2. Scope of Discussions / Objectives
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Introduction to Strategic Management
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Strategic Purpose – Vision / Mission etc.
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Environmental Scanning – PESTEL / SWOT etc.
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Strategy Development - Multiple Approaches
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Corporate Strategy – Various Facets
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Business Strategy - Generic / Hybrid etc.
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Global Strategy – Products & Services Adaptation / Choice of Market Entry
3. Learning Outcomes
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Differentiate Strategic Management from Operational Mgt & identify the
strategy development Process including different levels of Strategy
Articulate the purpose of an organization’s existence & communicating the
same to all stakeholders
Analyze the key structural drivers in the business environment to identify
opportunities / threats and strategic gaps
Discuss contemporary approaches to strategy development processes / evaluation
of strategic choices ; assess the role of a corporate parent in a multi-business
organization and it’s value adding capabilities in managing a porfolio of
businesses
Contrast the different bases of achieving competitive advantage and outline the
means to achieve sustainability in a competitive environment for an SBU
Outline the ways to go global and achieve global competitiveness and identify
risks involved
Discuss the Key tasks for effective strategy implementation and assess how to
align them
5. Customer Retention Key Issues
A Recent Survey says –
“More than 90 %
•customers do not of unsatisfied
complain”
costs 5 times
get a
• “It customer thanmore to to keepnew
it does
a
current customer”
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6. Customer Expectations /
Desire
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What do Customers look for in
Any Product or Service?
• Right Price (affordability factor)
• Right Quality (reliability factor)
• Right Delivery (service factor)
7. Dawn of a New Era ……………..
Old Perceptions
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Price : Seller’s Cost plus Profit
Quality : Standards determined
New Realities
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Price : What customer is willing to pay
Quality : Standards determined by
the customer
by the Seller
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Marketing : A distinct Functional
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Marketing : Is Everything / The whole
Business is Marketing
Activity
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Focus on What is good for the
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customer
company
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Customer’s freedom of choice
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Customer doesn’t know a thing
Customer’s freedom of choice
unlimited
limited
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Focus on What is good for the
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Customer is the King
8. What is Strategy?
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Large-scale, future-oriented plan
Used to interact within competitive
environment to achieve company goals
Provides a framework for managerial
decisions
Reflects a company’s awareness of the
main elements of competition
12. The Nature of Strategic Management
Strategic management:
The set of decisions and actions that
result in formulation and implementation
of plans designed to achieve a
company’s objectives
14. Managers’ Strategic Thinking
(Current Status & Future Prospects)
“ Where are we now?”
( market standing / competitive pressures / strengths & weaknesses)
“ Where do we want to go?”
(direction in which management believes the company should be headed)
“ How will we get there?”
(crafting & executing a strategy to get the company from where it is to
where it wants to go)
15. Contribution of Leading Management
Gurus
Igor Ansoff’s Strategic Success Paradigm
Based on extensive research study on Acquisitions by American
Companies (1948-1968)
Acquisitions based on a rational strategy fared better than those
based on opportunistic decisions
The Key Elements of the paradigm are –
• No universal success formula for all firms
• Environment turbulence determines the strategy required for the
success of a company
• The strategy aggressiveness should be aligned with the
environmental turbulence
16. Ansoff Matrix / Ansoff Grid
Existing Products
New Products
Existing Market
Market
Penetration
Product
Development
New Market
Market
Development
Diversification
17. Ansoff’s Matrix
Provides four different growth strategies
Market Penetration – Companies seek to achieve
growth with existing products in their current market
segments .
Market Development – Companies seek growth by
targeting it’s existing products to new market segments
Product Development – Companies develop new
products targeted to it’s existing market segments.
Diversification – Companies grow by diversifying into
new business by developing new products for new
markets.
18. Ansoff’s Matrix and Risk
The greater the degree of newness, the greater is the
degree of risk
• Market Penetration – little risk involved
• Market Development – moderate risk
• Product Development – moderate risk
• Diversification – high degree of risk as both product
and market are new & unknown
19. Ansoff’s Matrix – Use & Application
• The Matrix is a framework to explore directions for
strategic growth
• It is the most commonly used model for analysing
the possible strategic direction that a business
should take
• It not only identifies and analyses different growth
opportunities, it also encourages planners to
consider both expected returns and risks
• However, real world examples do not fit neatly into
the four cells of the Ansoff’s Matrix
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The management capabilities should be aligned with the
environment to optimize the company’s success
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Book “Corporate Strategy” (1965) – played a key role in the
development of strategic planning
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Introduced concepts – “Gap Analysis” & “Synergy”
Mintzberg – Strategy as Craft
Added a new dimension to strategic management by bringing the
personal side of the manager
Book “The Nature of Managerial Work (1973)” – advocated a more
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Saw strategic formulation as a delibrate and delicate process
Peter Drucker’s Contribution
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“Management is not just passive & adaptive behaviour”
Managing implies responsibility for attempting to shape the economic
environment for planning and carrying through changes in that economic
environment
Major contribution to business strategy was the introduction of MBO
concept (1954)
22. Michael Porter : Strategy and Competitive Advantage
Introduced generic strategies like focus, cost leadership, cost
differentiation etc.
