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Functional Strategy

STRATEGIC BUSINESS UNIT

Strategy
Formulation:
Functional Strategy
and Strategic
Choice

FINANCE
R&D

PRODUCTION

INVENTORY

MARKETING
/SALES

PURCHASING

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Functional Strategy
Production Manager

Product Design
Models
Production Run
Produce to:

STRATEGIC BUSINESS UNIT

FINANCE
R&D

PRODUCTION

INVENTORY

MARKETING
/SALES

PURCHASING

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Functional Strategy

Functional Strategy

Levels of Strategy

Marketing/Sales Manager

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Functional Strategy

Product Design
Models
Production Run
Produce to:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Functional Strategy
Business Unit Strategy
Corporate Strategy
Enterprise Strategy
Cooperative Strategy
Hypercompetitive Strategy

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Functional Strategy

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Functional Strategy

Sourcing

Generic Model of Core Processes and Systems


Your Organization

Activitys Total Value-Added


High

Low

High

Activitys
Potential for
Competitive
Advantage
Low

Suppliers
Organization

Taper Vertical
Integration:

Full Vertical
Integration:

Produce Some
Internally

Produce All
Internally

Outsource
Completely:

Outsource
Completely:

Buy on Open
Market

Purchase with
Long-Term
Contracts

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Capital
Information
Human
Resourcing Resourcing Resourcing

Customers
Organization

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS


DEMAND MANAGEMENT PROCESS

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ORDER FULFILLMENT PROCESS

Control Systems
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Functional Strategy

The Full Model of Core Processes and Systems


Your Organization
Capital
Information
Human
Resourcing Resourcing Resourcing

Suppliers
Organization

Three Levels of Strategy-Operations Fit

Customers
Organization

P1

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

DEMAND MANAGEMENT PROCESS

P1

P1
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Organizational Supply Chain

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P2

P3

Operating Processes

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Customer Retailer Distributor Factory

Casting
Process

Third-Order Fit:
Second Order +
Optimization of Effort

Clay
Supplier

Technology Supply Chain


Valve Lifters

P3

Supply Chain Volatility


vs. Product Life Cycle Volatility

Mapping the Supply Chain

Engines

P2

STRATEGY/COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

Control Systems

Casting
Supplier

Second-Order Fit:
First Order +
Processes
Reinforce Each Other

Operating Processes

ORDER FULFILLMENT PROCESS

Eaton

P3

STRATEGY/COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

PRODUCTION PROCESS

Chrysler

P2
Operating Processes

PURCHASING PROCESS

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First-Order Fit:
Processes Consistent
with Strategy

STRATEGY/COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

Supplier Equipment

Clay
Chemistry

Business Capability Chain


Plant Management
Metal-Machining
JIT
Supply Chain Management Plant Management Delivery

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Chemical
Process
Control

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Web Site
Developer
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PC Maker

Chip Maker

Equipment
Maker
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Principles of Reengineering
The mission of a business is to create value for
its customers
It is a companys processes that create value
for its customers
Business success comes from superior process
performance
Superior process performance is achieved by
having a superior process design, the right
people to perform it, and the right
environment for them to work in
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TQM

versus

CPR

Incremental

Level of Change

Radical

Reengineering Defined
The fundamental rethinking and
radical redesign of business
processes to achieve dramatic
improvements in critical,
contemporary measures of
performance, such as cost, quality,
service, and speed.
-- Hammer & Champy (1993),
Reengineering the Corporation
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TQM and CPR Emphasize Complementary


Elements of Operations Improvement

Existing Process

Starting Point

Clean Slate

One-Time/Continuous

Frequency of Change

One-Time

Short

Time Required

Long

Bottom Up

Participation

Top Down

Narrow, Within Functions

Typical Scope

Broad, Cross-Functional

Moderate

Risk

High

Statistical Control

Primary Enabler

Information Technology

Cultural

Type of Change

Cultural/Structural

Improvement
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Source: Davenport, Thomas (1993), Process Innovation, Harvard Business School Press
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Prevention

Fix as
Fail

Innovation

Goal

Kaizen vs. Reengineering


Process Capabilities

Level of Improvement

Anticipation

Steps

Tasks

Activities

Core

Demings PDCA Cycle


Plan

TQM improves
capabilities within each
generation of design

Develop
structured approach
to addressing
issues

Third-generation
process design

Act
Second-generation
process design
First-generation
process design

Subprocesses

Processes
Scope of Target Site
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Do

Respond to
undesired outcomes
by repeating
cycle

Carry out
approach as
planned

Check
CPR replaces one generation of
process design with another

Evaluate
outcomes: are
they desirable?

Time
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Typical Approach to Managing CPR

The Crazy Time in CPR

Strategy Formulation
Identifies Competitive
Advantage Sought
Study Generic
Process Improvement Principles for
Possible Adoption

Identification of
Needed Process
Execution Capability

Process
Capabilities
Use Benchmarking
to Identify Best
Practices for
Possible Adoption

Redesign of
Process

Short-term loss
in process
capability
associated
with changing
the system

Plan for Transition


to New Generation
of Process Designs

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Transition to
New Generation
of Process

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Approaches to Innovation
Internal Corporate Venturing
(Corporate Entrepreneurship)
Contracting for Innovation

Generation 1
Process

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Investing Outside
(Acquiring Innovation)

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Types of Innovative Activity


Invention

Creating or developing a new product, service


or process idea

Innovation

Extracting Value from Innovation


Barriers to Integration

Creating a commercializable product from an


invention

Different functional time orientation


(e.g., R&D and production)
Different functional language and
interpersonal orientation
Different goal orientation
Formality of structure

The adoption of innovation by a group


of similar firms, which typically
results in standardization of the
product or process idea
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Time to
Market
Interfunctional
Integration -Cross-Functional
Design Teams

Imitation

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Difficult for competitors to imitate


Provide significant value to customers
Timely
Capable of being exploited commercially
Utilize the firms existing capabilities
and core competencies to develop
competitive advantage and achieve
strategic competitiveness

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Time

The period in which the


organization is developing
a new system while
maintaining the old one

Innovation and
Competitive Advantage

Strategic Alliances
Joint Ventures

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Generation 2
Process

Product
Quality

Value
Appropriation
from
Innovation

Creation of
Customer Value

Facilitators of Integration
Shared values
New product vision provided by
leadership
Budget allocation to foster
integrated design

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Strategic Alliances

R&D Expenditures and Patents


Before and After Acquisitions

Product-Link Alliances
Knowledge-Link Alliances
Advantages

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0.030

Disadvantages

Patent Intenstity

Difficult for a single firm to keep up-to-date


Knowledge is increasingly specialized
International location advantages

Firm minus Industry


R&D Intenstity

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-0.002
-0.004
-0.006
-0.008
-0.010

Partners actions increase legal liability


Partners diversification may distract them
May become overly dependent on others
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0.026
0.024
0.022
0.020

-0.012

0.018

-4

-2

-4

Years Before and


After Acquisition

-2

Years Before and


After Acquisition

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