Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantage

Gregory G. Dess
G. T. Lumpkin
Marilyn L. Taylor



Strategic Management
         Analysis
         Strategic goals (vision, mission, strategic objectives)
         Internal and external environment of the firm
         Strategic decisions
         What industries should we compete in?
         How should we compete in those industries?
         Actions
         Allocate necessary resources
         Design the organization to bring intended strategies to reality
         Strategic management is the study of why some firms outperform others
         How to compete in order to create competitive advantages in the marketplace
         How to create competitive advantages in the market place
         Unique and valuable
         Difficult for competitors to copy or substitute
Strategic Management Concepts
Definition: Strategic management consists of the analysis, decisions, and actions an organization undertakes in order to create and sustain competitive advantages.
Key attributes of strategic management
         Directs the organization toward overall goals and objectives.
         Includes multiple stakeholders in decision making
         Needs to incorporate short-term and long-term perspectives
         Recognizes trade-offs between efficiency and effectiveness
Strategic Analysis
         Starting point in the strategic management process
         Precedes effective formulation and implementation of strategies
         Clear goals and objectives permit effective allocation of resources
         Hierarchy of goals
         Vision
         Mission
         Strategic objectives
         Managers
         Scan the environment
         Analyze competitors
         General environment
         Industry environment
         Frameworks for analyzing a firm’s internal environment
         Strengths
         Weaknesses
         Analyzing strengths can uncover potential sources of competitive advantage
         Intellectual assets are drivers of
         Competitive advantages
         Wealth creation
         Networks and relationships among
         Employees
         Customers
         Suppliers
         Alliance partners
Strategic Formulation
         Successful firms develop bases for competitive advantage
         Cost leadership
         Differentiation
         Focusing on narrow or industry-wide market segments
         Sustainability
         Industry life cycle
         Firm’s portfolio or group of businesses
         What business(es) should we be in?
         How can we create synergies among the businesses?
         Diversification
         Related
         Unrelated
         Appropriate entry strategies
         Sustain competitive advantage in global markets
         Digital technologies change the way business is conducted
         Added value
         Impact on performance
         Digital technologies can enhance
         Cost leadership
         Differentiation
Strategic Implementation
         Informational control
         Monitor and scan the environment
         Respond effectively to threats and opportunities
         Behavioral control
         Effective corporate governance
         Interests of managers and owners of the firm
         Organizational structure and design
         Organizational boundaries
         Flexible
         Permeable
         Strategic Alliances
         Develop organization that is committed to
         Excellence
         Ethical behavior
         Learning organization responsive to
         Rapid and unpredictable change in today’s competitive environments
         Corporate entrepreneurship and innovation
         New opportunities
         Enhance  innovative capacity
         Autonomous entrepreneurial behavior
         Product champions
         New ventures and small businesses
         Major engine of economic growth
         Recognize viable opportunities
         Entrepreneurial leadership skills
Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Management
         Corporate governance: the relationship among various participants in determining the direction and performance of corporations
         Shareholders
         Management (led by the CEO)
         Board of directors
         Board of directors
         Elected representatives of the owners
         Ensure interests and motives of management are aligned with those of the owners
         Effective and engaged board of directors
         Shareholder activism
         Proper managerial rewards and incentives
Stakeholder Management
         Two views of stakeholder management
         Zero sum
n  Stakeholders compete for attention and resources of the organization
n  Gain of one is a loss to the other
         Symbiosis
n  Stakeholders are dependent upon each other
n  Mutual benefits
Social Responsibility
         Social responsibility: the expectation that businesses or individuals will strive to improve the overall welfare of society
         Managers must take active steps to make society better
         Socially responsible behavior changes over time
         Triple bottom line
Strategic Management Perspective
         Integrative view of the organization
         Assess how functional areas and activities “fit together” to achieve goals and objectives
         All managers and employees must take and integrative, strategic perspective of issues facing the organization
         Key driving forces increasing the need for strategic perspective and involvement
         Globalization
         Technology
         Intellectual capital
         These forces are
         Interrelated
         Accelerating the rate of change and uncertainty
Enhancing Employee Involvement
         \Have significant profit and loss responsibility
         Champion and guide ideas
         Create a learning infrastructure
         Establish a domain for taking action
         Have little positional power and formal authority
         Generate their power through the conviction and clarity of their ideas
Coherence in Strategic Direction
Company vision
         Massively inspiring
         Overarching
         Long-term
         Driven by and evokes passion
         Fundamental statement of the organization’s
         Values
         Aspiration
         Goals
Mission statements
         Purpose of the company
         Basis of competition and competitive advantages
         More specific than vision
         Focused on the means by which the firm will compete
Strategic objectives
         Operationalize the mission statement
         Provide guidance on how the organization can fulfill or move toward the “higher goals”
         More specific
         Cover a more well-defined time frame
         Measurable
         Specific
         Appropriate
         Realistic
         Timely
         Challenging
         Resolve conflicts that arise
         Yardstick for rewards and incentives



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