Five Forces Theory –
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the threat of new entrants
the bargaining power of customers
the bargaining power of suppliers
the threat of substitute products
the rivalry between existing players
Books – “Competitive Strategy” (1980) and “ The Competitive
advantage of Nations” (1990)
23. 1-23
Three Levels of Strategy
• Corporate level: board of directors,
CEO & administration [Highest]
• Business level: business and corporate
managers [Middle]
• Functional level: Product, geographic,
and functional area managers [Lowest]
26. 1-26
Strategy Makers
• Ideal strategic team includes decision
makers from all three levels
• Top managers must give final approval
• Strategic decisions coincide with
managers’ responsibilities
27. 1-27
Strategy Makers: The CEO
• A firm’s CEO plays a dominant role
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in strategic planning
The CEO’s principal duty is giving
long-term direction to the firm
The CEO bears ultimate
responsibility for the firm’s success
and strategic success
CEOs are typically strong-willed,
company-oriented individuals
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Benefits of Strategic Management
• Managers at all levels interact in planning and
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implementing strategy
Similar to participative decision making
Assessing strategy formulation requires
looking at nonfinancial evaluations as well as
financial ones
Promoting positive behavioral consequences
enables achievement of financial goals
29. 1-29
Strategic Management Process
• Businesses vary in formulation and other
processes
• The basic components of the models used to
analyze strategic management are similar
• Strategic management is a process—a flow
of information through interrelated stages of
analysis towards the achievement of
organisational goals
30. Components of Strategic
Management Model
• Internal Analysis
• Company Mission
• Strategic Analysis &
• External Analysis
Choice
• Long-Term Objectives
• Generic & Grand
• Short-Term Objectives
Strategies
• Policies Empowering
• Functional Tactics
Action
• Restructuring,
Reengineering &
• Strategic Control &
Continuous
Improvement
Refocusing
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31. Components of Strategic Management
Process
STRATEGY FORMULATION
Existing Business
Model
FEEDBACK
Mission , Vision,
Values & Goals
External Analysis:
Opportunities &
Threats
SWOT Strategic
Choice
Internal Analysis:
Strengths &
Weaknesses
Functional – Level
Strategies
Business - Level
Strategies
Global Strategies
Corporate – Level
Strategies
STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION
Designing
Organization Structure
Governance and
Ethics
Designing
Organization Culture
Designing
Organization
Controls
33. Organization – Core Philosophies
Vision Statement
• An inspiring statement of what the organization
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intends to become and to achieve in the future
“What we want to be”
The statement incorporates our Beliefs
Should project a compelling story about the future
(E.g. Steve Jobs : “ An Apple on Every Desk”)
Is culture-specific :Simply put, the vision could state
what the founder ultimately envisions the business to
be – in terms of growth, values, employees,
contribution to society, etc
34. 1-34
What is a Company Mission?
• Company Mission:
A broadly framed but enduring statement of a
firm’s intent. It is the unique purpose that sets a
company apart from others of its type and
identifies the scope of its operations in product,
market, and technology terms.
35. Organization – Core Philosophies…
Mission Statement
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Spells out how we see ourselves fulfilling our ideas
of “What we want to be” in broad terms
Describes the overall purpose of the organization
Is an organization’s vision translated into written
form- spelling in concrete terms the leader’s view of
the direction and purpose of the organization
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What do we do?
How do we do it?
For whom do we do it?
36. 1-36
The Need for an Explicit Mission
• Why is this firm in business?
• What are our economic goals?
• What is our operating philosophy in terms of
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quality, company image, and self-concept?
What are our core competencies and competitive
advantages?
What customers do we and can we serve?
How do we view our responsibilities to
stockholders, employees, communities,
environment, social issues, and competitors?
