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Who? Basic Financial Planning (Budgeting)

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James McKinsey (1889-1937)

2
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Who? Long-range planning (extrapolation)

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George Steiner (1960s)

3
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Who? Strategic (externally oriented) planning

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Alfred Chandler (1962)

4
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Who? Strategic management

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Igor Ansoff + Porter, Barney (1980s)

5
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Who? Complex Systems Strategy

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Mintzberg, Eiseinhardt, Prahalad, Hamel, D’Aveni (1990s)

6
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What? Basic Financial Planning (Budgeting)

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Budgeting would support strategic objectives of firm and all strategic choices

7
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What? Long-range planning (extrapolation)

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5 year budgets and detailed operating plans

8
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What? Strategic (externally oriented) planning

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External events influencing corporate performance

Business units strategic tactics vs. corporate strategies

Salaried professionals vs. traditional owner managers

9
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What? Strategic management

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Pillars:

1) Strategic planning
2) Capability of a firm to convert written plans into market reality

10
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What? Complex Systems Strategy

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…failure of equilibrium strategic model…

Environment must be understood in terms of its complexity, chaos and ecological constructs

11
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ESM

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Equilibrium strategic model

What the firm has done in the past it will do in the future with the same success

12
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Strategic management is interested in:

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The whole of the business

13
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Strategic management asks:

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How can companies compete successfully?

Why do some companies succeed while others fail?

What managers can really do?

14
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Chandler’s definition of strategy

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‘..the determination of the long-run goals and objectives of an enterprise and the adoption of courses of action and the allocation of resource necessary for carrying out these goals’

15
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‘..the determination of the long-run goals and objectives of an enterprise and the adoption of courses of action and the allocation of resource necessary for carrying out these goals’

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Alfred Chandler (Strategic planning)

16
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‘Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value’

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Porter

17
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Porter’s definition of strategy

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‘Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value’

18
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‘Strategy is firms’ theory about how to compete successfully’

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Jeremy Barney

19
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Jeremy Barney’s definition off strategy

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‘Strategy is firms’ theory about how to compete successfully’

20
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Johnson, Scholes and Whittington, 2008 (6)

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the direction and scope of an organisation

over the long term

which achieves advantage

in a changing environment

through the configuration of resources and competences

with the aim to fulfil stakeholder expectations

21
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the direction and scope of an organisation

over the long term

which achieves advantage

in a changing environment

through the configuration of resources and competences

with the aim to fulfil stakeholder expectations

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Johnson, Scholes and Whittington, 2008

22
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What are stakeholders?

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Individuals or groups that depend on an organisation to fulfil their own goals and on whom, in turn, the organisation depends

23
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Individuals or groups that depend on an organisation to fulfil their own goals and on whom, in turn, the organisation depends

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Stakeholders

24
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3 pillars of strategy:

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Content

Process

Context

25
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Strategy context

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The environment where an organisation operates

Political, social, economic and competitive environment conditions

Corporate culture, structure and organisational politics

26
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Content of strategy:

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Corporate level

Business level

Operational level

27
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Corporate-level strategy

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Overall purpose and scope of an organisation and how to add value to business units

(PRODUCT-MARKET DOMAIN)

28
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Business-level strategy

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The way a business seeks to compete successfully in its particular market

(COMPETITIVE APPROACH)

29
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Operational-level strategy

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How different parts of the organisation deliver the strategy in terms of managing resources, processes and people

(RESOURCES & CAPABILITIES)

30
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Process of strategy

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How the strategy will be developed, and who will be involved

Deliberate vs. emergent strategies

31
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Strategy statements should have … aims:

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3 aims:

Fundamental goals organisation seeks which draw on stated mission, vision and objectives

Scope or domain of organisation’s activities

Particular advantages or capabilities it has to deliver all of these

32
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Mission

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Overriding purpose in line with values/expectations of stakeholders

33
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Vision

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Desired future state of organisation - ASPIRATIONS

34
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Objectives

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Quantifiable statements of organisations goals over some period of time

Precise statement of goal

35
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Scope

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Customers, geographical location, and extent of internal activities (vertical integration)

36
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Advantage

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Organisations competitive advantage

37
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Strategic capability

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Resources, activities, processes

38
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Strategic position

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Impact on strategy of:

external environment,

organisation’s strategic capability (resources and competences)

organisation’s goals

organisation’s culture

39
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Strategic choices:

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Options for strategy in terms of direction and methods

40
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Strategy in action:

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How strategies are formed and implemented

Emphasis on:

practicalities of managing,

planning and allocating resources,

forming and re-forming organisational structure,

managing strategic change