1. Turnaround strategies - Retrenchment Strategies
Corporate Level Strategies

2. Prepared By
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Manu Melwin Joy
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Ilahia School of Management Studies
Kerala, India.
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3. Retrenchment Strategies

4. Retrenchment strategy
• A retrenchment grand strategy is
followed when an organization
aims at a contraction of its
activities through substantial
reduction or the elimination of
the scope of one or more of its
businesses in terms of their
respective customer groups,
customer functions, or alternative
technologies either singly or
jointly in order to improve its
overall performance.

5. Examples of Retrenchment strategy
• General Motors of the
United States stopped
producing a number of
"makes" of automobile. GM
decided that it needed to
retrench by concentrating
on just a few "makes." It
hoped this would help it
return to profitability.

6. Turnaround strategies
• Turn around strategies derives
their name from the action
involved that is reversing a
negative trend. There are
certain conditions or indicators
which point out that a
turnaround is needed for an
organization to survive. An
organization which faces one or
more of these issues is referred
to as a ‘sick’ company.

7. Turnaround strategies
• There are three ways in which
turnarounds can be managed
– The existing chief executive and
management team handles the
entire turnaround strategy with
the advisory support of a
external consultant.
– In another case the existing
team withdraws temporarily
and an executive consultant or
turnaround specialist is
employed to do the job.
– The last method involves the
replacement of the existing
team specially the chief
executive, or merging the sick
organization with a healthy one.

8. Examples of Turnaround strategies
• Xerox revealed a
Turnaround Programme in
December 2000, which
included cutting $1 billion in
costs, and raising up to $4
billion through the sale of
assets, exiting non-core
businesses and lay-offs.
Subsequently, in August
2001, Mulcahy was made
CEO. Xerox continued to
report losses in 2001, but it
returned to profit in 2002
and continued to report
profits in 2003.