37. 1-37
Formulating a Mission
• The typical business begins with the beliefs,
desires, and aspirations of a single
entrepreneur
• These beliefs are usually the basis for the
company’s mission
• As the business grows or is forced to alter its
product, market, or technology, redefining the
company mission may be necessary
40. Organization – Core Philosophies…
Values
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Both the mission and vision statements reside in a “sea of
values”
Organizational beliefs – respect for people, concern for
individuals, approach to innovation, reward system,
encouragement for Team work etc
Describe what your Management Team really cares about –
“what it holds dear”
(e.g. “How do your managers respond to a trade-off between
product quality and profit? That’s really a question of values”.)
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Types of Social Responsibility
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Economic – the duty of managers, as agents of the
company owners, to maximize stockholder wealth
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Legal – the firm’s obligations to comply with the
laws that regulate business activities
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Ethical – the company’s notion of right and proper
business behavior
53. Porter’s Five Forces Model
• Risk of Entry by Potential Competitors
• Threat of Sustitutes
• Bargaining Power of Buyers
• Bargaining Power of Suppliers
71. Different Processes of Strategy
Development – in Multiple forms & in
different contexts
• There is no one right way in which strategies are
developed (Eg: Fast changing environment Vs slow
changing environment)
• Processes of strategy development differ over time
and in different contexts
72. Different Processes of Strategy
Development – in Multiple forms & in
different contexts (contd.)
• Perceptions of how strategies develop will be seen
differently by different people (Senior Executives /
Middle Management / Public Sector)
• It is likely that no one process describes strategy
development in any organisation – normally there are
multiple processes at work
73. Intended and Emergent Strategies
Strategy an expression of desired
• Intendeddeliberatelyisformulated or planned by strategic
direction
Managers
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Implies that the Intended Strategy is also planned in terms of
resource allocation, control systems, organisational structure etc
Strategy comes
• Emergentand processes in anabout through day-to-day routines,
activities
organisation
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The Routine activities, though not direct, have a significant
role in the development of strategy
74. Intended Processes of Strategy Development
Strategic Planning Systems
• A form of systematised, step-by-step, chronological of the
procedures involving different Functions / Departments
Organisation
assumptions
• Starting point is a set of guidelines//supply status about the
external environment (price levels
etc)
75. Strategic Planning Systems(contd.)
Corporate
• business plansPlan – resulting from the aggregation of
of financial / strategic targets are
• A numberbasis for performance monitoring drawn up to
provide a
76. Strategic Planning Systems – Advantages / Uses
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It provides a structured means of analysis and thinking about
complex problems
Encourages managers to question and challenge the current wisdom
Encourages a long term view of organisational strategy (Eg: in the
case of FMCG sector – 5 to 7 years)
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Provides a means of coordination (between various businesses)
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It communicates intended strategy from the TOP
79. Emergent Processes of Strategy Development
Logical Incrementalism
strategy by
• Is the development ofcommitmentsexperimentation and global
learning from partial
rather than through
formulations of total strategies
generalised rather
• Managers have a the organisation to thaninspecific view of
where they want
be future
be sensitive
• Effective Managers try toscanning and to environmental
signals through constant
test changes in strategy
80. Logical Incrementalism (contd.)
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Commitment to strategic options may be tentative in the early stages of
strategy development
Experiments through subsystems (people involved in product development /
product positioning / diversification etc) – building on the experience gained
in that business
Top managers utilise a mix of formal / informal / social and political
processes – to draw an emerging pattern of strategies from these subsystems
Logical incrementalism is a conscious, purposeful, proactive, executive
practice – to improve available information and build people’s identification
with the strategy development
81. Logical Incrementalism
Source : Strategies for Change: Logical Incrementalism ( By James B.
Quinn)
A Management philosophy for achieving broad organisational goals
Enables making strategic decisions in small steps
Small steps attempt to resolve conflicting views of participants
Reduces Risk by capitalizing on knowledge that is gained during the
process
Logical incrementalism has the advantage of flexibility / but likely to be
time-consuming and inefficient
82. Externally Imposed Strategy
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Imposition of strategy by powerful external stakeholders
Mainly Government / Regulatory Bodies – exercising norms /
stipulations (Eg: Privatisation)
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MNC’s being advised – for Joint Ventures / local alliances
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Imposed strategy is “designed” – outside the organisation
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Imposed strategy – to be implemented – might entail large capital
expenditure. (Eg: In Paper Mills: Capex on Production Machinery Vs
83. Strategy Development – Additional Issues
Managers Face
The challenge of Strategic Drift
Strategies – over period
progressively
• fail to address the astrategicof time – of the
position
company and performance deteriorates
There are strong forces at
that are
• push organisations towardswork pattern likely to
this
84. Strategy Development – Additional Issues
Managers Face
The challenge of Strategic Drift (contd.)
