Strategic Management

Strategic Management

Strategic Management


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Langue English
Catégorie Gestion d'entreprise
Niveau École primaire
Crée / Actualisé 03.11.2011 / 24.11.2014
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What's the origin of the term „strategy“

Greek: „stratos“ = army, „agos“ = leader

Originally: „Art and science of operating armed forces“, i.e. planning

and implementation of military operations.

What are the overall aspects of the term „strategy“

- fields of activity

- future oriented

- competitor related

- relation to environmental situations

- relation to company resources

- comprehensive alignment of company activities

- „big decisions“

- not easily reversible

Name the aspects of the term strategy by Weick 1995; Luhmann 1984

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Name the basic questions of strategic planning

In which business segments/markets shall we operate/compete?

- Definition of Corporate Strategy

- Where to compete?

With which actions do we compete in particular markets?

- Definition of Business Strategy

- How to compete?

What are our core capabilities?

What are the levels of strategy

Corporate Strategy:

- Definition of business segments

- Allocation of ressources

Business Strategy:

- Positioning in selected business segments

- How to compete in each business segment

Draw: Strategic Management Process

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Name the Historical Development of Strategic management

1950 Budgeting

1960 Long-term Planning

1970 Strategic Planning

1980 Implementation

1990 Strategic Management

What are the basic perspectives within the scope of Strategic Management

1) Plan-determined / plan-oriented management

2) Descriptive strategy research

3) Market based / Resource based approach

What is the key question of the plan-determined / plan-oriented perspective

Which significance has strategic planning

within the management process?

What is the assumption of planned determined management

Planning can anticipate all significant (future) problems and, by collecting the necessary informations, solve them in terms of a coherent, lasting strategy.

=> - Management according to plan: primacy of planning

- The plan is meant to anticipate all information and (future) events

- Complexity can be handled through thorough analysis

- Unplanned actions result in disruption and dysfunction

How does Strategy evolve in prescriptive/ descriptive Research of Strategy

prescriptive: systematically, analytic-rational

descriptive: partly emergent (unplanned)

What are the reasons to choose descriptive approaches?

Internal dynamics of organizations (internal complexity)

- self-organized processes

- decisions "grow"

- invisible forces

- unintendet side-effects

- flexible reaction

Draw the Planned and emergent strategy

(by Mintzberg)

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Name the most common descriptive approaches

- Structuralist perspective

- Political processes

- Organized anarchy („Garbage Can“)

- Cognitive perspektive

How is the attempt to combine prescriptive und descriptive approaches of strategy called?

Logical incrementalism

What is the key question of the market based / resource based approach

What is the source of competitive advantage?

Explain the market based and the ressource based approach

Market based: advantages due to correct prediction of market trends (identification and realisation of market chances)

Resource based: advantages due to singular company resources Assumption: imperfect factor markets

Explain the classic understanding of strategy! What are the limitations of the classical concept?

Characteristic

Strategies are meant to position corporations in market places

-> SWOT concept

Strategies determine resource allocation

Limitations:

1) Unknownn future

2) Problem of double contingency (expectation of expectation)

3) static vs. dynamic viewpoint

Name the 3 strategic goals

1. Corporate policies: general principles/mission statement

2. Business goals: derived strategic goals

3. Operationalization of goals

What is the purpose of: corporate policies: general principles? What are key questions?

Define relation between company and interest groups

Questions:

?Who belongs to the interest group?

?What interests are formulated ?

?How to react to interests?

What are the key questions of Strategic Goals

1) How do we implement the aspired corporate policies?

2) What do we have to achieve / strive for?

Explain the Operationalization of Goals

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Define what is the function of goals

Normative idea about a company‘s future situation which has to be implemented

Name 7 functions of goals

1) Selection

2) Orientation

3) Controlling

4) Coordination

5) Motivation and Incentive

6) Assessment

7) Monitoring

Name the two fundamentally different answers to what shoul be the content of the strategic goals

Two fundamentally different answers:

1. Conventional (micro-) economic point of view

2. Stakeholder view