizational Strategies
Strategy Formulation
Three generic types of strategies that companies might use to increase competitiveness of their organization:
Differentiation
Differentiation Strategy
Ex: different design or brand image, technology, features, customer service, or price
Strategy Formulation
Three generic types of strategies that companies might use to increase competitiveness of their organization:
Differentiation
Cost Leadership
Cost Leadership Strategy
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Strategy Formulation
Three generic types of strategies that companies might use to increase competitiveness of their organization:
Differentiation
Cost Leadership
Focus
Focus Strategy
MGMT 300 Integrated Core: Management
Strategy Implementation and Control
Strategic Management Process Environmental
Analysis
Establishing organizational
direction
Strategy Formulation
Strategy implementation
Strategic control
Strategy Implementation
Strategy implementation: putting formulated strategies into action
What skills are needed for successful strategy implementation?
Strategy Implementation
ability to manage peopleInteracting skills:
ability to provide the org resources necessaryAllocating skills:
ability to use information to determine whether a problem has arisen that is blocking implementationMonitoring skills:
ability to build a network of people who can help solve problemsOrganizing skills:
Strategic Management Process Environmental
Analysis
Establishing organizational
direction
Strategy Formulation
Strategy implementation
Strategic control
Strategic Control
Strategic control: monitoring and evaluating the strategic management process as a whole to ensure it is operating properly
- MGMT 300�Integrated Core: Management
- Strategy Defined
- What is Strategic Planning?
- How Long Into the Future Should Managers Focus?
- Strategic Management
- Strategic Management Process
- Strategic Management Process
- MGMT 300�Integrated Core: Management
- Environmental Analysis
- Environmental Analysis
- Environmental Analysis
- Environmental Analysis
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- MGMT 300�Integrated Core: Management
- Environmental Analysis
- Environmental Analysis
- Environmental Analysis
- Environmental Analysis
- Environmental Analysis
- Environmental Analysis
- Environmental Analysis
- MGMT 300�Integrated Core: Management
- Environmental Analysis
- Environmental Analysis
- Strategic Management Process
- Establishing Org Direction
- Establishing Org Direction
- Establishing Org Direction
- Strategic Management Process
- Strategy Formulation: Tools
- Critical Question Analysis
- SWOT Analysis
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- SWOT Analysis
- MGMT 300�Integrated Core: Management
- Business Portfolio Analysis
- Business Portfolio Analysis
- BCG Growth-Share Matrix
- BCG Growth-Share Matrix
- BCG Growth-Share Matrix
- BCG Growth-Share Matrix
- BCG Growth-Share Matrix
- BCG Growth-Share Matrix
- BCG Growth-Share Matrix
- Strategy Formulation: �Sample Org Strategies
- BCG Growth-Share Matrix
- MGMT 300�Integrated Core: Management
- Strategy Formulation
- Differentiation Strategy
- Strategy Formulation
- Cost Leadership Strategy
- Strategy Formulation
- Focus Strategy
- MGMT 300�Integrated Core: Management
- Strategic Management Process
- Strategy Implementation
- Strategy Implementation
- Strategic Management Process
- Strategic Control