Incremental
• outcome of thestrategic change is a natural
influence of organisational
culture, collective experience, political processes
and prior decisions
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Strategic drift results ultimately in a complacent
organisation
86. The Learning Organisation
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Traditionally, organisations are seen hierarchies and bureaucracies –
set up to achieve objectives and maintain control
Structures convey stability rather than change
A learning organisation – is the one that is capable of continual
regeneration from the variety of knowledge, experience and skills of
individuals within a culture – which encourages mutual questioning
A learning organisation – is the one where the collective knowledge of
all individuals in a company normally exceeds what the organisation
itself “knows” and is capable of doing
87. The Learning Organisation (contd.)
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Formal organisational structures stifle organisational knowledge and
creativity
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Organisations – need to look at themselves as “social networks”
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Managers need to play a less directive and more facilitative role
88. Uncertain and Complex Conditions –
Strategy Development
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A major problem of strategic management – coping with uncertainty
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Environments – differ in their form and complexity
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Simple / Static conditions – the environment is relatively straight
forward to understand and does not undergo significant change
(Eg. Mass production companies / Raw Material Suppliers)
All Companies end up following same strategy – results in high degree
of competition / low margins
89. Uncertain and Complex Conditions –
Strategy Development (contd.)
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Companies resort to scenario planning – for making sense of the future
Emphasis should be to encourage individuals and groups to be forward
thinking and intuitive
In complex situations – an environment is difficult to comprehend
94. Strategic Leadership
Good leaders of the strategy-making process
have a number of key attributes:
• Vision, eloquence, and consistency
• Articulation of the business model
• Commitment
• Being well informed
• Willingness to delegate and empower
• The astute use of power
Emotional intelligence: self-awareness, self• regulation, motivation, empathy, social skills
96. Levels of Strategy-Making
in a Diversified Company
Corporate-Level
Managers
Corporate
Strategy
Two-Way Influence
Business-Level
Managers
Business Strategies
Two-Way Influence
Functional
Managers
Functional Strategies
Two-Way Influence
Operating
Managers
Operating Strategies
2-96
97. Levels of Strategy-Making in
a Single-Business Company
Business-Level
Managers
Business
Strategy
Two-Way Influence
Functional
Managers
Functional Strategies
Two-Way Influence
Operating
Managers
Operating Strategies
2-97
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Corporate-Level Strategy
Corporate-Level Strategy: How do we sustain
competitive advantages in our current business? What
new businesses or industries do we wish to enter?
Corporate strategy is used to identify:
• Businesses or industries that the company
should compete in
• Value creation activities that the company
should perform in those businesses
• Methods to enter or leave businesses or
industries in order to maximize its long-run
profitability
Companies must adopt a long-term perspective
in formulating a corporate-level strategy.
105. The BCG Matrix
the
• The BCG Matrix method is based onwhatproduct life cyclebe
theory that can be used to determine
priorities should
given in the product portfolio of a business unit
longterm
a company should
• To ensureof productsvalue creation, growth products inhave aof
portfolio
– both high –
need
cash inputs and low-growth products that generate a lot of cash
106. in the BCG
• Placing Products company : Matrix results in four categories in
the portfolio of a
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STARS – High Growth / High Market Share
CASH COWS – Low growth / High Market Share
DOGS – Low Growth / Low Market Share
QUESTION MARKS – High Growth / Low Market Share
frequently
• BCG Matrix Method can help understand aapproach tomade
strategy mistake – having a one-size-fits-all
strategy : such as a generic growth target (say 10% p.a) or a
generic return on capital (say 8% p.a) for the entire
corporation
107. GE / McKinsey Matrix
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The GE / McKinsey Matrix is a model to perform a business portfolio
analysis on the strategic Business Units of a corporation
A Business Portfolio is the collection of Strategic Business Units that
make up a corporation
The Aim of a portfolio Analysis is:
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Analyse it’s current business portfolio and decide which SBU’s should receive
more or less investments
Develop growth strategies for adding new products and businesses to the
portfolio
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BCG Matrix is the best-known portfolio planning framework - the GE /
McKinsey Matrix is a later and more advanced form of the BCG Matrix
The GE / McKinsey Matrix is more sophisticated than the BCG Matrix in three
aspects:
• Market / Industry attractiveness replaces market growth as the
dimension of industry attractiveness
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Competitive strength replaces market share as the dimension by which
the competitive position of each SBU is assessed
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GE / McKinsey Matrix works with a 3x3 Grid while the BCG Matrix
has only 2x2 Grid (allows for more sophistication)
109. Strategic Business Units are portrayed as a circle
plotted in the GE / Mckinsey Matrix, whereby:
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The size of the circles represent the market size
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The size of the pies represent the market share of the SBU’s
