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What is Strategy?
Characteristics
of strategic decisions
Important
Involve a significant commitment of resources
Not easily reversible
Basic Framework
External
Environment
The firm
Goals & Values
Resources &
Capabilities
Structures &
Systems
Competitors
Strategy
Customers
Suppliers
etc
Definitions
Strategic Management Process
The full set of commitments, decisions, and
actions required for a firm to create value and
earn above-average returns
Value Creation
What is achieved when a firm successfully
formulates and implements a strategy that
other companies are unable to duplicate or
find too costly to imitate.
Definitions
Average Returns
Returns that are equal to those an investor
expects to earn from other investments with a
similar amount of risk
Above-Average Returns
Returns that are in excess of what an investor
expects to earn from other investments with a similar
amount of risk
Definitions
Risk
An investors uncertainty about the economic
gains or losses that will result from a
particular investment
Competitive Landscape
Dynamics of strategic
maneuvering among global
and innovative combatants
Price-quality positioning,
new know-how, first
mover
Hypercompetitive
environments
Fundamental nature of
competition is changing
Protect or invade
established product or
geographic markets
Competitive Landscape
Emergence of global
economy
Hypercompetitive
environments
Fundamental nature of
competition is changing
Competitive Landscape
Emergence of global
economy
Rapid technological
change
Increasing rate of
technological change and
diffusion
The information age
Hypercompetitive
environments
Fundamental nature of
competition is changing
Increasing knowledge
intensity
Strategic Flexibility
A set of capabilities used to respond to
various demands and opportunities existing
in a dynamic and uncertain competitive
environment
It involves coping with uncertainty and the
accompanying risks
Strategic Flexibility
Organizational
slack
Strategic
reorientation
Capacity to
learn
Strategic
Flexibility
flexibility
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Environment
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Strategy dictated by the
external environment of
the firm (what
opportunities exist in
these environments?)
Firm develops internal
skills required by external
environment (what can
the firm do about the
opportunities?)
Locate an attractive
industry with a high
potential for aboveaverage returns
Attractive industry: one
whose structural
characteristics suggest
above-average returns
Strategy formulation:
selection of a strategy linked
with above-average returns
in a particular industry
Strategic
Intent
Mission
Deliberate
Strategy
Unrealized
Strategy
Realized
Strategy
Emergent
Strategy
From Strategy Formation in an Adhocracy by Henry Mintzberg and Alexandra McHugh, Administrative Science Quarterly,
Vol. 30, No. 2, June 1985. Reprinted by permission of Administrative Science Quarterly.
External
External
Analysis
Analysis
Strategic
Strategic
Choice
Choice
INTENDED STRATEGY
Organizing
Organizingfor
for
Implementation
Implementation
Internal
Internal
Analysis
Analysis
Missions
Missions
and
andGoals
Goals
Strategic
StrategicChoice
Choice
Does
DoesItItFit?
Fit?
EMERGENT STRATEGY
Organizational
Organizational
Grassroots
Grassroots
Internal
Internal
Analysis
Analysis
Shareholders
Major suppliers of capital
Banks
Private lenders
Venture capitalists
Primary customers
Suppliers
Host communities
Unions
Organizational Stakeholders
Employees
Managers
Nonmanagers
Values
Johnson
Levels of Strategy
Functi
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Business
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