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Chapter 1
Strategic Management:
Creating Competitive Advantages
Dess, G.G, Lumpkin, G.T., & Eisner, A.B.,
Strategic Management: Creating
Competitive Advantages (4th ed.) © 2008
McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-338121-3
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Copyright Warning
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publisher McGraw-Hill 2008. Students are hereby advised that
they may not copy or distribute this work to any third party
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Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this module, the student should
be able to:
The definition of strategic management and its four key attributes.
The strategic management process and its three interrelated and principal
activities.
The vital role of corporate governance and stakeholder management as well as
how “symbiosis” can be achieved among an organization’s stakeholders.
The importance of social responsibility, including environmental sustainability,
and how it can enhance a corporation’s innovation strategy.
The need for greater empowerment throughout the organization.
How an awareness of a hierarchy of strategic goals can help an organization
achieve coherence in its strategic direction.
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Two Perspectives of Leadership
Romantic view
Leader is the key force in organization’s success
External control perspective
Focus is on external factors that affect an organization’s success
Leaders can make a difference
Must be aware of opportunities and threats faced in external
environment
Must have thorough understanding of the firm’s resources and
capabilities
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Strategic Management
Analysis
Strategic goals (vision, mission, strategic objectives)
Internal and external environment of the firm
Strategic decisions
What industries should we compete in?
How should we compete in those industries?
Actions
Allocate necessary resources
Design the organization to bring intended strategies to reality
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Strategic Management
Strategic management is the study of why some
firms outperform others
How to compete in order to create competitive advantages in the
marketplace
How to create competitive advantages in the market place
Unique and valuable
Difficult for competitors to copy or substitute
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Key Attributes
Key Attributes of strategic management:
Directs the organization toward overall goals and objectives
Includes multiple stakeholders in decision making
Needs to incorporate short-term and long-term perspectives
Recognizes trade-offs between efficiency and effectiveness
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Question
The final realized strategy of a firm is a combination of:
Intended and unrealized strategies
Unrealized and emergent strategies
Emergent and deliberate strategies
Deliberate and unrealized strategies
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Strategic Management Process
Adapted from Exhibit 1.2 Realized Strategy and Intended Strategy: Usually Not the Same
Source: H. Mintzberg and J. A. Waters, “Of Strategies, Deliberate and Emergent,” Strategic Management Journal 6 (1985), pp. 25772.
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Strategic Analysis
Starting point in the
strategic
management process
Precedes effective
formulation and
implementation of
strategies
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Strategic Analysis (cont.)
Clear goals and objectives permit effective allocation of
resources
Hierarchy of goals
Vision
Mission
Strategic objectives
Analyzing external environments
Managers must scan the environment and analyze competitors
General environment
Industry environment
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Strategic Analysis (cont.)
Frameworks for analyzing a firm’s internal environment
Strengths
Weaknesses
Analyzing strengths can uncover potential sources of
competitive advantage
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Strategic Analysis (cont.)
Intellectual assets are drivers of
Competitive advantage
Wealth creation
Networks and relationships among
Employees
Customers
Suppliers
Alliance partners
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Strategy Formulation
Business level strategy:
Successful firms develop bases for competitive advantage
Cost leadership
Differentiation
Focusing on narrow or industry-wide market segments
Sustainability
Industry life cycle
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Strategy Formulation (cont.)
Corporate-level strategy addresses:
Firm’s portfolio or group of businesses
What business(es) should we be in?
How can we create synergies among the businesses?
Diversification
Related
Unrelated
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Strategy Formulation (cont.)
International Strategy
Appropriate entry strategies for foreign markets
Sustain competitive advantage in global markets
Effective strategies for entrepreneurial initiatives
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Strategy Implementation
Informational control
Monitor and scan the environment
Respond effectively to threats and opportunities
Behavioral control
Effective corporate governance
Interests of managers and owners of the firm
Organizational structure and design
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Strategy Implementation (cont.)
Organizational boundaries
Flexible
Permeable
Strategic Alliances
Develop organization that is committed to
Excellence
Ethical behavior
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Strategy Implementation (cont.)
Learning organization responsive to
Rapid and unpredictable change
Corporate entrepreneurship and innovation
New opportunities
Enhance innovative capacity
Autonomous entrepreneurial behavior
Product champions
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Corporate Governance and
Stakeholder Management
Corporate governance: the relationship among various
participants in determining the direction and performance of
corporations
Shareholders
Management (led by the CEO)
Board of Directors
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Question
Briefly describe the role of board of directors in corporate
governance.
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Corporate Governance and
Stakeholder Management (cont.)
Board of Directors
Elected representatives of the owners
Ensure interests and motives of
management are aligned with those of
the owners
Effective and engaged Board of
Directors
Shareholder activism
Proper managerial rewards and
incentives
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Example: New Rules for
Directors
In light of numerous corporate scandals, the role and rules for
board of directors are being redefined. Few areas of focus :
Numbers Knowledge
Strategy Focus
Time & Understanding
Watchdog
Source: Tipsheet, Business Week, January 22, 2007
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Stakeholder Management
Two views of stakeholder management
Zero sum
Stakeholders compete for attention and resources of the organization
Gain of one is a loss to the other
Symbiosis
Stakeholders are dependent upon each other
Mutual benefits
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Social Responsibility
Social responsibility: the expectation that businesses or
individuals will strive to improve the overall welfare of society
Managers must take active steps to make society better
Socially responsible behavior changes over time
Triple bottom line
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Example: Social Responsibility
Starbucks Coffee Company
Corporate social responsibility is embedded throughout the
organization.
The following are some of the commitments they have made to be
socially responsible:
Commitment to origins
Helping protect the environment
Starbucks in your community
Commitment to partners
Source: www.starbucks.com
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Strategic Management
Perspective
Integrative view of the organization
Assess how functional areas and activities “fit together” to
achieve goals and objectives
All managers and employees must take and integrative,
strategic perspective of issues facing the organization
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Enhancing Employee
Involvement
Local Line
Leaders
Have significant profit and loss
responsibility
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Enhancing Employee
Involvement
Local Line
Leaders
Executive
Leaders
Champion and guide
ideas
Create a learning
infrastructure
Establish a domain for
taking action
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Enhancing Employee
Involvement
Local Line
Leaders
Executive
Leaders
Have little positional
power and formal
authority
Generate their power
through the conviction
and clarity of their ideas
Internal
Networkers
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Coherence in Strategic Direction
Company vision
Massively inspiring
Overarching
Long-term
Driven by and evokes passion
Fundamental statement of the
organization’s
Values
Aspiration
Goals
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Company vision
Hierarchy of Goals
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Coherence in Strategic Direction
Mission statements
Purpose of the company
Basis of competition and
competitive advantages
More specific than vision
Focused on the means by which
the firm will compete
Company vision
Mission statements
Hierarchy of Goals
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Coherence in Strategic Direction
Strategic objectives
Operationalize the mission
statement
Provide guidance on how the
organization can fulfill or move
toward the “higher goals”
More specific
Cover a more well-defined time
frame
Company vision
Mission statements
Strategic objectives
Hierarchy of Goals
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Coherence in Strategic Direction
Strategic objectives
Measurable
Specific
Appropriate
Realistic
Timely
Challenging
Resolve conflicts that arise
Yardstick for rewards and
incentives
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Company vision
Mission statements
Strategic objectives
Hierarchy of Goals