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What is Strategy?
From where has the word come?
Why have a Strategy? Strategy to do what?
Strategy
Goals & Strategies……same?
Goals = Ends
Strategy = Means + Ends
Environmen
tal Factors Strategy Structure
Organizatio
nal
Capabilities
Strategy
Organizational Strategy:
the specific pattern of decisions and actions
that managers take to use core competences
to achieve a competitive advantage and
outperform competitors
Core competences:
the skills and abilities in value creation
activities that allow a company to achieve
superior efficiency, quality, innovation, or
customer responsiveness
Motivation to Expand:
Economies of Scale
Economies of Scope
Low-Cost Production Factors
Global Expansion and Core Competences
Domestic
International
Multinational
Global
Global Organization Structure
International Division
Global Product Division
Global Geographic Division
Global Matrix Structure
Model for Global vs. Local Opportunities
Phase 3:
Diversification (reduce dependence on Automotive business)
Related and unrelated products
A multinational electrical engineering group
Gradual movement from a functional structure to a geographical
division structure
Phase 4:
Restructuring into divisions along product lines (Power Tools,
Packaging Technology, Automation Technology) in Europe
Elsewhere, Geographic Divisions
Phases of Growth
Phase 5:
Eastern Europe, Asian Growth, Global networking
A matrix structure with more power to geographical divisions
Phase 6:
Blur the distinction of national markets – one global market
Transnational strategy
Cost & Differentiation?
Differentiation: Products, Regions, Markets….functions
Global Divisions
Corporate Departments
Regional Organisations
Global Sales & Marketing organisation
Challenges of Integration
Phases of Growth
Phase 6:
Challenges of Integration:
Targets
Discipline
Functional Coordination
A three way Global Matrix, with more power to Products over RBUs
Matrix 1