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Arrows represent the direction and the movement of the SBU’s in the
future
112. Grand Strategies
Grand strategies, often called master or
business strategies, provide basic direction for
strategic actions
Indicate the time period over which long-range
objectives are to be achieved
Any one of these strategies could serve as the basis
for achieving the major long-term objectives of a
single firm
Firms involved with multiple industries, businesses,
product lines, or customer groups usually combine
several grand strategies
113. Types of Grand Strategies
Concentrated Growth
Concentrated Growth
Conglomerate Diversification
Conglomerate Diversification
Market Development
Market Development
Turnaround
Turnaround
Product Development
Product Development
Divestiture
Divestiture
Innovation
Innovation
Liquidation
Liquidation
Horizontal Integration
Horizontal Integration
Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy
Vertical Integration
Vertical Integration
Joint Ventures
Joint Ventures
Concentric Diversification
Concentric Diversification
Strategic Alliances
Strategic Alliances
Consortia
Consortia
114. Market Development
Market development commonly ranks second
only to concentration as the least costly and least
risky of the 15 grand strategies
It consists of marketing present products, often
with only cosmetic modifications, to customers
in related market areas by adding channels of
distribution or by changing the content of
advertising or promotion
Frequently, changes in media selection,
promotional appeals, and distribution are used to
initiate this approach
115. Product Development
Product development
involves the substantial
modification of existing
products or the creation of
new but related products
that can be marketed to
current customers through
established channels
117. Repositioning &Redefining a
Company’s Business Model
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Corporate-level strategies are primarily directed towards
improving a company’s competitive advantage and
profitability in its present business or product line:
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Horizontal Integration
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Vertical Integration
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Strategic Outsourcing
The process of acquiring or merging with industry competitors
Expanding operations backward into an industry that produces
inputs for the company or forward into an industry that
distributes the company’s products
Letting some value creation activities within a business be
performed by an independent entity
118. Horizontal Integration:
Single-Industry Strategy
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Horizontal Integration: the process of acquiring or
merging with industry competitors in an effort to achieve
the competitive advantages that come with large scale
and scope.
Staying inside a single industry allows a
company to:
Focus resources
Resources
devoted to competing successfully in one
area
‘Stick to the knitting’
119. Benefits of Horizontal
Integration
Profits and profitability increase when horizontal
integration:
1. Lowers the cost structure
• Creates increasing economies of scale
• Reduces the duplication of resources between two companies
2. Increases product differentiation
• Product bundling – broader range at single combined price
• Total solution – saving customers time and money
• Cross-selling – leveraging established customer relationships
3. Replicates the business model
• In new market segments within same industry
4. Reduces industry rivalry
• Eliminate excess capacity in an industry
• Easier to implement tacit price coordination among rivals
5. Increases bargaining power
• Increased market power over suppliers and buyers
• Gain greater control
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120. Problems with
Horizontal Integration
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A wealth of data suggests that the majority of mergers
and acquisitions DO NOT create value and that many
may actually DESTROY value.
Implementing a horizontal integration is not an easy
task
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Problems associated with merging very different company cultures
High management turnover in the acquired company when the acquisition
is a hostile one
Tendency of managers to overestimate the benefits to be had in the
merger
Tendency of managers to underestimate the problems involved in
merging their operations
The merger may be blocked if merger is perceived to:
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Create a dominant competitor
Create too much industry consolidation
Have the potential for future abuse of market power
121. Vertical Integration:
Entering New Industries
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Backward Vertical Integration
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Forward Vertical Integration
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Full Integration
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Company expands its operations into an industry that produces
inputs to the company’s products
Company expands into an industry that uses, distributes, or
sells the company’s products
• Company produces all of a particular input from its own
operations
• Disposes of all of its completed products through its own outlets
Taper Integration
• In addition to company-owned suppliers, the company will also
use other suppliers for inputs or independent outlets in addition
to company-owned outlets
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122. Vertical and Horizontal
Integrations
Textile producer
Textile producer
Shirt manufacturer
Shirt manufacturer
Clothing store
Clothing store
Acquisitions or mergers of suppliers or customer
businesses are vertical integrations
Acquisitions or mergers of competing
businesses are horizontal integrations
124. Increasing Profitability
Through Vertical Integration
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A company pursues vertical integration to strengthen
the business model of its core business or to improve its
competitive position.
