STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT & BUSINESS POLICY 12TH EDITION THOMAS L. WHEELEN J. DAVID HUNGER Strategic Management: a set of managerial decisions and actions that determines the long-run performance of a corporation. Includes: • • • • Internal and external environment scanning Strategy formulation Strategy implementation Evaluation and control Pearson Education © 2010 1-2 Phases of Strategic Management: • • • • Phase Phase Phase Phase 1: 2: 3: 4: Basic financial planning Forecast-based
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Chapter 1 63) The goal of strategic management is to A) achieve competitive advantage. B) maintain competitive advantage. C) achieve and maintain competitive advantage. D) eliminate competitive advantage E) eliminate and abolish competitive advantage. 64) Strategic management focuses on integrating management‚ ________‚ and information systems to achieve organizational success. A) marketing B) finance/accounting C) production/operations D) research and development E) all of the above
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the gloabalized business‚ companies require strategic thinking and only by evolving good corporate strategies can they become strategically competitive. A sustained or sustainable competitive advantage occurs when firm implements a value – creating strategy of which other companies are unable to duplicate the benefits or find it too costly to initiate. Corporate strategy includes the commitments‚ decisions and actions required for a firm to achieve strategic competitiveness and earn above average returns
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About Nokia . Nokia Head Office Nokia Corporation Visiting address: Keilalahdentie 2-4‚ FI-02150 Espoo Post address: P.O. Box 226‚ FI-00045 Nokia Group Finland Tel. +358 (0) 7180 08000 Business ID: 0112038-9 Place of registration: Helsinki‚ Finland 3 Executive Summary This report analyses the impact of external an internal influences on the business strategies of Nokia Corporation‚ evaluates the factors‚ modifier’s of Nokia’s advancement‚ and also considers the environment policies
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Introduction: Defining the mission statement for a company is often one of the most slighted tasks in strategic management. It is much easier for many executives to emphasize operational aspects of long-term management activities rather than making sure short-term activities are in sync with the long-term goals. The principal value of the mission statement is its specification of the firm’s ultimate aims. A firm gains a heightened sense of purpose when its board of directors and its top executives
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Degree Title: Management with International Business Question No. & Title: To what extent does restructuring transform corporate market and financial performance? Discuss using an extended example. Contents To what extent does restructuring transform corporate market and financial performance? Discuss using an extended example. Introduction Globalization coupled with deregulation and technological development over the last two decades has significantly
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between the planning/design/positioning schools of strategic management and the resource based view? Define the planning of strategic management: Strategic planning can be defined as a process of organization that defining its strategy‚ direction‚ and making decision about resource to pursue its strategy. For the defining organization’s direction‚ its must be understand the current position and find out the way to making it successful. Generally‚ strategic planning must be including one of three key
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2 BUSINESS POLICY AND STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Learning Objectives • • • • • Learn what business policy and strategy is all about. Know the framework and importance of strategic management. Know the strategic management process. Have an understanding of corporate vision and mission. Learn how strategy operates at different levels of the organization. Without a strategy the organization is like a ship without a rudder. Joel Ross and Michael Kami Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle
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Management Science I Prof. M.Thenmozhi MODULE 9 9.1. Strategy Formulation : An Overview The corporate world is in the process of a global transformation. Mergers‚ acquisitions‚ outsourcing and downsizing are becoming common word everywhere. Privatization is allowing free enterprise to take on functions that previously were the domain of government. International boundaries are fading in importance as businesses take on a more global perspective and the technology of information age is telescoping
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Table of Contents Q(1.1.1) 5 Leadership Theory 5 Situational Leadership Theory 6 Transformational leadership Theory 6 Q(1.1.2) 7 Impact of management and leadership styles on strategic decisions. 7 Impact of leadership styles: 7 Autocratic leadership: 7 Bureaucratic leadership: 8 Democratic leadership: 8 Laissez-Faire Leadership Style: 8 Q(1.1.3) 9 Leadership style adaptation to different future situation: 9 “Leadership style is the typical approach of a particular person
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