1. BA 351 Managing Organizations
Strategic
Management

2. True or False
Strategic management involves major decisions, business choices, and actions that charter the course of the entire enterprise starting with the analysis of both the internal and external environments.

3. The Strategic Management Process
It is the job of top level management to chart the course of the entire enterprise.
It consists of:
Analysis of the internal and external environment of the firm.
Definition of the firm’s mission.
Formulation and implementation of strategies to create or continue a competitive advantage.

4. The Strategic Management Process (cont)
Strategic management involves both long- range thinking and adaptation to changing conditions.
Strategies should be designed to generate a sustainable competitive advantage.
Competitors should be unable to duplicate what the firm has done or should find it too difficult or expensive.

5. Components of the Strategic Management Process:
Analyze the external and internal environments
Define strategic intent and mission
Formulate strategies
Implement strategies
Assess strategic outcomes

6. SWOT Analysis Commonly used strategy tool: SWOT
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
External Environment
Internal Environment
Components
Scanning
Monitoring
Forecasting
Assessing
Scope
General environment
Industry environment
Strategic groups
Direct competitors
Resource types
Tangible
Intangible
Firm capabilities
Functional
Value Chain
Benchmarking

7. The External Environment
Company leaders must study the external environment in order to:
Identify opportunities and threats in the marketplace.
Avoid surprises.
Respond appropriately to competitors’ moves.
A major challenge is to gather accurate market intelligence in a timely fashion, and transform it into usable knowledge to gain a competitive advantage.

8. Components of External Analysis
Scanning
Monitoring
Assessing
Forecasting 3

9. Scope of the External Analysis
General Environment
The Industry
Competitor Analysis
Strategic Groups 3

10. political/legal forces socio-cultural conditions technological change
From an external analysis perspective, the aging population in Western countries demonstrates a ___.
demographic trends
political/legal forces
socio-cultural conditions
technological change

11. The Segments of the General Environment
Economic Conditions
Demography
Globalization
Political/Legal Forces
Socio-cultural Conditions
Technological Changes

12. Developing a Golden Parachute
What barriers to entry did Preston have to overcome in order to make it in the parachute Industry?
Describe the type of internal resources that give Preston’s business its advantage over competitors.

13. Porter’s Analyzing the Industry Environment
Threat of new entrants
Threat of substitutes
Suppliers
Customers
Intensity of rivalry among competitors

14. How would you group these hotel chains?
Days Inn
Holiday Inn
Super 8
Hampton Inn
Westin
Omni Hotel
Homewood Suites
Embassy Suites
Days Inn
Holiday Inn
Super 8
Hampton Inn
Westin
Omni Hotel
Homewood Suites
Embassy Suites

15. The Internal Environment
Each company has something that it does well. These are called “core competencies.”
Company executives should identify the resources, capabilities, and knowledge the firm has that may be used to exploit market opportunities and avoid potential threats.
Resource-based view: Basing the strategy on what the firm is capable of doing

16. Resource Types: Tangible Resources
Assets that can be quantified and observed.
Include financial resources, physical assets, and workers.
Strategic assessment of tangible resources should enable management to efficiently use tangible resources to support the company and to expand the volume of business.

17. Resource Types: Intangible Resources
Difficult to quantify and include on a balance sheet
Often provides the firm with a strong competitive advantage.
Competitors find it difficult to purchase or imitate these resources.
Strategically most important intangibles:
Reputation
Technology
Human Capital

18. Analyzing the Firm’s Capabilities
Functional Analysis
Value Chain Analysis
Benchmarking

19. Analyzing Capabilities by Functional Areas
Capability
Corporate Management
Effective financial control systems
Expertise in strategic control of diversified corporation
Effectiveness in motivating and coordinating divisional and business-unit management
Management of acquisitions
Values-driven, in-touch corporate leadership
Information Management
Comprehensive and effective MIS network, with strong central coordination
Research and Development
Capability in basic research
Ability to develop innovative new products
Speed of new product development

20. Analyzing Capabilities by Functional Areas (cont.)
Capability
Manufacturing
Efficiency in volume manufacturing
Capacity for continual improvements in production processes
Flexibility and speed of response
Product Design
Design capability
Marketing
Brand management and brand promotion
Promoting and exploiting reputation for quality
Responsive to market trends
Sales and Distribution
Effectiveness in promoting and executing sales
Efficiency and speed of distribution
Quality and effectiveness of customer service

21. Value-Chain Analysis
Breaks down the firm into a sequential series of activities and attempts to identify the value added of each activity

22. Benchmarking Involves Four Stages:
Identifying activities or functions that are weak and need improvement.
Identifying firms that are known to be at the leading edge of these activities or functions.
Studying the leading-edge firms by visiting them, talking to managers and employees, and reading trade publications.
Using the information gathered to redefine goals, modify processes, and acquire new resources to improve the firm’s functions.

23. Strategic Intent and Mission
Intent: How firm would like to use
Resources
Capabilities
Core competencies
Mission: Determine the firm’s external focus on
Products
Markets

24. Strategy Formulation
The design of an approach to achieve the firm’s mission.
Takes place at:
Corporate-Level
Business-Level

25. Corporate-Level Strategy
The corporation’s overall plan concerning the:
Number of businesses the corporation holds.
Variety of markets or industries it serves.
Distribution of resources among those businesses.
This diversification strategy may be analyzed in terms of:
Portfolio mix
Type of diversification
Process of diversification

26. Diversification Strategy
Type of Diversification
Concentration strategy
Vertical integration strategy
Concentric diversification strategy
Conglomerate diversification
Process of Diversification
Acquisition and restructuring strategies
Acquisition
Merger
International strategy

27. Business-Level Strategy
Deals with how to compete in each business area or market segment.
Firms have two basic choices:
Cost leadership strategy
Differentiation strategy

28. Preston’s parachute company has a business strategy based on ____.
low cost production
price control
differentiation
focus cost advantage

29. Strategy Implementation
Organizational Structure and Controls
Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Cooperative Strategies
Human Resource Strategies
Strategic Leadership 3

30. Strategic Outcomes
Company leaders should periodically assess whether the outcomes meet expectations.
A firm must first and foremost cater to the desires of its primary stakeholders.
The firm should also consider the desires of other stakeholders affected by its performance.
Some of the standard measures of strategic success includes:
Profits
Growth of sales/market share
Growth of corporate assets
Reduced competitive threats
Innovations

31. Discussion Question Management minicase 7.1
1. Based on what you have learned in this chapter, why would a company such as Microsoft develop, produce, and sell a product at a loss? Do you think this is a deliberate strategy? If so, is it rational? 2. Do you think demographic trends are likely to support or hinder the market for this type of product? More broadly, what do you see as opportunities and threats in the market? 3. From a resource-based perspective, do you think Microsoft’s core competencies are likely to give the company a competitive advantage in the game consoles market in the future?