1. Facilitates investments in efficiency-enhancing
specialized assets
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Lowered cost structure or better differentiation.
2. Enhances or protects product quality
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To strengthen its differentiation advantage through either forward or
backward integration
3. Results in improved scheduling
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Makes it easier and more cost-effective to plan, coordinate, and
schedule the transfer of product within the value-added chain
Enables a company to respond better to changes in demand
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Problems with
Vertical Integration
Increased Cost Structure
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Company-owned suppliers develop a higher cost structure than those of
the independent suppliers
Bureaucratic costs of solving transaction difficulties
Fast-changing Technology
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Vertical integration may lock into old or inefficient technology
Prevent company from changing to a new technology that could strengthen
the business model
Unpredictable Demand
Creates risk in vertical integration investments
Vertical integration can weaken a business model when:
• Company-owned suppliers lack incentive to reduce costs
• Changing demand or technology reduces ability to be competitive
127. Benefits of Outsourcing
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Lower cost structure
The specialist company cost is less than what it would cost to
perform the activity internally
Enhanced differentiation
The quality of the activity performed by the specialist is greater
than if the activity were performed by the company
Focus on the core business
Distractions are removed
The company can focus attention and resources on activities
important for value creation and competitive advantage
Strategic outsourcing may be detrimental when there is:
• Holdup – company becomes too dependent on specialist provider
• Loss of information – company loses important customer contact or
competitive information
128. Corporate-Level Strategy
of Diversification
Diversification Strategy is the company’s decision to
enter one or more new industries (that are distinct from
its established operations) to take advantage of its
existing distinctive competencies and business model.
Types of diversification:
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Related diversification
Unrelated diversification
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Internal new ventures
Acquisitions
Joint ventures
Methods to implement a diversification
strategy:
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129. Increasing Profitability
Through Diversification
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A diversified company can create value by:
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Transferring competencies among existing businesses
Leveraging competencies to create new businesses
Sharing resources to realize economies of scope
Using product bundling
Managing rivalry by using diversification as a means in one or
more industries
Exploiting general organizational competencies that enhance
performance within all business units
Managers often consider diversification when their
company is generating free cash flow – with resources in
excess of those needed to maintain competitive advantage.
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Two Types of Diversification
Related diversification
Entry into a new business activity in a different industry that:
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Is related to a company’s existing business activity or activities and
Has commonalities between one or more components of each activity’s
value chain
Based on transferring and leveraging competencies, sharing resources,
and bundling products
Unrelated diversification
Entry into industries that have no obvious connection to any of a company’s
value chain activities in its present industry or industries
Based on using only general organizational competencies to increase
profitability of each business unit
131. Disadvantages and
Limits of Diversification
Conditions that can make diversification
disadvantageous:
Changing Industry- and Firm-Specific Conditions
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Future success of this strategy is hard to predict.
Over time, changing situations may require businesses to be
divested.
Diversification for the Wrong Reasons
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Must have clear vision as to how value will be created.
Extensive diversification tends to reduce rather than improve
profitability.
Bureaucratic Costs of Diversification
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Costs are a function of the number of business units in a
company’s portfolio, and the
Extent to which coordination is required to gain the benefits.
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Choosing a Strategy
The choice of strategy depends on a comparison of the
benefits of each strategy versus the cost of pursuing
it:
Related diversification
• When company’s competencies can be applied across
a greater number of industries and
• Company has superior capabilities to keep bureaucratic
costs under control
Unrelated diversification
have
• When functional competenciesand few useful
applications across industries
• Company has good organizational design skills to build
distinctive competencies
Firms may pursue both strategies
simultaneously
134. Restructuring
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Restructuring is the process of divesting businesses
and exiting industries to focus on core distinctive
competencies in order to increase company profitability.
Why restructure?
