Project for Understanding Strategies

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Strategic thinking is defined as a mental or thinking process applied by an individual in the context of achieving success in a game or other endeavor. As a cognitive activity, it produces thought.

Chapter Understanding Strategies

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Chapter Objectives
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To study and understand the goals in any organization To understand strategies at two levelsThe corporate level and The business unit level

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GOALS
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- Profitability

Profitability- most important goal, broadest is a product of two ratios: 1. profit margin percentage X 2. investment turnover i.e. (revenues-expenses/revenues) X (revenues/investment) Result is Return on Investment (ROI)= ((revenue-expenses)/investment)

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Profitability refers to profits in long run

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What does profitability depict?
Does the company’s goal, change its interpretation of profitability equation?

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GOALS - Maximizing Shareholder Value Q)
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Maximizing Shareholder Value means what? Is earning maximum and increasing profitability same?
Maximizing shareholder value may be a major goal but not the only goal

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GOALS?

Risk

Risk also means POSSIBILITIES The risk-taking varies from company to company, among personalities and managers Some companies make it very clear that the primary responsibility is to preserve company’s assets

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GOALS -Multiple Stakeholder Approach
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Organizations deal in – capital market, product market, factor market The firm has responsibilities to all these multiple stakeholders

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The Concept of Strategy
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Strategies describe the general direction in which an organization plans to move to attain its goals Industry Opportunities

Core Competencies

Strategies

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Two Levels Of Strategy Corporate Level Business Unit Level Corporate Level Strategy
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Is about being in the right mix of businesses
Concerns of questions like where to compete than how

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Corporate-level Strategies
High McDonald’s

Degree of Relatedness

P&G

Textron Low High

Extent of Diversification

Contd…
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Single Industry Firms Unrelated Diversified Firms Related Diversified Firms

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Business Unit Strategies
Depends on two interrelated aspects: ? Its mission ? Its competitive advantage
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Business Unit Mission
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The BCG Model build, hold, harvest, divest Porter’s Five Force Model Value Chain for Business

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Business Unit Competitive Advantage
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