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Running Head: WHY STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IS RELEVANT IN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT 2
WHY STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IS RELEVANT IN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT 2
University of Maryland Global Campus
Eyo Ephraim
MGMT 670: Strategic Management Capstone
Why Strategic Management is Relevant in Financial Management
Strategic Management is the involvement goals formulation and implementation based on current reachable and possessed resources. Strategic management also involves assessing the environment in which the organization is operating in or planning on operating in. This report will focus on how Strategic Management can be utilized in achieving milestones and goals in the Financial Management Degree program.
Strategic management are typically used my businesses/ companies to provide some sort of guideline to achieving and accomplishing goals and milestones. However, this management process can be useful for Achieving a Financial Management Degree Program. The idea of gaining competitive advantage and outpacing competitors can be related to achieving a Financial management degree as well from the aspect of not just passing courses but passing with the highest grade possible putting an individual at a top recognizable position amongst others.
With these type of expected challenges as well as expectations and dependency a company has on its Financial Manager it is crucial that the individual develop a system to efficiently manage and execute tasks in a timely manner while making the best decisions for the benefit of the company. to do so an individual with this skill set need a system for planning, executing, evaluating, and repeat. Building this system will put a specialized Financial Manager in unique position above other individuals in that specialized group.
This brings the importance Strategic Management to the Specialized program as it provides all the right guidelines a financial manager will need to build an efficient work structure that can be used for any challenges it encounters. Strategic Management provides a specialized financial Management individual the ability to identify and control the key components of achieve a certain goal by itemizing its strategic intent, formulating identified levels needed to meet certain milestones and goals, the implementation of a formulated strategy which can also be called execution phase of the planned strategy, and lastly evaluating results for modification and control.
Strategic Management’s process is fairly like the idea of project management phase (Planning, Executing, Close-out) however, it holds a better reoccurrence structure of Planning, Executing, Evaluating, then repeating the process. Strategic Management process from the Financial Management aspect, serves as tool to provide and assist in paving a pathway to accomplishing goals as well as decision making.
In conclusion, Strategic Management can be utilized in any specialization to achieve goals, meet a certain milestone and/or guide a specialized individual to move in a specific direction by identifying key components and realistic targets. Strategic Management have been proven multiple times not guide companies to achievements but also to outperform your competitor(s).
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