• Diversification discount: investors see highly
diversified companies as less attractive
• Complexity and lack of transparency in financial statements
• Too much diversification
• Diversification for the wrong reasons
• Response to failed acquisitions
• Innovations in strategic management have
diminished the advantages of vertical integration or
diversification
135. Divestiture and
Liquidation Strategies
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• Divestiture strategy
• Involves selling a firm or a major component of a firm
• Reasons for divestiture
• Partial mismatches between acquired firm and parent firm
• Corporate financial needs
• Government antitrust action
• Liquidation strategy
• Involves selling parts of a firm, usually for its tangible asset value
and not as a going concern
137. Levels of Strategy-Making in
a Single-Business Company
Business-Level
Managers
Business
Strategy
Two-Way Influence
Functional
Managers
Functional Strategies
Two-Way Influence
Operating
Managers
Operating Strategies
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139. 139
Evaluating and Choosing Business
Strategies: Seeking Sustained
Competitive Advantage
•
The two most prominent sources of competitive
advantage can be found in the business’s cost
structure and its ability to differentiate the
business from competitors
•
Businesses that have one or more resources /
capabilities that allow them to operate at a lower
cost will consistently outperform their
competitosrs who do not have those capabilities
154. The Concept of a
Company Value Chain
A company’s business consists of all activities undertaken in
designing, producing, marketing, delivering, and supporting
its product or service
A company’s value chain consists of a linked set of value-
creating activities performed internally
The value chain contains two types of activities
Primary
activities – where most of
the value for customers is created
Support
activities – facilitate
performance of the primary activities
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157. Example: Value Chain Activities
Pulp & Paper Industry
Timber farming
Logging
Pulp mills
Papermaking
Distribution
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158. Example: Value Chain Activities
Home Appliance Industry
Parts and components manufacture
Assembly
Wholesale distribution
Retail sales
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159.
A method of visually mapping a
product's production path (materials and
information) from "door to door".
Value stream is all the actions (both value
added and non-value added) currently
required to bring a product through the
main flows essential to every product:
160. Value Stream Mapping
helps to visualize more than just the
single-process level
helps see more than waste - it helps see
the sources of waste in your value stream
provides a common language for talking
about manufacturing processes
161.
ties together lean concepts and techniques
forms the basis of an implementation plan
shows the linkage between the information
flow and the material flow
is much more useful than quantitative tools
and layout diagrams that produce a tally of
non-value added steps, lead time, distance
traveled, the amount of inventory, and so on.
162.
To diagnose strategic capability
To understand how value is created or lost
in terms of the activities undertaken
The value chain describes the activities within
The value chain describes the activities within
and around an organisation which together
and around an organisation which together
create a product or service
create a product or service
163.
Identifies clusters of activities providing
particular benefit to customers
Highlights activities which are less efficient
and which might be de-emphasised or
outsourced
Requires managers to think about the role
of such activities
Can be used to identify the cost and value
of activities
164. Characteristics of
Value Chain Analysis
Combined costs of all activities in a company’s value chain
define the company’s internal cost structure
Compares a firm’s costs activity
by activity against costs of key rivals
From raw
Price
materials purchase to
paid by ultimate customer
Pinpoints which internal activities are a
source of cost advantage or disadvantage
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167. Globalization
167
Globalization refers to the strategy of
approaching worldwide markets with
standardized products
Awareness of the strategic opportunities faced
by global corporations and of the threats posed
to them is important to planners in almost every
domestic industry
Understanding the nuances
of competing in global markets
is rapidly becoming a required
competence of strategic managers
168. What Is the Motivation
for Competing Internationally?
Gain access to
new customers
Obtain access to
valuable natural
resources
Help
achieve
lower costs
Capitalize
on core
competencies
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Spread
business risk
across wider
market base
169. Reasons for Going Global
PROACTIVE
Additional resources
Lowered costs
Incentives
New, expanded markets
Exploitation of firmspecific advantages
Taxes
Economies of scale
Synergy
Power and prestige
Protect home market
169
REACTIVE
Trade barriers
International customers
International
competition
Regulations
Chance
170. At the Start of Globalization
External and internal assessments are
conducted before a firm enters global
markets
External assessment involves careful
examination of critical features of the
global environment
Internal assessment involves
identification of the basic strengths of a
firm’s operations
170
171. How Markets Differ from
Country to Country
Consumer tastes and preferences
Consumer buying habits
Market size and growth potential
Distribution channels
Driving forces
Competitive pressures
One of the biggest concerns of companies competing in foreign
markets is whether to customize their product offerings in each
different country market to match the tastes and preferences of local buyers or
whether to offer a mostly standardized product worldwide.
