Strategic Management Process: Corporate and Business Level Strategies
1. Introduction to Management 11e
John Schermerhorn
Chapter 9Chapter 9
The Strategic Management ProcessThe Strategic Management Process
2. Planning Ahead — Chapter 9 Study Questions
1. What is strategic management?
2. What are the essentials of strategic analysis?
3. What are corporate-level strategies, and how
are they formulated?
4. What are business-level strategies and how
are they formulated?
5. What are the foundations for strategy
implementation?
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3. Study Question 1: What is strategic management?
Basic concepts of strategy:
Competitive advantage — operating with an
attribute or set of attributes that allows an
organization to outperform its rivals
Sustainable competitive advantage — one
that is difficult for competitors to imitate
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4. Study Question 1: What is strategic management?
Types of competitive advantage
Cost and quality
Knowledge and speed
Barriers to entry
Financial resources
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5. Study Question 1: What is strategic management?
Basic concepts of strategy
Strategy
a comprehensive action plan that identifies long-
term direction for an organization and guides
resource utilization to accomplish organizational
goals with sustainable competitive advantage
Strategic intent
focusing all organizational energies on a unifying
and compelling goal
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6. Study Question 1: What is strategic management?
Levels of strategies
Corporate
Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise
Business
How a division or strategic business unit will
compete in its product or service domain
Functional
Guides activities within one specific area of
operations
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7. Figure 9.1 Three levels of strategy in organizations- corporate,
business, functional strategies
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8. Study Question 1: What is strategic management?
Strategic Management Process:
Strategic management
the process of formulating and implementing
strategies to accomplish long-term goals and
sustain competitive advantage
Strategic analysis
process of analyzing the organization, the
environment, its competitive position and current
strategies
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9. Figure 9.2 Strategy formulation and implementation in the strategic
management process
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10. Study Question 1: What is strategic management?
Strategic Management Process:
Strategy formulation
the process of crafting strategies to guide
allocation of resources
Strategy implementation
putting strategies into action
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11. Study Question 1: What is strategic management?
Strategy formulation
The process of creating strategy
Involves assessing existing strategies,
organization, and environment to develop
new strategies and strategic plans capable of
delivering future
competitive advantage
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12. Study Question 1: What is strategic management?
Strategy implementation
The process of allocating resources and
putting strategies into action
All organizational and management systems
must be mobilized to support and reinforce
the accomplishment of strategies
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13. Study Question 2: What are the essentials of strategic analysis?
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14. Study Question 2: What are the essentials of strategic analysis?
Analysis of mission:
The reason for an organization’s existence
Good mission statements identify:
Customers
Products and/or services
Location
Underlying philosophy
An important test of the mission is how well it
serves the organization’s stakeholders
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15. Study Question 2: What are the essentials of strategic analysis?
Stakeholders
Individuals and groups directly affected by
the organization and its strategic
accomplishments
An important test of the mission is how well it
serves the organization’s stakeholders
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16. Figure 9.3 How external stakeholders can be valued as strategic
constituencies of organizations
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17. Study Question 2: What are the essentials of strategic analysis?
Analysis of Core values:
Broad beliefs about what is
or is not appropriate
Organizational culture
reflects the dominant value
system of the organization as
a whole
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18. Study Question 2: What are the essentials of strategic analysis?
Analysis of objectives:
Operating objectives direct activities toward
key and specific performance results
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19. Study Question 2: What are the essentials of strategic analysis?
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20. Study Question 2: What is the strategic management process?
Analysis of organizational resources and
capabilities:
Core competency is a special strength that
gives an organization competitive advantage
Important goal of assessing core
competencies
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21. Study Question 2: What is the strategic management process?
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22. Study Question 2: What is the strategic management process?
SWOT Analysis
Examination of an organization’s current
position by looking at
Internal strengths and weaknesses
Environmental opportunities and threats
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23. Figure 9.4 SWOT analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities,
and threats
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24. Study Question 2: What is the strategic management process?
Porter’s Model of Five Strategic Forces Affecting
Competition:
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25. Figure 9.5 Porter’s model of five strategic forces affecting industry
competition
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Source: Developed from Michael E. Porter, Competitive Strategy (New York: Free Press, 1980).
26. Study Question 3: What are corporate-level strategies and how are
they formulated?
Corporate-level strategy formulation
Strategic portfolio planning:
Portfolio planning seeks the best mix of
investments among alternative business
opportunities
BCG Matrix analyzes business opportunities according
to market growth rate and market share
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27. Study Question 3: What are corporate-level strategies and how are
they formulated?
