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Weakness
Overcome Threat
Avert
Management
Management is the process of designing and maintaining an
environment in which individuals, working together in groups,
efficiently accomplish selected aims.
Strategic management
Strategic management is a process of analyzing, formulating,
implementing and evaluating some set of actions taken or to be
taken for the achievement of predetermined organizational goals
and objectives.
It focuses on integrating management, marketing, finance,
accounting, productions/operations, research and development and
CIS to achieve organizational success.
Strategic planning
A strategic planning is a process which describes how a firm will
adapt to take advantages of opportunities in its constantly changing
environment, in order to maintain a strategic fit between the firm’s
goals and capabilities and these market opportunities.
Strategic manager
Corporate level:
CEO, other senior Head office
executives and
corporate staff
Division-B Division-C
Division-A
Business level:
Divisional manager
Business function Business function Business function
Functional level:
functional manager
Strategic Management Process
Goals-
A goal is a desired future state or objective that a company
attempts to realize. The purpose of goals is to specify with
precision what must be done if the company is to attain its
mission or vision.
Characteristics of well constructed goals-
SMART-
o Specific.
o Measurable.
o Attainable.
o Realistic and
o Timeliness.
Qualities of a strategic leader
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
Self awareness: The ability to understand one’s own moods,
emotions, and drives as well as their effect on others.
Devil’s advocate
criticizes
Devil’s advocate
criticizes
Dialectic inquiry
Debate (synthesis)
Final plan