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Arip Saripudin Aris Firdiansyah Diananda F.P. Rendy Koestiawan Sri Handayani
UNDERSTANDING STRATEGIES
Management control systems are tools to implement strategies, while strategies are plans to achieve organization goals.
GOALS
Corporate goals are determined by the CEO of the corporation, with the advice of the other members of senior management.
Profitability refers to profits in the long run, rather than in the current quarter or year Revenue Expense = Revenues = Return on Investment Revenues Investment Maximizing Shareholder Value the meaning probably refers to the market price of the corporations stock. Finding the maximum amount that a company can earn Managers want to behave ethically and most feel an obligation to other stakeholders and shareholders
GOALS
Risk Pursuit of profitability is affected by managements willingness to take risk with upper limit and primary responsibility to preserve the companys assets. Multiple Stakeholder Approach Ideally, management control system should identify the goals of multiple stakeholder (shareholders, customers, employees, suppliers and communities) and develop scorecards to track performance.
A strategy describes the general direction in which an organization plans to move to attain its goals. A firm develops its strategies by matching its core competencies with industry opportunities. Strategy formulation is a process that senior executive use to evaluate a companys strengths and weaknesses in light of the opportunities and threats present in the environment and then to decide on strategies that fit the companys core competencies with environment opportunities.
STRATEGY FORMULATION
Environmental Analysis Competitor Customer Supplier Regulatory Social/Political Internal Analysis Technology know-how Manufacturing know-how Marketing know-how Distribution know-how Logistics know-how
Identify opportunities
Firms strategies
LEVEL OF STRATEGY
Corporate-level strategy
is about being in the right mix of businesses. The issues are the definition of businesses in which the firm will participate and the deployment of resources among those businesses. in terms of their corporate-level strategy, companies can be classified into 3 categories : A single industry firm operates in one line of business A related diversified firm operates in several industries and the benefit from a common set of core competencies businesses units
An unrelated businesses firm operates in businesses that are not related to one another Research has shown that, on average, related diversified firms performs the best, single industry firms perform next best and unrelated diversified firms do not perform well over the long term1
Richard P. Rumself, Strategy and Economic Performance (Boston: Division of Research, Harvard Business School,1974),pp. 128-42
Identifying features
Competes in only one industry McDonalds Corporation Perdue Farms Iowa Beef Wrigley Crown, Cork & Seal Maytag Texas Air Ford Motor NuCor
Sharing of core competencies across businesses Procter & Gamble Emerson Electric Corning Glass Johnson & Johnson Phillip Morris Dow-Corning Du Pont General Foods Gillette Texas Instruments AT&T
Totally autonomous businesses very different markets ITT Textron LTV Litton Rockwell General Electric
Examples
LEVEL OF STRATEGY
Richard P. Rumself, Strategy and Economic Performance (Boston: Division of Research, Harvard Business School,1974),pp. 128-42
Two of the most widely used planning models are : 1. Boston Consulting Groups two-by-two growthshare matrix 2. General Electric Company/McKinsey & Companys three-by-three industry attractiveness-business strength matrix
Richard P. Rumself, Strategy and Economic Performance (Boston: Division of Research, Harvard Business School,1974),pp. 128-42
BCG model views industry growth rate as an indicator of relative industry attractiveness and relative market share as an indicator of the relative competitive position of a business unit within a given industry Cost per unit decreases predictably with the number of units produced over time (cumulative experience)
STARS (high growth, high market share) QUESTION MARKS (high growth, low market share) CASH COWS (low growth, high market share) BCG DOGS (low growth, low market share)
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Build
Harvest
Divest
STARS (high growth, high market share) QUESTION MARKS (high growth, low market share) CASH COWS (low growth, high market share) DOGS (low growth, low market share)
Case Summary
The networking industrys coming of age coincided with the PC revolution in the early 80s Evolving need of sending email and sharing resource from a set of PC to network to network Speed-smart, reliability and quality service are primer indicator of internetworking product
Case Summary
Four different internetworking media based on speed or bandwidth :
Twisted pair : large installed base, handle only analog signals, need signal conversion process, limited bandwidth (56Kbps). Coaxial cable : large installed base, bandwidth 20x the speed of modem Fiber optic cable : The most expensive, fastest n reliable, but has a bottleneck in conversion process. Wireless Technologies : Data transferred through the atmosphere