BCG matrix
Ties strategy formulation to analysis of
business opportunities according to …
Industry or market growth rate
Low versus high
Market share
Low versus high
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28. Figure 9.6 The BCG matrix approach to corporate strategy
formulation
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29. Study Question 3: What are corporate-level strategies and how are
they formulated?
BCG matrix — business conditions and
related strategies:
Stars
High share/high growth businesses
Preferred strategy — growth
Cash cows
High share/low growth businesses
Preferred strategy — stability or modest growth
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30. Study Question 3: What are corporate-level strategies and how are
they formulated?
BCG matrix—business conditions and
related strategies (cont.):
Question marks
Low share/high growth businesses
Preferred strategy — growth for promising
question marks and restructuring or divestiture for
others
Dogs
Low share/low growth businesses
Preferred strategy — retrenchment by divestiture
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31. Study Question 3: What are corporate-level strategies and how are
they formulated?
Growth strategies
Seek an increase in size and the expansion of
current operations
Types of growth strategies:
Concentration strategies
Grow within the same business area
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32. Study Question 3: What are corporate-level strategies and how are
they formulated?
Types of growth strategies continued
Diversification strategies
Grow by acquiring or investing in new and
different business areas
Related diversification
Unrelated diversification
Vertical integration
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33. Study Question 3: What are corporate-level strategies and how are
they formulated?
Retrenchment and restructuring
strategies:
Readjusting operations when an organization
is in trouble
Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Protects a firm from creditors while
management re-organizes to
restore solvency
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34. Study Question 3: What are corporate-level strategies and how are
they formulated?
Types of retrenchment and
restructuring strategies
Liquidation
Business closes and sells assets to pay
creditors
Downsizing
Decreases size of
operations
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35. Study Question 3: What are corporate-level strategies and how are
they formulated?
Types of retrenchment and restructuring
strategies
Divestiture
Sells off parts of the organization to refocus
attention on core business areas
Turnaround Strategy
Tries to fix specific performance problems
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36. Study Question 3: What are corporate-level strategies and how are
they formulated?
Global strategies:
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37. Study Question 3: What are corporate-level strategies and how are
they formulated?
Cooperative strategies
Strategic alliances — two or more
organizations partner to pursue an area of
mutual interest
Types of strategic alliances:
Outsourcing alliances
Supplier alliances
Distribution alliances
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38. Study Question 3: What are corporate-level strategies and how are
they formulated?
Co-opetition – working with rivals on
projects of mutual benefit
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39. Study Question 4: What are business-level strategies and how are
they formulated?
Business-level strategy formulation
Good strategies help achieve above average
returns
Key question is “How can we best compete
for customers in our market and with our
products or services?”
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40. Study Question 4: What are business-level strategies and how are
they formulated?
Porter’s competitive strategies model
Business-level strategic decisions are driven
by:
Market scope
Source of competitive advantage
Market scope and source of competitive
advantage combine to generate four generic
strategies
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41. Figure 9.7 Porter’s competitive strategies framework: soft-drink
industry examples
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42. Study Question 4: What are business-level strategies and how are
they formulated?
Porter’s generic strategies for gaining
competitive advantage:
Differentiation strategy
Cost leadership strategy
Focused differentiation strategy
Focused cost leadership strategy
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43. Study Question 5: What are the foundations for strategy
implementation?
Strategy implementation
Must be supported in every aspect of
management
Planning
Controlling
Organizing
Leading
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44. Study Question 5: What are the foundations for strategy
implementation?
Strategic planning failures that hinder
strategy implementation:
Failures of substance
Inadequate attention to major strategic planning
elements
Failures of process
Poor handling of strategy implementation
Lack of participation error
Goal displacement error
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45. Study Question 5: What are the foundations for strategy
implementation?
Corporate governance:
System of control and performance
monitoring of top management
Done by boards of directors and other major
stakeholder representatives
Controversies regarding roles of inside
directors and outside directors
Increasing emphasis on corporate
governance in contemporary businesses
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46. Study Question 5: What are the foundations for strategy
implementation?
Strategic control
Makes sure strategies are well implemented
and that poor strategies are scrapped or
modified
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47. Study Question 5: What are the foundations for strategy
implementation?
Strategic leadership
Inspires people to continually change, refine,
and improve strategies and their
implementation
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48. Study Question 5: What are the foundations for strategy
implementation?
Critical tasks of strategic leadership
Be a guardian of trade-offs
Create a sense of urgency
Ensure that everyone understands the
strategy
Be a teacher
Be a great communicator
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