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172. 172
Factors That Drive Global
Companies
Global Management Team
Global Strategy
Global Operations and Products
Global Technology and R&D
Global Financing
Global Marketing
173. Basic Entry Decisions
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•
•
•
•
•
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Which overseas markets to enter (WHERE)
Assessment of long-run profit potential
Balancing the benefits, costs, and risks associated with
doing business in a country
Timing of entry (WHEN)
First-mover advantages: preempt and build share
First-mover disadvantages: pioneering costs
Scale of Entry (HOW)
Entering on a large scale is a major strategic
commitment
Benefits and drawbacks of small-scale entry
174. 174
The Choice of Entry Mode
1.
Exporting
Most manufacturing companies begin their global expansion as
exporters and later switch to one of the other modes.
2.
Licensing
A foreign licensee buys the rights to produce a company’s product
for a negotiated fee; licensee puts up most of the overseas capital.
3.
Franchising
Franchising is a specialized form of licensing. The franchiser not
only sells intangible property, but also insists that franchisee agrees
to follow strict rules as to how it does business.
4.
Joint Ventures
Typically a 50/50 venture – a favored mode for entering a new market
5.
Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries
Parent company owns 100% of subsidiary’s stock – setup or acquire
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Four Basic Strategies
Companies typically
choose among the
four main global
strategic postures
when competing
internationally.
The appropriateness
of each strategy
varies with the extent
of pressures for cost
reduction versus
local responsiveness.
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Choosing a Global Strategy
Standard Globalization Strategy
• Reaping the cost reductions that come from economies of scale
and location economies
• Business model based on pursuing a low-cost strategy on a
global scale
Makes the most sense when there are strong pressures for cost
reduction and the demand for local responsiveness is minimal
Localization Strategy
company’s goods
• Customizing thematch to tastes andor services sointhat thy
provide a good
preferences different
national markets
Most appropriate when there are substantial differences across
nations with regard to consumer tastes and preferences and
where cost pressures are not too intense
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Choosing a Global Strategy
Transnational Strategy
• Difficult to pursue due to its conflicting demands
• Business model that simultaneously:
Achieves low costs » Differentiates across markets
Fosters a flow of skills between subsidiaries
Building an organization capable of supporting a transnational
strategy is a complex and challenging task.
International Strategy
that sell products that serve
• Multinational companiesdifferentiate) and do not face universal
needs (minimal need to
significant
competitors (low cost pressure).
In most international companies the head office retains tight
control over marketing and product strategy.
195. Features of the Corporate
Culture at Wal-Mart
Dedication to customer satisfaction
Zealous pursuit of low costs
Frugal operating practices
Strong work ethic
Ritualistic Saturday morning meetings
Executive commitment to
Visit
stores
Listen
Solicit
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to customers
employees’ suggestions
196. Features of the Corporate
Culture at Microsoft
Long work hours of programmers
Emotional peaks and valleys in
encountering and overcoming coding problems
Exhilaration of completing a complex program on schedule
Satisfaction of working on cutting-edge projects
Rewards of being part of a team responsible
for a popular new software program
Tradition of competing aggressively
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199. Types of
Strategic Control Systems
Personal Control
Managers question and probe to better understand
subordinates.
The result is more possibilities for learning to occur and
competencies to develop.
Output Control
Set appropriate performance goals for each division,
department, and employee, then measure actual
performance relative to these goals.
Behavior Control
Establish standardization, predictability, and accuracy by
creating a system of rules to direct actions and/or behaviors
of divisions, functions, or individuals.
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200. McKinsey 7-S framework
model
The 7-S framework of McKinsey is a
Value Based Management (VBM)
model that describes how one can
holistically and effectively organize a
company. Together these factors
determine the way in which a
corporation operates.
202. Shared Value
The interconnecting center of
McKinsey's model is: Shared Values.
What does the organization stands for
and what it believes in - Central
beliefs and attitudes.
203. Strategy
Plans for the allocation of a
firm’s scarce resources, over
time, to reach identified
goals, Environment,
competition, customers
204. Structure
The way the organization's units
relate to each other: centralized,
functional divisions (top-down);
decentralized (the trend in larger
organizations); matrix, network,
holding, etc.
205. System
The procedures, processes and
routines that characterize how
important work is to be done:
financial systems; hiring, promotion
and performance appraisal systems;
information systems
209. Managing Strategic Change
The only constant is change.
Success requires adapting strategy and
structure to a changing world.
The feedback loop in
Corporate
strategic planning.
Operational
Business
Functional
210. Key Steps to Implement Strategic
Change
• Sense the need for strategic change
• Build awareness of the need to change and
learn
• Foster debate
• Create consensus
• Assign responsibility
• Allocate resources
• Act quickly
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